Rufus

My dreams are long-term dreams that I might not live to see it's destination, but I hope the next generations can see its light. I would love to help raising consciousness in the world especially in the third world countries and the Middle-East, mostly using different creative different forms of Arts and/or powerful speeches and teachings whether I do these myself or assist people who are doing it already, and conduct/or help conducting social initiatives that works to make the world greener and more peaceful, I simply dream for a peaceful world where there is complete understanding between everybody, and has no more borders. No matter how possible or impossible is this, but I think we reached to a point in our evolution on this planet where we don't have any other choices for our race to sustain, I have a personal reason to believe that when humans are all united as one consciousness, this is just the beginning of something great yet to discover.

It happened to me when I studied Graphic Design, not too long until I found that it is not yet my favorite thing to do and I started to gradually shift to 3D animation then Music, after several years in the visual industry I succeeded in switching my Job title 100% as a music composer, and I'm doing fine so far.. Due to my extreme philomath personality, I'm realizing now that I'm growing interests in other total different fields as well and I might change my career once every while. although I don't regret my past knowledge because amazingly all knowledge fields are connected in a way or another, unfortunately, it's difficult to obtain an official certificate in everything you master, but maybe your passion will reflect on your works and that's what will attract your future clients/employers. it needs a leap of faith to switch between professions because it's full of risks. I'm thinking about it, why not? Life purpose is an ongoing journey, you just don't stay doing one thing and say that's it as long as you feel that you want something different

I think we are all born enlightened until we learn how to speak. Then family comes to tell you what's right and what's wrong, then they take you to school to completely finish yourself

Yea although the teaching is far beyond the limitation of science and religion, with his teaching way and yoga practises at some point your rational monkey mind will ask itself what the hell I am doing, here where you need to give a leap of faith, in spiritual practice you need to stop listening to that monkey at some level, we tend to make so much dogma in our learning process, spirituality is not dogma, it's experience beyond the limitations of the physical, as far as I remember in one interview he said that when he was young he was a skeptical rational kid, and I think that's why he knows how to reach for rational people.. and rational people like me are trouble when it comes to spiritual process. just knowing that Sadhguru was as skeptical and scientific like you should give you the curiosity to learn what the hell he's doing with mouth shut.

I think today with a spiritual revolution trending as the new cool thing over the internet and the social media, we are going to have lots and lots of posers and wannabee's, I think his speech is powerful in spotting this little poser inside us! I loved this, Thanks for sharing!

One of the most interesting traps I have been in, is that I listened to so many spiritual masters from different backgrounds and cultures (and even religions), I created a big intellectual background about enlightenment but I didn't reach enlightenment itself, I found my mind is creating a story about every different way of teaching which made me think that enlightenment should have a story, or should be in one way not another! and when stories contradict each others because of the different style of teaching or terminology I started to have a dogmatic problem. enlightened being can come from any background and has any character identity from Jim Carry to Echart Tolle, look and character and how one is funny, and the other is serious, and the third is scary.. will make no difference. the absence of ego does not mean the absence of character. character and ego are somehow different. I overcame this by reminding myself that enlightenment is the absence of story, people are people.. each human being has their unique character and way of storytelling no matter what is their race or their cultural background, we should not mix the vast verity of charachters of spiritual masters and the essence of enlightenment.

I suggest that you try to deactivate Facebook for few days, and see how you feel. seriously being away from people is a great medicine for your inner peace, we are just deluded not to feel this way because we are overwhelmed with a false mainstream idea that we need people to complete ourselves and be entertained. You probably think friends are important, we all do, some of them are important and they help you in your practical life, I cannot say don't love them, but in fact most of our need to them are egoic miserable need that doesn't physically exist but in your imagination. I personally once every while I deactivate my Facebook for several weeks up to several months, but I realized that I'm not using Facebook to enjoy being with people, but because I consider it a hub for interested pages I'm following. I unfollowed most of the people and kept these few pages I like, sometimes I do some marketing for my works, maybe someday I will hire someone else to do it for me, If I can remove FB completely from my life I will do it, Whenever I want to share something, I turn off the notifications, now seriously why would we want to know who liked our posts other than entertaining our miserable egos? Not to mention that if you keep reading what your friends and acquaintances are posting, you will get distracted by stuff that is none of your business. for example, you never cared much about politics, but you see someone writing about it every day you will introduce more crap in your life to worry about and you will become that annoying phony Facebook truth solider who wants to argue with everybody If you cannot control when to set on facebook you can also take a break during your entire day but dedicate between 30 to 60 mins of your time to check it out and that's it.. if you want I think there is a Google chrome extention that does this (find it at your own pace) By minimizing my use to facebook, I made lots of free space in my mind to focus on what is really beneficial to me and most importantly to focus on my talents and what I CAN do. if you don't know what are your hidden talents yet, maybe it's time to deactivate Facebook so you can find out

