How to be wise

@Javfly33 Calm down dude. A permanent change in consciousness takes years of work. It’s virtually impossible to do it in one go.

@Zeroguy How much you love is equivalent to how little you fear. So ask yourself, how much do I fear? If there’s anything you fear, your fear of it is limiting your love.

Who was terrified of god? And who saw that he is god? Both these statements prove that your ego is alive and well.

@Tech36363 He said that he leaves the house and goes outdoors.

@Rilles If you have a problem with Leo’s personality, then find another teacher.

@Gregory1 Your title is contradictory. How can god terrify you if you are god. Who is being terrified of god?

@Vivaldo I doubt it.

@Vivaldo I remember sitting in a room watching 4 or 5 guys who were chatting with each other, laid back, talking business, and then a hot girl came in the room. They all changed into jello. All of a sudden they were uncomfortable and nervous. Their entire physiology changed in a matter of seconds.

Hard to believe this actually happened, and Israel completely got away with it.

@Vivaldo Men have always been weak around women, especially the beautiful ones. Nothing has changed.

Well, Leo is clearly not the happiest person around. I’m not saying he’s depressed, but you can definitely find other spiritual teachers who are at a higher state of bliss/ecstasy, which they got from deep meditation. But they didn’t get as much ‘understanding’ of reality (which is a mental thing) as Leo did with psychedelics. Instead, they achieved states of meditation with intense levels of spiritual pleasure, which is centralised in the body. I would like both, but I prefer the latter since I’m an idealist. I found that the vast majority of spiritual teachers are idealists, looking for an ‘experience’ of enlightenment rather than just ‘understanding’.

If truth and happiness/peace were like a fork in the road, which one would you choose? If you choose truth, you are an intellectual. If you choose happiness/peace (like most spiritual teachers) then you are an idealist. In Myers Briggs, they are NT and NF respectively.

Leo is an intellectual, so he’s more interested in ‘knowing the truth’ than he is in living a good and happy life. This reminds me of Nisargadatta, who also was not interested in ‘happiness’ but only in knowing what the truth is.

@Username Weddings are a great place to meet women.

@Kyle Gjerseth The purpose of prayer is to ask for something that you want. Enlightenment is not something you can ask for, because the asking is being done by the ego. Enlightenment is about destroying the ego. So prayer and enlightenment are two different and unrelated things.

As long as you don’t buy it from a restaurant. Cook it yourself.

@mmKay Leo has extremely high standards for health, which almost no one follows. Literally everybody would fail Leo’s health tests. And yet, many people still live to their 80s, which is the biggest reason to be healthy. Eat the liver my friend.

@PurpleTree Nothing (no tattoo)

@catcat69123 Appreciate what you have. As long as there is no negative emotion, it is good enough.

@Rilles I recommend the work of Byron Katie. It is a self-inquiry technique.

Just close your eyes. In that moment, all of reality is a dream, because you’re not seeing any of it, yet you still believe it all exists.

You clearly stated earlier that you were a conservative. How then was this an ‘incorrect assumption’? Please explain. You’re making no logical sense.

@Rilles This is the illusion from the mind. It’s grip on you is very strong, it will take some serious work to become aware of it. You can’t get rid of it, but you can be aware of how the mind is giving you that illusion. Self inquiry is superior to meditation for this.

Shinzen is full of shit. Nobody is going to pass his ‘tests’.