The0Self

Why don’t you just rest in your present state? The thought you are avoiding is simply reality as it presently is — but reality is constantly changing... so how it presently is, as in that belief, is still not true. That’s absolute freedom. This isn’t even a pointer, it’s just straight talk: Reality isn’t in a certain way — well, as a concession, for a moment it is, but then it’s not... and there is no moment. ? nvm, not much of a concession. Anyway. Absolute reality isn’t in a certain way.

Bombshell: Everyone who thinks they know something, has no idea what they’re talking about. Edit: Taking a bit of a plunge giving the benefit of the doubt to people on a forum like this — assuming they actually do want to wake up and aren’t playing games. As delusional a belief as any other, of course.

She might be drunk. She'll apologize later, I'd guess. I've seen posts of hers indicating this could be the case.

1. All there is. 2. Increasing power (and brightness; wieldiness; steadiness) of mind in such a way that facilitates gratitude and love. 3. Also, one could say yet another is freedom from delusion and perceptual filters.

Yes. But not in a way that will satisfy the mind. There is no universe, only consciousness. Appearance is imaginary/illusory. Your universe is your own dream, but so is everyone else's, there just happens to be no self-existence; no separate existence. There's just what is. The way I see it: There's nothing closer or further or other than exactly what appears -- it's just that what appears has no real perspective, and isn't seen by someone separate from it. The infinite imagines that it's looking at itself. But that can be seen through, such that there's no possibility of other. There's just absolute freedom and distance-less intimacy, and nothing that is, is possible to overlook.

Sorry, I'll answer directly. What you describe simply conflates the term consciousness. "Everything is consciousness" <-- the word consciousness there, is totally different in meaning from the term used here: "increasing consciousness." Two different things, just spelled the same.

One way to put it: increasing conscious power, but in such a way that gratitude and love is more pervasive in every day life. Psychedelics are a sort of cheat code for opening up a sneak peak into what this can look like, in a sense. But desire and curiosity + practice and inquiry is the driving force for getting to higher levels in an abiding way.

If you resonated with Leo's newest video, try this one on for size: Really, really great pointing.

^^ @Chives99 Pretty much, yeah.

Here you go: Plain description of the general fundamentals of what happens, from pre-awakening, to total liberation; the beginning of what can happen after total liberation. It says "(Intro)" -- it's an introductory description of the actual whole path though. And if some degree of awakening is already a lived-reality for you, this will resonate. But, as he actually says in the comments, "move beyond the map and (re) inherit the territory."

What the separate self is at the most fundamental level, in the realm of consciousness and discernibility, is pure consciousness. But of course, there is no separate self. When consciousness becomes absolute (or rather all delusion is dispelled), something else is revealed that is certainly not consciousness (there's no way to imagine it, and certainly not while having preconceptions that it is consciousness) -- it's the absolutely-most fundamental, and it's un-expectable. It's not even in time -- the time/consciousness(subject)/perception(object) tripod is only a reflection of it. Again, consciousness is what the separate self is at the most fundamental level... But there is no separate self. You could say there's only the sole beholder, but there's nothing to see, since there are no parts to view. "Non-relative awareness" one could say, but it's too close for "consciousness-of" to be possible. It's pure intimacy and timeless, and not in consciousness. It's not that consciousness is false -- it's what is -- truly, it's more like it's just another sense like any of the others; seeing, hearing, feeling.

After a shift when I was 23 years old, psychedelics went from hallucinations of angels and aliens and whatnot (and some genuine reality-breaking insight as well), to just increasing conscious power by such an enormous amount that the egoic process disappears, and opening up illusion-breaking beyond-time God-realization -- which is basically an un-hallucination. No more hallucinations -- I suspect because nothing discernible is any more hallucinatory than any other. Damndest thing really. And come to think of it, it definitely is at least associated with a falling away of existential fears, and existential needs.

The following is intense and dubstep-ey -- the sound isn't for everyone, it seems: I would definitely recommend silence, but if you want music, those are examples that will do just fine. Preferably play them loudly with nice signal processor, mids, subwoofer, etc -- but that of course doesn't really matter.

