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“Whatever you say, it is That. Why? There is only One. Nothing else is there anywhere. God is there in everybody. He is everywhere. He is in everything. There is One and the same God in everyone. It is impossible that you can call Him, and He won't come to you, that He will not show Himself to you. If you wish to see Him and call Him genuinely, He will come. He is everywhere… Wherever you call Him, He will meet you. If you just sit by a tree and call Him, that very tree will become God and talk to you because He is everywhere and in all forms. At whatever place and time you call God, He will come and see you. There is no doubt about it.” ~ Anandamayi Ma

Change your habits And you will change your life What are you doing everyday? What have you done today? There you have it There are great episodes of Leo to help you but maybe you have watched them all, but anyway gonna share them with you

Having a family and 5 kids surely will have an impact in the Awakening journey. Maybe a partner no kids and some pets is a sweet spot.

@r0ckyreed all good?

@Leo Gura What is the biggest downside for you? For me personally is time and energy that could go to other areas. As well as a concern that it may affect my Awakening unfolding, in some way. The former, I see it as an investment. The latter is something we have worked through for years and she is very supportive of my path now. Providing healthy and loving anchoring in difficult awakenings, like solipsism. She also had her first awakenings some years ago and is curious to work on that, when the right time comes for her. However, I've had a bee in my bonnet about Awakening and romantic relationships and whether if that is compatible in the long run. I would like to hear your thoughts on it. I have done the work and we've talk about this dozens of times because she knows what I would pick. So we both wanna make it work in this regard and we are just doing it the best we can. What advice would you give me? Regarding this topic, you are almost 40, do you see the rest of your life living by yourself? I'm also very solitary so I empathise with you, I have always enjoyed being by myself. What is the role of being alone in the process of Awakening? How does that impact your human self? I'm talking in the long run, as by this time you have surely seen the bigger picture of the unfoldment in both sides. What advice would you give to your past self regarding this matter? Hope you can see these are honest questions of me trying to figure out how I want the next chapters of my life to be

Birds of a feather flock together

@Breakingthewall Thanks for clarifying, I'll reflect about it

I also like your examples. I think they are a strong feature of your techings

The reason why Solipsism is tripping you out is because Solipsism assumes you have recognised who you are in the first place. When that realization is in place, Solipsism follows naturally, like rain from clouds

Solipsism is to see God in everyone, to recognise here everyone as God itself This is solipsism. To see God through each and everyone

@Breakingthewall I mean we are splitting hairs here It seems to me you are talking about Pure Consciousness, am I right? For consciousness there is no distinction between form or formlessness unless it imagines so. Formlessness is another form in a sense The essence is the same but how much chocolate is there in your ice cream? What percentage of cacao? In a sense it's all cacao but you can get more cacao, this doesn't make sense till it happens. The unfathomable alive can be ever more unfathomable and ever more alive, so much so, that it seems different though it is not. Even though it is all chocolate, hot chocolate is different than ice cream chocolate or a chocolate bar. It is not the same to taste chocolate, than to smell chocolate than to see chocolate. Once you fully become and self abide as formlessness, which you are transitioning into, once that is complete and you are perfectly stablished in self-abidance, what then? Well the formlessness may express back into the form and in each way it does, it reavels itself in a unique way. Once formlessness expresses into all forms, what then? In all infinity and possibilities and modes of being... then you return back to formlessness unity again, and now it tastes different, and so on you will do this in cicles... Each time more chocolate, each time more tasty but surely the same unfathomable alive one

Returning to the topic of Solipsism. The moment you realize solipsism you will kiss your table, walls and floor, out of pure recognition and love. Imagine not seeing your beloved wife for years and then reuniting again, like that but even more close to your heart, loving all the disowned parts of yourself

@Breakingthewall This is true but it's a facet. There is more. My answer to your post is Yes, but more, much more.

Bro there is certainly a cessation that ejaculates everything out of existence. A full colapse of reality into pure nothingness. This has been talked about for centuries. I haven't experienced it myself but there are too many reports of this. It's the whole aim of buddhism. Although I have to say that the one time I did experience the void it was very similar to your experience. In my case everything was pure void except for little spec of dust, very very far away, which was my body. I still could think and feel, however I honestly was more surprised about my body being a tiny dot in the void, than the void itself. It was a strange thing, I'm used to go arround with this body you know or at least you breakthrough, but having an infinitely small body in a boundless limitless void; that was a bit too much to add into my Salvia trip. Then the trip ends and I settle down. I remember crying while feeding my cat minutes after finishing the trip. So beautiful to see colours and shapes, being able to use my body and to have another sentient being to whom I could feed. This possibility just minutes ago, was gone forever. Then I cried again while I was eating, what a bliss it was to be a human in a rock eating some macaroni! That was enlightening, pure zen appretiation ahahahha This is the closest I have ever been to shit myself in a trip I had to even check...

