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For hungry, food is heaven. For thirsty, water is heaven. For armyman, country is heaven. For parents, their child's happiness is heaven. For kids, parents are heaven. For priest, temple is heaven. For tippler, alcohol is heaven. For smoker, cigarette is heaven. For greedy, money is heaven. For lustful, sex is heaven. For king, palace is heaven. For me, well ..I will withhold this until YOU tell me first what is heaven for you? Yes, heaven exists but it's definition changes according to different people and diffrent situations.

If you are not enlightened, then you probably don't know what Truth is . But are you satisfied with this state of not knowing ? Why not brainwash yourself with any kind of ideology or religion and buy your peace of mind instead of doing the hard work of finding the truth by yourself? The point I'm trying to make is that given that our current state in the spiritual journey is less than ,let's call it ,"fully awake ".. Then how do you at least find a ground for your metaphysical and epistemic worldview which you know isn't complete and you are deluded about ? If you knew the Truth, it would make your life a whole lot easier. But one thing about truth is that it’s hard to cover up once you recognise it for what it truly is. When you learn the fundamentals of some truth, others can’t deceive you into believing “alternative truths” or modified truths. You can easily see if claims other people make fit the truth or not. False infromation doesn’t fit/connect with the truth without having to twist it in some fundamental and obvious way. Thus you know that something is wrong with the new information you’ve been given. But the question is are you there yet ,or do you got it all figured out?

Any excessive thinking of any kind accumulates concepts and delusions. If you stumble upon any topic including spirtuality and start incessantly thinking and conceptualizing about it ,it won’t only cause stress and anxiety but it will also hinder your spirtual progress,it will back fire on you. But also don’t try to suppress those thoughts because supressing thoughts using thoughts will create further anxiety and irritation. So you have to leave your mind alone just let thoughts come and go untill they get exhausted and come to an end. People in the contemporary world want freedom to experience spirituality in their own pace, in the doze that they are ready for. Adhering to religious authorities or submitting to religious power structures are not very attractive to the modern person. It’s a great development in my opinion. But the move towards spirituality is not without its flaws, for even the world of spirituality has its hierarchy in the inner plains. Right now, its a bit free-for-all, the blind teaching the blind and both are running around in circles not finding enlightenment. Because when you find a true spiritual master ( “guru”) who has authority in the unseen spiritual world to teach, your heart will be drawn to that teacher and you’ll want to follow him and learn from him! Meanwhile spirituality is about finding the truth on your own.

Attraction can come from anything. A laugh. A comment. A wink. A nice dress. A smile. The way your hair looks when you look away. It could come from hands, feet, shoes, a skirt, a pair of baggy jeans that makes someone wonder what’s under them. It can come from a walk or the way someone orders a drink. It’s not something that makes sense and fills a certain number of things on a checklist. Attraction just happens. The secret is to be able to keep it. THAT’S the part where everyone fails most of the time.

Enlightenment is not Nihilism . You should probably listen to some Alan Watts, he’s quite good on all this .I can’t really keep track of his thoughts but hey ho, it doesn’t matter. Nirvana too. Very good on this. Don’t blow your brains out though because the entire universe is created within you by your experience of it. So you can choose what matters. Let your heart steer you towards finding meaning and what matters, to you.

Actually understanding that you don't know everything is a sign of acquiring some maturity and some common sense, not enlightenment. Ideally this is not where humans end their path of growth and development . it's where they begin.

You are falling into the neo-advaita trap . Obviously you exist. Touch you'd body .feel your sense of self . There you go. I do agree though that there is no "you" as in a CEO that lives inside your skull behind the eyes somewhere deciding stuff .it's all happening spontaneously . But this realization alone isn't complete enlightenment. There are other facets to enlightenment .

Yes, totally. But I don't believe enlightenment is a myth. Its a real experience that you can have. Now,granted ,There will be different levels of enlightenment. Or let me say that different people will have different explanation of ‘enlightenment. So that will be people specifics.. At the beginners level it could be situational enlightenment that they are in at the moment of enlightenment.. more like how we grow at different stages in life.. when we start learning alphabets to sentences to essays. The fairly enlighten ones will have more wholistic control as compared to someone who just started on the path of spirituality. So you must have the experience yourself in order to understand .its like trying to describe color to a blind person. Not gonna work.

