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😄 C'mon Buddha, give me some slack. I like to pretend I'm not spiritual sometimes. If I went full blown guru people would constantly bow to me and try to touch my feet, that is bothersome, you would know.

No. Ego is confusion. God is perfect clarity.

No. Don't stop learning until you change your mind. The illusion is the creation of the Devil himself, the one that is in your mind. This world and ego ar in kahoots. They work together to trick you and hurt you as much as they can until, hopefully, you die and forget what they have done. Wisen up, you have work to do. Read ACIM by Jesus and DU by Gary Renard/Apostles. They're the only true teachers.

Maybe. Will see.

@Salvijus heyo ✌️

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No. Meditation brings you to the eternal, abstract, formless, invisible spirit, hence healing you little by little, whilst the illusion is changing, specific, visible and temporary. You are very confused. I've had it all. I've lived a very fortunate life in the usual sense, including looks, partners, financial freedom, friends, travel, and so on. The last lifetime is usually like that, you get the final taste of everything that this world has to offer, you chew it, find it disgusting and spit it out. You are not wise until you know that you can't search for pleasures through the body and not find pain. They are one and the same. There is never pleasure without a backlash of pain in the illusion. When you know it, the ego is done for.

@NineHfanbase yeh, total commitment is what awakens. Did like 30 trips, many solo reatreats lasting weeks, but that's not enough. You need to go full monk mode for years to wake up. Cutting of everything else is also key. No entertainment, music, sexual acts or thoughts, relationships, no fancy clothing, jewels, perfumes, etc. Basically throw away everything this mesmerizing illusion offers, by realising it is really nothing and meditate. Just gonna give you my schedule, that pretty much sums it up. Today is different though, going out to buy a watch with a timer so I wouldn't ever need to touch my phone. It's a tool of the devil if you really want to awaken.

There is harm in getting stuck in a dream. The harm is suffering, decay, pain and eventually death, on repeat, for thousands of lifetimes. Harmful enough? That's why non-perfect teachers like Leo are extremely dangerous. They give you conceptual truths and glimpses through drugs, but don't awaken you, giving you a false sense of accomplishment, which leads you to sleep without waking up, without a sense of hurry or clear path home, hence more lifetimes of suffering, both physical and mental, sometimes very extreme, as you have definately experienced, likely millions of times throughout your lives. So yeah, not that good of a teacher.

Leo is fooled by his self-actualization bullshit. You don't need to polish your ego to awaken. In fact, it's a trap. Leo is so entangled in the illusion that it's funny. He is currently learning about countries that don't really exist, since it's a dream, just to distract himself from his purposeless existence. He still believes that God created this sick universe and wants to learn about it. Lol. Wisen up, my dear, unexistant, ego created hallucinations.

Drop the false idea that God created this dream. Who creates your dreams at night? God or an illusory, unconscious mind? Illusory mind aka ego weaves illusions day and night. All your time is spent dreaming, the creator of those dreams is the same, only the form of the dreams change, but their metaphysics are the same - insane garbage from your unconscious mind. You've been dreaming thousands of dreams, going nowhere, suffering endlessly at the mercy of the unconscious mind, with just enough joy peppered into the nightmare to keep you from seeking escape. Open your eyes, dear unexistant ego creations. Oh, that's not your purpose, so nevetmind. Ups, I said some truth. 🫢 Ego won't like that. Waiting to hear what the illusion comes up with. Hit me. 😝

Doesn't matter. Good luck.

It's the only thing I care about. Hardly a joke.

@Marten98 neither Bashar, nor Dolares, nor Ram Dass, nor Leo understand the reason behind the creation of the universe and what is happening here now. There are no souls. It's absurd to think that you are standing in line to incarnate to suffer. While we are on the topic of incarnation - the last lifetime is relatively good, I had the most beautiful and loving partner, attractive body, freedom in financial sense, and many other things that the world deems valuable. Yet, I am the first in line to leave this illusion, so your argument regarding suffering doesn't hold. I am the first in line to leave because I have true wisdom, I know what is happening here. Maybe someone will read the book I recommended and will open their eyes to the absurdity Leo teaches. Sure God is what Leo says God is, but the universe is not here for the reason he believes. I am, sadly, unable to open the eyes of people either here or on other platforms, as they think they know already. Anyway, started to feel the first flavours of bliss, that's why I haven't visited this forum in days and won't be doing so in the future. Buckle up, I plan to end this shabang in a year or a few, so do what you want in that time, since when I awaken, the universe will dissapear.

