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What mechanism would determine that Im conciously experiencing exactly this human being in this exact year. Why am I not some other human? If there is nothing but an objective external materialistic world, this mechanism woud have to be material itself. Can you imagine that? Just a thought I had. Is there any materialist explanation for this? Is there a philosophical concept that deals with this?

These rice balls seem like the perfect dinner for during the week. And you can fill them with whatever you like. My question would be what would be a good healthy filling for these. And how long can you store them? Obviously you cant fill them with salmon and keep them 5 days in the fridge but maybe it would work with something else. I could also prepare them on monday and wednesday for the following 3 and 2 days. What could work best? Making them everyday after work seems to be a hassle. I have stored rice in the fridge airtight for 5 days and saw no problem, I guess the problem would be the filling.

If thats the effort that is required too see results then thats just how it is and outside of Leos control. Other teachers just wont tell you because you wouldnt start with any of this. But dont think that this is a black and white matter, if you put in just half the work Leo suggests I think you will still see benefits.

This forum is getting scary. Leo, I wouldnt allow these threads if you dont want the FBI at your doorstep one day. Talking each other into suicide, this is not OK.

Lets say the nondual metaphysics is true, what is even the practical difference to materialism? Maybe I am every human that has ever lived, but I just know my perspective. When my perspective ends all my ideas and experience end with me, exactly as if the materialist brain dies. Maybe my conciousness lives on, but what does it help me if I spend the next 1000 years as some worm, rock, or even human that watches TV and eats fast food all day (I know its not sequential but for sake of simplicity I assumed it here). Just if I am a human, the right kind of human in the right part of the world who spends an enourmous amount of work I am able to get a glimpse of the truth. And then this human dies and there is unconciousness again. I like to think of it as a person drowning in an ocean, maybe you get over sea level a couple times and take a few breaths but in the end you are sucked into unconciousness yet again. If you have different materialist brains or different perspectives of the same exact conciousness that are deceived to this kind of degree, it may have some big metaphysical ramifications, but in practice there is really no difference about the general ideas a materialist would have about death or separation. Maybe the materialist doesnt have his metaphysics right, but the materialist and the yogi will both get sucked into the void, they just disagree about what the void is, but from a practical perspective they are both right. Eternal nothingsness, eternal unconciousness, whats the difference really? Leo, you put in all this work, but at the same time you are me who probably wont put in the work and get enlightened in his lifetime. Doesnt that annoy you?

I think I just dont get whats calming about nonduality. It seems like its clear to everyone else but to me it isnt. Maybe it has to with my human sense of survival, but even if I would overcome that what would it help me when im an unconcious antelope getting eating alive by a lion too. Why would god make himself suffer like that, why is this not concerning anybody?

Eckhart Tolle said he tried weed in amsterdam. He described it as "jelly for the mind" or something, and that he could see how that would bring ordinary people moments of stillness. The only spiritual thing weed can do for you is it can offer you a radical shift in perspective. But for me it was never a positive one, my problems seemed bigger than they are and at times it has brought me close to an existential crisis when I was completely stoned. I only smoke rarely nowadays and with doses that are barely on the threshhold of effects just to get a background calmness. @Leo Gura The problem of addiction you regulary bring up with weed isnt as big as you think it is, Ive only seen it happen to a certain type of person that is lazy and demotivated to begin with. For these people weed is like their coffee, tv shows or video games. Its not really the substance itself that makes them that way but it makes it worse. I would advise you give it a try sometime just so you can contribute something to the weed threads that pop up here regulary.

no one?

humans are not meant to eat raw meat, seriously dont do it, its actually dangerous,

Are you sure it wasnt just very vague though. Even people who believe in this sort of stuff will say 90% are scammers who do a cold reading.

It is an illness in the sense that you cant properly function in society when you are depresonalized permanently.

I dont understand how building up a positive self image can make you more confident and give you self worth. What if you think very good of you and then something happens and you dont hold up to your high standard. Wouldnt you get depressed? Wouldnt that hurt the credibility of your self image? Doesnt life then become a constant strugge to validate your positive self image? I dont get it, this is paradoxical to me.

Some people here have probably noticed that Leo sometimes says there isnt such a thing as the brain when he talks about higher philsophical concepts, and then when he talks about science or physical stuff he will talk about brains as if they exist. I understand that he doesnt really contradict himself, but I think it would be good to have a video about these levels of conciousness one can talk about as I dont have a good solid grasp on this myself and I think its especially confusing a lot of new users. Ive been following Leo for a while, but I know if I would have found a video of him throwing around the word god or call himself god like a lunatic I would have dismissed this stuff immediately.

If trump is spiral dynamics red he would be on the same level as someone running around murdering people. I dont think thats his way of thinking. There seem to be some missing links here, spiral dynamics is just a theory after all.

that would be ketamine but it doesnt sound like that either. Ive never really taken a psychedelic but it doesnt surprise me that the experience is highly subjective. Maybe the dose was too low and you didnt get over edge so to speak.

@Leo Gura They haven't surrendered to reality at all. They may have no concepts about it but their life is a constant struggle for sex und survival and they don't have the conciousness to break out of it. Would you describe a mentally handicapped person as enlightened? This concept is so paradoxical to me. Why not give yourself lobotomy then, wouldnt that enlighten you instantly.

But you can't deny that animals are unable to become enlightened right?

At least this brightened up my day after getting a ton of crypto money stolen yesterday. If there is no control it couldnt be any other way. That money wasnt mine anyway. Nice to think about it that way, my emotions are still gonna be all over the place the next days though.

But for real though. There are Monks training for enlightenment their whole live living in a temple and for them it takes decades if it is happening anyway. Leo said hes meditating about an hour a day, and I think he's into spirituality for about 5 years. I mean, what are the chances?

This is it buddy boyos. This is the end.

If you spend all your life trying to keep your balls perfectly shaved you will be suffering, I guarantee you dis. isn't it? *looks into the audience* Isn't it? Even science will agree on dis. You simply cannot shave the unlimited with the limited. *indian music*

I didnt really see the addiction potential other than getting some distance from emotions maybe. But its subjective of course. Bladder problems usually dont occure before heavy daily use.

Tried it this weekend recreationally. It's a pretty special effect. Like you are floating above your head. Really dissociated, but other than that I felt quite sober. I didnt find it especially good or bad. I think I would have freaked out had I not had 3 or 4 beers before. Dont ever mix this drug with alcohol, I'm an idiot! I'm just too anxious on every drug. Ironically I'm always concerned about health when on a drug sober, but with the anti anxiety effects of alcohol its no problem even though its a greater risk.

As far as I know death in non-duality is very simmilar to what atheists believe. I've seen it compared to deep sleep, when your whole ego is pulled away. So its basically eternal nothingness, pure conciousness. It might be that the conciousness, which is me, will deceive itself again and imagine itself to be a new human with an ego again. All this spiritual work I did is washed away again. I know it only sounds frightening because my ego wants me to survive, but still. As an enlightened being you may get a glimpse of the truth before you die and take on another body. Why? Why would my true self make me undergo a life of suffering again. Why would I deceive myself to be an animal whose life I think is nothing but pure unconcious suffering? Why would I want to experience myself being tortured to death. I thought of non dual death as waking up and thinking to myself "of course, I am god", but I think this is way to simple. If its more like a deep sleep or coma that idea really unsettles me for some reason. Why are spiritual teachers so chill about it, why would they be cool with the idea of being as an enlightened human and then going on to be an antelope who is eaten alive by a lion.

yeah I'm just more confused right now