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Solipsism is a relatively well-defined term; it refers to the belief that the believer (the self) is the only entity with some important property, like existence, or knowable existence, or subjective experience, or something like that. For instance “because the Problem of Other Minds isn’t solvable, the only mind I can know exists is my own”, or more radically “the only mind that exists is my own”. Enlightenment, though, is a much more complex concept (or non-concept). we won’t even delve into the million meanings of the word, but even Buddhist enlightenment is not easily pinned down. In general, enlightenment does not lead to solipsism: that is, being “enlightened” does not lead one to conclude “I am the only entity that exists”. If anything, enlightenment leads to a … different perspective on the idea that one exists (at least as an independent self-originating entity) at all. I made a post a few months back about my awakening to solipsism .but judging by what I understand now it's false . Other people can be simultaneously fragments of your imagination and real people at the same time . It just takes a radical shift of perspective to realize this.

@Vladimir how did this awakening happen ? Also ,what changes have taken place within you ,that you could say it changed you in a positive way? And oh congratulations ?

Solipsism is the realization that there are no "others " it actually increases my social anxiety. Because these imaginary others are like alien simulation stuff doing a conspiracy against me .

The modern schools of Neo-Advaita and teachers like Jim Newman and Tony Paraons and Anna Brown etc have taken the seductive and popular vision of”“you are not the body”, “you are already enlightened and there is nothing to do” ,"there is no you " and have made this information available as a conceptual teaching. This conceptual teaching is like a religion or thought system which has value but very very limted imo. A pitfall with Neo-Advaita is that meditation is either ignored or seen as unnecessary and perhaps even avoided. “How could there be a person who would meditate?”, “why should I meditate when I’m already enlightened?”, “If I am not the doer how could I meditate?”. This has nothing to do with actual awakening. So be aware of these so called neo advaita "non-teachers " out there like those that I mentioned above because It's very trendy these days in nondual content that you find in YouTube and elsewhere.

Socrates famously said that the only thing we can know is that we know nothing. Can we truly know anything? Do we really know nothing? If we do know something, how can we be sure that we aren't mistaken? To me it seems pretty obvious that we do know some things, but that the problem lies in how we know that we know them. I mean, no matter what we can pretty much question how reliable any source of information is. For example. I KNOW that I'm posting something on a forum right now. How do I know? I'm seeing it happen before my eyes. But how do I know that my firsthand account of this is a reliable source? Sadly I don't. I just sort of have to...trust it I guess. Dunno. So I ask ..Can we know anything? I'm sure we can, I am also sure that we may never know for sure what we know accuratley or not. I think Knowledge is in fact some form of JTB (justified True Belief) but I don't think we can ever know for sure if our so-called justification is accurate. That is to say I think we can think we are justified in our belief but we will never be able to confirm is it is true only that it is probable at best. In summation...I think we can have knowledge but i do not think we can know that we for which of our beliefs are knowledge and which are not.

@Leo Gura I think you are the most awakened teacher I have ever encountered. I've listened and watched hours upon hours of content from you (I didn't miss a single video since late 2018) and I listened to other teachers as well like Mooji ,Rupert Spira, Osho,etc .I can tell you know what you are talking about. But sometimes I feel that The things you say are not delivered quite well to the watchers/listeners. Why so?! Because, we, human beings are not only about listening and seeing. We need to be engorged in the subject in order to fully understand it. To absorb a topic is not easy. Your videos lack some spices, like photos, designs, scenes .anything to capture the person's attention. Instead of Just your face talking .tbh it gets me sometimes bored . Why not add short videos or more pictures to your videos? Also another note Is..We have an average concentration span of about 3 minutes. Some say 5 minutes. These giant ass episodes consisting of 2-3 hours are really difficult to watch at once .I know That's why you started the clips' channel. But why don't you try to lessen the duration of your videos to be in the range of 1-1.5 hours ? I hope your channel's audienc grows,and that you add some flavour to your videos. Much love ❤

I'm actually quite new to this slang . I've been hearing it a lot recently In Discord servers. Discords that are tagged for dating. There is also this other slang "soy boy ". I think the dating scene online is so fucked up and filled with toxic concepts that puts a lot of guys down . Because a huge part of your appearance Is based on genetics. So What exactly is meant with this whole "Chad " nonsense? To have a muscular body ..a long ass trimmed beard and "bad boy " vibe to you?

