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? Good analysis of being specific and concrete.

At whose will? Next question: After you identify what you want to master in your lifetime, how are you going to do it? What is your plan? How are you going to turn your mastery into a life purpose to make you money and a livelihood?

I am sure that whatever it is you feel is taboo, I have definitely heard “worse” as my job is mental health counseling. I am not the one to judge because that is low conscious and my vision is to rise above what everyone does. But please don’t feel pressured to share with anyone if you feel you aren’t ready. One of my deepest principles in life is to do the opposite of what everyone is not willing to do to grow. What do you want to manifest in your life? What is your top choice? Why? What kind of speaking do you want to master? What topics do you want to speak about? How do you want to impact people and the world? Why? As they say, “shoot for the moon and if you miss, at least you will land on a star.” It is better to take the shot and act on every opportunity you can. Interesting choice for things to master. I think friendship can definitely be underestimated. What does mastering friendship look like to you? How does this domain of mastery connect to your life purpose?

Good and interesting choices y’all! This is something that I notice. The things I want to master are intangible and are self-centered like being omniscient about reality for instance and being physically and mentally fit. This makes it difficult to build a life purpose around because society is constructed where the tangible is more important and more valued than the intangible. Nobody cares how omniscient I am or how fit I am if I cannot make it into something tangible and valuable for them. I find this hard to do with my interest in philosophy, meditation, and contemplation. Edit: Maybe after watching Leo’s Scamming video, I may have some ideas now on how to make the intangible more tangible and “useful.”

Nice. What is that? How did you find it?

I never understood this answer. Fearing fear is fearing to feel. There is nothing wrong with the emotion of fear, it is how we use it. Fear is one of the most powerful emotions we have that can motivate us and enhance us to succeed, if used in a conscious manner. The pit scene from the Dark Knight Rises (Batman Movie) is a great example of how useful the emotion of fear is.

I appreciate your perspective. For me, true potential is not about achievement, but more about being all that I can be. We all have unique gifts, skills, and talents. True potential is using gifts, skills, and talents in my life and to follow my heart. As with regret, if I did not follow my heart and dreams, if I lived my entire life the way I did not want to live it, then I would experience regret. One of my biggest fears is being too scared to take risks and follow my heart. Another fear is to also lose my comforts that I have now and to suffer. So, I am kind of in a bind lol. I do not really regret anything in my life so far because I still believe that I have time because I am still young (25). But I have dreams to travel to national parks this summer, and I would be mad at the opportunities I let slip by. I believe that regret can be a choice and a matter of perspective, but I also think that it is an emotion that happens to us in association with us seeing the opportunities we missed in life. To a certain degree, it is a choice, but on another level, it does not seem to be if one lives their entire life realizing that they were climbing up the wrong latter. All emotions are valid, it is just what we do with them that matters. I see regret as a sign that I am capable of more than I realize, and I let myself and opportunities pass away. I resonate with this.

Good. Good. Start noticing how irrational all fear is. Even though your rational mind knows your fears, it still is succumbed by them in the same way you are entranced by your dreams at night. The best time to contemplate fear is when you fear. Same with desire. Fear is the opposite of desire. We desire life and fear death. We desire what makes us feel more alive and we fear what makes us feel more dead. That is what it boils down to. There are so many things that I fear, and they are all linked to death. Even though I rationally know that death is imaginary, that life is a dream, I still fear death. I still fear the end of all illusion that I know of. Even though I say all emotions are irrational, I believe that our emotional mind is more intelligent than our rational mind.

What I mean by a true potential is to give it your all and not have any regrets. Live life to the fullest and have the highest level of mastery that you can possibly have on your deathbed.

I am going to argue that all of your desires ultimately boil down to giving you happiness and peace of mind. And all fear is the fear of loss and death, your own egoic annihilation is the biggest one. Why chase love, knowledge, success? What does it give you? Peace of mind and happiness? And what you fear is losing happiness and life itself?

