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It is appalling how many people voted for Trump. We never learn from history. How could America choose Trump again is actually surprising to me despite all he’s done. One woman I talked to even said that Trump is not a convicted felon because “how could he even vote?” I responded with the fact that some states allow exceptions in some felony cases. People are so misinformed. You can be a felon and still vote and still be employed. My bigger point is that to even vote for Trump implies that you are seriously misinformed about something. You can never awaken if you vote for Trump because to even vote for him implies having an unawakened mind full of devilry and bias. No amount of meditation will awaken you. You can still vote for Trump regardless of how many times you count your breaths. Contemplation seems like a better method because at some point, you will reach the conclusion that the only reason people voted for Trump was for selfish reasons. They don’t really care about anything deeper than their own walled garden. Prove me wrong.

Pardon my ignorance, but is your notion of why Rogan isn’t awake is because he lacks awareness of Devils? If so, that was my entire argument. If you voted for Trump, you ain’t awake because you aren’t even conscious of what a Devil is, so how could you be conscious of what God is? I don’t deny that the Buddha can attain Enlightenment and still vote for Trump, but the fact that the Buddha voted for Trump shows that his Enlightenment is far from complete. If you have an insight but you cannot integrate it, it’s as if you don’t even understand your own Awakenings. How could you understand God but not the Devil? Sure, self-deception is part of life, but that is something else to awaken to. If you awaken to the Devil, it seems contradictory that you would still be fooled by him. Hence, you are still asleep to his tricks. If Enlightenment is dissolving the ego, then it seems egotistical to even vote Trump. To vote for Trump is all ego.

So is reincarnation true? Is there life after death. I want you to contemplate the following quote: "Think of it like this: Before you were born, you were in a state of nonexistence/nothingness -- kind of like how you might imagine death to be. But yet, you were born from this nothingness. It is like you were in death already and yet you came to be! Death is fertile for birth. After you die, you do a similar process as you did when you were born. The Universe knows no time. Eternity is at the blink of an eye. This is one life out of an infinite that you'll live. Existence is the miracle. The Universe is Magic! Welcome to the game of Eternity." In this way, death can be understood as the reset for rebirth. You could be dead for a billion years, but yet, the time between your death and the next life would be as if no time passed at all just like in your sleep. When you die, it will be as if you never even lived, but it will also be as if you never died either. You've lived an infinite number of past lives already, but to live this life requires you to forget all the others. Is reincarnation true? Well, what is the alternative? That you die and never wake up? Or that you wake up from nothingness just as you have already done before? How is it even possible that you were born in the first place? Do you see how existence is like rolling a double six. It might be improbable, but the Universe is eternal. That means that it has eternity to make the 1/10000000000000000000000000000000 probability happen. This 1/10000000000000000000000000000000 is life itself. No other planet that we know of has life on it. The Universe will keep rolling until it hits the 1/10000000000000000000000000000000. But it will be as if life is a given. It will be as if rolling a double six was meant to be. If the Universe is eternal, then it makes sense that life, no matter how improbable it is, will inevitably exist. Life is inevitable because of eternity. In the same way, how could your rebirth not be inevitable because of Eternity?

It’s AI for all we know. Doesn’t matter who you were last year. Now is what matters you Devil. 😈

You’re not getting it. Experience is relative within the Absolute Eternity. Eternity is Absolute. My experience changes but what always exists is Eternity. If Eternity exists, then it is inevitable that life exists no matter how improbable it may seem. The Universe has an infinite amount of time to create life. If it didn’t create life, then it would be as if I didn’t exist. But even if it takes 13 billion years to roll the dice perfectly, the Universe has all the time in the world for what we call the impossible. Me being reborn is inevitable because of Eternity. I’ve already done it before. What makes you certain that birth won’t happen again, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes?

Since you are God, you cannot die. You just change form. It is so freaking magical! It is insane what I’m realizing now. Death does not exist! I mean death exists in the relative meaning that I will die as a human. But I am Eternity itself and I will just change costumes. Impermanence is a gift. Death as an absolute is an illusion.

Thats exactly what I said. You will go back to where you came from which is being born. You cannot have an experience of nonexistence. Consciousness is inevitable given Eternity. It’s like rolling a dice with a 1/10000000 probability. But you wouldn’t know Eternity. A billion years can go by before your next life and it would be as continuous as you waking up from your deep sleep. You will go back to your deep sleep, but it is inevitable that you will wake up.

What I mean is that improbability doesn’t exist with an eternity of time. Life is improbable given a finite amount of time. But if the dice keeps rolling, it will eventually land on life. Hence, our current predicament.

