Razard86

I like you, one of the few I see who gets it on the forums. Yes that is what awakening is. Realizing that what you are just is, before you construct knowledge, and concepts, and judging etc. Now if only we could get people to understand that after that realization the next step is to bring that into your daily life. What does that mean? Full Acceptance of what is. No demonization of the ego. No resistance of your expressions. If you can remove all judgment then you can express without holding on. This allows you to be at peace at all times. When there is anger, there will still be peace, when there is sadness there will still be peace, when there is joy, still peace. This is liberation, which is your natural state and you cannot conceptualize your way there. You cannot psychedelic your way there. Only full acceptance of your creation, your avatar, and your current life position and all that entails. When you can release the judgment of your avatar all judgment of others disappears. This doesn't mean you become a push over, or that you never get angry, this just means that you hold onto nothing. When this is truly understood, then you have truly been reborn and have returned to how you were when your life began, not full of judgment of your self.

Here is an example of dishonesty in real time. I don't know much about the drama involving Football as I don't watch it. But this is a wide receiver named Antonio Brown. Antonio Brown is a former NFL Player was considered at one point the best player at his position. Because of issues involving his personality he became black balled in the NFL. Tom Brady reached out and helped him get back in the league and then out of nowhere Antonio Brown started poking fun at him. Tom Brady is currently going through a divorce and Antonio Brown makes a parody T-Shirt about raising money for Father Less Kids with a picture of him hugging Tom Brady's wife when they won the Super Bowl I believe. Notice how he looks down, and away and refuses to take responsibility for his actions. Notice how he denies how his actions could potentially cause pain? He says the statement "That's his personal life I have nothing to do with that." But notice you can easily debunk it by saying "You do when you poke fun about his divorce publicly." As you move through life, if you do not take accountability for your actions and avert your eyes you will not be able to see reality clearly. This is why honesty is so rare, because being honest is painful. Anyone that hurts you must deny that they hurt you, otherwise they have to take on the hurt they placed on you. Why did they hurt you? Because they were hurting and tired of hurting so they needed a relief and you were the perfect target. Antonio Brown gets criticized a lot, while Tom Brady's media attention is the exact opposite. He mostly gets positive media attention, and favoritism and that probably rubbed Brown the wrong way. I won't try to go any deeper because there are a lot of details that are unknown and might come out in some book some day. The moral of this one is own up to your mistakes, and don't avoid the pain that comes from admitting that. If you do, you will become a dishonest person. The more you avoid pain, the more you spread it.

The more dishonest you are, the more deluded you will be in reality. Honesty is more important than logic, as your ability to be honest will allow you to see through the delusions your mind creates out of fear. The most constant barrier most Men have is their aversion to admitting their fears. As a result they will never be able to see through their biases and have thus CAPPED their ability to grow in knowledge. The most important knowledge is self-knowledge. Why? Because without self-knowledge you cannot discover the layers and layers of delusions you have placed in your reality and it limits your capacity to make informed decisions in life. Don't fall for the trap of using dishonesty to get your way....I don't mean to sound mean here but the truth is....dishonesty actually MAKES YOU STUPID. And I am not fond of using the word stupid but it this situation it applies. Why? Because you will lie to yourself on why you do the things you do, project that onto "others" because we see "others" how we see ourselves and as a result you have just decreased your intelligence by magnitudes you cannot even measure. For example...I have met people who lie...they assume EVERYONE LIES. As a result, they are justified lying and will continue to lie unless they come across someone who is honest. Because they are dishonest and full of fear, they will deny when caught in lies, and construct more lies about how they are without fault and blame and the recipient of the lie is the one at fault. Lying....makes you blind, it distorts your world view. Notice....your countries are run by liars....why? Because the ones voting them into office are also liars.....so majority of the populations of countries complain everyday about things like discrimination, lack of parity, corruption, violence, etc......not realizing that all these problems are only a result of lying. You get rid of lying, which is the creation of distinction for personal gain, then...you can start walking the path towards a world that is a better reflection of reality. Humans are the only animals that fight with reality, because they have the ability to lie.

^You are utterly and completely lost. You said Leo teaches agnosticism? You might have the most close-minded point of view I have ever come across. I don't think I have ever come across a more biased, prejudicial point of view on this entire forum than you. I mean the intellectual dishonesty it takes to entertain this point of view is unfathomable. I can't even add anymore words to what I just said.