Good answers. I desire Truth, Love, and total confidence. I want to know as much as I can about reality, and I want the deepest Love and connection to it. I want total freedom. To know reality and fall in love with it. My ultimate desire is freedom and adventure, which means doing the most with my freedom to get me the deepest truth, love, and confidence. What I fear is pain, losing my abilities and strengths, and to not live up to my full potential and fulfill my dreams. I guess it all boils down to my fear of death or my fear of not being/feeling free. My biggest fear probably has to be not living up to my potential. Life to me has become a way to prepare to die in peace when all I desire is extinguished if that is possible and my full potential has been actualized. The roots of it all my be to feel important. I desire something because I think it is important and I fear because I think it is important and matters.

Hello. I recently looked at an old post by Shaun below. Here is a quote from the thread by Leo that I wish to analyze more and how it relates to the problem of mind. So everything is one being and all projection of duality is delusion, and we are all the same being running through infinite selves, experiencing different aspects of God. So God essentially imagines that it subdivides it's own mind in the same way that humans subdivide territories, countries, states, etc. and as a result, there are infinite bubbles of experience, which collapses into ONE bubble of experience that holds infinite experiences or facets of God, as God imagines. Like Leo said, it is like one server that holds all the multiplayer gamers. The same being is looking through the same eyes. From Leo's Perception video, he also compared Consciousness to a sponge and all the bubbles on the sponge as us egos. Here is my issue. When we say God is subdividing itself to experience various aspects of God, I realize that I am imagining all other bubbles of experiences and subdivisions. I know that my human imagination is limited, and I only experience reality from my own direct first person experience right now as typing this message for another aspect of God to read. I am imagining my audience or readers but that does not mean that they do not exist when the Typer of this message right now is focused on typing this message. The Typer and the Reader are the same being from Leo's quote and from non-duality, but what does this actually entail because the only thing I experience in my perceptual bubble is my ego and not any other ego, but yet other egos (even if they are imaginary in nature) still have their own internal world and thoughts (even if they are imagined by nothingness or emptiness, which is the same generator that is creating my thoughts and these words you are reading right now). I know that I am imagining your egos internal world from the Typer's or from r0ckyreed's point of view, and you are actually experiencing your point of view right now and imagining r0ckyreed's. So we have a duality of actuality vs. imagination of the actuality is that Consciousness or God is focused on being the r0ckyreed Typer, which is imagining the Reader (whoever the hell you are). I do not see how this duality can fully collapse because even though the same Being or Consciousness is Typing and Reading this message, there are still differences in experience. For instance, right now in my experience, Consciousness has always been focused on the first experience of the ego of r0ckyreed, a human being, who then is imagining consciousness to also be behind the eyes of other humans that I interact with. Here is the problem. Right now, I see a bed, a drawer, a desk, I am imagining the voices of other humans, and there appears to be only this bubble of experience. But I know that I as God have infinite other bubbles that this bubble of r0ckyreed does not have access to. The bubble of r0ckyreed is imagining r0ckyreed and is imagining all other bubbles. But this does not mean that the perceptual bubble of Leo Gura (even if I am imagining it in the bubble of r0ckyreed) does not exist or any other human that I interact with. Another issue is that what makes a human have a perceptual bubble of experience but not a chair? When I look at other objects that I have been taught to call human, I know that humans are not just objects but also subjects that I believe are located behind the eyes (hence, they have a perceptual bubble that is being imagined by my perceptual bubble, and my perceptual bubble is behind also imagined by my and their perceptual bubble). But a chair, a desk, a table, an apple do not appear to have any internal world or perceptual bubble of experience. I mean where would it be located? With a human being, their soul is the empty nothingness that I experience as being behind their eyes or in their brain. What is having this perceptual bubble of experience? Does a brain also have a perceptual bubble? If it does, then how is it different from a chair or something else that is artificial or even natural? For instance, I can experience cutting up a rats brain and the rat's behaviors changing. I can also suspect that their inner world will also change even if I am imagining it. But what makes a perceptual bubble vs. No perceptual bubble? What makes an object have a mind vs. not having a mind? A dog, turtle, human, whale, shark are what I consider to have minds or internal experiences that I do not have access to but am imagining, while a desk, shoe, toy, iPhone, house, etc. do not have internal experiences or perceptual bubbles. Is it having a nervous system that makes objects have internal experiences, minds, and perceptual bubbles? This seems to be the case; however, what about the consciousness of plants and trees that allegedly do not have nervous systems? I would argue that some plants could have inner worlds or bubbles, but their bubbles are vastly different from the human experience. It is like trying to imagine what an experience of a bat is like from a human perspective. The reason why I think plants could have their own bubbles is because there is evidence that suggests that plants always grow towards the sun. Even when researchers tilt the plant sideways, the plant changes its course of growth to grow sideways to face the sun. See the intelligence of that? How would the plant know to grow sideways to face the sun if there was not some sort of awareness? Let's also tie this into our immune system, nervous system and cells that make up the human body. Our immune systems, cells, etc. have their own intelligence too like a plant. Our immune systems seem to have a consciousness of which cells are "good and bad." It has an intelligence of their own. I think of our cells like plants in that they grow and they die, and they have an intelligence of their own. Our body is like a garden for many bacteria and cells who then also contribute to preserving the life of the garden (body) itself. This runs into a strange loop of if cells, plants, etc. do not have perceptual bubbles of their own, then how do they contribute and give rise to our current perceptual bubble? Without a body, there can be no experience, especially that of an organism. If there can be an experience without a body, then what would the experience be experiencing? These all my thoughts and contemplations so far. Have fun answering these mysteries that I do not think our human minds can ever solve because the finite human mind can never grasp the infinite nature of reality. It may be able to implicitly understand that reality is infinite, but a finite mind cannot become infinite while still living and surviving as a human. To become infinite is to die as the finite self that God is focused on. At least, this is my current perspective right now that I hope will change as I continue to grow (as the plant I am ), and I am open to and encourage all contemplations on these various subjects. Thank you!

