Princess Arabia

I don't think he hates humanity. His expressions of it , I think, is from his studying it and he finds a lot of corruption in his studying. He's focused on the topic so that's what he'll express the most. If he was focused on only the good, his expressions would be the reverse. It's like a police officer only sees the bad in people because that's what the job entails. Just my take as I cannot speak for Leo. I think he loves humanity, he's just disappointed.

Yes he was, it is you who wasn't coming with arguments for your disagreements with what he was saying other than telling him what state you think he was stating his disagreements from and saying one who disagrees with Ralston is ungrounded.

What you speak of and your question doesn't align with what I said. Misunderstanding on your part.

People are looking up to God and worshipping a diety. The God that's supposedly to be everything is also dog shit, would you worship dog shit. This ain't about God, it's about worshipping, looking up to, denying and partiality. Your God wouldn't like for you to deny his dog's shit now would it. or that pedophile, or that rapist or anything you dislike and hate. Is your God everything or is it separate from you. Where is the eye of God. What is God imagining that I'm not. See people don't understand what they're saying sometimes. I may be wrong in what I'm saying when I write or even deluded, but at least i understand my delusion and speak from the entire delusional premise and the jigsaw has no pieces left out. Can't say there's no separation then say God has something that i don't or God is over there and you're here or say God created this or that then say time and space doesn't exist or whatever. We misuse the word paradox to try and fit the broken puzzle we've created for ourselves and to make reality make sense to us. Then we speak about a God without an understanding of that God and say they are God but speak about their relations to it. If I'm over here and God is over there, how am I God; then we invent words to try and answer these questions like relative and duality and perception and whatever other word we've given meaning to to explain what's happening here. It's all nothing being so whatever we come up with is nothing. It's all just what's appearing to happen. Even all the mind stuff and the ideas, concepts thoughts and explanations. Means nothing because meaning is a limitation and a story which is simply just an explanation of what's appearing - THAT'S WHAT A STORY IS.

Who is he teaching if he's so enlightened. He should know there's no one to teach from that position. He speaks to and from the egoic mind.

I don't see the big deal about him but that's just me and i also hate his silly grin and his dirty off colored white t-shirt. 😅😅

I'm with @Breakingthewallon this one. @AIONYou can't ask for people's genuine opinions and criticisms of Ralston then turn around and criticize them for doing so and by calling them angry and judging why they're criticizing Ralston. Seems like you're judging the judgers after asking to judge. Criticizing the crticizers after asking for criticisms. Speaking on their points and disagreeing with what they have to say is one thing, but attacking them for responding to your post is another. Just saying.

There is no will. Whether free or determined or God's. Will implies reason and meaning. That's all dream stuff. It's all done. Will implies movement, time and space. Will Implies something or someone willing something into existence. There is no God that wills anything. That's the dream imagining. Will is being imagined and appears as such to an observer. Relativity is illusory as that's also the Absolute appearing as. Anything that appears is nothing as nothing is being that. So, all that stuff cannot stand on it's own and is all stories made up by the dream. All there is, is all there is. No separation, no movement and not still, no cause and effect, no time no space, no subject no object, no here no there, no now no present, no nothing yet everything. Real and unreal. No position, no bounds, timeless, causeless everywhere and nowhere. Cannot be pointed to. No reason or meaning. Say that's meaning all you want, that's just semantics and word games. No thing, no yet's, if's but's, why's, how's. Where's the will in that.

