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I let go of it for a while but then I always ended up gaining too much weight and seeing health impacts. So now I just made going to the gym (I do both strength training and cardio) a lifestyle and I dont ever plan on going back to the old lifestyle. This is the most healthy. Also it's OK if you have a little ego and stare at your arms or abs..I still do it too

Well since you stated in a reply that you aren't completely sure...but your intuition is telling you..ide say you have a strong intuition which is necessary to awaken from the dream. Keep going. But take nothing on as dogma..The realization of what others are lies in the realization/awakening of no self and the subsequent collapse of the self/other duality. And of course there are awakenings into the nature of reality that will allow everything to come together nicely and give you a complete picture. This takes years. As to how you handle the Truth after ...well remember you just said you had a feeling it was a Truth you weren't really supposed to know.... but when you are ready to actually know and you awaken from the dream you won't be asking us how to deal with it. You'll take back your authority as both the player and the developer/creator of the dream..

It's Infinity. It just IS. Serious or fun is a duality that it creates. Which one it is is relative to your finite bias. It's a relative Truth.

Being encompasses knowing- but knowing does not encompass Being

That's a good way to put it

@Rilles @Carl-Richard yeah..The question "what is isness?" Makes it crystal clear.... Try answering that one...the question "what is isness" is already issing

Yes..you can't know reality because knowing is 2nd order to Being which is 1st order. You can't know it because you're already Being. So just to have to be pure Being.

Survival

You guess eh? Notice that here you yourself have subtlty stated that you don't know for sure that you can't know for sure...you might be in for a surprise if you do the spiritual practices and keep an extremely open mind.

@Javfly33 nice! And even if it still happens, you'll be able to go meta on the thoughts, rendering them powerless, because you understand what the deal is now.

Everything is God. And yet, God is nothing.

We gave you the answer you just didn't want to hear it. The stuff available is as advanced as it gets. The stuff that cannot be shared with anyone is because ultimately awakening is total Oneness. So the deepest Truth will never be able to be shared because of Oneness.

Yeah but he also teaches that there are other perspectives of God actually happening simultaneously which is not the highest realization.

Was going to say the same but he said it. But you should go back and listen to the videos 5- 10 times. You will continue to deepen your understanding of reality every time. Even Leo does when recording his own stuff.

Exactly..agreed guys

Haha it looks just like him ? @Nahm He doesn't meditate anymore though..no need.

Hey, hold on there buddy - my husky is deeply enlightened, and gets very happy when i tell him we're going to the vet for shots.

@Salvijus i understand what you are saying my friend...that said even if you have transcended death, become enlightened, died and then came back, fear would still be more of a subconscious survival mechanism of the body, (if a bear jumps at you from behind, wouldn't you still jump away? This would be fear kicking in subsconsciously to keep you alive.......now if you don't want to call that fear, and you want to call it an involuntary survival reaction, then fine...but i believe it will kick in, unless ofcourse you go into the forest consciously wanting to kill yourself, then you will not be allowing fear to arise via the subconscious mind - or if it did, it would come down to whether your conscious desire to kill yourself was greater than your survival mechanism....so perhaps more importantly your point is that once you realize directly that you can't really die, fear on a high level, not the involuntary level, (consciously speaking) , goes away, and therefore suffering goes away - so it is about understanding and transcending fear, not that fear as a raw survival mechanism itself goes away. Suffering would be to become victim of fear because you actually believe that the death of "you" is final...but in fact that is not your true self....