No problem. You have to contemplate and question every assumption you have. I used Jed McKenna’s Spiritual Autolysis method of trying to write down what is true and then dissecting that and your assumptions. I also used Leo Gura’s Actuality vs. Concept episode. Also, Descartes’ Cartesian doubt is another good technique that helped me. You eventually want to get to the point where you can contemplate in your head, so to speak. And you also want to be aware of the distinction between Actuality and imagination so that you don’t get lost inside your own mental maze of your own mind. It really comes down to: 1. Be fully present in the actuality of this moment. 2. Question and observe the actuality of Now and the concepts you add onto the actuality of Now. 3. Burn everything and see what is remains. Deconstruct all concepts and stories onto this moment such that you are left with Pure Truth or Actuality, which is another way of saying “reality as it is now.” But some people have different ways. Some prefer to meditate, use psychedelics, etc. But I have always preferred contemplation because it was always most natural to me throughout my life. Take skepticism and solipsism as far as you can go. Deconstruct yourself. But it takes a mature mind to be able to do that and go all the way. It feels like you are losing your mind because that’s exactly what you are doing lol. I’ll let you contemplate and figure that one out. Really observe this present moment deeply. Sit with the question, observe, and deconstruct. One of my top principles in life is “Do what most people are not willing to do, that is true greatness.” A deeper point is to be able to enjoy and do what you are not willing to do, that is excellence. Whatever you do, enjoy it, go all the way, and give it your all. To me, a good life comes down to two main things: 1. Did you enjoy it? 2. Did you give it your all and live up to your full potential? May the Force be with you. ?

