Breakingthewall

that's how it is. life is A kind of war in many senses. the problem is the current human mentality that says that life is an amusement park and that everything has to be perfect. It is absurd, that only generates neurosis. life is unpredictable, it can hit you in a thousand ways. you have to see the beauty and joy behind the war, and even in it. Being alive is wonderful, just forget the content, focus in the fact of existing.

survival is a ruthless competition, who wins lives, who loses dies. at the individual and genetic/ species level. Life is designed that way in order to evolve into increasingly complex systems. for billions of years life was only single-celled organisms. one day, one of them join with another to be bigger and stronger to kill the others and stole his vital energy. and the party started. life is more or less the game of to see who is more cunning, aggressive, effective killer ,at the genetic and individual level. The game is: for me to live, you have to die, and both have the total desire of survive , and impulsed by this pressure, let's see what life can create. Why do you think humans are such bastards? we are life

It does not compete in beauty, it competes to live, to stretch more than other roses and have more sunlight, to have more vivid colors and attract more insects and thus spread their genes more than others, because there are not infinite insects, nor infinite space for be in the sun. that a rose ,something more complex, like a rat, more than competing, is at war. he comes out of his hole with all his senses alert because it lives surrounded of assassin that wants to steal it's body. Threats can come from anywhere, its offspring can starve at any time, it must find food before it is taken from it, he must take it from another, he must kill, hide, steal. There is only one rule: survive at any costs

It is to drop the self into nothingness. stop wanting and fearing, even for a few seconds. we are constantly controlling, interpreting, grasping reality. It is all illusion, we are not in control of anything, but the appearance of control allows us to have the illusion of standing on solid ground. It's not real, we're in the infinite now. this is existence existing and the controlling self is an illusion. it is seized, contracted, controlling every second, surrounding every instant with a capsule of mental flow, but this control is only illusory. Surrender is redundant because you're really already surrended. You just have to surrender a lie, the illusion that you control this moment with your mind, and open yourself now to the infinity that this moment is.

Id say it's quite masculine. something like: I don't care what happens to me. I throw myself into the abyss without expectation, without asking for anything in return, just for the beauty of throwing myself without holding on to anything. forget about surrendering to a superior being, that is already holding on to something. You have to jump into the void without a parachute.

I don't like that life is designed like a competition, and I like that life feels wonderful.

But what is enlightenment? there are levels of openness to reality, and there are moments of absolute dissolution, when you completely drop the self. (which by the way fit his description of impersonal empty conciousness) but then those moments pass, and you return to limited state. from that state we create stories about what reality is, but they have little value. what has value is the opening now. How far can that opening go? We don't know, the work is to open more and more the reality (so us). I'd say that on the one hand, there is enlightenment, now realizing your true nature, of the total emptiness that is the infinite, that same time is everything, and on the other hand, there is the understanding of the cosmos, of God. I would say that God is the cosmos. God is a creation. you are god in the sense that you are the reality happening, but before god you are the empty ocean of being. but maybe in a month I'll say something different.

I'd say that he has done more work than everyone on this forum put together, and that he chooses texts that match his personal realizations. He also has a memory and an ability to find quotes from books and old conversations in the forum typical of an AI. is what I read between the lines, but of course, you never know

Well said. Well, there are many here who speak with our own words. It is good to also read words that have endured over time, maybe there is a reason why that has happened

Yes, of course, meditation is about achieving unity, blurring and making separation disappear, then a meditation system that promotes any kind of violence would be nonsense. Another thing is that reality does not promote violence. it does .

That nationalism is only a human concept that is based on the number one rule of life: competition. How do you know which form, whether physical or in the form of ideas, systems, norms, whatever, is going to prevail and which one will disappear? by force. In the Middle Ages they were very clear about it with judgment of God. Who has the reason? the one who wins. that is the only law of life, aka god. suffering? who cares? all living beings are soldiers with a mission: evolution. life is one, and in it a chemical reaction is taking place, an alchemy, an evolution, and suffering is part of the recipe. The thing is that war maybe is not necessary for the evolution that is taking place, but if it were necessary, if will happen, and it's not bad, just life

the problem with this type of character is not that it is difficult to deal with, it is the lie. towards himself above all. the guy is a genius and you just have to see the quality and the breadth of his content, but at a given moment, the virus of narcissism manifested itself more severely, and there was a detour, a wrong path. an apparently infinite but really limited vision. instead of an ever greater openness to existence, to life, a path of evasion, of addiction (or it seems so). but since we are talking about a genius, I would say that he will be able to correct the course . Life is long and give up is not an option. Yes, everyone talking about god, etc. just for having internalized ideas heard in the videos, going through life like ubermenchen surrounded by chimpanzees. Could it be more pathetic? is not easy

solipsism is only true or false from the conceptual mind, which encapsulates reality, plots it, and classifies it. the difference between there are others or there are no others is a line. in reality there are no lines, it is liquid, not solid. if you get out of the conceptual mind, the question is meaningless. If you expand in the ocean of reality, it could be said that there is only you, but in you are all the others.

