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@ajasatya Yes, i agree with you. But this is not the same thing. Wasting time trying to explain what the Self is, without any practical guidelines of how to "achieve" it is pointless, and potentially dangerous.

@Shin No. This is not an exercise in relativity. Relativity is implied, always. Some of the content is simply wrong. In the same sense that if I told you to be enlightened you would necessarily have to travel to Siberia and meditate naked on the ice it would be wrong. A lot Leo's older content are attempts at describing the absolute in words which is impossible. It is the same trap many neophytes fall into, trying to imagine how the Self looks like. It's a waste of time. Follow that path and that's how you end up meditating for forty years, missing the point.

@ajasatya While i do definitely agree with your general point, I maintain the position that some of the videos are useless, if not actually a hindrance. The older videos specially.

True liberation is realization that there never was any bondage. Got to love God's (your own) sense of humor.

^ Any video that is not a practical guide for enlightenment. In general, theory crafting about the Self is meaningless, and this includes the God video. However that video is nuanced and the product of a spiritually developed mind so it can nicely affirm your own experiences if you have had them. Older videos that try to objectify the self mostly miss the mark and don't add much. Also i would like to re-emphasize just how analytical Leo's mind is. Thankfully he now realizes that the Self is trans-rational.

@Hellspeed Sure, i've got many questions: How does the experience feel to the body (not the content of the mind)? How would you describe the feeling of radiance in your head? Only at the top, the top half, or entire head? How many years did the opening take to happen? Did it happen in stages or all at once? Did it involve the Kundalini itself to pass through all your chakras to ultimately dissolve in the Sahasrara?

Excellent realizations and excellent ass.

Do you have a constant and fully open Sahasrara?

@SoonHei No all this is confused nonsense. The Self is the fact of your existence. The fact that you exist. It has nothing to do with your persona. You are confusing your persona with your real Self. \\

@moon777light Ignore all the drivel posted above. The point of self-inquiry is to ground you in the Self. Nothing else matters. The Self is your own existence. It is the fact that you exist. It is not a sensation, or feeling, or thought, or emotion. It is not the feeling of trapped air in your chest. You know that you exist, and that existence does not originate from anywhere. You simply exist. Your existence is the first phenomena from which all other phenomena emerge. Self-inquiry is meant to show you that the world of phenomena emerges from this "existence" spontaneously, in form of sense perceptions and subsequent mental labeling. If you take a thought as it appears within you and trace it, you'll see that it just appears out of nowhere. Knowing this, holding on to it at all times, is enlightenment. Do not fall in the trap of "observing the observation", in the sense that don't try to objectify the Self, because it cannot be done.

One that you don't believe yourself to be.

Well this article is posted in a website dedicated to "Exposing Cults & Tantric Abuse". If you go looking for evil you will find it. There's simply not enough evidence.

@Buba It doesn't. Morality is in the mind.

You are God.

Admittedly i'm not the most versed in spiral dynamics, but, Since transcendence towards higher stages is mostly about surrendering to God, I'd say you need to become conscious of the limits of your mind. I always say: "Abandon all reason, ye who enter." for this leap. Also, the leap from yellow straight to coral might be possible. Turquoise deals with mysticism and that is still in part a conceptual framework (albeit with actual experiential phenomena that might be trans-rational), but at the end of the day, the only thing that is important is "surrendering into God." If you don't meditate, then you should sit down and do so. The object is to surrender all your thoughts and feelings to consciousness, which will eventually result in total clarity. At that moment, you are ripe for trans-rational realizations - AKA a direct experience of non-duality.

Non-duality is synonymous with trans-rational. It means that whatever you are labeling as non-dual is not something to be approached from a logical standpoint. Doing so will result in paradoxes that will only resolve themselves experientially and not logically. Also, as other people here have mentioned, non-duality is something the mind ascribes to God. God is the first cause, it exists prior to mind and thus prior to its labels.

@Godheals It'll take exactly as long as you want it to. If you are of average intelligence, it'll take maybe a year to make sense of all the important texts and ideas. The rest is actually experiencing the concepts in your own life - which goes back to my initial statement.

@28 cm unbuffed Don't get discouraged. I'd say questioning these things is actually a good thing. There are certainly people who would take advantage of your naiveté otherwise. But what Cetus is saying is (imo) is that you should gain more personal experiences. Then you'll know what is truth and what is not.

Nope. I'm not trying to sell you anything. It's definitely real.

@28 cm unbuffed What i mean by "Self-Recognition" is knowing everything as one and the same, with that "one" being God. It is the only ground where I could see how universal love could be a thing. Then again such a recognition does not necessitate love, imo.

@28 cm unbuffed Does your notion of love conform to "self-recognition"?

Because God's not judgmental.

@28 cm unbuffed What do you mean by love? What is it?

I highly recommend reading it. It helps that it's quite short too.

@Mikael89 But how do YOU know this, being alive?