There Is Nothing Outside Of This Dream?! By r0ckyreed The Story Imagine you are sleeping and in a dream. In this dream, you are dreaming that you are at the North Pole inside of Santa’s workshop. You are dreaming up the entire life of an elf. This elf was born to two parents, was raised in Santa’s workshop, and was a wage slave for the first 25 years of his life. At age 25, he ventured off into the nearby forest after his shift. He began to sit silently by the river and trees in the deep forest. The elf had a strange feeling in his heart that told him to go to the library and read the “Forbidden Book.” The elf snuck into the library and read the Forbidden Book, which was a lifechanging book on philosophy and spiritual enlightenment. After reading the book, he immediately, he left Santa’s workshop, left his parents, and his whole life behind him, and he ventured off to join a monastery. At this monastery, he saw 5 monks meditating in total silence and stillness, and he was greeted by the “enlightened master” from whom he learned meditation from. He joined the monks and began to meditate every day and live the monk lifestyle. It took the elf 5 solid years of dedication and discipline to let go of his old elf lifestyle and beliefs to adjust to the new monk lifestyle and beliefs. Over time, the 5 monks turned into 200. And on the Elf’s 35th birthday (10 years from since he started), he had that strange feeling again. His heart this time was telling him to leave the monastery and go to the South Pole (which in Elf culture was deemed as evil and sinful). Once again, the elf followed his heart and left and went on a long journey from the monastery all the way to the South Pole. On his way, the elf discovered a month later that the monastery he once belonged to was shut down because it became a cult and many of the followers were abused and were killed. When the elf finally got to the South Pole, he had another feeling telling him to remain in solitude and contemplate to find out the Truth of “Who am I?” After the elf created shelter, prepared all the food, and found his haven, he spent much of his days contemplating the nature of self and other. One day, the elf was in intense contemplation so deep that he could feel his reality and his sense of self breaking apart like a block of ice. He deconstructed all sense of other and self such that he could no longer tell the difference between reality and imagination, self and other. When the voice of his heart told him to return to the North Pole, the elf realized that he is constructing everything. His entire life story was just a story. It was then that his contemplation became so deep that he suddenly looked inside the headless void to discover the infinite field of experience. He realized that his parents, Santa, other elves, other people, the trees, laws of elf sciences, the world, and his own self. Everything he looked at was a reflection of the Self, the One Mind, The One Experience. All other experiences of Santa, his parents, and of the world were contained with the Headless Field of Experience/Dream. But it gets even stranger. It was then that elf started to wonder whether he was dreaming “you” (the sleeping body). But he became so lucid that it was no longer an elf anymore, it is YOU! The entire World! Everything is contained within YOU, behind your eyes, in your headless, infinite field of consciousness! The elf (you) becomes so lucid in the dream that he starts to wonder whether there is anything beyond dreaming? All there is, is the field/screen of experience from which all of reality is imagined and dreamed. The elf realized that there is no difference between it and you. Anything outside of the dream is contained within the dream. The Insight Imagine being so lucid in your dream, that you become convinced that there is an elf you are dreaming of and there is your human meatbag in another place where you think you are sleeping. This is an illusion. The dream world and this world right here are the same world. There is no body, no you sleeping outside the dream. God or the True Self is not the body you imagine outside of the dream, it is the Dream. The World is God. All location and time is an illusion. There is nothing outside of here and now. Everything is always Here! Everything is always Now! Where is Here? When is Now? Everywhere you are, you are! There is nothing beyond dreaming but you can either become lucid in the dream or remain asleep/unconscious in the dream. Even death doesn’t help you escape from the dream because it is itself another dream within the dream. God is playing this never-ending game of sleeping and waking up to itself. We can think of death as totally waking up from the dream, but this is not totally accurate because after you wake up to yourself, you go back to sleep to yourself. There is nothing to do but to go back to sleep and play the game “again.” There is no death because The Field of God can never die. Imagine that you are the elf again, and imagine that he drowns and dies. What happens “next?” What is the next thing that you imagine? Notice what you imagine after the “death” of the elf. In a way, what you imagine after the death of the elf is like its “afterlife.” That is you continuing to dream. You are creating the story. Life is a story that never ends. There is no after, there is no next. There is only Now for eternity. The only thing happening Now is the story you imagine. There is nothing to do but to imagine a story. Next time you are lucid in your dream at night, ask yourself who you are and where you are. Contemplate what death in your dream would be (it would be you waking up to sleep in another dream? Or maybe you are dreaming about the "end" of your dream? Where is the boundary between the end of the elf’s dream and the beginning of your human meatsuit’s?). You may think you have a body outside of the dream, but look closer. Is your lucid dream occurring within the sleeping body or is your sleeping body occurring within your lucid dream world (behind where you imagine your eyes, so to speak)? Are you the elf or the sleeping body? Neither. You are imagining them both on this Screen/Field of Experience Now!! You are the World, you are the Field that creates and holds everything in existence, and you are the space from which these words are written. When you understand this, you will realize that you reading these words are also you writing them. Much Love!