I find a mature answer by your part and I respect it. I mostly agree but there is a subtle unrecognition on the transformative and life changing aspects of psychedelics, that should be more honoured in my opinion. Most spiritual gurus are commiting a crime by demonizing psychedelics honestly, this you will discover by yourself if you do them. It is so useful, so direct and so efficient that denying that possibility to an earnest seeker is sad. How much time do you need to realize God by yoga or meditation? How much time do you need to realize God by psychedelics? In 5min blast of 5meo you can get it. Should you do both? ABSOLUTELY Should you do shadow work and personal development? ABSOLUTELY But everything in its proper place, the king is still the king even if there are princes and nobility

Happy to hear that. Leo will give you greetings on the other side

@r0ckyreed Oh, now we are talking You still carry out incompletions about your past relationships. You need to heal that and see with clarity, why it didn'w work? What was I searching or wanting out of being with her? What have I learnt? Is that her fault? Or your fault? You maybe where too engrossed with a particular form of God, your girlfriend, which you didn't recognise as God or Consciousness, nor you used it consciously as a tool, as fuel to reach higher states of consciousness and God Realization. Is it really? Tell that to yourself when she has her legs open for you and she is imploring you to put your dick inside her and do what you want with her, that she will be your little slave and wants you to come inside her. Is sex overrated? Yes, but you want it ! That's the raw truth Sex is not equal to ejaculation. Sex is a wide topic. People have sex for so many different reasons. Is then a way to make sex that increases your consciousness and understanding of Reality? Yes, there is a way. There are whole millenary schools on that! The biggest are taoist sex and tantric sex both from hinduism and buddhism. My recommendation? Taoist sex. From what source? Mantak Chia, taoist secrets of cultivating male sexual energy. An in depth book on all theory and practice that you need. The only book that answered my questions about sex, spirituality both intelectually and practically. With proper understanding, sex CAN be performed in a way that makes you more conscious and fuels your whole spiritual process. Sex for awakening is for example still performed by thousands of buddhist monks nowadays in elaborate trantic rituals of sex making. This is common place, you just didn't know it. Sex for awakening is also done by westerners like David Deida, which has great books on the topic but doesn't go fully into the actual methodology although it is clear that he is very well versed in it. What do you say about this?

Initial Blessing and then starts with satsang at 42:10 explaining Chariya Pada, Self-Love in Hinduism. Explains that health, wealth, and Awakening are but a habit, a Conscious Lifestyle manifested out of Self-Love. Leo talked about Self-Love in his video Self-Love - The Highest Teaching In The Universe

@Hibahere Wake up, Clean up, Grow up Remember to clean, do shadow work, simultaneously with Spiral Dynamics. If you are for the long run, just pure awakening will not do it for you, not realistically at least. If you do then personal development it will really help. However, shadow work is really unavoidable because neither Awakening nor development really hits the core issues of shadow work. Make sure to check this three points to have a healthy and fulfilling life. Wake up, Clean up, Grow up This is indeed a cycle, you will go through many times. Awakening, cleaning, growing and Awakening deeper, cleaning deeper, growing taller...

@meta_male It work greats for me. You have a lot of options to customise the search really

Deep study of Fear, Survival and Death is also crucial

It's really a pitty all what goes on with psychedelics. I mean, I was just open minded, made my 2 year research before trying psychedelics and then just kept going and trying carefully. There is no magic behind any of this, do the work, is simple really. But you have to the do the work, something which I am surprised most people, even here don't do. I know that because I haven't been doing this for many years, Leo and others have me decades of advantage, but if you do the work you will get there but you need to do it, like really do it, as if your life was in the end of the rope. I just love doing it. This is the reason why I exist, to Awaken. I start doubting how many people is really interested in that because I consider myself an amateur but still don't see my results in other people. Maybe I'm conscious enought to see how unconscious I am and how much more conscious I can become and be. The point of this, if anyone has read it, is to do the work, you will get there I assure you, but you have to do it. Otherwise, it's like winning the lottery and not cashing it in the bank. You have all of Leo's video, the booklist and his life course. You have this forum, I mean what are you doing? I don't idolatrize Leo either, but everything I fucking discover he already talked about and mapped. It's really amazing honestly, I'm mindblown by it really. I ask myself many times how can it be? I think maybe he did the work properly, deep enough, long enough, fully enough... It inspires me to do the same in my own way. You wake up for yourself in the end, no one can wake up for you

@Ishanga Have you tried psychedelics? How much? How many? For how long? You are just guessing, you really have no clue if you are honest with yourself. Epistemological humility and direct experience are one of the few principles of this work. WIthout them you will not arrive far. Open-mindedness is another principle.

And the acceptance of it a Narcissist? Or maybe a Conscious Sovereign, The King of kings, The Ultimate Authority. Why so? Because you say so