I will explain Peter's stance to people who are stuck on this question. Notice that Peter says there is nothing there. He is simply talking about the highest Buddhist attainment - cessation, void, nothingness. He uses the word nothingness in his teachings for a reason. He has his roots in Buddhism. Buddha said that you are enlightened when you reach a place where there is neither perception nor non perception. I've been there and Peter has been there. It does feel like the final enlightenment, nowhere further to go. A complete dead end. Unfortunately for him and for other Buddhists, it's not the end. They don't and Peter himself does not understand God. God is Love, but they can't grasp it, because Buddha said that the void is the final step and it does feel like it is when you arrive there. You need a deep study of Buddhist scriptures and to have visited the void to see Ralston's level clearly. You can only critique and see the errors of teachers like Peter and Leo from a higher level, which only one in a billion attains, so those teachers go on and on fooling their students unwillingly, thus stopping them from breaking the cycle of life and death. Not that it matters now.

That's very constructive and argument-based, good job.

I'll go all in on meditation shortly (days), just wanted to share my knowledge before Mahasamadhi

This is obviously not true. Only people tricked by Leo believe this.

@jimwellI know he didnt read it because he said so himself when he introducted the book in his book list. Also, if he read it he would be significantly wiser. Don't worry, DU and ACIM are the two most important books on this planet. You will probably be quite grateful to me for introducing them to you if you grasp them. I've let go of my family, all relationships, all goals, work, 99% of entertainment, and on and on. I have a few things left to let go, which I am in the process of doing. You are right in suspecting that if you do go all the way with these teachings, they will destroy most of your prior spiritual insights. But why would you be afraid? You will finally know the truth. It will set you free and it's not just a cliche saying. Happy to see someone putting his first steps along the path to true knowledge. Cheers!

It's actually very practical and relevant to enlightenment, because if you grasp that this life is not the will of God, but of the ego, then you will be inclined to escape it and quickly. Otherwise, you are stuck in the trap and won't have enough motivation to do what is needed to escape.

@Princess Arabia Yep, Gary just relays what his teachers thought him, he rarely inputs his own opinions, so most of his interviews are clear and useful overviews of his books. Not sure if I saw this specific one before, though, but it should be fine. Edit: Just skimmed through it, it's just like I said, hes giving a summary of the book, so its good. If you really want the deep understanding behind the miscreation of the universe, do not hesitate to grab his book. Try to act out the miscreation story as though it is happening now - that helps to grasp it. It took me multiple reads to get it and perhaps a year of digesting to really deeply realize it, so don't be discouraged if it feels tricky on the first read, we are trying to uncover the reason for this whole shabang. Im on this forum for a few more days or so, so ask away if you run into any real roadblocks.

Constructively criticizing a teacher who has strong influence over the lives of tens of thousands of people shouldn't be avoided, especially if you see an error that is very harmful to his students.

Yeh I get it, that's my main issue, basically. If it was self-created, purposely, then I propose that the life we are living now would be magnitudes better. If I had the ability to design and I was perfectly loving, there is no way I would subject myself to this level of abuse. And if we consider that it was going on for thousands of lifetimes, with forgetting inbetween them - why? Instead, it would be like this: I have no idea why, but everything is going so smoothly, there is no pain, only pleasure, love, beauty in my life. How come? Am I actually God and did this to myself? But this life we are living now is hardly like that, is it? Are you not open to the possibility that the self-deception actually occured and caused psychological pain at the metaphysical level, before the creation of the universe?

There isn't, but you can trick yourself into believing that there is.

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