A relative danger in not taking them is not having the knowledge that your authority as God can be revisited. That is a concession though. The danger in taking them, on the other hand, is simply suffering -- exacerbated if the character (reflection of the underlying true nature) is either 1. not ready, or 2. their ego structure is in just the right setup to clash with psychedelics, or 3. they get the insight but don't take the hint that you can do this work without psychedelics, as that's where 99% of the truth is. Psychedelics are both the cherry on top and also a potential cheat or sneak peak of what's possible. I can neither recommend them nor not recommend them. For me, they were essential, but paradoxically I never actually needed them -- after you already use them to find that God realization or even higher (the highest, if you don't prefer to describe the absolute/fundamental as God) is possible (because you went there), they just provide keys at key points. An ongoing, burning-away-falsehood, natural self inquiry driven by unshakable curiosity and passion for alignment, groove, and expansion... this is where the money's at. Earlier attitude of this may be "What is everything?" You know you're on the right track when the internal egoic attitude is something like "Come on man... you don't need to look there! Stop that! This is not where we wanna go!!" Though until you get to the point where that happens automatically, you can perhaps strong-arm your way into initial genuine direct insights in something beyond finitude and separate identity. Don't take this too seriously -- at the highest levels it's recognized that reality truly isn't in a certain way, as the actual fundamentals of reality are constantly shuffling and therefore there is no real universality, which can't really be seen until after total enlightenment (which has finality yet is paradoxically ongoing).

When consciousness becomes absolute (or rather all delusion is dispelled), something else is revealed that is certainly not consciousness (there's no way to imagine it, and certainly not while having preconceptions that it is consciousness) -- it's absolutely-most fundamental, and un-expectable. It's not even in time -- the time/consciousness/perception tripod is a reflection of it. Consciousness is what the separate self is at the most fundamental level... But there is no separate self. You could say there's only the sole beholder, but there's nothing to see, since there are no parts to view. "Non-relative awareness" one could say, but it's too close for "consciousness-of" to be possible. It's not that consciousness is false -- it's what is -- it's more like it's just another sense like any of the others; seeing, hearing, feeling.

No it means there is the imagination that there is connection to another dream also being imagined. Nothing contradicts truth, because it’s not anything describable or fixed. The only true bedrock is no bedrock at all. The only true self is no self at all.

Even the imagination that God is sovereign, while it is true... any conceptual grasp of it will be a layer of illusion. To understand any deep insights like this, you need deep insight. You can facilitate this by doing one pointed inquiry into the self, or something like this or exactly this: allow and lean toward thought activity/movement and resistance, and collapse the distance and be so closely oriented toward it, that what is being resisted disappears and reveals another layer, and so on. A sign that you’re on the right track is this sort of attitude from the mind: “Come on, man... Stop that! You just don’t look at that, man! ?”

@Vincent S There is never a point where exploration can’t go further — not that I see. With that said though, there is definitely a finality to the sense of separation being gone, because when it’s not there, it’s the loudest thing in the room at all times. It’s like a slap in the face that never ends, but the slap is only beauty without comparison.

Only when things are seen as radically distinct, are they truly not separate.

The key that you are just necessarily missing until you've awakened beyond nonduality: reality isn't in a certain way. As in the actual structure of reality is constantly shuffling; there is no solid background reality. Impermanent; transient, but absolutely so... and that's the stillness. The singular frame of reality (all of them, though there really is no continuity) is gone as it appears, since the stillness of a phenomenon is simultaneous with its dissolution -- in a way this is how the illusion of time is so robust. At the highest levels of insight, it's beyond-beyond (infinitely fundamental/subtle) the usual insights that are bound by consciousness itself. You don't understand this insight in the usual sense, because the reality more fundamental than context and even consciousness is revealed. You don't know it, it's beyond knowing, because there is only that. It might seem like consciousness can't not be fundamental, or that when I say beyond (more fundamental than) consciousness, what I really mean is some kind of ultimate consciousness... No... I really do mean literally more fundamental than consciousness. Absolute being unbound by the trio/tripod of time-subject-object.

Anyone can do it if they authentically want to -- which in a sense everyone does, yet no one wants to pay the price. Not calling Leo out here, because it simply comes with the territory -- being in liberation territory and sharing your insights as you have them... But someone putting themselves above others and considering themselves special is a red flag. Some teachers have a need for validation and being seen as special, and thus are not (yet, at least) qualified to teach. Again in Leo's case it just comes with the territory. I am in liberation territory myself, but I'm not above others -- if I believed that, then I'd be deluded.

It's a good thing Leo made that video otherwise some here really would be going down an egoic seeking road with solipsism as a concept. The video is completely consistent with solipsism -- if it sounds otherwise, open your mind up to the possibility that you might need to go back to the drawing board... not for your conceptual understanding of realty (unimportant in comparison) but for where you're headed.

Basically when your ego is still overly running the show to a degree, what truth manifesting as your insight can sometimes say is that “you can have Heaven all the way over there if you want” — your job is to follow that and say “but I want to be less far from you.” (so to speak anyway) The ego wants to feel good, but not as much as it wants to survive — it’s just how seeking presents. And it’s just the nature of loops.

In case I forgot... meant to post this: Simple yet rather complete, accurate, and useful and relatable overview of the path.

Imagine being in love with Brad Pitt, even when he's playing the role of Hitler (or "bad person" / whomever).