Why war is worse than peace if life is basically war? Life wants war, needs war to evolve. preferring peace to war is human bias. life loves war

Well, it may be as you said, but what emerges is: I'm better than you. It does not emerge: I am at an incredible point of consciousness and I want to take you to it. never something like: that's it, you're doing well, I had a difficult time at that stage but I did this and that. no, it's something like: you're a piece of shit. I'm better than you. what's that? a joke? a bully? a toxic guy? inspiration level = zero. At first actualized this seemed kind of generous, now it seems kind of greedy. everyone to adore leo, the most enlightened since homo sapiens appeared. what is this friend? a joke? Never anything constructive in the interaction. What happens with you? You look like a hedgehog full of spikes, a guy with the vital need to be better than the others (who do not exist), someone trapped, who does not flow but rather analyzes the flow, in short. who is not awake

what it is step one of spirituality, is to abandon even temporarily the need to interpret and control. It has to be something complete, without keeping anything, otherwise it is impossible to take the final step and there is always separation. you can do 5meo or whatever if there is not that surrender of the self, there will be mental corruption. What you have said above is the need for constant control and interpretation, that is, fear of reality. It is normal to be afraid of the unknown, but if we want to do spiritual work, we have to let it go completely. Not easy of course.

@itsadistraction there is another option: I see this like a circus or a movie, Id like to understand Leo because I like to understand the humans and the reality, and here we have an interesting case.

@Colin Williams yes, your feeling is interesting. It seems that Leo doesn't like being human. normal, the human is a pit of shit, dysfunctionality, violence and suffering. It seems that he would rather be at the top of his ivory tower than go down in the mud, but...it doesn't work. it is necessary to go down. Being human, having empathy, opening your heart to others. abandon the need to be so special. is a barrier.

I don't know if it is possible to understand why reality is manifesting itself as it does. I only see possible to open you to what existence is. If you want to understand, you are not open anymore, at least me. But maybe it's possible. There are deeper levels.

Yes but illusion doesn't mean that it is false. It's difficult to see, I just have glimpses of what the illusion is.

realizing that you are the reality. this does not mean that the others are not real. They are out of the equation, there are no others, real or unreal, you are the reality, existing

I would say that existence is absolutely happy. It creates herself in a dance of love for itself and flows deeply in the perfect happiness but our mind by its nature makes us separate from it, and it finds several layers of tricks to maintain that separation. you have to be very subtle to see the subtle separations

Women, by their nature, have a greater burden of fear than men. its nature tends to the affective, attachment, belonging, acceptance for the group. Few women can let go of the others.

@tuku747 great post. I would say that the illusion is the mental construction. It is very difficult to get out of it, we have to be able to get out of it completely. if we want to enter higher states, the whole story, the energy that interprets, that moves between past and future, that searches, that grabs each moment of the experience and encapsulates it, to assemble the story that you are an individual advancing in a world, all that must disappear, move away. to allow reality to open up, now. Courage to release the grips, which makes reality solid for you, and make it liquid it s extremely difficult. at least for a while, you have to let go of your preferences, truly say: it doesn't matter what happens to me. I surrender. fuck, is to look into the abyss and throw yourself into it. drop yourself into nothing and dissapear. getting it for some seconds is a huge achievement

Exactly, what an lsd trip is all about imo is getting you to stop judging and interpreting. The moment you see something as negative, you are judging. This is difficult, I have had LSD trips in which everything was images of torture, impalement, cruelty. This was because for me there was, and actually is, good on the one hand, which is goodness, honesty, loyalty, fun, beauty, etc., and on the other hand the bad: cruelty, betrayal, falsehood, pain, loneliness, isolation, boredom, ugliness, etc. if we want to enter mystical states we have to be able to transcend human preferences and the need of interpreting everything at least for a while, otherwise we are trapped in loops of suffering. It is not easy, but if you do not know that it is necessary, it is impossible.