Thank you for such a precious honor. That might be one of the greatest compliments I have ever received!! You can't grasp it. Yeah you made my point, concepts can only point to it. Exactly!!!

I love all your responses!!! I'm glad I got your minds thinking about this!! Its going to keep getting more and more trippy as what a "real man" and "real woman" is going to continue to collapse. Its so funny!!! People are going to be SO CONFUSED!!! This is exciting for me because I see what infinity is up to. Its going to give the whole world a "bad trip" by making everything completely nonsensical when it comes to the concept of male/female, masculine/feminine. I can't wait!!!

^ Everything you just said is a story. All complete story. There is no true non-duality that itself is a story. Even God is a story. I don't dispute that I like to use the story, but it is still a story. The absolute truth that can be pointed to is that your life is a dream within your mind. This dream is a story. Since you are constructing stories, whatever you do within the dream eventually comes to an end. All dreams will eventually end. So talking about a right way or wrong way is meaningless. In the face of your dream ending you won't be asking whether what you did was right or wrong, you will ask yourself did take advantage of the dream that you gave yourself. I notice a lot of you are getting caught on these concepts of higher and lower, and progress. There is no higher or lower or progress. As long as you keep believing in these concepts you will never see what is. If all there is, is the present moment and it is eternal and limitless then what is progressing? Many of you are like the audience in the cinema still taking the story seriously. The story is to be enjoyed, if you are still thinking there is a right or wrong way you are missing the point and still trapped in illusion. Right and wrong creates authority, hierarchy, stops original thinking, and keeps you chasing your tail for all eternity. How can you discover what doesn't exist? Right and wrong does not exist!!! It never has and it never will!! There isn't a right or wrong way to go, that is a relative concept and the absolute truth is relative is an illusion. So then you might ask...so how do I discover what I should be doing? Contemplate on the absolute. Contemplate on the true nature of love. If you are not contemplating on love, then you will never discover the truth. Love does not see right or wrong, it does not see boundaries, it does not even know what a concept is. Love is ever present, expressing without filter, with no agenda, all it desires is to connect with itself in infinite number of ways. This is truth. Anything else is going back to eating the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Tell me...how has that worked out for you?

Your existence is mind. Everything is mind. Your brain and your body is held within mind. You have only known mind and you will only know mind. Even being...is mind. Its just the absence of concepts.

Life is deep in that it is an infinite exploration. What causes many to get stuck, or trapped if you will is their desire to obtain, to cling and to resist that brings suffering. If you could see yourself as an explorer, here to explore and share, and to be open and resistance free like a movie screen then you have alleviated your mental suffering. I must have this, I must be like this, I wish I could do this....all these shall bring suffering. When you were a kid, you were free. You didn't know better or worse. You just ran to ever new experiences and also enjoyed the thing you were presently doing. You were TAUGHT better or worse, which is the creation of value. As a result you are doomed to always compare and see where you lack. This lack will create constant suffering. Until you can see the beauty in imperfection, the beauty in not getting what you want, the beauty in all of life. Cultivate more and more gushing forth of negative emotions!!! Allow them expression!!! The point of life is experience!!! That is why it is meaningless!! Anything you add onto that experience is your own creation! But the point...is to be here, that's it!! Whatever you do with that, is your own business. If someone criticizes you so be it. If your own thoughts criticize you so be it. If you fail every test so be it. If you feel pain so be it. This is not fatalism, what keeps you trapped is you believe yourself unworthy, and that suffering of thoughts and feelings is inherent, THAT is fatalism. Freedom from that is the dropping of all KNOWING, you know nothing but the labels you construct and the meaning you ascribe. All you know is how to survive, you don't know being!!! Being is peaceful, being is present, being is the highest form of knowledge!! An apple doesn't know itself from experiencing itself, an apple knows its self from being itself!! You don't know yourself from experiencing yourself, you know yourself through being!!! Knowledge can only exist from being. Well if everything is you, then just BE!!! Through being, everything is known. The path to the highest knowledge is through being. Recognize your being....is everything. In the silence of the mind, everything is perceived with clarity. But the talking of the mind only what is obvious can be seen. Experience life, be present, poke and prod, but be ever present and all shall be revealed.

There are no sides, there is no equation, there is only mind. Direct Experience is absolute, if you argue against this, then you argue against your own perception. You have never experienced lack of direct experience in your life. You are either there, or not there. You only have consciousness, and lack of consciousness which are actually the same. There is nothing else. This is absolute. Anything else is dishonesty, lies, delusions, etc. Anyone who argues this has not done any real contemplation on the topic and is just full of fear of the truth.

