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Vivid colours are very common on the path of enlightenment, if you talk to the peeps here, and buddhist monks. Great work keep it up! If you do netti netti every day for 1 hour, man your consciousness will change I kid you not in 1 month max. Its an amazing method.

You made a good point, i dont really want to engage in a discussion thats 4 days old, but I would urge you to try and be consistent with your own advice in not make some massive general projection about a random on the internet. I could be shinzen young for all you know. unless youre using psychic powers to detect it(are you?). Even if you did know, that is the biggest exaggeration ive ever seen, bigger than the exaggerations they make on Fox News. Itch on my nose can send me into agony? LOL I meditate a total of 1.5 hours a day m8, that is the biggest BS in the world. And there are other world views out there than yours, calling people dogmatic for not accepting a world view, then blatantly attacking Maximus for not doing enough research is the most hyppocritical thing ive seen in days. A bad role model wont make this community better.

@Prabhaker I would not be suprised if god created my life just to have fun, because when you know how a magician does his tricks, it all becomes boring ~ and funny, in the end. This enlightenment stuff reminds me of when I was a kid, and I use to pretend that my figurines were real, and that soldiers were actually fighting each other in my living room. It reminds me of my mum calling me to eat dinner, and the illusion all rubbing off in an instant. I know what you mean though

@Leo Gura Lol serious? after your physical death its all going to mean nothing. You are literally acting like one of those hard core league of legend players, who thinks this game we call life is the be all and end all. No spiritual teacher holds god as sacredly and seriously as your views proclaim. Even the ancient buddhist monks who travelled the eight fold path. Buddhist, for example, have skulls inside their temples to remind them to laugh: because the fear of death is fuelled by an illusion. Its not that serious. The skulls, the fear of death that everyone has, is all a joke by god. There are Zen Koans that make buddhist people laugh every time they read it, because it reminds them that all of the suffering in this universe, is from their seriousness with reality. When you look at biographies of people into spirituality, its only the Tony Robbins sort of 'hungry for success' people who take enlightenment as seriously as your views proclaim, because they all have a deep American personal development 'be hungry' attitude dogmatically instilled in their subconscious.Speaking from someone whose had that real American go getter attitude all my life, I can assure you its the case. I have spoken to a lot of spiritual teachers in the last year, and watched many spiritual videos, and all of them tell me that seriousness is what keeps the ego alive. Enjoy life, because its all going to mean nothing in the end. im talking about actual buddhist monks here in australia, one who lived out in the outback for 8 years to get away from humanity. “People suffer only because they take seriously what the gods made for fun.” ~ Alan Watts. Maybe that's where your suffering is coming from Leo? The fact that you think all of this shit is serious. Don't worry, when you finally realize that your seriousness for human perfection is the cause of all of your suffering, you will laugh too. http://www.thewayofmeditation.com.au/blog/it-turns-out-enlightenment-is-just-having-a-really-good-sense-of-humour/

Im following Leo just so I can learn how to levitate

@Leo Gura Wow buddhism has that? That's mad. I was open minded with Sadghuru, because my intuition seemed to, but didnt know anything about buddhism having it. Its so weird that christians are the least tolerant when it comes to this stuff. I went to church recently (an initiative to be more open minded, because im from a deeply militant athiest background) and i kid you not, the priest or bishop looked like a fucken wizard from the 1500s. same clothing and style. surely they, compared to athiests at least, would be the most tolerant. Lol this stuff is going to be so hard to not cling to during the path. Like what ego wouldn't cling to psychic abilities. People might have been demonized and thought of as kooks in the past, but with your channel, infinite waters, eckhart tolle, people are changing to mystics at a rate of knots. People think transgender toilets and lesbians are weird and out of this world, wait till they get hit by this stuff.

@Leo Gura The more I look at history, and meditate, the more human society seems to be doing a full circle. First fortune tellers and witches and wizards use to be common belief among the people, then science came along and shitted all over them, then came the Sadghurus and the Leos who seem to be re-examining the stuff science shitted all over. The biggest concern with re-examining the mystical side of things is that there is a very fine line between legit mystics and kooks. Both of which there are plenty of abundance of. The main argument i get back from people when i tell them that psychic abilities are real is that they say; well why doesnt the world know about these people? why is it so hidden. And then i get the people who say; well why doesnt buddhism have any of this stuff. Both of which i have no idea of.

@Leo Gura What are the 'benefits' or 'advantages' to considering paranormal phenomenon, to put it orange stage-ish. Is it just for intellectual curiosity, or is there a deep practical basis for understanding and being aware of the paranormal illusions and reality. Reason why I ask is because a lot of spiritual teachers(especially Sadghuru) talk about it, but they don't directly highlight the importance to considering such phenomena.

