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I ticked all except the ones involving time segments (Longer on free days, Daily and Occasionally), because those imply separation between the practice and life.

If there were no positives to self deception / suffering, God would never choose to do it in the first place. Assuming that God can choose

That's interesting. I really want my body-mind to be a robot doing everything on its own and for me to be relieved of my duty as a controller. I've had experiences like this during my weed trips. One time in the light of this discovery that the body-mind was better working without my (Who?) leash, I (Who?) wrote: You don't understand the bodymind. The bodymind understands itself. Leave all judgement of the bodymind.

@Outer @Mighty Mouse I don't get it, why is everyone putting the word program at the end of every sentence program?

I really like what you're saying. It does what it says: reminds me to smile at/with/as the now☺

I want to share with you these very clear, no-bullshit reiki self-healing videos. I feel they're the real deal! Neat little practice video (3 minutes per chakra with a bell in between): Bonus Video (Allow the reiki to flow through you with the help of the feeling of gratitude): Happy meditating!

You have to love Enlightenment more than any of your attachments

I've had a dream from long ago where I was in the back yard behind my block building and there was a huge screen there. It was something interesting i dont remember. Later, i was jumping on bubbles or something. My memory has faded, but i know it was a crazy deep dream.

Yes yes yes yes. I can agree from experience, my dream with Leo was through the roof (literally). I broke all limits and became the entire dream like never before. I want to hint at Leo to start doing what he was doing in my dream: to have open times when everyone can talk to him on Skype without any preparation. In my dream we were talking about ordinary things before the crazy stuff happened. He showed me his musical talents, his girlfriend, just showd me around his ordinary life basically. It was rather peaceful and non egoic.

Sleep means forgetting, waking up means remembering. Both are important.

Next episode preview. "Heeey, this is Leo and in this episode we're going to discuss the illusory nature of reputation points. That's right! Reputation points do not exist in reality. Radical openmindedness required. Once you get a conscious traction of this fact and not just think about it intellectually, your entire life will flip upside down. What I'm saying here is beyond radical and your life will never be the same. Some of you might ask," But Leoooo, if rep points aren't real, then what is real?". I'm here to tell you about the truth of Emptiness points. They are automatically given after every forum post. Emptiness points permiate everything, you have an infinite amount of them and you give infinite amount of them without even knowing. Emptiness points are your true nature!"

Close your eyes and dont refer to the past. There are only sensations present. "The body" and "room" are only a thought you have. There you go, experiment with exploring that.

I've heard Osho speak negatively of TM. He said something along the lines of "Transcendental Meditation (TM) is not meditation. Meditation is simply being alone with yourself. When you can't be alone, you need to speak a mantra, now it is you and the mantra, you are not alone and you feel better, because you cant stand being alone."

My new life as a - - - begins. I think it's morse code for "Enlightened Master Baboon"

You sir are great at explaining things. You should write a book... Oh wait! +1

I have another "pro rep points" argument. From time to time I would get an odd rep point from a really old post, which would let me remember about it and revisit it in the present to refresh my memory on the matter.

I also agree that thumbs up should stay at least for individual posts. Reasons were stated by others before me. I would have thumbed them up if I could and you would know my standpoint without me having to write this paragraph. -- There is another option which I havent seen discussed, which would be a win win for everyone. There could be an option to enable you seeing the reps on individual posts or remove them based on your personal preferences. It was said about Adblock, which is a solution as well, but it is an external solution. On this forum we look for the solutions within ? Also, it would be fun if this is implemented to have an indicator whether someone has the reps activated and who deactivated them.

