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That is my only critic of Leo. Many full time yogis have higher baseline consciousness than him. After many reflection, I guess he's not interested in that. He prefers personal development and Peak Awakenings of God-Realization. Years ago he explained that after some crazy awakenings on 5meo he lost all motivation to meditate or trying to build up consciousness, that this pursuit was futile and that you would never reach the highest peaks by that methodology. Maybe he would benefit from doing Kriya yoga again to work on that. In the end he is one of the top spiritual teachers in the world. Having a well rounded baseline consciousness is an important dimension to the work that in my opinion he cannot let oxidate.

@Breakingthewall You can have chocolate bar, a chocolate ice cream or chocolate powder. But you can also have ever deeper concentrations of chocolate You can ever be more substance, you can ever be more Godly, more infinite. I remember when this awakening happened to me, realising that there is not limit to how Godly I can become, it was extraordinary. I don't know why you negate that possibility and say no that's chocolate and full stop, the rest is form. Well anyway, finish the process you are involved in and keep going, see what happens, maybe you encounter such things or maybe not. All you have is your own awakenings so keep honouring that. At least you are doing the real work, which many people here do not dare to do.

Sri Anandamayi when asked to proof that God is all there exists which is all of Reality Parabrahman and your very own self Paramatma

@Breakingthewall I disagree It is really INFINITE Maybe this post of Leo helps getting the message across: https://www.actualized.org/insights/wolframs-theory-of-everything Particularly the concept of The Ruliad (Infinity) Hyper Ruliad / Meta Infinity

This is why meditation is also important No-Mind answers that dilemma

I personally wouldn't My mum always taught me that there are three types of companies she would never work for: Guns, Drugs and Gambling In the end, you wanna be making a positive impact in the world. Let other people have that job. Work in something that uplifts humanity, you will feel more fulfilled. This is just my opinion

You can realize the absolute in ever deeper ways. Thinking of the absolute as something dead and static, one realization of what things are, is very rudimentary. Absolute=Infinity On the one hand, Infinity is infinity and that's it But Infinity is truly infinite. How are you gonna be done lol? I think people don't get this

He never implied such things. When asked to clarify this exact question said that lifelong learning still holds but he is not gonna read more spirituality.

Solipsism just means you are the only thing that exists Infinity of Gods is recursive Solipsism or Solipsism² Infinity subdivides in infinite parts and each part is equally infinite. A part of infinity is equally infinite that the whole of infinity, that's the paradox of infinity. This is not Cantor's notion of infinity this is real infinity. How many seeds are in a seed? One seed can generate infinite seeds and yet each seed is equally whole, no seed is more seed than any other and all seeds contain an infinity of seeds. God is the seed, infinity is the perfect seed.

I'm still in shock that Trump is running again for presidency. I'm still in the negation phase

@LSD-Rumi I would rather prefer to make social media healthier and phone use positive and enriching for people. As that is now in ht best interest of corporations focussed on dopamine and addiction, maybe some prohibitions should be imposed. The diagnosis is severe but the treatment to heal a whole generation is the real challenge

The article is behind a pay wall: But this is what the auther shared through his Linkedin

Different in form Equal in substance

I'm happy that devotion works for you Having basic meditation skills is also important. You can't say you are in this path without being able to abide in no mind for 5min. Not saying you should become a pro or anything but at least have the 101 meditation experience of presence without thoughts.

You yourself have explained it. You have the raw sensation But you don't make any drama out of it Funny enough I fall sick yesterday and I've been feeling pretty shitty honestly ahahhaha I can make the distinction between the raw sensation and the drama and resistence I make to feeling shitty I feel shitty = Pain I don't wanna feel shitty = Suffering I'm having both right now. You see everything different when you are sick in fact

You should get some meditation skills, like basic presence no mind

I assure there is more to Awakening than that. Realizing you are God is not a trivial matter, it will be the best moment of your life That's what brought you so far so honor that. However, it may be also limiting you in some ways? Imagine you wanna tavel to Australia. First you have to believe there is a place called Australia. You talk to people that have been there and because of sheer faith that Australia existist you pay hundreds of dollars to take a plane and spend a week in Australia. It's the same with some Awakenings. They can sell you dream land and delude you, but maybe there is an actual Australia that I'm pointing you to. Try to wake up to God. Watch Leo's videos on God and work towards having the God-Realization awakening.

@Breakingthewall I agree with you in the methodology, it's very useful for me also, but we are getting different Awakenings from the same metholodogy hence the dissonance

Yes, I'm also interested on that

I am not interested in the topic of end of pain, just anecdotally. However, I'm a bit more interested into the suffering question, as buddhist talk so much about it. You seem to confuse these two things a lot, hence the misunderstanding. What is the difference between pain and suffering for you? For me it's pretty clear. Pain is the raw sensation. Suffering is a construction, disonance and resistance with the what is. You can get tortured and experience great pain. That is clear. But afterwards, one can be happy or suffer from that the rest of their life. In that difference is my inquiry. Yes, I did the first time I answered to your post. Some people are born without inner self talk. Are they the best meditators then? No The point is not to have a specificity and then generalise it but seeing the specificity I pointed of Sri Anandamayi Ma in the full context of her life. Not trying to prove God Realization or anything by the mere withstanding of pain blisfully. That makes no sense.

Anandamayee Ma Ceases to Feed Herself One evening, in 1924, Anandamayee Ma said, “I am not going to eat food with my own hand any longer.” Fearing she would die, from that day on she was always fed by her disciples. They had to put food into her mouth. This went on until she left the body in 1982.

@emil1234 That's an interesting video, thanks

@Leo Gura You sure about that? I am certainly open to both possibilities. I like this little story of Sri Anandamayi. I'm well aware that it is not relatable to anyone. She was born with rare genetics and an insane level of God-Realization. I like to study her case to see what is really possible under the sun, you may surely have seen the section I have here of her. It's like an alien of Awakening. Are all of these just stories? I'm open to both possibilities