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@bazera exactly! Be open to the possibility that awakening is radically different from what you are imagining it could be like.

Well I’d argue it’s possible. And more likely actually. Many other well-known and respected spiritual teachers also say this, for example Lahiri Mahasaya.

What do you plan to do when you will be hypothetically free with your time and resources? Is there anything that really matters that you cannot do already now? Since you are talking about “infinite value”, the only thing that could be described that way is God. Understanding and loving God does not require any money at all. In fact, the more money you make, the more corrupt you have to be, and hence further from God.

Hi Leo, would you mind sharing a bit what you’re going through? Hope I’m not being too intrusive, but I think it might help others here who are going through similar issues (seeing what you tried, what worked, what didn’t) or perhaps you could get some insights from people who already solved some chronic health issues (like myself). I suspect that for whatever reason people on this forum/doing this work might have a higher incidence of chronic health issues.

Lol you guys are funny chasing money and material stuff. Why do you want to make millions of dollars? What then? You think you will be more happy than you are now?

Is it a good idea? I recently started practicing kriya yoga, but I’m struggling a bit with individuating and feeling the chakras during the spinal breathing. Although I’m already starting to get some results with it. Would psychedelics (like a small dose of LSD) be useful in “speeding up” the process? In the past I always noticed that psychedelics made me more aware of the inner energies flowing and the chakras.

@Athif M nice work man! May I ask which molecule was that or at least which category?

Realistically, what’s the probability of finding a girl like that + that there is some attraction going on? I’d argue very very low. Like winning a lottery ticket. Being in an intimate relationship with a nice and sexy girl, even if the values are not aligned, is better than being alone. Adds more “richness” to life. Lahiri Mahasaya (the famous yogi who revived kriya yoga) actually advocated marrying a regular girl and living a normal family life. You can do all your self-help work in parallel to your family life, and it might even help you by burning karma.

Why exactly does she get upset? What triggers her?

The guy is 79 years old and still able to give 1.5h speeches and stay sharp (see below video). Is it just good genetics? I find it a bit hard to believe. With all the money and access to the best doctors and researchers, he must be on some crazy nootropic stack. I would imagine it includes things like modafinil, bromantane, NAD+ injections, etc.

I don’t know that. Maybe we had different levels. But “Infinite Love” is the closest description of that experience with words I can think of. Maybe some alternatives would be Eternal Bliss, Samadhi, Pure Oneness.

It was an analogy, more in the sense like: imagine you had a friend who never tasted chocolate. And he would deny it every time you offered it to him. You would try to describe how sweet the taste of cacao is, but the description would never be IT. Your friend would argue “but what if I taste it and it tastes like shit”. “How can I know that my experience will be the same as yours”

Yes this is true, I have experienced it and was 100% sure of it. It was the most real thing I ever experienced. All the material pleasures in life are nothing compared to it. The problem is that here we are talking with people who never had a direct experience of Infinite Love. It’s like trying to explain what chocolate tastes like to someone who never tasted it.

Yup. The present moment contains Love.

But God is infinite! God is null! Infinity is null! I think we’re just playing with words 😁

@Hojo you still don’t understand Love 🥲 Love with a capital L, Infinite Love, God’s Love. The only way is to have a direct experience. Haven’t you ever done psychedelics or mdma?

Have you ever noticed how love is a feeling that is not really located/confined in a specific time and space? It “transcends” it in a certain sense. And I hope you agree that the biggest obstacle to love is selfishness - the ego. When you die, you lose all your senses that connect you to this material universe, so from you “ego perspective” you imagine that there will be a big, empty void. But what if there is actually something beyond the senses, and beyond the null that the ego imagines? Yes, that’s Infinity!

How are you saying “it’s null” different? Isn’t that also just a belief? How can you be so sure? I recommend you work really hard to get an actual experience of Love. Maybe do some more meditation, volunteering, helping the poor, etc. One day your heart might just break wide open, and with the feeling of Infinite Love that you’ll feel, you will know that it’s the most real thing there is, even more real than “death”

You forgot an important detail. That “eternal void of nothing” is made of pure Love. And it’s conscious and infinitely intelligent. And it’s you and it’s always been you - you just forgot, you got caught up in the illusion. The moment you die, you wake up to all this, to Infinity.

There is also the concept of Self-Love, where Self is the whole universe, including infinity, and including your limited human form. From this perspective, what you mean by “loving unconditionally” is actually too little love for your limited human form, and too much love for the forms outside it. The key in life is to find the proper balance. God loves everything equally.

If any of you are vegan/vegetarian (or have tried it in the past), did you notice any impact on your spiritual work? On one hand, I understand the idea that we should aim to reduce the suffering of all beings (including animals). But I’m also dealing with some health issues, and I have found I feel my best when I eat some (quality and organic) red meat - probably thanks to the bioavailable iron and various vitamins. Is this a selfish thing that is hindering my spiritual work?

@Ramasta9 very interesting, thanks for sharing! Only doubt though, for example I live in Germany and right now it’s peak winter. There is no chance that any fruit would grow here naturally, even the farmers markets only have fake/GMO fruit imported from who knows where. In such a scenario, wouldn’t it make more sense to focus on a diet based on quality meat and fish and fermented vegetables? Then switch to fruit during summer?

According to Leo and many spiritual teachers, you can either identify as your ego (this physical body) or as Absolute Infinity / God. However, some other spiritual teachers also talk about bodies in between. Is there some truth to this? Has anyone on this forum experienced accessing these bodies?

It could be that all the steps for a cure are already inputted in the training data of an LLM, it just needs enough compute power to make the necessary connections.

Third places are social environments outside of home (first place) and work (second place) where people gather informally for community, connection, and companionship. Some examples can be jiu-jitsu, bouldering, sauna, or even going to drink a beer to the pub. Do you have a third place? What do you think could be some third places that are aligned with self-actualization and spirituality?