One time I dreamt we were getting promotions at work and the next day we were given cash bonuses. I was like I also dreamt the end of the world... Like 50 times maybe... Failed every time to materialize

I don't really remember ( I have poor memory due to weed use / abuse) but I do remember the unforgettable - when one time I was falling asleep in my first day of holiday in Bulgaria... The whole day I was meditating on a chair, nobody knew I was there and I could be free from all distractions. I approached self inquiry in a different way and as I was falling asleep using this technique, I knew I could expect something weird to happen, so I had set myself the idea to 'accept whatever happens' cause it's not me anyway - that type of commitment, until I find myself. So as I was laying there falling asleep doing this self inquiry, at some point it I could feel the sheets starting to move, as if they became alive. But I didn't open my eyes just yet. I wasn't asleep! I was just laying there, doing the self inquiry with closed eyes and this happens... I decided to not open my eyes (react) because I knew this could be from the inquiry. I was ready to accept and surrender to whatever happens.... Suddenly tho, I experienced somehow what could only be described as my soul leaving the body through the crown, and I don't know how but I think I was seeing it from a third person view... This was a bit too much for me and I opened my eyes to discover everything normal again. Hasn't happened since.

Spoiler alert!!!

I've definitely experienced emotional pain, fear, sexual feelings, orgasms and definitely death (like a lot) in dreams. For the rest I don't have memories of having them, but could be. I don't consider these real pain. For me real pain is the pain of a dog biting you. The closest I've come to pain in dreams is in my childhood - when I had the most horrible recurring nightmare - which might sound silly to you, but definitely isn't! I was being tickled by demonic creatures. Like sadistically, and I couldn't escape. It was like those dreams you have where the monster is chasing you, but you can't open your eyes or move/move really slowly - I've also had those - the fear is what gets you there, but no actual physical pain is felt. For me the tickling was worse than pain tho! LOL I can still remember their millions of tiny fingers arghhhh go awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay (im extremely ticklish)

I feel that a nice way to think about time is parallel realities. So here's how it could be viewed: All exists now - the baby version of you, the version of you 1 second ago, the version of you 1 second ahead and the dying version of you for example exist now. Not only that but ALL possible versions of baby you, all possible versions of you 1 second ago, all possible version of you 1 second ahead and all possible versions of the dying you exist now - somewhere. You are simply jumping from one frame to another as to create the illusion that you are born, growing and finally dying. Is that close to what you meant? OOh, or you mean that the present moment can be like in infinite amount of ways and that's why it's creating these constant changes... Sounds very legit! Like it. You might be on to something

There are similarities, but you forget few factors. In dream there's no suffering - you don't feel tiredness for example. Also, the consequences will not be long-term - in a dream you won't have to rot in prison for example. You'll just fly away for example or start a new dream. Also I've never felt hungry in a dream - haven't needed to eat to survive - or do anything to survive. Yeah I'm with you that the awareness in the dream is the same as the awareness in waking. Well of course it is, it's you that is experiencing both, but the content is radically different - with few similar themes. In my last dream, I was walking along with one of my ex-girlfriends - from really long time ago and some guy stole one of her bags. I rushed after him and jumped in the car he jumped in and started punching him and the driver too. As they were unconscious I stopped the car by pulling the foot of the driver from the gas and then the car crashed into another car. Don't know if I survived. The point of this story is, I wouldn't do such actions in waking life. I wasn't aware that I was dreaming in my dream, but I simply was this NO-thing without fear AT ALL. I was just there, doing whatever I needed to do, with no suffering involved - no sensations of pain or fear even. Waking life includes pain and that pain generates an associated (and much needed in certain cases) fear of pain. (not to mention that in reality those 2 guys would've probably whooped my ass ) They were kind of non-responsive in the dream, just taking the beating.

But you proved that the dreams are not like this reality/waking dream. IF you shoot people here they will die... There will be consequences. In a dream - no. One of the reasons I prefer dreams! But have to deal with this reality as well. fuckin eyyy Nice dream tho! Sounds a lot similar to my dream oneness experience that dream Leo induced for dream me. Or at least the same type of intensity.

Leo also takes the position that there is no free will. No free will either means that the future is predetermined or it means that the future is probabilistic (which means that luck/random factor is also included) For example it may be pre-determined that you will go play roulette or not, but not predetermined whether you will win or lose (because it uses RNG - although it's never a true randomness. But perhaps the universe has a true randomness factor as well.)