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But see this radically redefines the word love. Why still use the word if the metaphysical definition is now so different from the definition of "relative" love. Don't you see the issue here? Ralston wants us to take a look at this more closely and wonder if your statement that God is love isn't just something you took as a belief from some other guru a thousand years ago. Because notice the definition of existential love is radically different- almost removing the very attributes that made the word love love in the first place. We must be very careful here.

There's a lot of different flavors of OCD ranging from mild to severe but it basically is rooted in the inability to feel certainty and it will cause you to have obsessive thoughts. Those obsessions could be anything. There's even something such as existential OCD. Compulsions are then done to ease the obsessions but give a temporary and kind of false sense of certainty which may quickly fade repeating the cycle even stronger. For me I could hide it because the compulsions were only mental and done in my mind which is called pure OCD. No physical compulsions.

I know i can't smoke weed at all. It gives me immediate panic attacks almost all the time I try it so I don't mess with it at all now.

True you didn't say that but sometimes I need meds for it if it flares up real bad.

Pure OCD.. which is an anxiety based disorder its called the doubt disorder. The ego craves complete certainty. Only awakening was the cure. It has been mostly dormant of late.

Or gift.

Maybe but according to you I wouldn't qualify for a psychedelic retreat because of certain mental disorders. 😀

You cannot but there are certain realizations during awakening. I have had No Self,Infinity, Consciousness, emptinees/Nothingness, .Aloness/Oneness. That last one was the Absolute Solipsism one..there wasnt a realization I was God i just was God. All were best described as full body kundalini awakenings. All meditation. Never touched psychedelics..Very much like Ralston. But Leo's enlightenment videos triggered the awakenings for me. They were all filled wifh Divinity and what i can describe as Infinite bliss - too much for any finite form. All these descriptions fall short..But nothing that said it was love. But it was ineffable for sure. And it did have me in tears. If that ain't love I don't know what is.

Yet no one can describe it. Saying its merely the realization that there is no difference between anything is incomplete in my opinion and lacks nuance. There is no reason to use the word if that's your ontological definition.

You don't wanna take the feeling out either.

That doesn't sound very loving 😕

What i am asking you is Love better described as feeling, a warm feeling of connection and well.love! If that's not the case than what makes it different from raw oneness?

But that's what im asking you. What is the facet of Love to you vis the facet of Oneness. You have said in your videos that Absolute Love is the lack of all distinctions or the realization that there is no difference between anything. That to me is Infinity or oneness, that to me misses the specific facet of Love of which you speak. I want you to tell me the specific facet of Lpve that makes the word different.

Yes exactly.

Well yeah you unify relative things into One (or the Absolute). Take the word Consciousness. Awareness is relative to non,-awareness. Like Mind vs Material. But you can unify Consciousness and infinity as Infinity is everything and nothing. So what are we bringing together with love and Infinity? You can realize "omg its Infinity" or "omg its Love" but really what do these words mean to you? How do you interpret these words? In the end we find that no words can actually capture "IT" ..not even "IT".

In his mind if you needed to use the word Love it would indicate the word Infinity is not all encompassing enough. Which in that case it wouldn't be Infinity.

You're not making any sense if You are Everything than that includes pain too.

@Leo Gura if Infinity and Love are identical there wouldn't need to be two words. They would be the same word He's not wrong. He doesn't use it because love tends to point to an emotion or feeling

Awaken and find out!

😀 God finds itself and that it was imagining it was both the curious man and the wise man.

Curious man: "hmm..if reality is imagination then whatever i imagine is real! So then, what does it really matter if reality is made of atoms or made of nothing?" Wise man: "if reality was made of material..then you couldn't awaken from it! But if it is just a dream, made of nothing..then you could wake up from it!" Curious man: "cool! Then how do I awaken? And am I this nothingness?" Wise man: "I'm afraid it's classified..if I told you I'd have to kill you 😀 "

Now is all that exists. Past, future, even time, are imaginary.

They can take you there but whether you choose to believe it is up to you. My parents were conservative Jews so I don't feel like I was ever brainwashed or forced to believe something. But then again when it came to.God I just thought for myself always. Which is weird because I didn’t always do that in other areas of my life. But I can see where in more orthodox or religious families there can be forms of brainwashing and cult like behavior. So I think it depends.

Wisdom is typically gained from experience. But God has Infinite Wisdom simply because God is Infinity. Awesome insight yes I would concur this is a facet of the Absolute. Relative Wisdom is second order but Wisdom with a capital W is Absolute and is more than just the relative wisdom similar to relative love vs Absolute Love.