Arthogaan

Bookmarked Very nicely worded. Any timeline for the course that will cover that in more detail?

Caffeine.

Beautifully worded.

You really need to find what you like. Running is often a chore for me. But I could walk and walk for hours. So I do that everyday.

Your description of overwhelming energy and stimulation sounds totally similliar to my experiences. It is accompanied by racing heartbeat.

@Moksha @Yimpa @r0ckyreed @Intraplanetary just expressed his appreciation for good explanation from inlyightened and you guys felt the need to dismiss and deconstruct that. You don't have to force the action/absolute into small acts of kindness.

What an advanced level of sarcasm.

Wouldnt also something like Complete control over yourself be inspiring to you? I think the desire to rule over others is just a compensation for the lack of control over yourself. Some part of you feels powerless. Gaining power in itself is nothing wrong. Focus on becoming a powerful being. You can channell that energy into becoming a leader, it does not have to manifest in toxic ways.

It is just my personal opinion but I just wanted to defend @Breakingthewall. I consider myself pretty consciouss and from my POV @Breakingthewall writes much more from direct experience than other two users you mentioned and for sure more respectfully and less arrogant than you. So do not take your personal biases as bulletproof indication of how developed someone is.

The thing is, if someone knows he can be blissful then he can. But if someone does not know that he can be blisfull without any shadow work then he can't. Shadow work is showing slowly the people that actually they can. And when they realize that, then they can.

I believe he reconciles this at the 3/4 of the infinity of gods video, by saying something along the lines of: but of course ultimatelly all of that is hapenning in my imagination so Solipsism is true.

Why?

I agree that real-world running is harder/better but for different reasons. You have to change direction slightly at all times, and due to surface imperfections you hit at a different angle, so it can be better for knees, because the movement is less repeatable. But to stay in place on a treadmill you have to push forward just the same. It is just a POV thing. From the perspective of an ant standing on a treadmil you would push yourself the same way as normal running. That's how physics work. Also, anecdotally after training regurarly on a treadmill during winter I was significantly better at running outdoor when it started to warm up. The same with bike. So really it is all not that improtant. Just exercise as often as you can in whatever way is easiest to force yourself into.

In the spiritual process you eliminate all thoughts and misconceptions, all misguided filters of the mind. And you are left with something. Some people call that No Self because there is no ego, no egoic filters, no agenda, no bias, everything is perfect. Some people call that Self, because all you ever know is "I AM" so if there is something left it means All of That is SELF. I believe both camps point to the same state but they focus on different aspects of that realization. No self guys see word "self" as indicating some part of the ego is left. But SELF campus means "self" in a brand new way. Pure self.

It is lovely that you keep an open mind qnd change frequently. But it is just so weird that at whatever place you are currently at you sound arrogantly confident about that place. A little bit of humbleness will help both you and make a forum a better place. Try to balance the philosophic/sage/Leo side of yourself with a little bit more sweetness and humbleness. You are young, you have plenty of time to become confident arogant sage. You don't have to play that game now.

@Someone here dude. Again my message to you just like couple of months ago is: Please learn to be more humble. You change your basic epistemology here once every couple of months and you claim to be 90% awakened. And you acuse one of the most experienced users such as @Breakingthewall of not being even 1%. You are not fooling anyone.

At night you totally can have a dream in which some characters know something that you don't. Your Mind is generating that to live through a certain story. Here it is the same.

That is all true, but the point is that Peterson defends the fundamental idea that there can be sources of "higher" wisdom channelled from God. Which of course is unacceptable by materialistic reductionist SamHarristic wordlview.

I actually agree with Peterson here. You can not reduce inspiration to monkeys being creative.

I would recommend you to try different teachers. Each of them has their POV and different vibe. You can resonate with some more. They may be more loving and cheerful than Leo, less head-space more heart-space to balance things out.

Meditate 2-3 hours a day for a year.

They both interpretations are two sides of the same coin. You can say that consciousness is dead because it is not part of the body but you could also say that consciousness is pure aliveness. So you have to integrate both sides to be left with truth.

That is only one possible interpretation of Truth. I can rewrite it as follows to make it more accurate: "Everything you see is ALIVE, a part of the eternal structure of the universe. You are what is giving this vibrant life. When you enter a scene it become animated. (... ) - the rest I agree. "Now embraced by a world of eternal ALIVENESS/VIBRANCY/LIFE/LIGHT you are animating life forms, believing they are independent of your perception of them"

Well that's fine, but you asked a question so I wanted to share that in my lexicon they are not synonymous and I gave my perspective why not

Thats true, but emptiness is nature of a dream and quantum field is within a dream just like you wrote. So the question is kinda nonsensical. It is like asking in context of a game whether unreal engine is the same as electricity? Well in a way yes because within a game everything is electricity but electricity is absolute and modelling engine is an functional illusion.