Hi guys, I would just like to know what 'level' I'm up to on the spiritual path lol. I don't expect to be up very high, maybe only level 2 or 3 purely because I haven't taken enlightenment and spirituality very seriously at all until very very very recently. But I do want to make sure that I am on the right track, and I am not deluding myself, and also possibly what I should expect to see in the future. But right now, I'm going to present some stuff I've noticed, and whether or not the stuff I've noticed are legit sort of phenomena that you would expect on the enlightenment path, or whether they are just deep delusions that I'm falsely taking as effects from meditation. I am fairly certain that this sort of phenomena has come only recently: - I've noticed, in the sensory world, things are looking a lot sharper and maybe 'clearer'. Saturation of visuals seems to be amplified. Same goes with auditory and feelings. - Mind seems to actually be more hyperactive, but not sure if that's because ive noticed more about whats going on inside my head, or if more stuff is occuring. - (Weird and hard to describe) Nature looks more beautiful, and starting to enjoy nature, or the present moment more, it looks nicer - that feeling or phenomena where you seem to exit your skull, seems to be happening on a day to day basis. So I'm slightly out of my skull while at a lecture, or doing homework. A better way to describe it might be that awareness has grown larger. - In meditation, immersion seems to be increasing. What I mean is, the 'screen' between you and reality sometimes breaks, and reality flows like a stream all around awareness. Its like your eyes have become a 3D or 4D or a D > 2D camera. Which hasn't happened before. Are these findings just more delusions, or do they seem legit to you? Please be honest. Thanks.

Maybe I've just had a few bad experiences that tainted my view of it. I just found the alcohol made people rude/not really caring. Either way, OP my take on it is only go 2wice a month if you are like me and don't enjoy it as much. And only go to develop friendships you have and sex. If you want a relationship, you need to think in patterns rather than location. Try and develop your networking skills, and find chicks to date through connections. Its not as cold approached as clubbing, and because they are 'sober' and 'not letting loose' there's a chance that the sexual experience will be more thought out and fun.

@J. M. Wigglesworth At clubs, I find people in particular to be kinda rude and obnoxious. Like the girls in the clubs, half drunk, usually only go for the guys who act cocky and a-holeish or are rich and snobby, and have meaningless status, and also the girls there aren't really looking for a deep passionate relationship, they are just looking for some titilation. And when I'm at a club, if people want to get from 1 place to another, they don't say 'excuse me' they full on push you to the other side of the disco to get to the place they want. Then you have the Alpha male/Ape like fights that go on every night, started because 1 guy decided to pick up a chick that another guy liked.(I've been involved in 1, but I chose not to fight because I couldn't really afford to have a criminal record) Then you have drunk people spilling their beer all over your clothes, making the ground sticky And then finally you have the extremely loud music making you deaf. And a the end of the day, for punishment for having such a great night, you are rewarded with a hang over, ringing ears, and a feeling of hollowness for wasting your time in such an unsatisfactory environment. Honestly, is this the best environment for picking up a chick? I know plenty of people who are in a relationship with a girl they met at a shop or concert, rather than a club.

@Ry4n use osho's dynamic meditation shown by @Prabhaker but the thing that really makes me explode is that you need to almost suffocate yourself. You need to get to the point where you are about to suffocate, and you have to make your body and mind go as insane as possible(don't not think anything -> Do Nothing technique on sterioids)

Leo if you didn't make projections onto your audience, and other people, there's a good chance you wouldn't have a successful personal development business up and running right now. Nearly(if not all) videos you post have some form of blatant projection, and in fact its a core requirement for you to produce videos that are meaningful to your audience. For example, in your beginner's guide to meditation, you made a projection that your audience wouldn't have the ability to meditate for more than 20 minutes at a time, In your video about breaking down 'shoulds and shouldn'ts' you made a massive projection about your audience. You said something along the lines of "you guys make these shoulds hundreds of times per day". In your 'get shit done' video you made a massive projection about how your audience is "lazy" or along the lines of that and the list continues onto infinity..... In fact, you made some many ad hominems in your videos, that I began to subconsciously believe that projections were actually necessary to make effective PD content. How can you as an individual refer to your audience without making projections, sometimes projections are extremely useful especially if you are trying to persuade someone to do something. In fact, the next video you make, will probably be filled with heaps of projections again, whether its about how we are all deep down letting ourselves become spiritual egoists, or falely convincing ourselves that we don't have time for meditation when we actually do, or whatever video your making. Your latest video seems more like a mindless reaction to Rali's attack than a video you would normally release. <- and yes that is a projection, but not one I believe or disbelieve, just a sentence that helps illustrates the point of this post.