These days there is absolutely lots of people are enlightened but many people prefer not to mention that, I know some people act they are not but I know they are, assuming they want peace for themselves or they want to maintain their countability in societies that will misunderstand enlightenment. Now and especially with the rise of spiritual masters over the internet and social media, I think awakening will trend tremendously, I hope it doesn't become a hub for ridiculous wannabees though, but there is a significant increase in awakening rates happening on this planet, I think (I'm not sure but I wonder) that the rate will increase quickly in the next few decades and the entire plant will awake due to various reasons including technology and communication tools and due the natural disasters that can happen the planet where awakening and conscious behaviour is the only way for humans survival.. if not all this will go away. This is just a personal theory but I cannot guarantee that what I'm saying will happen.

Unfortunately I never played with psychedelics, I luckily have a high level of DMT in my brain naturally, sometimes it becomes more dominant under some medical conditions where I start to have a slightly altered perception with a reduction of Ego, I have an idea about what this is, and that's one of the reasons why I got interested in this subject. You can use a conscious use of psychedelics to reach your higher aspects, YES. It's absolute life changing, psychedelics will create a distance between your mind and body, and when your whole perception is altered and everything you ever known will collapse, of course you will ask yourself what the hell I am, that's why many Psychedelics users become curious about enlightenment, psychedelics will make you see and feel everything differently, it will make you wiser only if you are conscious enough to distinguish between what is hallucination, what is perception effects, and what is real, many people just cannot. they will just take it compulsively for entertainment. The Elimination of Ego is Real but it's difficult to distinguish between all the non-physical things you are experiencing, if these psychedelics was put with the wrong people it will definitely be misused. and If I said Psychedelics are awesome and some people misuse it and got themselves caught or killed (which is very likely), I don't want to carry this burden for the rest of my life. Jared here asked if using Psychedelic will help your self-actualization, the short answer is yes but with risks and it depends on how conscious is the person about what he/she is doing, and if self-actualization is the destination then there is a safer way, if you can play safe then why trouble? For me hallucination and perception alteration are fun but they are not my main destination, don't you see that reality is already an altered state of perception? So for me if there is a way where I can reach my main destination without legal troubles, social troubles, hallucinations and medical side effects, I will prefer taking a spiritual path. If I put my hands on Psychedelics without bringing any troubles to my life, I'm sure it's fun and different. It's up to you, I'm not telling you what to do

Nobody is in a position to judge who's awakened and who's not, we can never know and it's not anyone's business , there is no true artist in the world will tell you hey.. I am awakened! but I like to mention few modern artists I personally think they are inspiring, with a slight spiritual sense in their works whether they have it, or have it partially, or not at all: Film Makers: Ron Fricke (Baraka, Samsara) Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke , Howl's Moving Castle_ Christopher Nolan (Inception, Interstellar, The prestige) David Lynch (Mullholad Drive - Twin Peaks - Blue Velvet) James Cameron (Avatar - Titanic - Terminator - Alien) J.J Abrams (LOST, Fringe, Star Wars Force awakens, New StarTrek) Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker, Nostalgia, Solaris) Gaspar Noé (Enter The Void) Ki-duk Kim (Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, 3 Iron..) Games: Tod Howard (Skyrim, Fallout, Oblivion) Casey Hudson (Mass Effect) Composers: John Williams Ennio Morricone Karl Jenkens Jeremy Soule Hans Zimmer James Horner Thomas Bergersen Nobou Umetsu Vangelis Ari Pulkkinen Fantasy Writers (I'm not a good reader): J.R.R Talking (Lord of The Rings) George R.R Martin (Game of Thrones)