After contemplating this some more, I’m not sure if it is possible to understand God without understanding the Devil. How can you understand God but not the Devil? Trump is a Devil. The path of understanding God requires extensive existential contemplations. I think some of this does transfer over. From my own experience, just engaging in existential contemplation has transferred over into other areas such as politics. The more openminded you are, the more liberal your mind is. You have to have a pretty open mind to understand the deepest facets of reality. My argument is that people that claim they are awake but still vote for Trump, already that shows that they aren’t fully awake to understanding the nature of reality. Voting for Trump already implies there is something wrong with your understanding of reality. I get that politics is its own study entirely, but to awaken to God and then be so dumb to not see the Devil in Trump doesn’t compute in my mind. It makes me question the validity of your “awakening” because if you can’t see the Devil in Trump, how can you see it in yourself? Edit: Never mind. I realize that self-deception is part of life, and it isn’t right to denounce someone’s entire awakening experience over one mistake in their worldview. Just because we understand God doesn’t mean one has fully grasped the Devil. Devil awakening must be another animal. And just because the Devil is grasped doesn’t mean mistakes won’t happen.

This is just ego backlash. The point of this work is to understand reality and deconstruct your ego mind. It’s just words on a screen. Buddhism even teaches you that all suffering is self-created. I didn’t get offended by it. Why are you? Maybe it’s because you hold Leo on a pedestal and view his perspective as absolute. Maybe this is why you feel the need to explain Leo’s behaviors. If you hold the perspective that everything Leo says is a perspective, then it shouldn’t matter what he writes. That’s like being offended from reading the Book of Mormon. You don’t get offended from that because you don’t care about it and the opinion of the author. Likewise, this is just another perspective that you can choose to take personally. I really liked Leo’s blog post on thinking for yourself. It is inspiring. The results I have noticed is that I have less of a care of others’ opinions and have no desire to change them. However, if someone is being an ass, I will point it out to them, but I just accept that the world is full of ignorant and intelligent people. When You are aware of the impermanence of all things and you know that everyone and yourself is going to die, you stop being ruled by petty things. You are letting Leo’s words have power of your mind. Stop it. Don’t let mine have power of yours either. This journey is long, but You got this man.

What you do about blasphemy is a political issue. The death penalty is all politics man.

Yeah. Thanks for that blog post. It all makes sense now. I got it. Just because you awaken to reality doesn’t mean you can do calculus or understand politics because that is a relative domain. It’s like getting the Buddha to understand the rules of football. The Buddha may not get football, but that doesn’t discount his awakening.

Makes perfect sense now. Thanks! I still don’t think Trump could ever attain Enlightenment. I mean how can you say that you are Awakened when you go back doing the same stuff. Awakening should radically change how you live your life. You’re not just gonna go back to chop wood and carry water. That would mean that you haven’t fully realized and integrated the insight.

This is the part I don’t understand. How can you be awake if you don’t know how to embody basic critical thinking skills. God is supposed to be the most complex concept of all time, and to be able to understand God takes a high level of awareness and insight. Politics is at such a survival level and it is more relative in nature. I don’t see how awakening and development aren’t the same. The less one is developed, the more selfish they are, the more skewed their reality is. This person is more in alignment with the Devil than God. You mentioned it yourself sometime ago that the reason we don’t understand God is because of selfishness and how that distorts our understanding. I could be wrong but it seems like it takes an incredibly wise person to be able to understand God. It takes less intelligence to understand that Trump is a Devil. I know developmentally delayed people who were wise enough to see through Trump’s BS and vote for Kamala.

Who you vote for is a representation of your level of consciousness. You think Jesus or Gandhi would vote for Trump? Politics and spirituality are one as was proven with Gandhi movement. Look at any spiritual path and you will find politics. Jesus was killed because of politics. Think about that. No spirituality without politics.

You can apply for food stamps and government assistance. In the meantime, keep looking on Indeed. If it was me, I would perform magic tricks and guitar in the street for cash.

What is an expert? How do you know they aren’t deluded? Just because you are Einstein doesn’t mean you are deluded free. RFK is full of shit. Until you get that, you aren’t awake.

