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soul = heart. When you act against your heart, it costs you. Care to guess who is on the other end holding the chip reader?

Why should anyone pursue this?

If you dont resonate with it, don't so it. I was in exactly in your position, so I quit my daily vipassana and switched to the mind illuminated instructions, which I can recommend for someone familiar with vipassana.

Are you sure you can derive truths like that from books and then just be done? What if the books are wrong? What if their best interprations of the Buddhas teachings are wrong? How could yoy know?

@Leo Gura Yes you have said that many times in many contexts, i get that. You didn't actually reply to anything I said or shamaanitar said. Why? Riddle me these: Nah... women will always downplay their numbers because it increases your value. Your friend who fucked 55 dudes will never tell that to her future husband. ...and how would you know that? How much time are you actually spending time talking to women about these things? Where are your sources? From which cultural background are the women, with whom you have actually talked about this? Keep in mind that you use the term "women" and that literally mean EVERY woman out there. It is a HUGE thing to generalization ALL women like that, but you seem to always do this willy nilly when discussing dating. What you really want is a player who will fall head over heels in love with only you. And I want to bang a new supermodel every night. The difference is, I understand the selfishness of my position. You are wilfully projecting your mind to every one on the globe and in doing so, creating this neat shield for your projection: if someone were to deny this, you can just say "well you only think so because you are not as conscious as me!". Once again: to which cultures are you applying this? Which stages of the spiral? You're right, I would not believe it because you ladies love to not count all the guys you sleep with. You ain't fooling Leo with your coyness. I know how dirty you are inside. I bet you've opened it to some unworthy. It's okay. I won't judge. Like shamaanitar said, if you said this to a person, they could literally sue you for sexual harasment and probably win. Is this some odd humour? I can't tell. If this is not some odd joke: projection projection projection, how do you not see this? Yes, you could whisper that to some girls ear in a nightclub setting and get away with it, but I don't think that you are keeping you high opinions of women to yourself, these ARE your opinions on women. With all due respect: I don't know you, no one of your viewers really do, so it's impossible to tell what you mean with these types of comments, but I believe that you are capable of communicating about these things much more eloquently and skilfully, but for some reason you decide no to. Just my speculation.

@Leo Gura would like to hear your reply to @shamaanitars comment. Personally I find it very difficult sometimes to believe that this guy who preaches about love and consciousness also holds these views of dating/sexuality/women that you seemingly do.

I have completely exhausted the zen/concentration/self-inquiry/meditation/just-do-it path for myself, and my emotional well being is lacking behind by miles. By exhaustion I mean: I won't be able to have a break-trough continuing with these old paradigms of approaching my life and emotions, I don't want to live the foolish seekers life who posits basic happiness to somewhere behind this HUGE achievement called awakening. I want to be happy now, I want to tread this path with curiosity, sense of exploration and generally, a more light heart. I'm tired of seeking the end of my suffering, I want to feel good in the relative world, just being a human. I just want to be happy, 10 years of beating myself up starts to be.. enough. I need a teaching/teacher who can guide topics like self-love self acceptance feeling good in the body workaholism shadow tantra childhood trauma general emotional intelligence dealing with fears Any teacher/book/course/technique recommendations are welcome. Thanks in advance.

Thanks all, I really appreciate.

Text book case of a stage thinking it is above a stage when it is actually below it. Progression is seen as regression (explicitly stated in the title) and regression as progression. Also you can pretty much play stage-blue-vocabulary bingo with this one I love the fact that he uses the phrase "swing the pendulum" in the beginning, just like Leo often does in SD-videos

@Mattie why not! pm pm bois

@General 2 @yolosmoothie Sure both of you bastards pm It's not easy to get friends as someone who does not study or work locally

Me and gf live in Amsterdam! If you would like a meetup, pm me we are both in a similar situation, with close to 0 friends to talk about these things with.

@Gesundheit From wikipedia: Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment, often evoking in them cognitive dissonance and other changes including low self-esteem. Using denial, misdirection, contradiction, and misinformation, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's beliefs. Instances can range from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents occurred, to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim. Pretty darn harsh way to say "you will face disagreement" if you ask me.

