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The answer to pain is, you are not a body. When you drop misidentification, sensations arise but not yours.

Question 1: Do I need a guru/religion? Question 2: Do I need to suffer to get to my true nature? Question 1 is yes. Else you won't ask question 2. Only guru/religion tells you to go through suffering. The world will tell you avoid suffering at all costs. And will sell your widget after widget to do just that. You don't know your true nature. You are born ignorant. Your world is mad if you haven't noticed. You will stay like this your whole life. Until you come online and find what's missing. You have lived millions of lifetimes and gotten nowhere, all the while preparing you for this. Thanks be to God in the highest! This is your time.

If life is good, you will be content with a happy life and not find a blissful life. Suffering is blessing from this perspective. All ye who enter here are suffering.

You do need Christianity yet don't realize. It tells you, you are a miserable sinner. You scoff at the idea and continue in your self indulgence and self deception. You don't even know what sin is. Nothing to do with misdeeds or crimes or failings. Sin is s.eparation i.magined n.ow Sin is s.elf i.mposed n.ightmare To name but two formulations. Both of these would take a whole (Christian) book to explain the details. You won't get this from Leo. Only Christianity.

The two faiths per AI:

Bliss is, when ego isn't. What i am is what mind blocks thinking it knows better. Awareness of true self indeed activates this. Sat-chit-ananda is the real me.

Yes. Yoga meditation psychedelics ... may not be touched or discussed in Christian gatherings. Stick with the tried and tested safe stuff like the gifts of the Spirit.

Self deception, is the mind's tool that, justifies corruption and keeps it unconscious. Here are some examples from AI:

Specific examples of corruption from AI

if they renamed it as christiamity we could be getting somewhere christ! i am it! yo!

Christianity is hateful and therefore will find haters and hatred. They claim, hate the sin and love the sinner but you cannot separate the two. I in flesh am an life-long doer. If gay, I will do gay stuff. If trans, I will do trans stuff. If poly, I will do poly stuff. Anything built on hate and the hierarchy of better and worse will attract the same back at it. Christians claim to bring love in the form of missionaries. That isn't love. That is I will give you food and shelter if you sign on to my god and my bible. As soon as you reject that, you are a bad influence to my children and so I am packing my bags and leaving. You had the chance for heaven but instead choose to be damned. Sayonara most cursed infidels. The wrath of god be upon you forthwith.

Hate is a result of those who hate not what they hate. The big problem is, if you love deeply you will hate deeply. What you hate is necessarily defined by the depth of your love. Hate is to banish someone from your universe. To bid they disappear. Their presence contaminates your life. Whoever you exclude or whatever you exclude, you hate. Only this exclusion enables your love to proceed. To hate christianity means it disturbs my mind and I need it gone. I am the aggressor. Not it. It is too powerful for me to co-exist with it.

The flaw of religion is us and them. The flaw of spirituality is me and you. Except maybe universalism which Leo did a blog on recently. All is good in God's hood. The deepest truth is that you are my only hope.

The sitting practice is to get to stillness and silence. That's the best I can do out of effort and will. Then I am in a place of receptivity from which higher self can make itself known. I am now a fit vessel to be brought into alignment with the absolute reality. At first this is fleeting and later it normalises. I abide in full awareness of my true nature and body is no longer a prison but a platform for good. Bad may happen to body but it doesn't disturb me.

The meditative state needs to be maintained continuously. This is the goal of meditation and formal practice ceases. Every person lives from the mind of lower self or the awareness of higher self.

Doesn't depend on her, depends on me. It's a choice, a lifestyle.

This is me. Breakfast identical every morning, not just items but quantity: oatmeal whole milk toast peanut butter greek yogurt black coffee. Lunch and dinner nearly identical but doing some switching in and out and basically on a 3-day cycle. Same number of calories every 3 days. Makes life a breeze.

I resemble that remark Leo. I am a borne and bread pale skin and haven't had complaints to this date. Variety isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Practice makes perfect. You can get there without work if you are walking the walk in all other areas. You might not do so in this lifetime however.

Yes they would. Because conflict is only with others. No others, no problem. You would have no need to think except thoughts of God if you were so inclined. Mind is survival. Without others, you'd be king of the world, not a care in the world.

Thanks. I am actually doing so. It's fine too. I have no more roving eye for the rare delicacies. Food is just gas to put in the tank. Edit: Well more than 1 of course

I would compare it to food. I am fed up with food. But it does what I need. I eat the same menu month to month. It ticks my boxes. It's blah but okay. I do not seek any variety or want any deviation. Other things are important. Not food. Same with sex. It's a need that serves both but no big deal. Other things are important. Sex is just us both ticking each other's box. We will both continue like this. We are what the other needs and nothing lacks. It's a solved problem and it frees both of us for higher pursuits.

Getting money is always tricking trapping tormenting. Nobody wants to give up their cash. Same goes for sex. Only the ruthless win at life. Nobody admits this or writes books about it. If you win you are feted as a good guy. Ethical isn't what's right but what squeezes the juice.

There are two life modes, survive and arrive. Arrive is god. I needn't do anything, making money is for actors on a stage. Ruminate is I have to survive. Of course one does both, at same time one has to know what one is and actualize it. Meditation is just the ticket.

Just want to say I love you man. Check out this lovely trip report posted today which touches on what you are moving towards: https://www.reddit.com/r/nonduality/comments/1ja8gr4/i_smoked_bufo_alvarius_5meodmt_died_and_came_back/