No. There is no other field but this one. This Field is so Absolute and Eternal that death does not occur. Death is as imaginary as your birth and your last night’s dream. Whatever you imagine. I have had dreams where I was it appeared like I was in different body and was different animal entirely. But the Field/Screen never goes anywhere, it is everywhere. Next time you dream, pay more attention to your body. You imagine you are jumping into a body. You never jump. You are always right where you are. It’s all you. You are comparing with yourself. There is only one dreamer. Point your finger at an object (I.e., tree), then point it at a subject (I.e., some human or animal in your experience), then point your finger at the place behind your eyes and look at the place behind your eyes. All objects and subjects have always been behind your eyes. You don’t find other subjects in some object like a brain, you create them. All people and all other minds you imagine are objects of yourself. There is only one field, one experience, one mind. Where is the line drawn between an unconscious object and a conscious one? Whatever line you draw is what you imagine. How do you know death will happen? Check your assumptions. Notice that “will” and “when” imply time. If there is no time, there is no death. You are imagining other dreams, experiences, other minds, and you are even imagining that you go to sleep. Death and sleep don’t happen. Realizing this is one thing and living your life from this realization is very radical. There is no different field. That implies there are other fields and experiences. If there were multiple fields, where do you draw the line between the two? Where does one field begin and one end? There is only one field, one experience, one mind, one consciousness. All else is imagination, story, and belief inside of the field of consciousness. If that is what you imagine, tell me what it was like to wake up in your body for the first time from the same place from where you imagine you will go back to when you die? What is the difference between the place of birth and the place of death? Short answer: You are God, you are Eternal. You are that which cannot die. If God died, where would God go? God laughs at the idea of death, whereas a human is terrified of it. You are so One that you cannot die. Where is the line drawn between the sleeping dream and the waking dream? What if it is only one dream? Dreaming is a fantasy relative to what? This reality here. The reason why we call this reality is because we have never experienced anything else. Everything is grounded within this waking dream. But how is what we experience here any different from a dream? Even your sleeping dreams can be just as stable as this world here. Why do you have wild dreams sometimes? Well if all you had was dreams identical to this one here, then you couldn’t make any distinction. To have reality also requires having a classification of fantasy. What is reality being real relative to? Reality is real because you say it’s real. No other reason. It is a self-contradictory, circular justification loop. Edit: Direct experience is the king. Go and observe it for the answers.

To sell the illusion. If you woke up into different bodies, how could you function, survive, and maintain the illusion? You imagine all those bodies within Consciousness. Every body you see is you. To maintain the illusion, you need consistency. Otherwise you couldn’t dream. Not quite but interesting thought. Your past and memories, and your ideas of having past lives and past bodies are being imagined now. Notice what actually exists in this moment. There is no body, only The Field. A body is an idea inside the Field. The Self of who you truly are cannot die. The Self is eternal. All bodies are being dreamed up in the dream. The latter. You can. But this dream you are in has certain rules that you dream up. Why do you dream of gravity and pain in some of your dreams but not others? Start to wonder what it means to dream. A dream has to be a convincing imagination; otherwise, you would already wake up. You see, you define “reality” so you can have something to ground your “dreams” in. We think of dreams as fantasies in comparison to what? To this waking dream right here that most people call reality. Think of everything you experience right now as a more rigid form of a dream. You have to have that to be able to create reality. You cannot draw your lines between fantasy and reality without constructing a reality. That reality that you believe is real is part of the dream. A dream is like God’s magic show. It is the ultimate magician that fools itself into not being God. Once you know how the magic is done, you can’t be fooled by it anymore. Hence, you destroy reality. And that is the last thing you want to do. The way this dream is designed is the perfect magic show. It contains all dualities. There is no reality without fantasy. You can enjoy figuring out and try to understand this magic show or you can be immersed and enjoy it in ignorance. Either way is fine. Enjoy the dream. Have fun or not! The world is what you want to create!

You are already here. There is no there. You seek for the seeker and then seek to run away to then seek again. That’s the game being played, the dream being dreamt, the play being played. Now I am gonna go for a jog and hunt for morels. Nothing matters and that is good fun.