Why the fuck is anybody at all, ANYBODY, born by parents who fucked and had them without their consent and was just blapped on this earth to figure shit out just like the rest of us able to tell me shit about God. Why the fuck did God forget who the fuck it is just so some stranger has to tell me to awaken to it. What the hell kind of joke is this. Somebody I don't even know from Adam's eve like Ramana Majarshi, i'm supposed to follow his word and think of him as a wise guru who can lead me to some fucking destination where I don't even know what the hell is there. He doesn't even know I exist but he is capable of telling me something, through the living who teaches his word, something that's supposed to enlighten me about who I am and how I'm supposed to live this life to awaken to my true nature. I'm not dissing him whoever he is, and it's not personal, all I'm saying is don't put me here on this earth to supposedly fend for myself then tell me about some stranger in a grave. That's fine about him and what he did and stood for just as Einstein can talk about some relativity stuff like M=c2 or whatever that is or whoever invented the light bulb, Newton and Jung and whom ever else we consider to be geniuses, that's fine and we need people to help with developing the world and all; but when it comes to some man's or woman's word about how to enlighten me and awaken me and to awaken to MY true nature, now it took a turn to the personal. Inventing a lightbulb and Steve Jobs founding Apple and Bill Gates Microsoft and who ever else invented stuff for the world to benefit from and teachers helping students to read and write and comprehend and teaching trades and Professors teaching University students and chefs teaching cooking classes and construction workers building houses and whatever else the masses is benefitting from and what makes the world go round and is of use to for all. Why are there people out there telling me who I am, why I was born, how to get saved from suffering and how to reach God. Tell me how to write a book, cook pasta, build a house, invent something, how to invest and all of the worldly things that needs to be taught so one can live in this world but why do I need someone to tell me who I am and what is not me and what is me and having courses and classes and zoom meetings and sponsorships and a secret member club just to tell people how to meditate and just be. What the fuck kinda world is this. I just cannot buy into this shit. I'm OK with being taught practical stuff and I'm OK with anything in the material world and being told how to navigate it to survive and all that but I have a BIG problem with having to be told personal things about myself from strangers I don't even know like who the fuck I am and what am I doing here. If I didn't know then nobody else should know, if my momma and poppa didn't tell me then, nobody else have that right. You're not responsible for birthing me so you don't have that know how about who i am. I plopped out of my mommy's vagina, that's who I am. If I'm not, then whomever was responsible for plopping me out of my momma's vagina better tell me. Whoever made that possible better tell me who I am. Whoever planted that seed better tell me who I am; and if I can't find that person, then nobody else knows who I am because you never planted that seed. My momma and poppa called me a name and treated me like a human and a person. That's who I am. Anything else anybody says, I don't know about all that. As far as I'm concerned, I'm nothing. Not in the spiritual sense of nothing but nothing because anything I've been told is from another human being just like me and their momma and poppa I'm sure treated them as such just as the whole world. Everybody is going off of what they were born into and what everybody else is going by. Human. What's that. I don't know. So as far as I'm concerned I'm nothing until whomever invented me says otherwise. As far as I'm concerned, if I'm nothing, then no human can tell me about God and who God is because if I'm nothing then God, if that's what they're going to tell me that I am is nothing too and nothing cannot be described. So there. End of story.

Thank you for that explanation. It has surely enlightened me as to the true reason why it is only humans out of everything else on this planet that can awaken to God. That separate conscious that we have where there's supposedly no separation and that animals and trees and mountains doesn't possess is the reason for this quest. I've also heard of something called collective consciousness, so I suppose there's a separate consciousness for humans as well as another consciousness for the collective or is this the same consciousness that can be separate and conjoined when it feels like it. Dunno.

If I'm supposed to be God, why do I need a so-called human to tell me how to reach myself. Can someone please explain this to me please. Maybe what is meant by that is that God forgot itself and now a human being who has awaken to itself can teach me how to awaken myself as God. Is that it. Why doesn't a cat have the choice to awaken as God or a dog or a mouse or a lion or a tree. Why is it only humans who awaken as God. Why do animals get to just bask in their being as animals while we have to put in work to awaken to God. Why are trees given a free pass, mountains and oceans and the birds. I don't see just humans here. I see everything else but nothing else is trying to awaken or get enlightened. This is a serious inquiry but I don't feel like making a post about it so if anyone is reading this and can give me an answer, I would appreciate it.