I'm not full of shit . Why do you think that you are full of shit ? And what does that even mean ? One very simple but profound reason: the inability to recognize shit in oneself. This, however, does not preclude the ability to recognize it in others, hence, the question. In the same sense, you recognize everyone’s shit; except your own; they do so themselves..thus, the shitstorm we have today

I've reached a breaking point when it comes to my love life, or lack thereof. This past week, I went on a date. The first date I've had in years . Second date in my life. Even getting this date was an amazing achievement for me, most of the time girls just ignore me after a few messages. Trying to sell myself in text form is next to impossible, and I seem really boring unless I'm in person. But this time we had a whole bunch in common . So it actually worked, and I was so excited. I actually had high hopes for myself for this date, which I rarely do. It actually seemed doable. I did everything i could to make sure it went well. I dressed well, tidied myself up, and made sure I had a lot to say. When i was there, conversation was easy. I made her laugh a lot, we connected on a bunch of topics, I thought I was interesting, and i wasn't a "nice guy" who simped for her. I was me. I tried to be myself, which I thought was the main thing you had to do. She gave no signs she wasn't interested, and I asked if she wanted to meet next week, and she said yes. I thought I'd gotten past the hardest part. I'm usually so nervous when I meet people, but the more I meet them the safer I feel to get out of my shell. The more I met her, the more she'd get to know me, and see I could be a good match. But the very next day she sends me a big text bluntly saying she doesn't like me that way, and that she doesn't want to meet me again, even as a friend. It took ages to get her, and I can safely say it'll be months before I can get another. I live in a small town, and there's not much to choose from. I'm in my late 20's now, and I'm well past the point of it being normal to have no relationship experience. It's easy for me to make friends, even with women. But I clearly have zero charisma beyond that, and no girl has seen me in a sexual way at all. And that seems to be all I can offer. I'm genuinely terrified to escalate with a girl, I assume they find me creepy and pushy if I even think of touching her. I feel like a predator, and I just get the vibe I should leave them alone. I absolutely don't know what to do anymore. I've tried looking after myself, because I thought self-improvement would lead to self-confidence, which would mean the girls would come to me, rather than vice versa. For years i've tried. And I'm much better now than I was when I started. But it hasn't worked. I'm not an ugly person by any means, I actually think I'm quite attractive. But I've no idea how to get beyond that initial connection to anything substantial. Talking to them seems not to work. Showing my talents and passions doesn't either. Being me hasn't gotten me anywhere. This has gone on for years now, and I've lost hope. I've tried to be resilient, learn from my failures and keep going, but I seem to be in the exact same place. What can I do? I have so much love to give, and I really feel I'll be alone forever.

Why ?

Most humans of course. I think that we are biological machines, yes. How much of our behaviour is free will, and how much is subject to hormones, instinct, conditioning and brain chemistry (otherwise known as "programming") is a question I ask myself a lot. I suspect that a lot of the decisions and choices that I make are influenced by those things. Well that is literally what philosophy is . You sit down and use your intellectual facilities ALONE to arrive at conclusions. Unlike physical science (biology, chemistry, physics etc ) when you Have to empirically test things out .

@Nilsi Its because I love philosophy I like to speculate and philosophize . You love something when that something gives meaning to your life. And if I may say so philosophy is the most meaningful activity of life. Without philosophy who are we? We get a job to survive in the world, have kids, make money that we would never really get to use and the same routine in and out of office goes on for years until we grow weak and our infirmity prevents further activity. That is when we stop and start thinking what was the meaning of all this. Only when we realize we are mortal and things may end soon for us that we begin to take stock of life to see how our life has been. The problem is all our life we have done something for the sake of gaining something else. But we have not done anything for the sake of itself. When we turn back we realize that our most happiest period has been our childhood where we have no achievements to show for yet we were happy. Philosophy is meaningful because it breaks us from a mechanical pattern .. it allows you to be more than just a machine.

Poetic and lovey-dovey but doesn't make much sense to me in current state of consciousness . Wut? Something about this statement's grammar is a bit confusing. Not sure what are you saying here . I didn't say there is no self. I said according to the solipsism worldview there is only you and you are hallucinating the entire universe around you . This leaves no room for any "others " but YOU. And what's worse is that it's completely unfalsifiable . It is ego that feels such fear. Ego does not comprehend the effulgence of your expanded consciousness. It can see nothing beyond itself. I cannot stop clinging. The letting go must come effortlessly and not forced . And I'm not ready to handle such truths at this point in my life .