Keep going man!!! The truth is you are perfect and complete right now. You are seeing how masculine and the feminine dance with each other. Healthy Masculinity is simple its being able to express both the Masculine and Feminine without identifying with either. True Healthy Expression of the Masculine and Feminine will be achieved.....when the rules and identity of what is Feminine and Masculine collapses. So basically when humans stop all this conceptualization of how things should be, and allow their intuition to guide them, THEN they will able to discover what a healthy expression is. Nobody has to teach you how to laugh, how to cry, how to blink, what made humanity believe we have to teach how to be masculine and feminine? LOL.

LOL. In all its unbridled capacity.

You do not speak from experience. Have you experienced death? Have you experienced separation from the body? All suffering is created by you. This is an absolute. If you are God, then everything you complain about is your own doing. All Spiritual Traps that exist are only traps because you trap yourself. As long as you resist yourself, as long as you chase or cling to anything you will suffer. You want to be grounded, you don't want to be in a freefall and that is what suffering is. You suffer because you cling. Cling to nothing, enter a free fall, desire only yourself. All is you, so what are you desiring? There is no goal, no achievement, no destination, no resolution. All is complete and total right now. So how can you suffer? You suffer because you create it, and you do not relinquish it. Its so obvious and you know its true, but notice how you defend your suffering? You don't honestly seek to resolve it, you cling to it as if it were pleasure!!! This reveals that you love suffering and identify with it. Matthew 10:39 "Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it." Until you are willing to let go of your clinging to life, and all the stories associated with it, then you will suffer. What you think all the people in Spirituality who run around free and happy are pretending to be happy? Why not honestly find out for yourself? Or you can wallow in your self-inflicted suffering. You have that right. The identification with story, with meaning, with purpose, = Suffering. You are not the story, you are that which creates story, and tells yourself a story. As long as you believe your stories, you are imprisoned by them. Until you let go of clinging to stories, then you will suffer whatever story you construct. You hang around on these forums because you know its true but instead of admitting your fears and slowly working with them you judge yourself. So you judge all of your own creation and place yourself in hell, then deny that you have placed yourself in there. Everyday I am at peace, and joy. I love how ordinary and extraordinary it all is. This peace and joy is your natural state, you don't have to do anything to receive it, just realize it. But to realize it....all stories must come to an end. Your ego/story must die.

There are infinite dimensions

I would say the bold part is a limitation but I agree with the general consensus of the comment. Why? The bold part is default. Your default state of being, of just being in the presence of another without resistance will radiate love. You don't have to do anything, just being with your presence does all the work. But sometimes...a witty or edgy comment is needed, to break the ice for the person who may not be able to even feel the presence of your love because they are caught in a torrent of self-judgment thoughts. Its why Gurus are usually so good at cracking jokes, to get you out of your head lol.

What I realize is that people keep looking for this self-aware in the present moment thing. I have realized that becomes a trap as well. You are only trapped in ego when you believe the stories that are coming up about the situation. The truth= WHAT IS. Not your interpretation of what it is. So we live from ego when we operate from believing our interpretation of what is. That puts us in character and deeply seated in the storyline of that interpretation. All interpretation is story, which is ego, which is meaning. I'm not demonizing the ego, the ego serves a function like your car, your house, the tools you use in your everyday life. Just do not fall asleep into thinking that tool is you. If you do not believe your stories, then you are always able to move without resistance. All of us are only imprisoned by the stories we believe/hold onto. So all you are doing in the work is slowly cutting the threads that bind you to your stories. I believe Ram Dass is a GREAT example of someone whose life was lived from that place. Now you don't have to beat yourself up in comparing yourself to him. From the place you are at in life, do the best you can. None of my threads are judgment, they are just illumination of what all the different teachers were trying to communicate from my perspective.

That's a limitation you put on yourself. Also...everyone on this forum socialize with others even Leo. So explain is it making you stupid? Here is an obvious statement. If we are all one mind....who is getting stupid? It's all a game. Wake up. Don't fall for this nonsense even Leo knows it's nonsense.

