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Leo mentioned to examine things he says before validating anything, he's already warned us of ego dangers of taking belief systems, as he already does some of the videos for entertainment purposes. As for the guy commenting on leo's vid, I'd prefer not to judge but this guy's paradigm is far too low conscious to take seriously, even if he's just messing around which isn't wrong. Yet it's quite unwise IMO but it is what it is even if his projections are far off what leo's trying to communicate to the point.

Rumi quotes ~ “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” “What hurts you blesses you.” “The wound is the place where the Light enters you” “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you become polished?” “Know that one day your pain will become your cure.” “What you seek is seeking you” “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” “Love is the bridge between YOU and everything.”

I'm stuck in between forgiveness and letting go of all thought which one should i proceed with? should i stop identifying myself with my past? or should i identify myself and forgive? I'm aware that thoughts cause all suffering but how to go best around it or it could go either way? Edit: if i can forgive anything, it feels like i'm telling myself like i can do whatever i want and always forgive later and not care, having such justification feels weird when i overthink it, i'm used to the rule that it always matters what we do in life

happy birthday bro

“The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.” ― Adyashanti “My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.” ― Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing “Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?” ― Adyashanti, “The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.” ― Adyashanti, “Because of an innocent misunderstanding you think that you are a human being in the relative world seeking the experience of oneness, but actually you are the One expressing itself as the experience of being a human being.” ― Adyashanti “When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer.” ― Adyashanti, “Whatever you think you are, that’s not it.” ― Adyashanti All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.” ― Adyashanti,

@John Flores infinity means everything is true, even if it's not in the current parallel world that we're participating in, which keeps splitting to many more at the same time IMO

kind of contradicting with the Concentration vs Meditation - How To Develop Concentration video

happy birthday leo, thank you for everything you've helped us all overcome lots of difficulties.

Each side had some good insights, but the Neoplatonists were right about more things than the Pyrrhonists. It helps that Plotinus was a careful reader of Sextus Empiricus and responded to his objections to dogmatism. In case you want some further reading: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-ancient/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pyrrho/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sextus-empiricus/ Could you give us your insights on this leo?

Interesting ~ 'pineal gland starts to produce the neuro-hormone 5-MeO-DMT on day 6-8' if it's in a dark room retreat http://humansarefree.com/2015/07/dark-room-meditation-for-accessing.html I wonder what kind of diet would suit this, Or how do we go around being exposed to light cycles if we want to pee or eat? Do we fast it out? quote 'There are white retreats, yellow retreats, and black retreats. White retreats are normal. Yellow retreats are normal except that the meditation sessions are done in darkness. Black retreats are done in total darkness 24/7. That's hard to pull off with bathroom visits, meals and such. Maybe a yellow retreat is in order to start where you just cover your windows and turn out your lights during the meditation sessions. That's a lot easier to arrange. Plus you don't have to worry about trying to find your toothbrush in total blackness!'

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. J. G. Ballard To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. Marianne Williamson Not creating delusions is enlightenment. Bodhidharma Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs

This guy truly has authentic love for life and people around him

Mysticism : learning the hidden truths of religion while ultimately being one with god through the universe or having various mystic like experiences? While enlightenment is more of something that can't be communicated but realized as a perceiver? Am i completely off? let's discuss

@Emerald Wilkins There are still problems with unconditional love Like one could be a doormat to the world. As one may not be able to live in peace without being used. It's still unbearable to love all of reality as there is a lot of stupidity, negative traits, cruelty etc. We still need to imply some rational steps instead of all that mental masturbation of being it is. As being it is can still be all of the above you mentioned with no problems what's so ever in either way so why even bother looping on it? It just loops in circles with whatever paradigm we use. Since life is technically a cherry pick of the presence nothing can ever be wrong as it's pure existence.

@Leo Gura does self-inquiry count as a meditation? I've googled it seems like it is but i'm just making sure how so? The mind is still creating noise during that state so how on earth is it a meditation?

What would be the best focus for your body? Some say it's best to meditate while empty so your body focuses on meditating and awareness only instead of halving it's energy to digest. While others say it's best to meditate with 30-50% of our stomachs full. What are the forum's thoughts and experiences while being mindful of your hunger levels, do your sessions differ because of it? It's quite subtle and hard to tell as i've only thought of it recently when i've been trying wif hof method months ago is when i noticed the breathing exercises were being blocked by anything i ate. It did not feel powerful as it was on an empty stomach. I never really eat 30-50% full as i eat once a day for auto phagy benefits. (Hence i'm pretty full most of the time)

@BeginnerActualizer hunger can go away over time, i feel no hunger everytime i wake up from bed the next day if i have a protein based food before sleep

@Alii practicality still exists, non-duality zen devil or so still exists even if it were an illusion, leo said so himself of various paths and the ignorance that occurs even after enlightenment it isn't the final answer as their's still a lot of filters whether culture or judgments or conditions involved. The direct experience is still an on going brain function. Anything you don't see is no longer in the direct experience but the practical world goes on, can we really control results all over the world from our consciousness of having our eyes closed? It seems too absurd. Why would a being create something that feels so imbalanced and unfair. I find my existential nature too random. Is this the really best we could come up with? Infinity..This isn't even everything but it still feels annoying being stuck in a low processing body that can't answer importance of various levels.

