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Interesting example. I would say yes, he has a dominating "either you are in my camp or you are out"-attitude. NOT MY TEMPO!!!!

Move as little as possible, accept physical pain. If you swallow saliva naturally, let it happen. The main point is just not to move your limbs intentionally, don't overthink this you can gently adjust you posture, as in if you start with a straight posture and you slough a bit, straighten yourself gently. Focus on the length of the sitting, the intensity is the main point.

@peachboy "Or in other words, there can never be a moment when you're not having an experience" "but what about dreamless sleep!?" Hardest part to explain is that right there, on the otherhand you must deny objective reality, but at the same time you must deny solipsism. It just does not compute at ALL with your regular experience.

It depends. Your ego can also hijack an awakening experience and completely pervert it. Usually there is a milder backlash, but it can get bad also. If you are mature enough to accept the truth and the part of the ONE you call ego is not completely obliterated as it usually is not, your ego will be more whole, more integrated. It will serve you rather than enslave you and you will navigate reality being a being more effortlessly. You see more clearly what the ego actually is, and you will be quicker to see when it's working agains your highest self, which is love.

Where do nothingness and love fall in this analogy?

@AtheisticNonduality Did the guys commit the church torching (and various other crimes by people who are strongly associated in the black metal scene) in the name of black metal or Satan? What is the difference between black metal and satanic worship (or anti-christian acts of criminality if you want to see it that way)? I'm talking about metal purely from the perspective of art here, I couldn't possibly take responsibility for each of my fellow human manifestations who happen to wear a pantera shirt

Didn't you JUST release a video about drawing distinctions? That (+ the horror movie) comparison only shows that you don't understand metal as an distinct art form and how broad of an art form it is. Yes, there is a stage red way of playing, writing, listening and writing metal, but there is also a distinct intellectual and spiritual aspect to it that is not so easily understood by laymen: metal can be BOTH low and high consciousness music. The biggest annual metal festival in Finland pretty much always wins the top spot for the least violent incidents and havoc, while another one, that you would probably also rate as stage red, (rap/hip-hop) wins the top spot for most incidents with drugs, alcohol and violence. Why is that the case if they are both red? Metal is clearly mostly blue if you actually study the music and people who listen to it, while rap is red. I dare you to walk in a dark forest in the middle of winter during the night, and listen some true black metal and tell me you don't connect to nature and God. At best metal is contemplative, value connecting and bond forming music that is both super fun and communal. source: 15 years of listening, performing and writing various genres of music and metal

Can we please lock this thread, what ever the content. Equating physical body suicide with enlightenment is dangerous, as unstable people are known to browse this forum and there have been suicide notes in the past.

It's a story, but who are YOU?

Contemplate why people do "evil" things. Are they truly evil, as in: is evil a real thing? Or might it be, that every evil act was actually a form of love towards something? Did hitler invade Europe because he was an evil guy with evil deeds in his mind, or was it that he saw the suffering of his fellow countrymen, and out of his own limited compassion for them he did what he did. He and the german forces lost because the opposing force's love and intelligence outplayed his love and strategy. World wars, or any war or conflict, can be viewed as a moral question (who was in the right) and that is a valid thing to ask on this level, but if we are dealing with the existential nature of reality, it's much more accurate to say that two opposing forces of love clashed. It's a different thing to say that Hitler did not have the moral right to invade Europe, than to say that everything he did was actually an expression of love towards the german people. Would you deny someone from his love? That is the messiness of life right there: what has YOUR perspective and self-bias got to do with the other persons perspective and self-bias, and what are you going to do about it. The reason he did not become a saint and spend his lifetime helping, serving others and spreading undiscriminating love is for two reasons that intermingle: he did not know and did not understand non-duality, and more importantly: his level of moral and consciousness development was low. His level of consciousness was high enough to care about people around him. That love extended actually far beyond his immediate family or a community, it extended to include all of Germany and all of the people he considered to be true Germans. That is actually in a sense, a decently sized area of concern if you compare that to the most selfish person who only cares for himself. But Germanys borders were the limits of his love. It stops there. Beyond germany: threat, enemy, fear Truth in this sense means that he really did think that his pursue of the 3rd reich was just and True. No one can love a pursuit of a thing he knows for a fact to be false. The trick here is though, he did not have the Truth, he only had his self-bias that he mistook for truth. What is said above is actually not that radical, because it could be considered just as a perspective, not any less true or false than the evil-hitler good-guy-churchill paradigm, any person with a bit higher level of open-mindedness could appreciate that. What is radical though, that what is said above is not a perspective, it is the truth, period. There is ONLY love, nothing else. Truth = Love, Love = Truth. Your love for the truth is the pursuit that will in the end be realised as a snake eating it's own tail: the truth that you were looking for was actually the love that made you look for the truth in the first place. OOOOH! OOOOOOOOH! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO * drowns in tears and suffocates on astonishment * and so forth when you get that. You really can't push your old paradigm onto non-duality and try to grasp it that way, a paradigm change is required. There are no degrees of love and hate, there are only degrees of love and lack of love, that is to say: degrees of love vs selfishness. That is the whole game you are playing in this dream, your goal is to live your life in such a way that you become masterful at navigating towards love and not away from it. Rules of that game: You have to play There is no end to the game, you can only amass more game currency as you play and that is: love You can lose your chips if you play poorly You can go in debt if you REALLY lose, that is: you have so little self-love that you are actually un-capable to love anything. You must first rise your level of self-love to "0" and then you can start to spread that love in your environment You can try to awaken in the game to see that it is actually a game, but even if you do that: you still have to continue playing. The more you are conscious that it is a game, the better you play it and the happier you will grow to be.