@RedLine Can you reframe your thread as what other users can learn from your message? I don't think I understand your rhetoric and even less the point of your thread

I don't see why not? The sun is hot at every point, but not equally at each point. There are shades to colors, but they still have a upper most concept to describe them (red, blue etc). Are you here to say that there exists a logical, philosophical problem in the terminology of non-duality that can be talked about and thus it has a degree of reality to it, but ultimately you think that there is no such problem and rather you are talking about the people who talk about these things?

@RedLine Are you sure you are making fine enough distinctions in painting actualized as white and the whole scientific community as black? It would be more usefull if you would elaborate that graph a little bit, is it from Ken Wilbers books or did he pick it from somewhere else? Can't remember.

You fundamentally misundestand the satori experience and what is revealed. Your notion of "your enlightenment" experience that is "your subjective insight" misses the mark. Have you had an enlightenment experience? Where is your understanding coming from? The holocaust, and suffering indeed are modes of love, but not in the way you currently are aware of. The feeling of suffering does not feel loving, but to say that that is proof for not everything being love, is like saying that just because breathing is not always experienced, you don't breath while sleeping in a deep dreamless sleep. It's just like being angry at a child for doing something dangerous: from the childs perspective the parent is acting from a place the child does not want: anger, disharmony, dissapointment etc, but that is ONLY the surface level. From the parents love, it is furious love. If the child knew that, he/she would not feel hurt for the fury, he/she would feel cared for. "The proof that everything is not love is that you chose the path of enlightenment over not taking it, because you knew there is suffering, and that it is better to get out of that suffering than to be in that suffering." There is a techical term for this attitude: neo-advaita. The disassociation of suffering as being obly illusion, so there "is not path to walk on so just be". It is not true advaita (true non-dual teaching) and not advocated by leo or the forum in general. True non-duality is turning towards that suffering, and going straight into the fire. When the fire burns everything that is untrue, the truth is revelaed. What could that truth be? There obviously is suffering in the world, but it is one thing to admit that vs say that all suffering is delusion because everything is love and suffering is somehow excluded from that wholeness. But in general, be very aware when your mind is spinning a story that negates love from some aspect of reality. That is a signal that there is something to be inspected more carefully. What is it that does not see love in that thing?

Open eye hallucinations on thc that make you draw meanings, intuitions and conclusions sound like an psychotic break knocking on the door. I might be so bold to say that you should evaluate how normal it is to have an experience like that. What if Leo replied to this thread and said he did not experience any connection to you, would it change your beliefs about Leo or your experience? Be very careful how you make distinctions between your true experiences and what your mind thinks about them. Lay of the weed for a while, srs.

Pro tip: glasses guy is not you friend

I don't see how my answer could be applied to everything, it was directly aimed at your question, which was "Is it us before coming into the world, or how we actually experienced life during the first few months?" By nonsensical i don't mean that your question does not compute, I just denied your question entirely on the grounds that the true answer won't satisfy the premise that the words you chose set for the answer. There is a lot actually: a world before your birth, a world after your birth, your entire childhood and really time in general. This topic doesn't satisfy my specific spiritual masturbatory needs anyway, I'm more of a "can't you see that materialism is totally ass backwards" and "you cause 100% of your suffering and let me teach you why" type of a spirit fap guy you see. Also, publicity doesn't do it for me, but man, private orgies... Ps. Didn't watch your link if that matters, for the same reasons mr russia guy elaborated

We remember that we have forgotten our unborn and undying selves. We remember we never came into this world in the first place, so in that sence your question is nonsensical, there never was a birth, and there never will be a death. Children do develop a sense a seperateness, but that does not mean that they were before in a no-self state, that is a kind of a pre-post fallacy.

Serious winnie the pooh vibes wonderful

12. Can make you realize you used science to persuade yoursel to try meditation

I'm pretty sure when I joined this forum there was way less of this obvious ego-flexing and sniping. What happened? Can't we just appreciate what Rupert has to say without making pointless comparisons and hierarchies of teachings and teachers.

If Carrey ever had a genuine awakening, imagine his awe when he realized what the truman show REALLY was