@Xpansion totally agree. Thanks for the kind words Xpansion! What's interesting is that nearly every response(not yours) is a projection about me, rather that a discussion about the point I was making. Which is pretty sneaky of 'their egos' considering that the comments made by them actually incorporate quite baseless projections, to try and prove to me that I'm making huge projections; which of course there's no indication of that in my post. I also see this in the non-dogma dogma here. There's a push for being non-dogmatic here, and to stop 'living in the realm of words', because that's closed minded, but what people here have to notice is that, that's just another belief. I guess the responses are just a reason to show that the point I was raising was in fact a valid point to consider. The ego is very sneaky, you need to take into consideration moral licensing which the community here is so drastically unaware of. I make this mistake a lot as well, telling myself that I'm not dogmatic, or I don't make projections, and feeling good about it, when in actuality I'm being the biggest hyppocrit on the planet. I think if we can get past the sort of actions illustrated beautifully by the comments of this post, we are on a pretty good track towards the truth.

Alan Watts is amazing! He provides a very sobering foundation to use when you are confronted with ego traps. While beliefs are beliefs, Alan Watt's videos are a great way to guide yourself when you are feeling lost. Osho is great to follow if you want to use and harness some great deep meditation techniques. His theories of life are pretty cool too, and generally I find Osho to be quite down to earth, compared to some other spiritual teachers who get lost in the 'third eye' and 'chakra' stuff. Eckhart Tolle is great at relating meditation and spirituality to the western culture. He talks a lot about the 'addiction of thought' and other common problems western society throws at us, and also how to overcome it. His talks act like a light house at night: puts light and awareness on the rocky traps of society. and obviously Shizen Young is good too

@Martin123 :D

All I said, was that I think projections are necessary in life, and that Leo's point that projections are 'bad' is not correct, and everyone turned what I was saying into 'hate speech' and 'a problem with me'... maybe Leo is right. and @Martin123 I'll argue with whoever I disagree with , there's no American hierarchial respect matrix in my non-American brain. @Tancrede Pouyat I'm just curious, what problem did I project?

@bazera he's telling us to stop projections, which is a non-sustainable move to make

So in the past, my dreams were to be extremely successful, i.e. make a super successful business, become super famous, and earn lots of money. And I've already put a lot of time and effort into this, by participating in many business pitching events, working with business to build solutions to mundane problems(just to fill up my resume with as much as I can because you know, SUCCESS). But after doing some serious meditation work, this dream and goal I'm working towards is slowly revealing itself as an ego trip, rather than a deep true intuitive urge. The more meditation I do, the less loud the voice of the ego becomes, and the more loud the voice of intuition becomes, and consequently I'm struggling to continue with my long held initiatives. I use to see the money driven, neurotic attitudes of the people I was pitching to as just 'apart of life', and the myopic hollow drives for my business partners as just 'being professional' But after meditation, these attitudes are slowly starting to make me sick, after seeing the power of the present moment, I am starting to feel really hollow by surrounding myself in these environments. How does someone, pursuing this sort of personal development, tolerate such egoic environments without feeling hollow and meaningless? When starting a business, it is almost certain that you will be surrounded by money driven individuals.

Imagine all of the people who have died on this planet, and just before they completely died they all said "OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!!!!! IT'S ABSOLUTELY INFINITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

@Leo Gura that might be an extreme case of Depersonalization disorder

@Leo Gura Alright thanks Leo, I'm fine with getting my ass wooped, as long as I don't develop any serious permanent mental disorders; I'm ok with depersonalization etc but not schizophrenia. I'll do Kundalini again tomorrow,

use distractions -> whenever you get a thought for example about killing your mother or running into a bus, distract yourself with another stimuli like looking at birds going past, or switching your attention to something else you did in the day. You can also start singing to your fav song. Switch to something positive -> Whenever a completely stupid thought comes up, try and think of the opposite. So if you are worried that you are going to get a disease from a guy who just breathed on you for example, IMMEDIATELY think of the opposite: tiny chance that will happen, I wont get germs etc. Meditation -> This one works the best for me, whenever an obsessive compulsive thought comes up, focus ALL of your attention to the sensory world(colours, sounds, etc) and just keep intensely focusing on it.

Is there anyone here who lives in Australia? If so please private message me! I'm planning on making a fully fledged meditation retreat, one purely involving deep self inquiry, without all of the buddhist, hindu, christian, islamic, etc dogma. I'm planning on making it a week, but if you can't come for the whole time that's ok. Depending on how many people I'm able to bring, I will release the date that we plan on embarking on the retreat, it will be around december to january. Again please PM me! I'm so excited for this hard core retreat, if you're interested reach out!