@Verdesbird that sounds wild. Can you tell which ones you mean? Btw 17 years as a buddhist monk and it boils down to "at least I have a purpose"? There must be more to him than that.

Sorry but this is not at all how it works. That is not what awakening entails.

There are other noteworthy points of critique than the bathtub issue, I suggest watching the whole thing

Pretty much this. You don't have any problems unless you imagine them, and this parricular problem is well thought out.

Be very carefull with teal swan. Imo she is THE biggest fraud in spirituality right now.

I know that truth = love, but this time I experienced love being true, not truth being love Trying to stick as close to what I know as possible.

Last night I became conscious that my longing for my existing brother is the very thing that enables him to exist. His longing for me was so great that he imagined me to being. Before my body was born, my parents loved my (big) brother into being, BUT i still was the one to love my parents into being "first" from my perspective. I gave birth to my parents, not the other way around. This is not a solipsistic statement. We both (all) mutually imagine ourselves into being simultaneously, so effortlessly that it does not even register that we are doing it. To call it a doing is a wrong choice of words, I would rather say we let ourselves into being. I loved world war 2 into being. I don't love the fact that people suffered, but I still nevertheless imagined that suffering into being. I did not stumble upon it by accident by reading a book: rather I opened a book titled "history" and imagined the history I loved. I imagined it in a way that perfectly corresponds to the historical evidence that points towards those events. I imagine the evidence and the pointing as I imagine. Im not the only person who has done this: our shared love for world war 2 is the knowledge of it, readily available, ready to be picked up when ever needed or wanted. The knowledge is not centered anywhere in space, rather the trueness of it is just here. This insight feels incomplete though, as I was not conscious of myself as God. Rather it felt like Im a loving awareness (that is aware of what? Insight was not complete). I think I still dont know what satori is, but what i experienced was so true, REAL and so close to heart, I dont even care about the truth that all you guys are looking for. I think I have found something better than truth: love. I'm here to tell you that you should pursue it too. Could it be that they are identitcal...? Maybe, that needs more looking into. My love for truth was stoped in it's tracks: just love. But alass, the search continues. Thoughts?

Hard to say what is up with him. What experiences led him to adopt the alpha/beta/what ever nonsense that tightly? Guaranteed way to know you are not truly alpha and secure with yourself? You keep talking about alphas and betas lol

Like with everything: eat the fruit and spit out the seeds. You don't need to jive 100% with Leos ideas and teachings. You don't have to like what he says and the way he says it 100%. Something that never gets aknowledged here: I don't know where you are from, but the fact that Leo has grown up in America affects the way he articulates his thoughts and the words he chooses. He might be a fish in water about this, but for an european it's pretty obvious. This is just one of the factors.

Is this a belief or the truth? Hmmm...

@Meta-Man Real awakening comes after you do what ever needs to be done, so yeah it might get dirty but that is not necessary for everyone. For most it is some shade of dirt, i guess. It's too simplistic to say it needs to be rough or it's just self-inquiry and mooji videos lol

I'm not sure we have the same definition of "being aware of ones true self" here. In my books you need to be able to answer the "who am I?" question (after having a good chuckle over the ridicilousness of the question) with 100% certainity. At that point you can still deepen you understanding for sure, but I find it hard to believe that such persons go to practise would be gore videos.

Sounds like you are concentrating on a belief that what you are watching is you + other non-dual ideas. If you were actually conscious of that, you wouldn't have a need to practise. You are trying to hammer that knowledge into your psyche, rather than finding out the truth for yourself. If you find you are in a phase of your path, that requires contemplation into suffering, why not dial into your own suffering hardcore? Try sitting in a lotus position for 4 hours. Can't? Well, theres something to chew on. There are better practises, broadly discussed on this forum.

To loosely quote Peter Ralston, you don't need to grasp God, dimensions or any of that nonsense... just grasp YOU Now go get it! All of your speculation is useless

KEEP GOING. And observe your doubt In vipassana (and I guess many other style) doubt is recognized as one of the "enemies" of meditation. You have already overcome other enemies, such as laziness, as you do actually meditate. Keep going, and if you really some day realize it is not working, change it.