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It's the best classic website we have at the moment on the Internet, after the awakening section of the old davidicke forum was taken down. That was the ultimate, raw, real deal, old school awakening place to be, back in the day. Yes, I am still nostalgic about it! There might be something to be found down the rabbit hole of Reddit, but that is something else, lacking the structure, the identity, the intimacy, the stability and the leadership of actualized.org <3 We should enjoy, use and appreciate this priceless website and the persons that are keeping it up! Thank you lots @Leo Gura

Yes, everything is inside the self which is you and me and I and no I and everything and nothing. Eternal, unchangeable, immovable, all knowing, knowing nothing, undying, death searching, immaterial, yet dreaming of flesh and bodies. How shall it stop the dreaming, that is the big question.

Excellent! And True :))

This seems like a very valuable point of view. Especially appreciating this: "But as soon as you stop imagining them, they will disappear. As will your own body. So it all boils down to how unconscious you are of your own imagination." And this: "Since you are God, if you decide to play denial, there is no one in the Universe who can stop you. Only you can stop yourself." Gotta love some beautiful truths shining through <3

It means you know everything is you and it was like a dream that never was. Or a nightmare. But you woke up and the truth is infinite splendor and nightmares are let go.

The point of spiritual mastery work (which is what this website is about) is to examine within why certain words or emotions are "triggering". A goal of spiritual mastery is equanimity. When you know who you are it's pretty impossible to be triggered, so work on that. Leo is pretty good at pointing where is work to be done

Hey @Leo Gura are You using these mirroring tactics to show someone that it's wrong to cast doubt on the integrity of the election? There are videos and witnesses from the election that cast SERIOUS doubts on the integrity of the election. And gaslighting is employed both ways :> By the way, where are the Emojis on this website?

What are the odds that at the lower levels of delusion God is also assuming the delusion thus deluding itself properly. I wonder how badly does God as a unit actually want to snap out of delusion. God can't or won't stop deluding itself even though it deep down really wants to. How crazy is that.

Alcohol numbs the mind, relaxes the mind's filters, even quietens the activity of mental programs to an extent that allows the body to operate more on primordial feeling and less on acquired mental judgments. In regards to spiritual development, alcohol helps some and sets back others, depending on circumstances.

Nice and so freaking true <3 Pity it might take forever for most of us to catch up.

Yes, this is basic methodology. In every day life, being non reactive can prove to be challenging as such a determination might invite a test. It's quite easy to be non reactive to your thoughts but then a person might come and do their best to challenge you. And it's quite an achievement to realize that there is no difference between a person's shenanigans and the shenanigans of your own mind :)) When someone has a large family and many friends, this method you describe is like doing things the hard way!

As one of the posters aptly pointed, you can't really die. What dies is the ego (your sense of separation or your false beliefs/programs). The only thing that can die is the ego body mind, the separate body mind. Of course you don't want to kill your physical body vehicle before you kill the separate ego mind. Could get rid of ego through methods that work best for you, there are many.... They all involve single pointed focus. Whatever works best. For a positive / affirmative approach focus on the sense of oneness or on the sense of being. For a negative / elimination approach focus on removing your sense of separation and your false or limiting beliefs. For getting back on track, use self inquiry or belief inquiry / investigation.

@Leo Gura Hey Leo, why shouldn't you have your cake and eat it too. You sure can as God. Heard of people who left the body during awakening trips and then came back to the body and restarted it. If your goal is to help human kind long term, you should preserve the physical body for as long as necessary. Oh and many thanks for your help, your platform is one of the best in the world at the moment and you're an inspiration too. Thanks very much <3

Nice. The Alan Wats quite in your signature is also nice... so powerful. I've dropped the mind veil once, happened suddenly and unexpectedly, lasted for a while that afterwards could only be described as timeless... absolute peace suspended in eternity. And then it was over and I started to think

@WaveInTheOcean maybe this was asked before in this thread (I just skimmed the content), so what's your take on the subject of "everything and nothing". Some enlightened folks perceive our self as nothing rather than everything. What about that? Also, thanks for reminding us that we are good.

I'd say that this belief of yours is false, you should take the time and investigate it.

Maybe we should stop imagining enlightenment as something to be reached and instead focus on being enlightened now, as best we can. All of us who have understanding of this, know that the future is always in the future. What about just focus on being now and don't get distracted.

@RevoCulture After reading this, I kind of want to stalk you and read everything you post on here May I ask how did you get to this knowledge, where are you now on your path and do you have any frustrations with the enlightenment journey? What does "letting go" mean to you?