I made some brief research about what psychedelics exactly do, and listened to so manny recording by Terence Mckenna, I wish we live in a world where we can try them legally to at least conduct our studies... but let's please not mix this with spiritual enlightenment. Physcedllics has glimpses of it mixed with so many funny visuals and sounds, and this is not it. Personal conclusions. Aside of the funny hallucinations that comes with Psychedelic drugs, YES, it kills or reduces the Ego, but for brief moments, we become relaxed and loving for a while with some funny perception effects, but when the effect goes away, the ego is back and sometimes it's even stronger, and life will turn into hell again, you will go back to pay your taxes and go to your crappy job and remember who awful your life is, so you will want to consume more drugs to go back to that state.. it will become an addiction, not to mention how much you damage you are causing your body and brain, and how much suffering you are causing to your family, and the people around you. Why I think the enlightened path is more effective? it's because you will work on all the aspects in your practical life that bring you to this graceful state, when you tame your ego, and learn to love people, fix your problems with yourself and the world and minimize your obligations, gradually you will automatically make a bless out of yourself every day. the enlightenment path works to simplify your life, and gradually solve all the bullshit that is filling our heads in this era of the capitalist modern city people. enlightenment is permanent because you will solve so many things in your life, until you will not have to worry about anything for real. The path result is permanent and it will affect your life amazingly in all aspects, unlike drugs. Hope this is useful.

Within my experience I had a near death experience once due to food and alcohol Poisoning, I was at a sofa gradually losing consciousness, I felt that I was inevitably dying, and then it happened, it's so beautiful and I wanted to stay there and never come back I did not care if I die, not long after my friends came and helped me, my body was so weak, and I found myself in a heavenly state, I became so humble and loving to the people around me, and I totally forget about myself (the Ego) I totally forget who I am. I felt that I am the universe and I love everything because everything is what I am! now.. I don't know if my experience was mixed with hallucinations or not, if not all of it, I'm sort of experienced with hallucination, but this one was different. things were much clearer instead of being shady, I spent around 2 weeks in a highly spiritual state, humble and loving to everybody, smiling and laughing at life, people and everything around me. but few days later my body got it's strength and health back, my Ego has been restored.. and I remembered all my problems and social obligations, needed to go back to work, I fell back to this hell and all is gone. I wanted to get that state back so badly, few years later and after I read about enlightenment, and I tried to research from different resources about how it looks or feels like, I understood that It cannot be described, and yes I was in that state, all descriptions somehow matched my NDE state, I was able to realize that I was in that state but not permanently. So i Know my target now and based on it I am measuring my enlightenment progress. I thought If I want to get to that state, I need to set the right conditions and environment withing myself. so..Ego, Love, no obligations, non-duality, no judgment, being present.. these were exactly how felt when I was in the NDE.. so why I don't set these coniditon up to myself in my practical life? Echart Tolle, Sadhguru, Mooji and of course Leo, helped my through my journey, within their teaching, I worked on taming my EGO, as I'm taming my ego I'm naturally becoming more loving and humble, I am gradually stopping to identify myself as the Mind or the Body, I'm training myself to be conscious about present, and I'm now working on reducing all the unnecessary obligations I have in my life so my mind becomes more empty. and.. as I am doing this I am noticing that this blissful state I had in that near death experience is returning by itself gradually, I'm not there yet, I have so much work to do and It will take me quite some time to solve all my obligations, maybe years, but it's so obvious to me that I am climaxing into somewhere. Try to find that climax, and compare yourself, your happiness and calmness, and your inner state once every while, and stick to that path. Good luck!

