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@Skenderberg Enlightenment experience come after realizing everything step by step.

@zasa joey You are following your body. It is not that your body is following you. First, no one is perceiving any feelings or thoughts. Also awareness is not YOU. Awareness come up only after a sense. Without any sense simply because the brain is in resting state, there will be no awareness.

My advice is..... 1. If an action hurts you and others, then you should not do it. 2. If an action hurts others but will benefit you, then you still shouldn't do it. 3. If an action hurts you but will benefit others, you should do it but that's your choice.

@abrakamowse The idea of reincarnation is very different in Buddhism. But not many understand it. Reincarnation in Buddhism doesn't mean you fly out of your body and possess another body. Reincarnation is all based on Cause and Effect nature. Everything that are existing in present moment are simply causes for the Future. So the future is always caused by now or past. However because this present moment disappear as another present moment appears (Impermanence nature), there is no future or past. Only present moment. That is simply a reincarnation. So we came to be alive because something in the past caused us to be alive. Doesn't mean our souls jumping from a body to another.

@Brian Greendahl R u talking about Western Enlightenment or Eastern Enlightenment (Nirvana)? If Western, I don't know. There are many concepts out there. You can't trust anyone just because they say they are enlightened or have many followers. The only thing is by your own experience, you can tell whether enlightenment is this or that. For Eastern, the enlightenment (Nirvana) is based on Buddha's teachings. There are four stages of Enlightenment there. Usually the final stage is called Fully enlightened. In fully enlightened stage, a person don't get angry or worry for life. They also don't have any doubt what so ever anymore. There consciousness is sharp enough that can always keep the sense of self out of their mind. So they are considered selfless people. The also don't reincarnate any more.

@Josh Ego is just a name for illusion of self. Since self don't exist, ego don't exist. But in a sense of ego (sense of self) exists because of thoughts, then YES, Thoughts and ego are equal. There is no Ego to shredded. There is only thoughts to be shredded with awareness so that the illusion of self, the ego disappear.

Love in relationships, between men and women is not pure. It is called needy love in spirituality. You know...! "Dang... Can't live without you," kinda thing. It is the lowly desire and if you wanna put it as Love, it is very basic love which occur even in animals. Love between parents and children is half pure. It is half pure because on one hand parents love their children without any desire to get something back. They protect and care without expecting in return or they won't hate you if you don't return anything back. On the other hand, their love is still in selfishness. They love their children in a sense of "MINE" which is still based on ego. The most perfect love is accepting everything as the way they are without exception. In very recent video of Leo, he talked about seeing things as the way they are without any judgement. I bet if you practice that you will understand about LOVE more and more. Because I'm not fully enlightened, I won't talk about how enlightened people love. But even if someone had the enlightenment experience as the one Leo had, one will understand that there is no entity and everything is only happening according to cause and effect, everything is changing, and there is no such thing as perfect or imperfect. Because of understanding those things, everything will become equal in one's eyes. One also understand that everything is the same including himself. Because of that, one will break the layer of separation between himself and surroundings and become connected with everything. But one will also understand that not everyone understand as him. Because of that, one will become forgiving, understanding, caring and protecting for everyone and everything without judgement and needy desire. Also there's no ego base because he understands that even himself doesn't exist and an entity.

Doing research on myself.... "What am I??"

Fire breathing Dragon would be awesome.

@Enizeo keep practicing man! When I started meditating, I could even fall asleep while sitting. Mannnn, come to think of it, it was so much fun. Anyways, you are not the only one.

For U.S., he's enlightened. For Buddha, No!

He was so close!

I personally admire Jesus even though I consider myself a Buddhist. They are all cool spiritual leaders. But the problem is in some very religious and blind people. There was a time one couple tried to convince me to believe in God or become official Christian. So I asked the lady why she became Christian and her answer was because her husband and daughter believe in Jesus so they will be saved but she will be sent to hell. So I just smiled at her. I mean Christian or Buddhism they all have something deeper meaning than believing just out of fear of being sent to hell. I think we have to break that fear shell to see the core.

Search for yourself.

You are dying even before your body is put under ground. It just that you don't notice. But just because you don't know doesn't mean you are living or things stop happening. Just like Leo said in last video, you are determining death or alive in your version. Not as in reality.

http://www.dharma.org/meditation-retreats/retreat-center/retreat-center-schedule I'm going for June 14th You only have to pay $17 par night if you are between 18 and 26.

Karma = Action = Reactions = Cause and effect = no Freewill

@mikeyy that's normal

Many says I'm not that old but I still feel like I'm too close to death so I always feel like I'm very old. I'm 22.

I'm grateful for having met with great teachers and being able to walk on enlightenment path.

Your mind is just so unconscious that it is not used to practice for real consciousness. Keep doing meditation. Most of us had to face some kind of scary mental phase after all. I've seen people who passed out during meditation. But it goes away as you practice.

@Algi If you are talking about the Creator God, I don't think Leo cares about that kind of God exist or not. And there's no point in arguing for existence of God anyways. The reality on earth is our reality. Creator is.............................

My suggestion is........ Try to aware of you movements and senses as you are doing something or walking.

@zenny Yeah, right!

Yeah, Right.. I just read half to see some ideas.