Well, a consistent logic, if it the correct logic for the semantic domain at hand, can be used to reason from truths to truths. But this of course leaves us with the problem of establishing some initial set of truths to even start reasoning from. Logic cannot be used for this purpose. Truth is in this sense extra-logical. I used logic with you because you are highly logical and skeptical. But the truth is that Truth can only be experienced .you can't logic your way to Truth . Can you be enlightened without knowing what enlightenment is ?

Because Well, suppose the answer to the questions "does truth exist ?" is ‘no.’ If the answer is ‘no,’ then it follows that ‘it is the case that there is no absolute truth,’ but that would mean that it’s absolute truth that there is no absolute truth. But that’s a contradiction. So the answer can’t be ‘no,’ and we’re left with a ‘yes’ answer. So there you go: there is an absolute truth. The assertion, ‘There is no absolute truth’ is made by a relative mind. The trouble with Spirituality as a philosophy is that the relative is trying to figure out the absolute, or the dual is conceptualizing the nondual. Every attempt to philosophize the spiritual truths has always failed, and will always fail in the future too. The absolute Spiritual truths are to be realized, and not merely philosophized. Absolute truth is not subject to differentiation. Absolute truth cannot be conceived of intellectually, or expressed verbally. That's why when asked “what is truth”, Jesus remained silent, and Buddha turned his back and walked away. Even if they wanted to convey the truth to those asking the question, they would not have been able to. This is because absolute truth can only be experienced, directly, by the one's own consciousness. The consciousness has its root in the truth; it is where it came from, and what it is. This can only be understood by awakening the consciousness. “My truth” and “your truth” are just artificial constructs of the ego.

Obviously some truth must exist. Otherwise we would say, “Truth does not exist,” which is equivalent to saying, “It’s true that no truth exists.” That’s an obvious contradiction. Furthermore, truth must be whole (singular) and complete. If it was split (instead of whole), what would be on the other side? More truth? If it was incomplete, where would the rest of the truth be? In nonexistence land? Truth must also be infinite. What would be beyond it? More truth? I could go on, but think I’ve made my point

You can’t understand this with more thinking though. It is crystal clear to me that neither true nor false make any sense ..because they depend on each other. However there exist something called absolute truth. Without thoughts there is no what isn’t, only what is. Philosophy is about giving you the thinking tools to seek truth for yourself. Philosophy is not going to lead you to truth. You are the only one that can lead yourself to truth. For example, your car is not going to get you to school. You driving your car to school is going to get you to school. Philosophy is not going to get you to truth. You using philosophy and seeking truth is going to lead you to truth.

Fundamentally, distraction is everything that keeps away your concentration on one thing you’re supposed to be doing or thinking. Thus, everything could be a distraction, except for the thing/action you’re focused (or supposed to be focused) on. However, at the same time, everything could not necessarily be a distraction, because we can concentrate on every action and thing (at least individually, unless you relate “everything” as a whole thing). If theorising is a distraction, then it is distracting from less important matters. Personally, i have incorporated philosophy into my thought-processes, since i was a small child. So perhaps i have a “gift” for it, or a curse, depending on who you ask. Those that dislike my philosophizing, I've found, are those persons who are unable to discipline their train of thought, and are most often derailed by ego or negative emotion. They get frustrated or embarrassed at their lack and project it on to me

All religions play on the weak spot that humans have..which is the psychological need to believe something. That can happen in all sorts of ways. We're highly suggestible. We adopt the beliefs of a group we are with. Our programming as we grow up can be such that it doesn't fit the real world. And there are many other reasons. So yeah..you can know something makes no sense and still need to believe it. If it makes you feel good about yourself and your life .religious people Idon't think they have a delusion... but they certainly have some dissonance between what they know (that delusions exist) and what they feel. delusion is, by definition, fooling yourself into believing something that is not true I have adjusted the definition of delusion to something that fits our needs. Which seems to be that humans can't control what they believe if they just weren't weak.

