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@Leo Gura Luckily I don't have to. What is worse? Keeping God and truth a secret reserved for the elite or oneself? Or telling the masses and pouring gasoline on the fire just to watch it burn?

@Leo Gura The Crusades and everything else aren't Jesus's fault but I'd still consider the past 2019 years a shitstorm. Nondual teachings in the hands of extremely dualistic people create the worst kinds of evil. There are very few gnostic Christians for every dualistic AF one. The dualistic ones are adamant about following Jesus and ONLY Jesus. Jesus knew what he was doing. "I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!" "Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword."

@kieranperez A mortal tries to choose God over the Devil. Someone who knows that God is the Devil, and that he/she is both, is no longer mortal. If you can't make that distinction, then there is no such thing as enlightenment. If you call Hitler a Devil then he was also God. Since his entire goal was demonizing some groups of people for the good of another, and he was a vegetarian, I'd say that he was extremely proficient at choosing good from bad. The better you are at sorting good from bad the more evil you commit. There is no Devil. What I can't figure out is what Osho was. I guess Jesus left the same kind of shit storm in his wake. I think that's the reason it's so important to follow a variety of teachers, and to not to be a loyal follower. We all are just a piece of a puzzle, even enlightened, we're still just a puzzle piece. Both Jesus and Osho were pioneers I guess. Today with the internet we really do have the luxury of picking and choosing from enlightened teachers. This may be the first time in history that that is true.

Was Hitler the Devil? Or just a mere mortal man trying to choose good over bad?

So if like does not attract like and instead opposites attract, and Osho was indeed an enlightened master that attracted a community of devils... Can a master Devil attract a community full of enlightened people?

Don't spoil the ending, sit back, watch the movie and enjoy. I'll share my popcorn.

You are always in tune with That Which is What You Are, or you are out of tune. That Which is What You Are never comes and goes. It appears to because you, like a radio can be in tune with it or out of tune with it. What I did not understand until recently, is that there is a way to become more permanently, naturally in tune with it, there are in fact stages of awakening What I do not know is whether complete eternal being in tune with it also means physical death. Instead of finding out, I'd rather help people get in tune with it themselves, which I can only do when I'm in tune myself.

@Shin I'm allergic to bananas.

@Shin Osho fucked things up royally. Jesus said "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's" , in other words, pay your goddamn taxes and follow the laws the best that you can. Osho thought he was above all that.

He can pretend to be blue then. You know, turquoise is just another shade of blue.

Ta DA!!! Captain Ahab is enlightened! He gets the white whale in the end!

Love is surrender. Surrender feels like a limit, when really it is ultimate freedom in disguise.

Why would a shepherd lay down his life for his sheep? Because he knows that the sheep are him. That's why Jesus said to eat his body and drink his blood. Non-duality. There's no job, there's no living, there's no earning, there's no sacrifice, there's no slaughter, there's no life, there's no death. @Preetom My white whale is enlightening other people. Yours is enlightening yourself. Same goddamn whale.

For sure. love is just giving yourself up to you, giving yourself up to others because they are you and accepting and being courageous enough to face what that means. Hopefully the world is conscious enough to not crucify Jesus this time.

@SerotoninluvBecause a true shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He doesn't have to give his literal life but he still has to give away his life at the same time.@Leo Gura You're already enlightened, you're accidentally already a Christ.

I live in a really rural area. I grew up here and our plans to move to a city coincided with the financial crash so we ended up staying. But to be honest I have always had this deep inexplicable connection to it, and never really wanted to leave until a few months ago. I thought that to be successful and have an engaging life that I needed to be by a city. As an adult we traveled more and I realized that I never fully understood how many people there are on the planet, and how very rural the place I grew up was. I found New York City fascinating but I could feel the energy of the place and immediately felt this strong drive to be someone, the be successful, you can feel the stress/energy in the air. Even in smaller cities, I would get disgusted by how materialistic they were, but at the same time I just FELT like I wanted that material success too. I would always breathe a huge sigh of relief when I got home. There's so many traps I never got caught up in, just because of where I live. There are such low standards for how people should dress, and for other areas of success. My husband and I were in the top 10% income without trying very hard. The house was so cheap to buy that we paid it off by age 30. The entire place is like a spiritual retreat all the time, you can go off into the woods or find a private spot on the water whenever you want and not see a soul. I was always able to appreciate the way that people live here, happy with their low standards and happy living in their ignorance. I was also able to appreciate the educated people from away who moved here for whatever reason. I was really lucky to be taken under the wing by several people from away when I was growing up. A few months ago I got really frustrated because I just started feeling like I was wasting my life here. I felt like I had finally done enough personal development that I didn't have to cling to my family and the place I grew up and that I could just leave. My son has autism and we weren't able to get him behavioral therapy. So I hatched a plan to leave and gave it everything I had and it got shot down. So that lead to me discovering the law of attraction and opening my mind to it for the first time. We got a behavioral therapist for my son, and there's no way I'd get one that trustworthy or great in any city. I go for a run with gorgeous views on the water in the winter and meet two cars the entire time. No traffic lights. No stress. I ended up reading a book by a clairvoyant guy who lived here and got really wealthy. Everyone thinks that he was a charlatan but I know from my own experiences and all the spiritual work I've done that he was enlightened and it was real. I hadn't even opened my mind up to such possibilities before. I found the old foundation of his house, would go there to meditate and I started having insights there. That lead to coming here and having an awakening a few weeks ago. Now I feel like I need to go other way. I shouldn't move to a city. More people should move here, or places like here. I know I'm probably closed minded to cities, and I still really want to travel and see the world. But there's something about this place and I credit my success with spirituality to it.

@Preetom No need to become a tree just yet, when you were born with opposable thumbs to climb them. @Leo Gura I think the highest love is sacrificing one's own peace for others. I guess I still believe in Jesus all along.

@Preetom The key to a good sandcastle. Build an awesome moat. Sand castle sticks around a lot longer that way. You have to be an architect, the architect of your life. Know your life purpose. Design your sand castle the be the best goddamn sand castle that's ever been built. That's self actualization.

@Preetom That's because the world according to the hardcore yogi in the cave is already perfect, already enlightened. Whereas if you are teaching, you see other people as not enlightened. Fuck. So either the yogi in a cave is a fiction of the mind, the same as God in Heaven, and enlightenment doesn't exist or it does and the teacher is not enlightened.

I like to think of it as a beach, God wants us to build sand castles because he knows the most fun we can ever have is watching the beautiful castle we built dissolve back into the ocean when the tide comes in.

One must awaken along with the world. Every enlightened master has to teach if he wants to fully awaken.

I've never lived in a town with more than 1000 people in it.

@zeroISinfinity Ok thanks, I'm working with that too right now. My loneliness IS a lack of self love and not feeling worthy. They are different ways of identifying the same disconnection. I'm preparing myself for eternal connection. I think maybe we should stop using the word prepare and stop worrying about the future and just be.

There's a really powerful collective energy that comes from having a crowd of people with one intention. That's the reason some people love going to concerts so much. It's easy to tap into energy from an awakened person and if you do it enough you get better at it. You can even do it through videos and recordings. It's a great tool. I'm guessing it's even more powerful in person.

Just wondering, do you also feel lonely because of that?