AtmanIsBrahman

Wow... the last reel got kind of crazy. I understand where Leo's coming from, but if getting more people into his work is the goal, this kind of stuff is not going to help.

I agree. The disillusionment Leo is talking about is only one side of the coin. The other side is being happier, more connected to reality, etc. There's definitely a balance. I don't think avoiding spiritual work to pursue success is a good idea, but at the same time you do have to keep one eye on material life.

The concept of reality having a beginning is wrong. He believes in a dualistic religious concept of God. Plus his arguments are not good. The fact that you need to start somewhere to draw a line doesn't prove anything about reality. Neither does time need a beginning to exist; it could just go back forever. I would not believe that this guy actually has a 276 iq. Iq numbers get more questionable the higher above "gifted" you go. Not to mention that iq isn't intelligence.

I think we can agree on this forum that lower and higher consciousness exists. It's not something you can really define, but it's felt. I think this is part of it, but there's something deeper. It's almost like you're closer to death, as strange as that sounds. There must be a reason why people have spiritual experiences when they're about to die -- known as NDEs. It seems like the less egoic consciousness is there, the more the true nature of consciousness exposes itself. This painting depicts what I mean

Hedonism is a sort of grasping for love. What every being wants is love. If you mean maximizing shallow pleasures, hedonism is very limited. But maximizing love—now you’re getting somewhere.

Would you consider making age exceptions for people who are serious?

I finally explained consciousness and solipsism to myself. Here it is, explained clearly (sort of). ____________________________________ Consciousness can think, consciousness can know itself, consciousness is right here. Either consciousness is some strange apparition that emerges like "poof!" and it's there, or it is what reality is. This is the reason why you don't want to accept that consciousness is what reality is: How to make sense of the fact that you can give birth to a baby, and at t1 it doesn't have a mind but at t2 it does have a mind? Maybe the answer is that consciousness isn't something that you have. So the baby doesn't "have" consciousness, it is consciousness. And the consciousness is dreamed up by the one sovereign mind that is existence-- which is actually you, not the egoic you but the real you. Even you don't "have" consciousness, but you are consciousness. The baby doesn't have a conscious experience, you don't have a conscious experience, only YOU have a conscious experience. Consciousness didn't emerge when you were born; it always existed for eternity, and your birth was a kind of mutation of that consciousness into a particular state. This makes sense because you can't imagine a time when you were not conscious. That's because Consciousness is everything. And also, death doesn't exist. Because you were never born and will never die.

Not using contractions in formal writing

Standard poetry forms. Humans didn't start writing in free verse until the 20th century... that's insane levels of conformity.

So true! Especially when religious people do it. They actually think they’re conferring a blessing on you lol A normie says bless you the first time you sneeze. A religious person will keep saying bless you no matter how many times you sneeze.

Holding doors for people

I don’t see why reality has to be Absolute Good and not Absolute Neutral or Absolute Nothing. I know Leo also says this too, but why use the word good—which seems to indicate a good/bad dichotomy?

Graduation speeches

You can’t die because you aren’t alive. This thing that you think you are dies when the body dies, but you weren’t really that thing. Being alive (as a finite thing) is an illusion that can’t last forever. You’ll eventually be returned to Truth, which is what you ultimately are.

Seems like you’re making some good progress. You can reach a stage where you aren’t really affected by external events, only your internal state—which is largely under your control. Sadhguru talks about this a lot. It’s also in this video:

@Leo Gura contemplating this https://www.actualized.org/insights/you-invented-history I had the insight that time is change. And every change is imaginary because reality is absolute. So when you move your hand, the memory of moving that hand is imaginary, except for the fact that it’s occurring in your direct experience, because change never actually happens. Am I getting it?

I wrote this poem. I thought this forum might be one of the few places that actually gets it. Tell me what you think! ___________________________ Pure Unabashed Love Please know that the imperfections of this one are not the imperfections of this one They are only temporary scars to be removed and healed away. Please know, honey, that when. I beat you it is because. / I love you..\ Please know that I carried out all the beatings, hangings, rapes, lynchings, drawing and quarterings, of all times. For it is not mine to say it is not mine. / / < / / < / / Bow down before the father For he is the judge Who knows of himself no wrong But can only sit with tears Of love and recognition And I am the father, as you are too / / > / / > / They ask how I take identity with the beloved But do you know your own hand? In the same way I know him. I made you the main character So you could know the joys of progress. I meted out every drop of suffering onto your soul So your being could complete itself. . / / | | . / / | | Blood of my blood, love of my love You are a work of pure imagination Stupendous beauty of self-creation A madness looking within to dissolve in pure bliss

“Love is the realization that there is no difference between anything” - Leo Gura

What if you want to become a great mystic philosopher? Wouldn’t you want to start young then? With most things in life, the younger you start, the better your chances of excelling at the thing. Why should consciousness work be any different?

Being upset by the news

Having a dream job (unless it’s based on a life purpose)

Saying that Gen Alpha is stupid, doomed, or somehow worse than previous generations

Has anyone else finished the book yet?

Moving on to Part 2, the book is getting a lot better though.

I’ve been reading this book too. So far I have to say I’m not that impressed. There are many points where Ralston sounds like a materialist scientist, who doesn’t know science very well. The words “physical” and “objective” are used a lot. For example: “All perception, thought, and experience is indirect. This is just saying the perceptive-experience you have of something is not the same as the thing-itself.” “sight is a function of light bouncing off an object and you interpreting the light. This means the “data” gathered by the light stimulating nerves in the eye are funneled through interpretation and association to make sense of it.” But this could also be an issue of how language is used…