I do have an extreme ADD, I found the ways to cope with it! I found that most of the times when my mind is busy while meditating is because I'm probably not investing my day doing the things that I really love, and that's what originally makes me distracted and keep thinking what I wish to do right now. by the laws of nature, I realized I cannot force myself to do anything I don't feel like doing right now unless if someone points a gun over my head. but what I could do is I needed is to re-schedule my entire life, and see what are the compulsive habits I do, what are all the unnecessary bullshit that are in my head and I'm attached to? I'm involved in tons of obligations, do I really need half of them? what is the unhealthy food that makes me lazy to do what I love to do? Why I am wasting 8 hours in my life in an office not doing my dream Job? do I have a comfortable room? do I have unnecessary objects in my home that I'm continuously worried about? There are so many unprocessed tasks in the modern City human's head, I needed to minimize my tasks and obligations and try to make my life simpler and more flexible because I don't have enough RAM (memory) in my mind to handle all these tasks together, that's why my mind jumps from one task to another and I cannot focus to complete one task, and within my personal experience, the problem with ADD is probably caused by one or both of these two factors: 1 - People with ADHD mostly have smaller RAM amount than others. 2- They have an excessive need to express their talents but they don't have the right social conditions and environment to do it. How did I cope with this? 1 - I managed to change my Job to something much closer to what I love, and I managed to successfully explain to my employer why do I need flexible working hours (I was completely honest, no lies), which gave me awesome flexibility to do other activities that I love during the morning hours (Gym & Yoga), 2 - I managed to throw all the unnecessary objects from my home, anything I use less than twice a year, I throw it away or give it to donations. 3 - I managed to clean and re-arrange my home furniture to make a suitable space for movement, exercise, Yoga and meditation, 4 - I reduced the amount of the unnecessary people I deal with every day, I found that I hang with so many unnecessary friends and acquaintances who consume my time, if you look carefully most of our friends they just want to use you to fulfill their ego's, they don't give a damn about you even if they seem nice and kind, I didn't cut them completely, I stayed in good terms with all the people I know for my inner peace, plus I don't know when will I ever need them in my life, I still love them but I reduced my unnecessary egoic attachment to them. 5 - I managed to solve some hanging problems with my GF, Parents, Family and Friends, business clients.. etc, 6 - Smartphone Facebook and the social media, are your ultimate enemy if you are not using them consciously, Facebook: If you can not deactivate your FB for a reason to another, you can go to the Setting and remove all notifications, why do you want to know if someone liked your post? Smartphone & WhatsApp: how many unnecessary groups are you engaged with? you can always remove yourself from these groups or mute the notifications. If you can live without a smartphone or social media, I salute you. 7 - I learned not to leave any unfinished business behind. unfinished business in all it's forms will consume most of the RAM in the mind. It's been almost 3-4 months now and I'm still half way through simplifying my life, I'm making giant progress every day, and I'm gradually making space to do everything that I love. and I noticed a significant difference in my mind calmness and now whenever I use my mind in any task (including meditation), I am more capable now in giving things the attention they deserve, and guess what! I'm gradually fixing my insomnia as well! and what physiological Insomnia is other than thinking about all the unfinished business we have in mind! With simplifying my life I'm not just making it easy to focus but also I'm gradually wrapping up my life togather in terms of self-development, personal achievement, joy, and most importantly spiritual enlightenment.. all these are beautifully related. I hope this is useful.

I just finished the Inner engineering program last week, it's highly recommended. It's not exactly an enlightenment course, but it teaches you how to master your body and mind and make it the way you want. when you handle the mind and the body then spiritual process and enlightenment will become easy and possible to you. The course is so practical for complex people, people with ambitions, obligations, family, relationships and modern city people like me, Sadhguru doesn't lecture you as much as he shows you what's wrong with your mind and body that makes spiritual progress difficult for you, he will explain to you how you are completely responsible for whatever happens in your mind and body, with few methods he will teach you how to drive your body consciously as if you are driving a car, he will state the root aspect in your mind and body that causes all your life problems in a very beautiful way, he will help you to become capable to solve your problems by yourself, he help you build a healthy ladder to enlightenment. What I like about Sadhguru that he is so scientific in his way of teaching, he know's how to reach to rational people. Plus he provides a bunch beautiful Yoga practices to deepen your spiritual experience, (I think) his organization (Isha Foundation) has the most profound no bullshit structure in Yoga, health, and wellbeing. The course fee is considered very cheap comparing the big content they provide. I think they provide a Live free detailed Webinar in their official website. I encourage you to check it out.