No .it really does spoil the whole thing for you. Imagine looking into your mother's eyes and recognizing that there is no one behind her eyes . it’s a theory that, if true, precludes the abstract ability to do anything. If you accept Solipsism, you no longer have any reason to do anything. Even self-interest doesn’t apply anymore. there is no longer anything out there to benefit you. Just sit there and think happy thoughts forever. You can’t die. There’s nothing to kill you, not even your body. You’re just a dream in the dark. And what does a dream in the dark do but lie there and think? As much as that’s arguable ..t’s perhaps best to ignore it and go to those theories that allow for any degree of thought or action in any capacity whatsoever.

Think about your dreams at night...all other persons are just figments of your imagination. You dream them all up . Once you wake up from the dream they all disappear. if the same dynamic is true with "real life "..then literally what's the point of social interactions with people if they are just figments of your mind and have no inner qualitative experience of their own ? Really sit down and contemplate the implications and consequences of solipsism. This is scary shit .

The day I discover that I'm all alone ..I will definitely quit the forum. Quit society. Either go live by myself in a cave blessing out on nothing. Or I'm gonna suicide myself. There is no point talking to "others " if you truly believe there are no others.

@Leo Gura do you feel good this morning? I feel that ya feel amazing ?

@Adamq8 but don't you agree that his behaviour is weird in this thread ?

@Adamq8 Leo is a truly advanced thinker. He is radical with some statements like when he says stop moralizing, stop socializing, stop watching TV and stop reading fiction books. He actually does not mean this activities are bad or wrong. For example he says stop socializing because people this days tend to put too much value on superficial relationships, and almost none with themselves. He is asking you to stop wasting your time watching TV and reading “entertaining stuff” and get to work in your life purpose to be truly fulfilled. He says stop moralizing so you can’t stop punish and blaming yourself for the bad things that you do. What is right or wrong anyway? That’s the kind of questions Leo is trying you to ask yourself

@Leo Gura If you tell people exactly what you think. i.e: Very accurate feedback. They will most of the time be very insulted. People need to hear it though. Telling a chef his food is great when it’s terrible is not gonna help him learn to be a better chef. Tell people what they need to hear. Not what they want to hear. Is that your attitude @Leo Gura ?

Lol .tone it down please Leo. We are not having a fight here.

@Leo Gura Solipsism argues that because physical senses are unreliable and people can’t tell when they’re in dreams, you can’t be sure everything around you even exists. But since something needs to exist in order to interpret things in such a way as to make the larger world appear to externally exist, your mind is assured to exist, but everything else is questioned. I remain agnostic about it . I can't say "it " because I could ne delusional. Probably are .

@LSD-Rumi Awakened from what or where? There are all kinds of awakenings. Any bit of personal stretching or growth is an example of an awakening. But, to me, anyone who says that they are “awakened” is likely not. It’s been my experience that a soul in the process of true awakening understands that it is an ever-expanding journey, not a single destination.

Great post. Thanks for sharing A couple of notes though: I can't tell you what death ie or it will ruin the human experience you are having. I can tell you that: 1. You don't need to fear it. 2. It will happen at the right time ..you can't significantly hasten it or delay it. 3. After it happens, you will have all the answers you need. 4. You may have a reaction similar to "that was great ..i want to do it again." I think one must experience fully the life we have now and don't worry about what's next.

@Leo Gura How humble of you ? Srs tho..if I'm not mistaken you equate awakening =solipsism, right ? And I'm the only being in the universe and everything comes from my imagination? I wouldn't believe myself capable of have experiencing everything I have, and remembering it well enough from experience to experience, for it to have come from my imagination . Seems quite egotistical to im6agine you, created every beautiful work of art, every song, every experience… and while YOU can't remember where you left your car keys, you or it somehow remembers the perfection of some concerto written 500 years ago. I made a post few months ago talking about my awakening to absolute solipsism shortly after you released the solipsism video and before you took it down. Now that I think about it again .I'm beginning to doubt the idealist /solipsist worldview and leaning more towards objective external reality being real . Why? Because its more sane .I Don't want to lose my goddam mind with this solipsism stuff . Solpsism is an unfalsifiable claim. When its falsifiable, when the claim has sufficient definition to check, then we can check. Until then… a natural world we are born into is a perfectly fine explainination that requires no further assumptions without fact. P.S I will be the first who buys your upcoming awakening course when it's out .