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It depends upon what kind of enlightenment you are seeking. Because Leo teaches a long list of different realizations.For the realization of no-self , just self-inquiry as taught by Ramana Maharashi . There are numerous resources on it online . Just google it . For things more complex like realizing how your mind is imagining your life like a dream , there needs to be some psychedelic experience along with deconstructing your every last drop of preconceived ideas about what reality ought to be . Personally I don’t like to fuck with these domains because most people misinterpret their trips and draw conclusions based upon their experience. We are barely beginning to understand how the brain functions to be able to understand how these chemicals affect our consciousness so don’t lose yourself too much . But that’s generally seems to be the suggestion for attaining what Leo called God-Realization. But for peace of mind and awareness , just meditating really . Watch Leo’s earlier videos on enlightenment and meditation.

@Vido keep it up . This is a step in the right direction . I hope this community develops more and more.

Interview Leo . I’d love to hear him answer some truly important questions, like: At what point does a person become so conscious that their entire conscious field becomes infinitely conscious and infinitely meta ?

find the actual ground of life / existence and that is the ground of you . Because you can’t find ground in basically anything that changes or moves like people, emotions , thoughts, life purpose, religious beliefs, life itself as a whole etc . So what is the only thing which never changes? Ground yourself in that . Otherwise you’re just using some form of escapism or self-deception.

A helpful thing to remember when you’re having suicidal thoughts is to pay closer attention to what your mind is actually telling you. Your mind says, “I want to die.” But if you look at that thought more carefully, is that really what you want? Or is it more like, “I want to die right now. This moment fucking sucks, and I don’t know how to deal with it anymore”? There’s a difference between the two. The second might be much closer to what you’re actually experiencing. Because maybe a day, a month, or a year ago, you didn’t want to die. Maybe you were happy with your life, or at least wanted to see what tomorrow would bring. Something has changed, and it’s worth asking yourself what it is. So try to figure out what makes this particular moment so unbearable, and whether there’s something you can do to change it. And if you can’t figure it out on your own, or if everything just feels like too much, find someone you can cry in the arms of. Someone you can be completely honest with, without having to pretend you’re okay. Your mom, your partner, or anyone you trust enough to let yourself fall apart in front of. And maybe you need to talk to a therapist, too. I know I’ve needed that myself, plenty of times. There’s no shame in it. It helps. You don’t have to figure everything out right now. Sometimes, you just need to get through this moment. Important distinction when dealing with suicidal thoughts.

Of course she’s going to keep interpreting all of this as trolling. But if you actually care, I think the point is that you take yourself and this place wayyy too seriously, when perhaps you should take both a little less seriously. Your constant overuse of distinctions within distinctions comes across to me as an attempt to sound intelligent rather than to say anything particularly meaningful. I literally don’t understand what on earth is the issue here . I mean people are fucking starving somewhere . unless you’re writing a bachelor’s thesis on these topics, all this endless talk about “femininity and masculinity,” “men this, women that,” doesn’t seem to have much tangible relevance to everyday life. I don’t think most people genuinely care about these things unless they directly affect their lives in some way because they’re experiencing oppression, struggling with their sexual orientation, working as psychoanalysts, or dealing with similar issues.Otherwise, it just feels like endless intellectual mumbling for the sake of it.

Watch your need to respond with cute little trolling tweets and ask yourself “why do I need to do that “.

Of course that’s why we have movies and shows and TV series . Drama is good .

why is there a need for making a farewell thread if you are not going to respond further ? Like “announcing my leaving” . I mean it does have to do with a sense of self-importance. Because you could’ve just said I’m leaving in a post . If you’re going to make a thread then you are expecting comments .. you WANT comments ..then engage with the comments until the thread run its course . But why make a thread and go silent . with all due respect but you are seeing what the boys are talking about up to this point . There is really no need for such threads .

That’s true . Who gets to decide what do these metaphors point to? If I’m not mistaken Leo says “the devil “is a metaphor for the ego or the separate self . Are you familiar with this interpretation?

Sure why not . Which part ?

What’s with the fascination with Christianity as of late ? I think it’s metaphorical.

I don’t think there is anything against women having an opinion here . I hear that a lot actually from most women who are or were active here that they are suppressed or that their opinions are automatically regarded as inferior because they are women . Never really understood why they were saying that .

Yeah it forces you to surrender. You’d expect you’d freak the fuck out but actually no you surrender deeper than ever . lol . Are you grateful you were rescued?

when I was younger I almost drowned in the middle of the sea and I didn't have a near death experience..I was just thinking that I'm gonna simply disappear forever so I surrendered completely because I thought never ever again in the history of the cosmos will my life repeat again or any other kind of life for that matter . But after I was rescued ..I thought that death won't ever happen to me .if I could survive this situation then I will definitely survive even harder situations in the future if they happen . The guy who rescued me was an experienced person in swimming. I was pretty deep in the middle of the sea and I was young and little and it was pitch dark . I mean if this doesn’t happen because god does show you signs , I don’t know what else would . for example science says the odds of this universe existing after the Big Bang happened without fine tuning is 10^-10000000000000000000000 .. and some atheists do actually have the nerve to say that God doesn’t exist . Like you gotta be kidding my ass .