The ability to grasp our reality happens due to our perception of our brain since we are equipped with the current physical body our so called 'cpu/ram/hard drive'? I may be trying to look at more in a rational sort of way, I just want someone to clearly knock out my confusion of how i grasp this. How do i get a more accurate understanding of this. I've tried consciousness work i feel like it's more of a brain muscle exercise which adds more perception but isn't the ultimate answer to life. I can't seem to connect with reality as a hole. My mind keeps questioning, If i am everything and if everything is me and nothing at the same time. Why does reality have certain levels of depth when it comes to practical life? Why are there different levels of importance and a hierarchy of stuff. Even though we are conditioned by auto mated rules. (yet this is always our own self deception and our own projection) I just find it hard to stay positive about anything anymore, is it just me having an unhealthy ego? Yes i understand we can cherry pick at life. But in the end i am no greater nor less than an ant as we are all from the same source.. The pinael gland or more so our brain muscle is mainly responsible for getting a higher so-called perception but this perception is just again an illusion generated by our current body / cells, doesn't feel like the final answer from upgrading the physical system that we're in. As i meditate and try to notice where does my thought arise from and how? I just keep coming up with the same answer of these cells that randomly create or pull out strings off the brain, and i/we as people usually just grab them and flow without be conscious of the auto pilot subconscious mind playing us. As we think it is us that is in control, but awareness is more like sand as it slips away. Life has no purpose, it just is. I feel like I or we are a terrible god at times, hey we could've designed something better you know. Then again i'm conditioned and these thoughts are from a mere human psyche which is still the same divine pieces that were created by the unity so why does it feel wrong and right at the same time. I'm quite in loss for words clinging to reason, When it's quite simple of life's reason is to live and experience it nothing more or less. Everyone has different perception and levels of their awakening chakras you could (these namings just resemble how clearly one can see reality or what phase are their glands are at, yet we can't really identify with how much bloodflow or brain muscle/white/grey matter is there) So it is ultimately determined from the hardware with how much of this new illusion is seen? Seems like we're getting no where at this rate of being uncertain again. Is truth really beyond the hardware of the body can we really experience it instead of being played by the same hardware to be seen as truth of a new illusion? Pineal gland/Cortex/hippocampus/amygdalla grows overtime when we meditate as it builds more gray matter in our brain hence the perspective shift overtime due to longterm commitment to grow it to the point where our way of seeing reality changes due to upgraded sensors/upgraded awareness/conciousness. Which is why the dogma still exists under any culture or zen/yoga/hindism/buddhism type of meditation as the ignorance is still present with the upgraded brain thinking it sees clearly when it doesn't. It just forms a newer self-deception that's what the mind is good at. It just copy pastes what is around it, mirrors the world not realizing it's on an auto pilot of limited free will.

Maybe chem engineering reaches a stage where it can re-arrange any atom/molecules into anything, That would probably mean using every waste we have turning it into 3d printed food or materials. I can see an age where we actually torrent blueprints to get print out even oldern type of tech/material or even food. A cam that actually records a new type of file format that has complete specs edges in and out scan of any object/place that it may replicate into a 3d printer with perfection. Photographing a 2120 pizza from joey's or some McDonald's burger and actually printing it at 2200 as if it were the same restaurant of your homeland back then, Quite something. Dna computing / Quantum computing / Wetware computing being perfected allowing us to enjoy dark/black magic like tech that is beyond us right now. Feeds the ego with lots of entertainment as it's lazy. Perhaps even writing complete scripts of games/movies/series/anime with various themes within seconds of using certain algorithms etc. a 100 years? Maybe 200 or even 800 who knows. These are all possible. Back in the day Mark Twain wrote about the internet before it was made. He wrote that you could talk to a box and someone on the other side of earth could talk back in that box and it's possible for them both to hear each other at the same time. Everyone said it was impossible, Guess what this box is right now? your typical phone or computer. Same thing with this box recording moments and later playing it. Like your typical camera. All this sounds crazy to us right now but it's mathematically all possible. However he did predict it wrong, He said that only people with high art and scientists will have access to these and we all know that's not true as a high percent of the internet is porn viewed by people being far away from being scientists or even being artistic. Man and cyborg can be mixed, why not? We are already seeing signs of it happening today a guy losing an arm or leg having a mech hand or leg detecting his nerve signals. Is already happening as wetware computing exists even though it's in it's early phases. Genetic Engineering will also play an interesting role in the future for sure, Modifying human capabilities to be more intelligent or have higher capacities to process things around them, having maybe even higher awareness than the current humans would definitely be something, I can see us being split to 3 types of societies, pure breed (natural), half breed half engineered and pure engineered humans. It's quite unfair to compete in a society where you don't really have advantages as your perfected or enhanced human that may not need rest or eat often for fuel and are not affected by eating unhealthy toxins, can compute much faster or have an insanely high learning curve or understanding as it may be ahead of 1.5% DNA or even 5 or 10%, a 2/3/4 digit ahead of evolution done so early would be interesting to see as that is what a greater society than our current state probably have. Advanced robotic tech is interesting too, Scraping out old layouts and re-engineering a whole country to optimal spaces for high well being functioning society sounds nice.