Rashad

Hi.Can anybody recommend me good books in history?Cause I always hear about history and then try to get some books but all I get are books that are very heavy and are difficult for me to understand and indulge, they contain very advanced words.So eventually I stop reading them. Hence first/second hand recommendations would really be appreciated and disclosing the source of these books will be as well. thanks Rashad

Today in the initial phases of my meditation session I experienced something new, after 6 weeks of meditation now I started to hear strange sounds. Like the ones they put in movies when somebody who fainted slowly wakes up. Do you think this is an omen for anything? What does it signify?

True! It did feel deep.

"We see in things, what we are searching for, search for goodness and you will realize it"

How do you change your feelings about your character that cause you to not love your self?because I noticed I have some that are not self obscured only through acceptance.

I have a dilemma,I am starting school next week and I need to make a verdict, a very important one. In my country we have to make a decision between taking AS or the lower standard GED course and with AS you can get a stronger certificate and you surround yourself with the right people,but you need to score really high to become a scholar and the ministry underestimates how challenging these classes are.So you might score well on it but don't get a scholarship cause seats are available mostly for GED but here comes the other part of the dilemma if I do AS I will do a different type of Arabic than GED so if I go back to GED one year later I will suffer cause AS Arabic is totally different. plus Arabic is compulsory.... I need help!!! Any suggestions?

Thanks @Blind Observer.

So yesterday I went to swimming with my friend and it was like 1:30pm so it was hot and the sun was so bright in the sky that we just jump straight into the pool we did some laps and other stuff then suddenly my friend decided to stop but I continued through,I hated doing laps so I changed into just diving but I had no googles hence my eyes were closed I would dive for like 15 meters without breathing for like 1.5min and as I was under water I saw the skin covering my eyes looking transparent which is normal but then I asked for reasoning so I brought up some physics reasons and so on but also noticed that when I was underwater my face was facing the sun but eyes closed I acted like I was the sun but when I was submerged hence eyes open. I hated the sun and lost the feeling of being the sun so I had an insight on how to become more authentic. The insight was that bassically I should see my self as an idol and not see others as idols this might be controversial to Enlightened folks (idea of no self)but I never did self enquiry or any or neti neti I just do daily meditation and once a week I do strong determination sitting if any one who's Enlightened/not Enlightened can tell me his opinion over this insight.

I felt more whole,like I was one piece.I also felt a quintessential feeling which I always wish I have normally(without meditating) (still,clear,restful mind)and my whole body was so relaxed very enjoyable experience.

Isn't it better to read books about Enlightenment techniques? and how to do them better? Just my opinion too.

I hope Leo doesn't look at this threadbut since that experience,I actually feel more authentic...........Lol.

Great, thanks.

But thanks for both!Why is it better if I'm from the US.

@ChimpBrain I'm not.I'm from Oman.

@saiko Self illusion = the square root of the strength of how much you believe that you are a thing +2 divided by all your believes of "you".

Thanks @quantum !

@How to be wise I do watch documentaries but I always like to have other sources of books that I store as PDFs in my iBooks library.

True @David1 it's like learning to ride a bike once you know it then you almost can't forget but you might fall off the bike and have some injuries, same with Enlightenment, you would have different levels of, in a nutshell "The Awakening".

ok.I meditate daily and I watch Enlightenment videos from Leo and other sources and I said to myself that after 5 months of meditation I will start the path to Enlightenment is that a good idea?and I remmember in @Leo Gura's video on Enlightenment he said that before he started to work on self enquiry he removed all the bullshit he had i don't know what bullshit he's talking about and how can I remove this bullshit?

LOL that's Enlightenment.

Ya I do...i will try the self Enquiry methods with the questions who's perceiving?who's aware?and also experiment with other techniques and build up from there,I always thought it needed time... but thanks a lot for changing my view point on this!

Do you think Enlightenment work and meditation made you smarter?

Ohh AP classes are tough, but still I feel Leo is right if you take advanced programs you will be with great company, people who work hard hence you will be influenced POSITIVELY! I'm going to 11th grade as well like you I'm taking A level-course which is kind of college standard similar to AP I heard it will pay off at college since you won' t need to do foundation so then you will finish earlier and then you can get busy with personal development. IF YOU CAN UNDERSTAND ENLIGHTENMENT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND ADVANCED TOPICS MATH ,PHYSICS.....

Why do you always wish if you started meditation young?And why do you say that on meditation only not Enlightenment?

I'm 16 years old I started with Actualized.org recently just because of an arbitrary experience and I would like to share it with you.One day I was on youtube searching for a video about politics....and in that video there were words that were used,the words were so irrelevant to self actualization it was "Brain wash"I really had a thought in my head so profound!it goes like this.......... I'm a chimp and I get brain washed everyday by society the insight was similiar to the video Leo made about "30 ways society fucks you in the ass" But mysteriously the night after that insightfull experience I got depressed,neurotic and I was acting the victim so eventually I looked for soloutions for those problems and so I discovered Leo and Leo's videos are so exciting though there long but still he gives accurate simplified information that suits the myopic,unwise(unactualized)mind which I believe is a gift he has,so now I'm after meditation for the rest of my life,I'm through 1 month now and through 5 months of that I would like to start touching on Enlightenment through self enquiry and the neti neti method so now I want to read more on Enlightenment and other quartered techniques. I was never so sure of what I want till I started watching Leo(Actualized.org).....so thanks so much Leo!!!!!!!!!! For providing me with ideas from your far sighted mind to understand the self actualization needs hence build my own.