On a deeper level men are attracted to femine women, not masculine women; which society, is trying so hard to promote. Men also while in relationship; likes peace and no drama. “Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.”

Just masturbated few hours ago . And had an explosive orgasm .I didn't cum this hard in a looooong time. And I figured out it has to do with two things: 1the abstinence period : you see the more you abstain from ejaculation, you build more semen in your testicles. And the more your nutsack are full of cum..the harder will you cum . 2the technique: there are different techniques for masturbation . But through my experimentation...I figured out the ideal way to masturbate and have mind-blowing orgasms. You basically have to rub the area where the foreskin touches the head. This is the most sensitive area in the penis . Forget about orgasming through massaging the shift or death-gripping the head. Just focus on the area where the shaft meets the head.. And thank me later

There is a “gay gene” but it's much more fluid and unpredictable then a race gene. It's like if you carry the “gay gene" then you not nessesarily are gay, but, people who are gay carry the gene. Also sexuality can be fluid, one of my closest friends identified as bi for 10 years and then came out as lesbian again. This isnt because she was stupid and thought she was attracted to guys for 10 years, she just overtime was less attracted to them (note- I'm not assuming this because of my friends story, there is actual scientific evidence to back this up). A lot of people use the born this way argument against conversion therapy, but it discredits people part of the community who's sexuality is fluid. When saying this, I am absolutely NOT saying that conversion therapy works, because sexuality is still not controllable. That's all I think, I just didnt want any misconceptions to get started up here.

Do you understand what Leo means by "God-Realization " or "God-Consciousness "? It's the most radical thing ever. What Leo has become conscious of is that there is only one conscious entity in the entire universe. Do you understand how radical that is? That's why he says all spiritual teachings other than his own are nonsense and will not get you to awaken .because you can't cling to any authority figures or spiritual traditions to tell you what the truth is .because the truth is that YOU reading this right now are GOD. And of course God is the ultimate authority in the universe. And whatever he imagines to be true is what is true . Think about it ..are you willing to accept that your parents, friends, past,memories, your birth ,your death, Buddhism,Advaita, Jesus ,the Buddha, EVERYTHING is a figment of your imagination? Are you willing to accept absolute and total solipsism ? I would say 99.9999 % of people on this forum are not . I'm an exception tho .I can accept it .but its not a one night deal .you go through a tough process to accepting it .you have to face your fear of death. Your fear of insanity. And basically every other fear you have. Most people are not ready to accept this degree of wakefulness. That 's why leo says everyone is not awake.

Dear me. What went wrong here? (What's that supposed to mean, eh? ((Just kidding))) What went wrong is that we tried to use English to arrive at matters of truth, but in using English, we can quite literally “prove” anything we want. Including outrageous things, like “I am God,” or “You don't exist,” or “You are already dead,” or “I have infinite knowledge.” You can't use it to arrive at any sort of truth in a way that is not implicitly self-defeating. The language is not consistent.

I agree . But Leo I must defend my dream tooth and nail ..because if I accept (fully ) that I'm the only one out there ..then even you is a figment of my imagination trying to deceptively convert me from my own unique version of awakening. And the whole dream would collapse if I realized that 24/7. Its like you MUST be unawake in order to function at all .

So Leo, No one you will ever meet and certainly not people Online who claim to be spiritually awakened. The average person cannot imagine the consciousness of the saints. They live lives of devotion and communion with God in meditation and are not interested in worldly pursuits except as service to humanity. St. Francis and St. Theresa of Avila were very highly advanced, but still not fully enlightened. However ,I think Ramakrishna ,siddhartha gautama(Buddha ) were fully enlightened.

A Guru is not required for enlightenment. Enlightenment is a flight of the alone to the alone. Your inner-self is your true Guru. Therfore seek inside , not out side. Live in meditation, moment to moment, without regretting for the past and worrying for the future. Enlightenment can never be attained by preachings or blessings of somebody else. We have to dive deep to discover our true self. Pls try it. It is an experiential truth.