As you get older, different events will happen that will change the direction and conditions of your life. Many people think life is just some random events, but in actuality it isn't. Life is a thematic expression of love. If you are walking the path of self-love/truth, and are checking everyday where you need some tinkering to better align yourself then eventually you will become aware of the theme for that particular part of your life. That theme will be something you are struggling to express, for me that theme is compassion. As you gain more in awareness of yourself and others, you will become more impatient. Your ability to see through your own self-deception and others will actually start to irritate you as you constantly keep catching yourself and others. This frustration will bleed out into your relationships, and you will start trying to teach and correct others. Whatever issues you have within you will always play it out in others, this is what life will constantly showcase. All judgment of others is judgment of self, any criticism of an other is always with you. This is the absolute truth, you cannot run from this, you cannot hide from this, because there is only you. Even a notion of a Higher Self, is baloney, there is no higher self. What is the ego? Judgment. Get rid of judgment then no ego. So if the ego is an illusion, so is criticism/judgment. I have recently come into my awareness that the current theme in my life is compassion. I am to cultivate compassion, by getting rid of judgment of others. A desire to teach born out of lack of judgment, will be expressed as a desire to connect, not a desire to correct. My biggest issue is my desire to correct, which comes out of my desire for truth. When a person has a need to be right, they become deathly afraid to make a mistake, and they become overly sensitive and fearful of criticism of any kind. This is a difficult identity to drop because a need to be right is a strong motivator to find the truth. But as a result it can make you combative, preachy, and have you come across as judgmental. Understand... that this only happens because of fear of being wrong, and then being called out for it can be resisted as well out of fear of being wrong. I have realized that every identity has its purpose, and the hilariousness of all this is each identity can only see this...if they can drop their fears/judgment. I have recently practiced this with people I thought were crazy....and immediately I understood them. Compassion is the practice of meeting people (points of view) where they are at and through that process you understand them. Why? Because they are you. Socializing with others doesn't make you stupid, the belief of socializing with others making you stupid, makes you stupid! The purpose of solitude is to wake up to your delusions, the purpose of interacting with others is to find out your hidden delusions. You will discover how well you are integrated through your relationships with others if there is no resistance in the interaction.

These videos are pointers...but think of them as stimulants to help you on your path.

Its all how you look at it. The whole point of what I share is you can adopt whatever belief you want. You don't have to adopt beliefs that judge you, limit you, and make you miserable. If you want to adopt that belief you just mentioned, make sure it is one that fills you up with joy. That is the only thing I am saying. You want to construct a philosophy of life that helps you build the life you want, whatever that type of life is.

Depression Is Suppression. Get Familiar with that phrase, Depression Is Suppression. When you try to suppress your desires, and try to force/control yourself to delay gratification to obtain or achieve something you are doing harm to yourself. Now I am not saying that there are not instances where this is necessary, because sometimes you have to take that dark trek in the mud. As the saying goes....shit happens. And when shit happens...you wade through it till it ends. But you are not supposed to seek out shit, (stuff you hate) and dwell in it. That's how you get depressed. For example...let's say you want to buy a new car, and you get a job and you absolutely hate this job!! But you suffer through it to get the car. Unless the situation in that job changes....or you get that car pretty soon, you are going to be harming yourself forcing yourself to work a job you hate. The longer you put yourself through this, the more and more you will suffer till eventually your feelings will burst from you trying to suppress them. There will be anger, and if you feel you are trapped.....depression. Why? Because you ignored your feelings/desires. Sorry buddy, but you cannot ignore your feelings long term, they WILL SEEK EXPRESSION!! This is why people snap, because they have been taught to "act right" and be "responsible." I still can't get over how silly this "responsibility" thing is.....responsibility CREATES DEPRESSION!! https://www.brgeneral.org/news-blog/2021/july/men-and-suicide-why-are-white-men-most-at-risk-/ The only thing you are responsible for is existing. That's it!!! Outside of that, anything you add on should be based on your desires. But you see....humans fear their desires....because they consider themselves evil....so this message...is considered dangerous!! Tell people to give into their desires....and they will become like animals!! As if....you aren't already an animal!!!! Are you kidding me? What do you think depression is? ITS DESIRE!!! You desire to be free to express yourself but because you don't feel free to express yourself and feel trapped, you EXPRESS SORROW AT feeling trapped and not being able to express yourself!! Do you see how delusional this is? Does any of this make any sense to you at all? You suppress desire....then express sorrow for not being able to express desire!!! And you wonder why teenagers are so got damn rebellious!! They take one look at you and say....I don't want to become like my parents....look at how depressed they are!!! At the end of the day....reality, and everything in it...operates on desire. Stop trying to control yourself, every time you do ....you are leading yourself towards depression. Check in with your feelings, find your passions in life, then pursuit it. Understand that all your haters/critics are just jealous because you found passion and they lack it. Why? Because they ignore their feelings....and you don't!!! At the level you are able to connect to your feelings and discover what they are saying....is the level you will be in alignment with what you should be doing. Feeling=Motivation, Knowledge= Discernment. Combine the two equals Self Knowledge/Love. This will guide you towards what you actually want to do. Or...you could just ignore it alll...and BE DEPRESSED!!! Why give a damn about your feelings right?