Thanks. I appreciate your insight and support. You are right. There is a distinction between enlightenment and embodiment that I can draw. I have been questioning God ever since I heard about the “concept” at 3 or 4 years old. Always been fascinated about God and philosophy even before I learned what philosophy was. It was even more amazing to discover the actuality of what God is. I know that there are still deeper levels of understanding possible (I.e., like knowing how I am constructing/imagining all of reality). But ultimately, my implicit understanding/intuition is telling me that God cannot know itself at the deepest levels because it is Itself and all knowledge and duality are contained within It. Edit: Solipsism was the hardest for me to accept on my journey. However, at times throughout my life, I considered Solipsism but then I turned away from it because of how crazy it seemed to me at the time. But It is all one field of experience interacting with itself. I want to thank all “parts” of Myself for helping me to arrive at this point. P.S. I apologize for derailing the topic. I am glad that you have found inspiration from the quotes. Peace and much love! Stay inspired! ❤️??????

Yes but I still am not done. I am trying to integrate it all now and go even deeper. I did it all through contemplation. The experiences were so powerful that I was scared at first, but after processing it, I cried out of joy and hugged every tree as I saw it all as myself. It was like I was high without taking any substance. Insight into God, no-self, no-other took me a while to stomach and process. No-other and external reality was hard to deconstruct. But I realize that there is so much more depth. I can’t even imagine what could be possible to find on psychedelics. Never tried them so I don’t know what I am missing. I am still attached to survival. I don’t consider myself done until I have reached the deepest levels of understanding and have transcended all of my attachments to life. It is one thing to wake up once or twice or however many times, and it is another thing to remain that way throughout all of life. I consider what I did as waking up to hitting the snooze button. I am not fully awake until I live from my insights and understanding.

https://youtu.be/i_Rl98sqz6o “True spirituality is being able to sit in an empty room and be completely satisfied.” —Leo Gura “True spirituality is falling in love with the empty room of your mind.” —r0ckyreed

Only you can enlighten yourself. There is no other to “enlighten” you. Not sure how I can help you with that. You have to examine all your assumptions. It is all written there. I don’t have time to spell everything out for you. That’s your job. Others cannot awaken you, but they sure are designed to keep you asleep. Rupert Spira, other people, and Neo-Advaita are completely imaginary and full of crap just like everything else in this dream. I leave it up to you if you wish to follow the breadcrumbs or not. Good luck! ?

How is sitting in a room narcissistic? Maybe I don’t understand. Sitting in a quiet room does simple and pure, don’t it? However, I wouldn’t judge something too fast. I assume you haven’t done it. I haven’t done it, so I really can’t say, but it seems fascinating to experience almost total silence. Most people I know cannot sit in total silence with their own minds. Even studies show that people prefer to be shocked than to sit for 15 mins with their own thoughts. If you can do this quiet room while being totally in bliss and no desire for anything else, then you have “accomplished” something most humans haven’t. You have found a happiness most cannot even dream of. Doing this while in pain and suffering is a whole other level. What are the goals relative to? Why do you use your mind at all? It is all for your survival as an ego. Pretty much everything you do is to survive as an ego. Take note of all of what you do and all your goals and really ask whether it is in your self-interest or not. It is all dependent on your ego, your self-identity. What doesn’t make sense?

I am not sure what you mean by infinite consciousness when putting it with the first part of your quote. If by infinite consciousness, you mean something other or outside of your field of experience, then I would challenge you to reexamine that.

I believe this was the part of the quote I disagreed with. Can you see it now? Sense of other is written all over it.

No problem. Wish you the best. What if it isn’t? What if the imagination of other minds/bubbles is the duality, and solipsism unites all minds into the one mind? Nice one lol. But how do you know anything beyond your own mind? Anything beyond your mind is in your mind. Took me a while to deconstruct that one. That is what I mean by solipsism. Correct. No belief is true. Belief is what we do when we don’t know what is true. I would agree. This is the limits of language and my part in communication. I don’t perceive this “bubble” as finite. The bubble is so infinite that you cannot call it a bubble anymore. When you deconstruct all other bubbles, you also deconstruct your own, and you realize it is infinite. What I meant by bubbles is “other” minds or fields of experiences that you imagine. There is only one experience. I don’t prefer using the concept “bubble” when describing consciousness because “bubble” implies finiteness of “something being beyond the bubble. I prefer to use the term “field of experience.” There is only one field of experience right now and it isn’t a belief. The field of experience is actuality and anything beyond it is imagination.