Why isn't anybody trying to feel bad. Looking for a worse experience. Wanting to be sad and miserable. Going about life trying to worsen it consciously. Everywhere you look it's all about how to be happy and how to be better off, trying to obtain things of value and trying to get something positive from life. Why? The individual is in pain. The individual feels tension. It seeks to relieve itself. Even in temporary happiness that's not happiness at all, it's pain relief. Sob sob. It wants to make the world a better place. On it's death bead, it won't care then. It wants to make the world a better place for itself. So it can feel better about living in it. It's always about feeling better. Why? It's in pain, it seeks relief. It's a default. Seek happiness to feel relief. Let's talk about it, write about it, advise on it, teach about how to attain it, seek others to help on how to achieve this state, help the world get there, help, help, help, help. Please we need to do something about this pain we all feel. There's nothing to do to get relief. Do all the practices you want, be a slave to your circumstances, idolize happiness and ostracize pain. Invent all the pain medications we want. Notice there's no pill for happiness. Pain and tension is the default of mankind. Seek, seek, seek, seek, seek. That's all we do. Then we die and collapse into the ocean of love that's always been here. Why not be that now. Pain and all. Tension and all. Now. There's no permanent relief. Try to see this. It's impossible to see if one's trying to seek relief. The only way to see it, but not with the eyes or intuition, or soul, or anything of the sort, the only way is to just be. Be with the tension and despair and do nothing about it. Then and only then that energy just might collapse to reveal that it's not there. To reveal that everything is automatic and there's nothing to do. It's being done. Whatever it is, it's being done. Not even. It's just being whatever it wants to be. Appear. It goes away and appears again as whatever without anyone in the driver's seat. Hard to accept. Gate to fathom. The person cannot grasp this. It's ungraspable. No person, and it's all timeless energy appearing.

You are not the space that all objects occupy. There's no real space. Self-inquiry suggests that you're the witness and observer of all that appears and that you're the awareness of all things that appears within your awareness. There's no real awareness as that suggests duality and a something being aware of something else. There really are no objects and there really isn't a subject. Self-inquiry appeals to the individual energy that thinks it's separate and that it can do something to discover it's true nature as GOD. It says the space that occupies things is unchanging and never moves, it's untouchable and nothing can affect it and that's who we really are. If I'm the space that all objects occupy that what are those objects, what are they made of. Where did they come from. Space and time are effects; and to the observer, is really there and it seemingly here. If there isn't an observer, space and time isn't experienced. Notice how sometimes time seems different, and maybe on some substance, it seems to disappear once the sense of self disappears, also the illusion of space might temporarily be out of the individuals perception when it's trippin' and with no sense of itself being a person on it's own. That's because there's no observer present. All that wears off and the sense of self returns and now the observer is back and to it, there's a here and a there once again. One can never be permanently 'gone' while there's a body that 'thinks' there's a controller behind it. Saying I did so and so and saw so and so suggests that there was a person that did so and so and saw so and so. This is all illusory and no one did anything to reveal anything. It's all just happening but when the effects wear off and the observer is 'back' to claim anything, it's back in that felt sense that's not even happening but feels and appears to be. This is why i feel it's best to not even try those substances and not claim anything to have happened to it because it just strengthens that sense even more. The more it claims anything the stronger that sense becomes. It's all illusory anyway and doesn't really matter but within the illusion there can be a sense that may fall away to reveal something and that something is actually nothing. This is all conceptual anyway, but there is no space that holds objects is the bottom-line. The Absolute is appearing as space and time and when the Absolute appears as a sleeping body and with no observer, space and time disappears. It was never there to begin with just as everything else except for what appears and when there's an observer then everything is in relation to it. I'm over here and everything else is over there. Where is all that in sleep. Self-inquiry doesn't acknowledges this, it says there's an observer that is witnessing everything and an awareness that abides as itself with no troubles and worries and that is all being witness even thoughts. No, there's no observer and no one aware of anything. There can't be if there's no separation and all is nothing appearing as everything which us the case and cannot be any other way because for something to appear it must have a source and a source has to be nothing for it to appear as something or else that source has to also have a source so source is nothing.

