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    4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    There many ways to skin a cat. Just pick one and go with it. You can always change it a year later.

    Lovely said. Leo! It. I can feel The prana moving through me, it's not that I'm just breathing very slowly. It activates the parasympathetic nervous system and puts you through meditative States. Also this helps with my sparring and boxing, because I'm totally oxygenated and energized, I'm just filled with vitality and vigor

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    @Leo Gura

    Thank you. I will continue doing kriya pranayamas everyday. The practice itself is strong and really sets the tone throughout the day. Do you breathe in and out slowly while mentally Chanting while focusing on a specific spot, like a chakra point? Kriya seems to be a kind of still dance of consciousness, balancing many different poses at once, breath holds, mudras, body locks and inner chanting while being completely still. Tell me what specifically you are doing when you are doing kriya yoga. What is your recipe? 

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    @Leo Gura  It is said the point of kriya is to abide in the after effect of kriya, The Parvastha State. The kriyas are a means to an end and many people focus on doing kriyas for many years and get nowhere because they missed the point, which is Union with Self or Absolute Infinity.

    Can you clarify the importance between doing kriya for a period of time consistently and the importance of abiding in that after effect from kriya. 

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    14 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    Exactly the irony haha.  Yes I've brought it up to her and we accept that we are different in certain regards but one thing we find common ground on is that God exists.  She is very into Jesus so I dont push the subject.  Its so ingrained- religion that is - for some people that breaking them away from it is impossible. 

    Yeah I would have liked to find someone like @Natasha Tori Maru for a girlfriend but it wasnt in the cards.  

    Like I said its not too big a deal. Ill go to church with her if she wants.  I grew up with a Jewish background but im open to all things. 

    Are you both standing on the same ground or are you guys standing on your own grounds that God exists? Have you asked her why she believes in Jesus, have you had conversations with her that question her beliefs? 

    Kudos to @Natasha Tori Maru you're a gem out there in the world. You have a beautiful mind. you're quite hottie and feisty lol we went at each other's throats.

    That's interesting. How do you feel going to church with her really? Do you feel like you're turning away from yourself inside to subtly please her or maintain the image of the relationship? Would it matter to her if you said no? Not because you're not open but because you're sovereign, however I'm not telling you what you want to do. Whether you want to or not, I'm asking if whatever choice you make, is it true and integral to you? I'm not saying that you can't participate in other people's paradigms and there's no fun in that or it's not a big deal, but it's good to be honest with yourself about what your intrinsic boundaries are.

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    @Inliytened1

    Hahaha. The irony right?

    Have you brought it up to her at all? And if so what was her response or reaction? Would you like to be with someone who shares more grounded open-mindedness, willing to look outside the edges of their worldview? To have really deep conversations that threatened the self and constructed psyche? Have you showed her Leo's channel? It can feel isolating when two people don't resonate internally but I suppose you can still share great experiences with another even if they don't suspect the world and it's double 

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    12 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    Someone can tell you the gate is invisible all day but until your mind realizes it it will be a gate.   And so the whole problem here is that if you say to a very green spiritual person that they are already enlightened guess what?  They will think they're enlightened.   Its not rocket science.  But you can see the danger here.

    Exactly 💯 

    The ego in its lower stage of intelligence and development can twist Truth and turn enlightenment into a philosophy or a concept. A belief system of enlightenment and spirituality. 

    It is true that enlightenment isn't somewhere else, that it is you, but it doesn't mean you know thyself. The pointers are only that, but people fall for the finger instead of trying to grasp what it's pointing to. People believe the finger of enlightenment haha. It is a danger to tell people that they are already enlightened, it's a tightrope that people need to balance with skilled epistemic feet and meditative and contemplative rigor. 

    It's easy to delude oneself in this regard.

    I personally think there's a danger on both sides. Telling someone that it's already the case and also saying that you need to work your ass off to realize that it's the case. Because there's traps on both sides and I think there is benefits in bringing both of them together in a smart way so you don't just waste your time mechanically meditating on some future goal or blindly believing what some other person is telling you

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    19 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    Frame it how you wish but of course everything is already the case. It doesn't mean you know it beforehand. 

