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"I have to make sure that I'm there when enlightenment arrives." The "me" wanting enlightenment - hilarious...

Almost 2 hours to "explain" Love... Here is a much better, concise explanation:

"How I became enlightened" - no need to watch, that says it all.

All practices reinforce the self/I/ego. Most important practice: no-practice.

Should the "I" love the "I"? Or (same same)... should the ego love the ego? Should an illusion love itself?

Then this is for you.

Your obvious inability to tolerate criticism and your resorting to ad hominem attacks in order to defend your self-obsessed over-intellectualized viewpoint, speaks volumes for the path you are on. My hope is that as time passes and failures (such as your 30-day psychedelic retreat) mount up, more of your adoring fans will see through the messenger and chose the message instead.

There is nothing pedantic about nonduality - don't confuse the messenger for the message. This is what muddying the waters with the intellectual mind's obfuscation looks like:

The more that is spoken about something that is outside of the mind's grasp, the more confusion (and reinforcement of the "self" illusion) that will eventuate.

"You" are not missing out on anything, because "you" won't be there to block the experience. It's precisely because "you" weren't there (i.e. the psychedelic moved your active mind out of the way), that the awakening experience was allowed to unfold. However, after the experience "you" will take memories of the psychedelic-induced experience, and in a weird hindsight-based reconstruction claim it as your own. "I was there", "I experienced eternity", "I became God". No! - "you" were not there. It's just bullshit to support the mental process' desperate attempt at keeping alive the fragile illusion of a separate self. "Spiritual practices" themselves (and in particular chasing enlightenment) are hijacked and used by the mental process, to reinforce the illusion of an ego seeking salvation from the self, for itself, as a self. For fuck's sake, Leo... after all the effort you've put into this, shouldn't you get it by now?

Yes, it's called "sleep". Best time for this practice is at night.

Diary entry #756783, meditation... stage 2: "Today I realized meditation is ambushed by the self, and used to reinforce the illusion of a meditator."

Indeed. Take heed of the voice of experience.

Who is there, now?

The self wants to escape the self, as the self.

Now.

"fully-enlightened" and "people" are contradictory terms.

Item #37102 may be of some help:

In terms of spiritual development, I would guess that 9 out of 10 posts on this forum are not worth the time reading. The best you could say about these, is that they dilute the message. Unfortunately, they also hide valuable content - needle-in-the-haystack problem. @Leo Gura by taking out the only qualitative metric for content (yet leaving the quantitative one in place), you are forcing everyone to sort through the myriad of "low-consciousness" posts in order to maybe find that golden nugget. I for one don't have the available time for this, and I suspect many forum members who have a life to attend to, would be in a similar situation. @Leo Gura as you watch the quality of posts go down from here, this may be a good time for you to reflect on the same stubborn egoic problem that has plagued all spirituality teachers since the dawn of time. After all, it's more than just a coincidence that you've decided on this course of action just a few days after reading @TJ Reeves' post: "Notice that my upvotes per post on this forum is the highest out of anyone with more than 100 posts - even Leo himself. That's not a coincidence." Many thanks to all in this community, for sharing both the good and hard times. Good luck, and take care. - Jose

Yeah, way too many distractions on our very serious, never-ending journey to become enlightened. New Age stuff humor this whole forum all social media the Internet Heck... let's block, ban the lot.

Yep, like humor...

I've been channeling an entity that goes by the name "Jose" (hoʊˈzeɪ) for decades. I've been channeling this source for so long, that at times it appears like I'm in a host/parasite relationship. Given the recent interest in channeling on the forum, I'd be glad to pass on your questions to the entity. Ask away, and do not offend the entity's high intelligence with inane questions.

Whereas earthlings tend to pursue vocations related to happiness and enlightenment, Josesians only seek the highest forms of rhetorical art. Therefore, I can only answer a truly rhetorical question. Unlike matters of the brain, channeling is no joke. Subtle yet distinguishable difference. Ask not what breakfast can do for you, but what you can do for breakfast.

Where I come from, we only answer rhetorical questions.