Everything in society, I would say life but life is just being life, is designed to keep the person thinking and believing it's a person. I don't know if this is intentional or not but it is. Everything keeps that energy in it's same form. Even though my take on enlightenment and awakening is different than most because I say there's no one to awaken and enlightenment is already the case, it doesn't matter in this instance for what I'm referring to. There's still an apparent illusion of separation that can be 'broken' meaning that energy can apparently fall away revealing to itself that it's not separate and maybe 'break through the illusion', seemingly. Society doesn't allow for it to be easy. I'll go on the premise for now that enlightenment can be 'achieved' by a 'separate' individual and they can awaken to the 'true nature' of reality. I put those words in quotation because it's all apparent and seems to be happening but there's nothing to really break through or see through. Tests we do to see what personalities we are, self-development programs, self-inquiry practices, therapists and psychological evaluations, spiritual teachings all addresses the personal self and suggests there's something for the self to do than can lead somewhere or to enlightenment, anything that says there's a self can work on anything to improve, evaluate and develop, I can go on to list more but just about everything in life/society confirms that there's a separate energy form that is responsible for itself and that it needs to do this or that to maintain it's illusory nature. Some will say enlightenment is hard and to open oneself to 'discover' the true nature of things requires practices and hard spiritual work and years of dedication to achieve this. We go to retreats and meditate(good practice, BTW, for the body's relaxation), listen to gurus and we engage in all these things as a self to try and get somewhere spiritually while engaging in societal things and programs designed to confirm the personhood that we believe ourselves to be. Some will even defend this stance by saying we live in the relative world and life goes on and we are humans surviving a body and lifestyle and that we have to be real about this and not engage in spiritual bypassing and pretend we're not humans or individuals. They'll keep the charade going while seeking enlightenment and awakening and do substances and practices while still engaging on a mental level in the material world. I say mental because we're all 'physically' here but mentally doesn't have to be. That statement is a bit off because it's all mental but there's a point here that's trying to be addressed and that's the only way to put it. I'm not sure if anything I'm saying is being clear and registering and I'm not really talking to the person but to energy that might resonate with this. Just as some resonates with somethings being said and some it just goes right over their heads because it's just too 'contracted' and invested in itself as a separate individual all trying to survive it's illusory identities. For some, it may. Can't have both worlds. It's either we're steadfastly keeping up with the Joneses or we're trying to keep the illusion going. The energy that thinks it's a separate entity can deny anything it wants just to keep itself separate because it's having a grand 'ole time wallowing in it's own illusory nature or it can seemingly 'recognize' there's something 'wrong' with how it's been operating and that it's constantly 'feeling' the 'effects' of separation and magically fall away on it's own. There's nothing it can intentionally do for this to apparently happen but it may result in an opening that may release the tension that it 'carries' along with it to reveal it's illusory nature. Society doesn't do anything to help with this and it really doesn't matter in the 'grand scheme of things' anyway because there's no separate entity and it's all just appearances, all BEING; and it's all freedom and liberation; and what freedom and liberation is for the separate identity is freedom and liberation from itself which doesn't really exist and it's just a play of consciousness which is all but a dream and imagination which isn't even really happening. The energy has to not be invested in itself as much for it to 'see' that it doesn't exist and when it 'sees' that it doesn't exist, it can be free of itself in the material world and the illusion of physicality and really start playing in it's own waters and all it's troubles won't be taken so seriously and the world around it will seem more magical and without see it for what it really is. NOTHING BEING EVERYTHING.

There is nothing beyond anything. There's nothing beyond this. There's only what's appearing which is nothing being, including the appearance of a body referring to the concept of there being a beyond. Where is this "beyond" appearing.

Leo tells people experience is king, to go out and get experience and to travel and expand your paradigm and whatever else he says in his videos about this, I believe it's how to have the good life or maybe others, but says vacation is fools gold. Another subtlety on how freedom is chaotic and anarchic. It doesn't care to reason and figure out how it expresses itself, it does so spontaneously and free. How's vacation fools gold. You need that if you're taking care of survival needs by working to pay your bills and taking a break to recoupe from all that. He also says to take care of survival issues before delving into spiritual stuff but I guess taking a vacation from that is fool's gold. It's not a criticism just pointing out inconsistencies in how life appears and how the dream interprets it. Nothing wrong with luxury, btw, it's an expression of love just as its opposite. Can't have one without the other; so if luxury is bad, then it's opposite is also bad. Consciousness is the dream, which is the same as the dreamer, which is also dreaming and imagining luxurious things. That's my take. Love you Leo.