@OmniYoga I'm also from Europe. If you don't want to search the Internet where you shouldn't and don't want to buy them on Kindle, here's a library link where you can borrow some of those: https://openlibrary.org/search?q=Lester+levenson&mode=ebooks&m=edit&m=edit&m=edit&has_fulltext=true

@OmniYoga Many organizations have the potential to feel like a cult if you let yourself engage in that sort of behaviour. But Lester had a saying which is not unique in the enlightenment establishment: "Don't believe a word I say but take it for checking". Now if you want the real deal, listen to the original recordings of Lester Levenson, they are very uplifting and motivating. Actually, if you read Lester's autobiography "No attachments, no aversions", it's about how he got enlightened himself and it wasn't via releasing. He basically locked himself in his apartment and did a combo of hard core self inquiry, forgiveness (changing hate into love) of everyone in his life, revision and transforming feelings about past events in his life and confronting his fear of dying. That's how he got himself very enlightened and lived like a recluse for a number of years until he decided to share it with other people. At first he worked with people one on one trying to help them get enlightened like he did but he failed so he looked for effective ways that regular folks would be able to work with. So he gathered a group of people and directed them into creating what is now called The Sedona Method and The Releasing Technique. The story goes that a woman psychologist together with Lester and others developed the system and put the basis of the releasing method. Later on apparently the psychologist lady became fully enlightened herself. So Lester and his team taught classes for free at the beginning, his team did voluntary work. But Lester came to find out that people who weren't invested financially also weren't serious about it, weren't committed enough and plateaued after a while, stopped making progress. So he started organizing courses based on the retreat model, for a moderate price. In the last years of Lester's life, he asked Hale Dwoskin and Larry Crane to keep on teaching. Others like Stephen Seretan who were in Lester's group also taught classes on a lesser scale. Now Lester knew that Hale Dwoskin and Larry Crane had their own teaching style, had made some changes and were charging money. Charging money for the classes is necessary for the preservation of the organization as that's not a church and isn't run by a resourceful enlightened master any more. But really you don't have to spend a ton of money to learn the technique and it actually works like everything else, to the degree you're doing it My five cents is that it's enough to listen to Lester's audios on Youtube or read the transcripts (Book Keys to the ultimate freedom: Thoughts and talks on personal transformation; book No Attachments, No Aversions: The Autobiography of a Master; book Happiness Is Free, and It's Easier Than You Think) then read the books for the actual method and work with the books, for Larry Crane's teaching style which is my preferred, less cluttered and more to the point: The Abundance Book. For Hale Dwoskin's style which has evolved farther from the original, is a softer approach read "The Sedona Method". Those books don't cost a lot of money and you wouldn't be wasting time with them as the concepts presented are very worthwhile. The people who engage in cult behaviours and spend more money than they can afford are the ones who won't work with the books but fall for endless expensive guided releases and retreats. If you'd have some questions about the actual method, ask away, maybe me or others could provide some insight.

Yes, positive and negative are duality tools with positive being preferred as choice is obviously a thing in duality. The non dual correspondent of positive and negative is obviously equanimity. But now we can't expect most people to have a non dual approach to life when we know what is the approximate percentage of population actively seeking non duality, not to mention having a correct understanding of it! Most folks will have a dual perspective and considering how negative the world already is, we should appreciate when regular people actively choose to promote positivity, even if they do it unwisely by bashing negativity :). Glad you're getting these points, I also understood where you're coming from!

That's a nice story! Yeah, bashing is an attitude of the unwise.

@RevoCulture It's okay to desire happiness but the catch is, (as you implied in your above post), to define "happiness" correctly. There is nothing wrong in seeking happiness and working towards attaining it. You already said, attachment is not happiness. Then you said that happiness is reunification with the whole, in other words "a lack of separation". That's actually pretty spot on, so you're clear on that! You also need to become clear on what "avoiding suffering" is about. That's actually fearing it so yeah, fear is a limitation. Acceptance of bullshit is also called tolerance and is a limitation too. You see, from an enlightened point of view, when you see bullshit, you try to improve it without causing more harm than good (oh the joys of duality). If you can't change it and you're smart, don't get negative about it. Take the positive approach which is deal with it the best you can or tolerate it or get away from it, all within duality. Conclusion being that beyond duality there is a whole non dual world and a wise person knows when to use the tools of duality which are the opposites and when to transcend into the non dual mind set of equanimity.

Because people are ignorant. They translate everything through their own limitations. But also keep in mind that when someone is talking to you they are actually giving advice to theirself so yeah, it's like we keep reminding ourselves to be positive because negative sucks more? But what about you? What do you prefer? If positive goes hand in hand with negative, then what's the alternative, neutrality? Is "equanimity" another way of saying "enlightenment"?

@actualizing25 Happiness is a very worthwhile goal and defining happiness for yourself could be a most enlightening process. You have already said in your opening post what happiness isn't for you: the trappings of the world don't really make you happy. So what makes you happy? Maybe working towards liberating yourself from your ego's limitations would bring you happiness. Contemplate that, what would really make you happy?