@Salvijus My take on fear of death after enlightenment: There are many facets and stages to awakening.. But to try and summarize.- after awakening it really comes down to attachment to form - how attached are you to your current form and what attachments do you still have in that form that you wish to retain... ...in other words on an Absolute level , you are conscious that you are Infinity/God - and thus cannot die.. yet after awakening (which is death or actual dissolution of the ego in which you become the Absolute) there is a return to the ego - where you regain a sense of self (despite being conscious it is imaginary - as there is no actual entity behind the eyes.. The entity or the you and any sense you have of you is being imagined by you as God) ..this in a nutshell really alleviates all suffering and fear...yet still, as a finite being one may still have attachments and do not yet wish to melt into permanent Infinite Love. In fact as God you have designed this reality precisely so that you can experience separation, attachments, an egoic state within some particular form, and the desire to survive as that particular form. ..The thing that the awakened one is conscious of though is that as Infinity - you are a singularity - so all your attachments actually collapse into One and thus there is nothing you are really going to give up or lose...your wife, yourself (your body or form) and your kids for example would all collapse into One. All of reality would collapse into One - as there would not be any disctinions to be attached to - such as a family or a loved one. It is Infinite Bliss and Love - complete and total. But, the awakened may not yet wish or be ready to let go of being finite and separate or distinct. Its this attachment that will still result in fear - ..well, i should say the desire to survive, and fear is a subconscious survival mechanism..it is there as a surivival mechanism to keep you alive and thereby retain your atatchments; the question is does the awakened one wish to stay alive or not......see, the difference is they have already died or had ego death before - so they are conscious that in the big picture its all the same and this fear is unfounded. they have transcended it so to speak - yet it may still occur due to the very fact that you're still alive as a particular form - again because you have attachment or desire to retain separation...do you see the circularity here and it's fun in fact to dream but when the time comes that there are no more attachments, even to yourself, then fear goes too because the desire to stay in the dream ends... thats truly when the dream ends and you will melt into Infinity. Right now, though, If you were completely void of any fear you would very soon be dead. @Consilience nice post and I agree that I think sometimes people get lost in the concepts and forget what spirituality is really about. To me it's really about what's actual. Meditation is a fantastic tool for collapsing all concepts into Being/Actuality/Truth.. You don't "know" reality..you ARE reality! No self is paramount in becoming God because it is the direct consciousness that the self was an illusion that results in a shift in consciousness into becoming the Absolute. I think if you talk to a lot of neo-advaitans they will not know even what i am referring to by becoming the Absolute/God/Infinity because it is all just conceptual for them or they think it's a really nice story but believe the concept that there is no self in the body. Yes there actually is no self, but when you actually realize there is no self, you die and become Infinity.

I eat 6 eggs around 4 or 5 days a week. But out of those 6 only 2 are whole eggs the other 4 are egg whites. Too many whole eggs can raise your cholesterol so I wouldn't recommend more than 2 whole eggs a day. That way you are still getting all the nutrients of whole eggs. As far as the negatives towards eggs if you excercise regularly and stick to a healthy diet you'll be fine. I'm 51 and look 35. Never had an issue with aging or health problems..aging is mostly genetics. I'm in great health and have eaten eggs and egg whites my whole life. Enjoy!

@bonesurfer congrats and take time to integrate the realizations.

By cosmic scale do you mean within the dream? Of course not - it's not experienced by you as your small self it is just pure consciousness. It's God waking up from this dream - so how would God waking up from a dream achieve anything within the dream when it just woke up from the dream? Nothing inside the dream had any real meaning other than what your finite self attributed to it..It is stepping outside the reality of form and realizing it for what it is. It's pure selflessness you might say - so why would anything in the dream need to be changed when everything is pure perfection already! That would be selfish.

I would say it's a state of consciousness...an expanded state of consciousness beyond or prior to human finite consciousness..in which it is realized that all other is held within the mind of God which is none other than "your: mind for lack of a better word than you..because it is not a human you. It is everything....infinite consciousness..t is Love.

@RMQualtrough I would take care to not get so caught up with all of the word games about enlightenment that go on in this forum...if you believe that awakening is more word games within the dream and stop there then you will never experience God (for lack of better words) you will never actually awaken. Nothing wrong with that, but also nothing wrong with awakening- in fact it is quite "out of this world"

If you haven't become directly conscious of Truth then I would say question the heck out of the dream. Meditate, self inquiry, all of it. But if you have broken out of this dream then what else is there to do but play within its context? but also, now a lucidity or meta awareness is also available.