Exactly. Can't have any control and then surrender. Surrender is crap. Another Spiritual mumbo jumbo. No one surrenders. Life is just being life and that's all there is to it. Those that think they're surrendering is life still doing that. One can believe they're surrendering all they want, it's life being life. There's nothing to surrender to.

Not even Ghatgpt4 can help the dick. Shows you, don't be a dick.

I have to remember that some people are not mentally well and should take that into consideration when I respond to them. I won't know who is and who isn't, so maybe take into consideration my assumptions and ideas about people in general. Would I snap and shout at a new-born for crying or a man for standing up to pee or a kindergarten for not understanding calculus or a cat for not barking like a dog or an old woman for walking slow or someone in a wheelchair for not getting up and walk or a patient for not know how to treat themselves or a mother for not acting like a father or.....i mean the list is endless what we don't judge and criticize people for because we don't expect otherwise from them. Why do that with people regardless of what we know about them because it's what we don't know that puts us on the ignorance level and what we don't know is what we're actually judging and criticizing.

"That's who you are". Every time I hear a spiritual teacher, guru or anyone say those words, I flinch. Why? How is someone i don't know telling me who I am. Wtf. No one says, "that's who I am", that's who my brother is, that's who my sister is and that's who the neighbors are; it's always, "that's who you are". Well, who are you? The same thing I am? Well, if you're the same thing I am, how is the same thing telling the same thing "that's who you are". A sock telling itself, "that's who you are". Obviously you're telling me that I am the same thing that you are because you wouldn't be telling me who I am and insinuating you're something different. So, if I'm the same thing that you are and you're the same thing I am (or being, whatever word), who are you talking to. It's like me saying there's no you and someone asks well, who are you talking to. So either one is talking to no one. So, it comes down to again, there is no you. Everything points to that. I'm sure the same guru if asked "who's the cat" he'll say same thing you are, what's the mouse, what's the fish, what's the donkey, same thing you are. So everything's the same? Yes. So, who's the you in "that's who you are", or what is the "that" in "(that's) who "(you)" are. Sounds like duality to me. Sounds like something is something else. Sounds like there's separation. Sounds like somebody telling me who I am inside the who I am. At least if I say there's no you and there's no me then that can be the one thing just talking to itself saying there's no me and there's no you. Going back and forth. If you're telling me that I'm something and you're that same something then that seems to be one thing telling itself that there are two of them. If you're suggesting there's a me and there's a you and that they are the same thing how can that thing be telling itself that's who you are. Ok, so consciousness is telling consciousness "that's who you are"? Or if you say I'm awareness, awareness is telling awareness "that's who you are". What's the "that"? That's it for now.

This isn't moving nor is it still. To understand how that is just think about a nightly dream. Dreaming at the beach, but one didn't actually move to get to the beach and it's not still because in the dream things seem to be moving like getting in the water. So, this is exactly like that not moving and not still. It's really similar to how a dream happens only it's not a dream. The person is the dream itself as there's no one actually dreaming.

I can go to sleep regardless of screen time. Doesn't take me long to fall asleep. All that screen time stuff doesn't affect me one bit, not even a little bit.

Somebody just gave someone advice that they asked for 6yrs ago. You tell me this isn't anarchic chaos. These are the subtleties I say to look out for. One example. Still trying to make it make sense?. Lol

More answers = more questions. Keep asking till you realize they're infinite.

I got that "I love you, but you gotta go" from Leo's video, I believe it's called how to stop addictions or maybe cravings. Just what it is you want to accomplish, just focus on that instead of the junk food cravings. Keep it there and keep it there some more. Don't say I want to stop.....say I will....do or eat so and so. The subconscious doesn't read the word no it only hears what comes after that because no is not a reality. What is is. I do not want to, is not what's happening. I eat healthy is. Keep it in the present.