I remember Leo talking about how meditation and nonduality is not awakening. But I am wondering if this is one of the 10% of the false teachings? I mean think about it, what is the alternative? Just scrolling on TikTok and YouTube!!? That will never get you awake. Or is the alternative to plug DMT every day? That's not realistic either. What I have come to conclusion of is that meditation is all about increasing your awareness to the actuality of reality. You can take all the DMT you want, but if you aren't grounded in the actuality of the present moment, no amount of psychedelics will awaken you. There are plenty of people who take psychedelics more than me and maybe more than Leo but who are not awake. I think maybe Leo made a nuanced point in that no method is the awakening in the same way that the map is not the territory. Meditation is not awakening. Psychedelics is not a awakening. Contemplation is not awakening. Because all of these are activities and is not the same as state. It is confusing doing with being. Awakening is a state of BEING in which certain things that you can DO may bring about that state of BEING/REALIZATION. But the activities of meditation and psychedelics are not realization/being themselves. I think this may be the point he was making. I don't think Leo is discouraging people from meditating, but rather he is challenging people who are engaging in meditation filled with human Buddhist ideological nonsense. I get it. Chanting the Hare Krishna mantra over and over again probably won't get you to awakening. Awakening is too profound for such a simple dumb method like chanting Hare Krishna (no offense). There can be many deluded methods of meditation and psychedelics (i.e., such as chanting a religious mantra). But there can be more profound ways of meditation that can bring about mystical experiences and maybe even enlightenment. But the effectiveness of such a method would vary across different individuals. I am convinced though that there is no awakening/enlightenment without serious contemplation. You can quiet your mind, but if you don't know how to use your mind to think in nuanced ways, to avoid bias, then how could you be awake? How can you be awake if you would still vote for Trump and hold a lot of deluded stuff in your mind? So my point is that the method is not awakening, but this does not mean to stop meditating. It means to examine closely what you are doing and to make sure that you are meditating in ways that actually transform your consciousness. There may be limits on what meditation can do for some people, but what is the alternative? We just gonna scroll on social media!? No! We still engage in meditation and contemplation, but we aim to improve at it little by little. Meditation may not lead to the deepest levels of reality, but it is a practice that will transform your life for the better if done correctly. Meditation is a better alternative than chasing after money, fame, sex even if it doesn't ultimately lead to the highest levels. But that is still a big question mark of whether meditation can lead to the deepest levels or not. I think it all depends on how effective you are. You cannot be effective if your mind still clings to Buddhist, Spiritual nondual beliefs/ideology. If one thing Buddhism teaches you, it is that clinging is the root of all ignorance/suffering. Buddhism taken to the extreme deconstructs itself.

Alien consciousness?

Leo’s latest blog post on hummingbirds is quite insightful. I would suggest that spirituality is also seeing the God in the human as well. I find it easier to see the God in nature than I do the God in human. It is hard to see how corruption is God. But yet it is.

I wonder if this implies that there is an external world, meaning that reality isn’t just all that youre experiencing. For instance, there are many things you don’t experience right now that still exists. Consciousness can hide things from itself. If you think you have total access to reality, then you don’t get it. There are people who can see more color than you, can lift more than you. There are many things hidden. If you had total access to reality, then you couldn’t be human. This is what is meant by external world, that there are things hidden behind the scenes. Whether the substance is consciousness or matter doesn’t matter. It is the fact that you don’t have total access to reality. If you did, then like I said, you couldn’t be the human that you are. To be a human means your reality is limited.

How I see it is Love is Unity/Connection. Falsehood isn’t disconnected from Truth. I think the real question we need to ask is not what love is, but what falsehood is. Even a Trump support, no matter how deluded they are, they are still acting out of love.

Love is also falsehood as well. Why would love not include falsehood? Hence, existence is created.

Hello. I went to my dermatology appointment today, and they put me on minoxidil medication. The dermatologist confirmed my suspicions that my hair is receding. I still have a full head of hair, but it is receding. I am 27 years old male and have never really taken medications long-term. I have been concerned about taking medications because of the fear it might cause other problems for me. I also have this belief that taking medications means I am weak because I want to be able to heal and overcome naturally without putting chemicals in my body. I know it sounds lame, but this has made me a bit tearful because of my aging. I am losing my hair and my eye sight because I now have 20/25 vision when I used to have 20/10 vision when I was a late adolescent. It sucks. I just wanted some support on whether I should take the minoxidil or if I should just accept the hair loss. It has been hard aging because it feels like I am losing the good parts of myself. It feels like I am losing my edge. It feels like my vision won't ever be as sharp as it used to be. My hair won't be as full as it used to be. I am a person who has always been on top of the world and had good health. Aging out of youth is depressing.

I bought the pills but haven’t taken them and don’t think I will. I got more important things to worry about than my hair. I have been wearing a badass cowboy gat lately and it’s helped with my cold approaches. Men and women comment on my hat and it makes for a nice story.