How to be wise

Lol. I watched the life purpose course recently. He said life purpose IS SECOND to enlightenment. Not the other way around.

This week’s video was quite good, and I agreed with most of it. But one part I didn’t agree with. Leo said that the brain is a special perception because it can alter your perceptions. The example he gave was that if you snort some psychedelics, then your perceptions change. However, isn’t the statement that “the brain controls your perceptions” itself another concept. It doesn’t matter if the fact holds that if you hit somebody in the head they will go unconscious. Still, it can never be more than a belief that the brain is any more different than the stomach, and that it can somehow control your perceptions. Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is how I see it. I’m a super skeptic.

And can you really know that? Really?

But can you really conclude from this that the brain or stomach have any effect on our perceptions. Can you really know that that's true?

Some spiritual teachers say that non-duality is an illusion. Is this a lack of understanding of non-duality, or is it an even more deeper realisation, where somehow non-duality goes full circle and eats itself. What do you guys think? Is this not non-dual enough, or too non-dual?

Giving him what...?

Some people suffer a lot more than others. How can we know? Easy. People who suffer a lot usually will complain about suffering or how bad their lives are. Someone who doesn’t suffer a lot will just carry on with his life. If a rich businessman suffered a lot, you would see him trying to lessen his suffering by taking drugs, alcohol or other distractions. Yet many of those businessmen are clean and you don’t see them complain about anything. If somebody suffers so much, you will see the tiredness and frustration in there faces. When suffering accumulates to a certain amount, it tends to sap all of the person’s energy. And yet some people are smiling, look quite open and happy, they go everywhere, they never complain about life. How then can you say that everybody suffers the same? Common sense.

I wasn’t very convinced in the past that Obama was a stage yellow thinker until I saw this video: If more people in Congress were like him, lots of problems would be better managed today.

As I carry on doing consciousness work, I am having an almost constant fear that I am going to vanish. I’ve tried to ignore this fear for a few weeks now, but these days it is getting stronger and stronger. I worry that this will affect my practice. I’ve tried watching Leo’s 2C-B trip report to try and convince myself that death is the most beautiful thing ever, but it is not working anymore. How to deal with this fear?

I understand that when taking psychedelics, you can become conscious of many facets of the absolute, like God, Infinity, Love, intelligence, perception is being, and nature of time. But how much of that is possible for permanent awareness. Is it possible to become permanently conscious of any one of those facets? And I mean 24/7 awareness for the rest of your life. What is the highest thing that you can become conscious of permanently?

@Leo Gura Some spiritual teachers don’t like giving too much importance to kundalini:

There have been no podcasts released for the past two episodes? Why not? @Leo Gura can you fix this please?

@Nahm How would you know?

Really? Do you really think that a Buddhist master is living 24/7 in 5-MeO consciousness: If that were true, why are they talking about “no-self” so much. There’s far more profound aspects to awakening that they should be talking about.

@John Lula Leo has a channel in iTunes.

@Serotoninluv What I mean is, if somebody did conciousness work for fourty years to expand their consciousness, what is the most they could be conscious of permanently. How does that compare to a 5-MeO peak experience? Which one is higher?

@Ampresus Personal Development is easy: 1. Find a problem you are facing currently in your life. 2. Do research on how to solve it (Leo’s booklist). 3. Use the book and its exercises to solve it.

@Leo Gura Are you aware that the last two episodes are not in the podcasts?

The writer ‘Bernardo Kastrup’ says that between Idealism and Solipsism, the latter is just too sceptical. But isn’t that the more correct one? The more skeptical we are (the less beliefs we’re willing to entertain) the more correct the theory should be, right? What do you guys think about this.

@Superfluo Jesus, how can I read such a long thread! Please summarise the main points.

You can only forget a thought, never reality.

@Jed Vassallo How can you “forget” something? You can only forget a thought, never reality.

Is achieving Emotional Mastery going to automatically lead to Enlightenment? Or is it possible to achieve full Emotional Mastery without becoming Enlightened.

It’s tea, not thea.

@Jack River “Psychological time”. You remind me of Faceless. @Serotoninluv Security and comfort for the ego is different from bliss. Bliss is what you feel when your identity expand outside the body to include everything. It can also be called unconditional love. It feels very peaceful!