    I'm not arguing against you, I'm dovetailing with you. I'm not arguing the case that one is enlightened before one is, relativistically speaking, I'm simply saying "after"you pass through that gate you then see that there isn't one. 

    "Do not try and bend the spoon, simply realize that there is no spoon". Look at the spoon (self) long enough for many many hours until you realize that there's nothing there

    And yes I know that there are non-dualist that will happily tell you that there isn't anything to work towards and you don't have to do a damn thing, that's not what I'm saying.

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    56 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    No its not that at all. This is more of what the neo-advaitans want to feed you.  

    It is the realization of no self period. It is not realizing what is already the case because you do not know the self is an illusion until you do.   So this is foolishness  

    NO-Self is already the case no matter your realization of it or not, however I'm not suggesting you dont work hard to awaken, I'm simply speaking from the Absolute, but as a relativistic finite self you work your ass off to realize what you actually are which isn't something to gain paradoxically. As an illusory self you need to bust through that illusion, pierce through that veil, but the illusion of self is already the case. 

    You realize what is already the case. It's like looking for your glasses while they're already on your face, right now you do not know that you are wearing them until you recognize that you haven't found anything but simply remembered that it's already here. Obviously you seek and search for that which isn't elsewhere but simply hidden in plain sight but also it's not a thing to find. 

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    Enlightenment can easily turn into a concept and a sneaky way to identify ourselves as. What is solipsism really? Solipsism isn't your current ego stripped away from the world and only you remain, like Will Smith in "I am legend" metaphorically speaking.

    Solipsism is an Awakening to yourself as what there always has been. Not your survival and life, You are literally imagining all of existence and reality right now and you don't even know it!! Ego isn't running the show, God is. You are not separate from it but you are mistaken that you are, so you can experience that you are not the whole of Existence , that you are separate with a mortal life.

    We have this limited subjective first person experience among many others, and we cling, attach and identify with this bubble of experience and try to maintain that for the purposes of our persistence and survival, then we expand this identity outwardly and include more and more into our selves and expand our identity, then finally we realize after including all of reality into our selves and not just identifying with our personal ego and reality, but that it goes full circle that all of it is myself. There is only One. But One isn't a relative polarity from manyness, it's the unification of alllll dualities, all selves, all others!

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    @Nemra

    After ever taking LSD, within my visual field, from above there are potential lines of hallucinations that fountain out and glide down my visual field into a myriad of potential hallucinations. 

    Have you ever tripped really hard on LSD in one spot and your entire visual field becomes non-physical? That's exactly what I have even after taking LSD although it's not as intense and boundary dissolving, my reality is intact but you know when they say once you trip the psyche could never go back.

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    Study what narscissm is and what BPD is. Study mental illness in relationships, not saying he is narcissistic but if you notice patterns, lack of accountability, blame shifting, denial, lack of self reflection and low empathy, try to recenter yourself and own your version of reality regardless if he sees it differently, you seem like someone who seeks feedback and is open to learning and self reflective, continue that but don't sacrifice your perception for his. Agree to disagree, stand your ground. I cannot tell you what to do with your relationship, but your need for the relationship can be used by him as power and leverage for his narrative. 

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    I want to create a stockpile of examples of all the ways social media has been exploited, polluted and warped by cultural and societal programming . Examples of how people get duped and exploited by social media influencers and content creators and bullshit in general 

    Whatever examples you think are stark and also tie into how humans are conformist sheep that don't think for themselves, Share them.

    One example is YouTube comments specifically. Notice what gets the most clicks, replies, the YouTube comments section is a giant cesspool of epistemic garbage that everyone swims in. There are literally eco worlds and eco chambers you can go through just on comments there.

    Share specific examples, ones that put out bullshit on display to observe and deconstruct. What are all the ways we abuse and corrupt social media in the ways we use it?