Feelings are one half of truth. They are like a Tidal Wave, a Tornado, a Hurricane! They can consume you, drown you, dissolve you!! Feelings obscure your vision, they reduce your ability to observe what is. Feelings can give tunnel vision, they can make you only see what confirms the feeling being represented. People who are feelings based climb an uphill battle trying to obtain truth. Because they are consumed by feeling, any information that brings up negative feelings will be rejected regardless of its veracity. The Feelings person cannot help this, since they are Feelings based asking them to take in negative emotion is akin to asking them to jump into a raging river voluntarily. It feels like suicide and who wants to kill themselves? People who naturally suppress their emotion cannot understand. Unconsciously they get it, but consciously they don't. For them they would rather stay in the logical world away from a deep connection to emotion, because they too fear the ferocious spontaneous expression of the world of emotion. For feeling people to advance to the truth, you will have to drop your identity to your feelings. Until then, you will never see things clearly and will forever be locked in your point of view.

Then live this life. You can only truly live life....by dropping your fear. Drop your fear, that is the whole point of the work. Face your fears. Spirituality can be summed up in one phrase. To face all fears wherever they lie, until none remain.

But that's the point...you don't actually die...YOU WAKE UP!!! No different than waking up in the morning!!! That's it!! When you wake up after your avatar's story is over...is there a problem? Here are a couple of things you will realize if you really test life. 1. Life gives you your desires. Only your ego out of fear can sabotage you from getting it. 2. All suffering is constructed, suffering doesn't exist, the reason for suffering is to get you to wake up to the fact that you are creating it. 3. Problems don't exist, a problem has never existed EVER!!! And all interpretations you make about life...is never what it actually is, its only a perspective. When you fly in a plane and look down at people...they look like toys, and any of their problems, you can't even seen them. But once you zoom in to any of them...those problems seem real. If you pay attention to life...you go back and forth between something working out, then messing up, then working out, then messing up. This will go on forever!! When a "problem" arises, you try to fix it, then it goes your way if you succeed, then something else messes up, and you fix that too, then something else messes up and you fix that too. From one perspective those problems are teaching you skills, the art of taking action, and fixing things. They also teach you how to see or predict when things can go wrong. The flip side is they can also fill you with fear and anxiety because the better you can predict problems, also means all you see are problems!! At a certain point you will realize that the intellect's job is to see problems and solutions. THAT IS ALL IT DOES!!! Its a tool to adjust or create something different. But this tool can also be used against YOU and see YOU as problem to be fixed!! You can turn your own intelligence against yourself and THAT is what causes suffering.

Okay then what is the problem? Are you still attached to your ego? You can only have a problem if you don't like the truth. The key is seeing past the illusions, and learning to love everything. Many people still see life as real....if you still see it as real, and not a game or a dream....then of course you will have a problem. But once you awaken to the fact that its just a game...then what is the problem? If you started lucid dreaming right now it wouldn't depress you, if you were watching a movie or playing a game it wouldn't depress you. Life can only depress you if still believe in separation. What is there to gain...if everything is you? This is what people aren't getting. You are free because you realize...you are freaking everything!!! Do what you want, because when your dream ends..it ends!!! If you had a video game you were playing and I came and wiped the game data...everything you did ended. Now what do you think your life is? Its just memories a bunch of memories. Once you realize that...what else is there? Almost every experience I have in life...is recognized as one. It only feels different if I drop in ego. Your escape from any suffering is realizing you are creating it. Your belief that you are some how missing out, you are creating it. How can you been missing out...when everything is you? Here is a fun fact...when your dream ends...all lives will be integrated!!! So you are living all lives right now!! You are a billionaire right now. You will experience every life that has ever been lived!!! No life is more important, or special from the absolute. Just pick a path and live it, and ignore all criticism lol because all criticism is pure delusion.