Swagala

Yes, you worded it better than me!

What I meant was that I have not yet had the experience to say that either we have no control or we might have some. The "you" or ego might have some control from it's resistance to what reality wants to do. It's also coming from the perspective that since we are God, we can somewhat control our environment, that's including with the help of the ego. This all my personal speculation though.

Hi! I've been having a really great time these last few days ever since I've been following Ben's teachings. From the beginning, when I discovered his "jumping parallel reality" teaching, I became the happiest and relaxed I've ever been. As I followed more and more of his teachings, I've been becoming very very very very empowered. Basically, his teachings are that every THING you see, feel or any other things you're aware of, are smoke and mirrors. They're also a reflection of the assumptions and beliefs in yourself. You made the world. He also empowers by stating that you are the creator and that anything you do in this illusion will be naturally supported. So, go with what gives you Joy, happiness. Even desire. As long as the desire isn't from lack. You are immortal and outside of this "reality." I've been resonating with his teachings. I've started to see how playful, and abundant this whole thing is. I've come to see how amazing it is that we are given this experience at all instead of the nothingness that could have been. I've come to see how much love and magic there is in the world. I've come to see the power of now and the power of one's self. I've come to be able to laugh off all the troubles in "my life," but at the same time, appreciate them for being there and being possible. I've also learned not to be attached to the things I have and just appreciate that their there, existing. I've also become very confident and relaxed from the knowledge that we're infinite and immortal and that when we die, we either die and go back to whatever we are (maybe consciousness or infinity and not even notice that we even experience any of it) or become other things than human. I really just want to share my experience right now. I've literally been smiling for the last couple of days- Even now as I'm typing this. I'd love to know what you think of my mental state right now. I'm in euphoria but maybe I'm also really really really delusional right now XD. I'm working on being able to see someone else and see the potential loving, compassion and infinite child inside of them. That way, I can be compassionate in all this empowerment.

I'd like to recommend a playlist from a very "enlightened" being that I've been exploring insights with. I've been having a mass of "enlightenments" from his teachings. I wish the best to you! I also want to share the video that got me started with his wisdom: It's that one ^ This one below is a snippet of the above and I'm not sure how to remove the embedded video, so I'll just leave it here for now until I figure it out. My understanding has been expanded massively from all his teachings and insights. I also want to give an advice: explore many different "teachers," and go with the ones that feel right for you and relevant. In my opinion, it'd be a miracle to understand the huge topic of enlightenment from one teacher, you have your own views and ways to understand- look from many views of consciousness. Also, remember that the path to spiritual enlightenment is a ride; there will be amazing ups and depressing downs. You should enjoy the ride regardless. Take Joy from the fact that these downs are there for a "reason." One last, last thing. In anyway you look at life, whether it be meaningless, full of meaning, free, creative, suffering, objective, subjective, and any other way, there's no reason to not be joyful through it. Being joyful can only benefit you in any reality you're in. Joy to us all!

From my own point of view as it stands, right now, I believe that AI in this vibrational state of reality or even in any reality won't ever reach the level of intelligence of Infinity (God). The idea of AI is within Infinity (and so is intelligence). Infinity has infinite intelligence, meaning anything else within it won't reach close. I'd also like to add my own idea of "why I created this world." Everything, and I mean everything already exists within Infinity. I believe that God didn't create this world to see what happens but to explore, understand itself more. Explore and understand it's own infiniteness in many infinite ways. In a way, it is similar to what you said; God created the world to see one of the infinite ways this vibrational reality will end up. I'd like to say that I'm simply adding my opinions on the subject and no offense was intended.

Yeah, most likely. That's what I like about his teachings. A lot of it is similar to Leo's but in my opinion, with more clarity.

I've just recently started wondering whether or not Spacing Out can be considered meditation. Whenever it occurs, I just look at a particular thing and just... stare at it. Nothing really comes to my mind (like thoughts), I just get completely invested with staring at the thing. I spaced out at a mall like a month ago (while waiting for my sister to get her nails polished lol) and i probably did that for like half an hour. Just staring at a plant and ignoring all the people walking by and whenever a thought popped up, I would catch myself and then get back to just completely staring at the plant. Spacing Out is pretty often for me and it's honestly very relaxing. Anyways, I'd love to hear what your thoughts are on this. Personally (and honestly), I'd love to get some validation about this because I could space out for such a long time and if this can be a way to "meditate" that'd make my life easier.

So, I got around to watching Leo's Does Free Will exist right after watching his latest one. At the beginning of the video, I was open minded as usual and agreed to all if not most of what he was talking about. Usually at the end of Leo's videos, while he's concluding the video and giving practical advice, I get the sense of "everything will be okay," even though we just beat down the ego. But in this video, it was different. I started to become depressed, just as how Leo predicted. I started to wonder "Then what was the point to this whole thing?" I was questioning all the spirituality work I've been doing. What was the point of working on the ego when at the end, you won't have control over what happens? A bit after, I started to consider suicide because I've been working on all this spirituality thing because I knew that life would be much relaxing when you're more aware/conscious. Yes, I did have that for a long while but now, it's like all that work was leading to no where. This is how I'm thinking about at this moment: even when I gain more awareness with what's happening in my mind, body, environment, I can't do anything about it. SO THEN WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE POINT OF ALL THIS WORK?! Right now, I've somewhat calmed down and started rethinking this whole thing so that there's a happy ending. So, I started considering the possibility: what if what this really means is that you still have to try to do things or else you'd just be a bum BUT you just have to be aware of the fact that your not the one choosing to do any of these. And with this awareness, you can become more "enlightened." I also started thinking of the possibility that it could also mean that even if you still try, just know that things won't always go correctly, so there's no point on beating yourself over it. And that whatever comes by and happens "to you" just keep in mind that it's not really happening to you, it's just reality happening and you don't have any will over it, so there's no need to beat yourself over it. These "happy endings" I got to really gave me more assurance that this work still has something more to it. Nevertheless, I'd love to hear of what they're reaction was to the fact that there is no Free Will and how you dealt with any egotistical resistance that may have occurred. I'd also love some feedback on the "happy endings" that I got to. Are they even close to possible?

This last week, I've had very strong insights. The first huge one was when I realized that the body was 'meant' to do what it does. Like when you start being conscious of your breathing; when you stop thinking about breathing, your body still does it and that's just how it goes. It's like you have the privilege to 'wake up' anytime you'd like and when you decide to go back to sleep- keep playing the life game, the body will still keep doing what it does. When you do a task and aware of the task being done, you yourself doesn't have to think about how the body needs to move, it just happens as if the mind and body doesn't even need 'you' to be there to do what it does. Putting it into words is really tough right now since I just started analyzing the insight. Just today, while in class, listening to one of Alan Watts' lectures, I had another huge insight. Now, I'm not completely sure if this is right, so I'd love some feedback on it. I realized that I'm everyone. Or at least one of the pieces of 'God.' When strip everything apart like the ego, gender, history, anything else you can think of, we're all the same thing. I kind of just wanted to start laughing and maybe even crying because of how amazing this was. But of course, I was in class, so I tried to keep it inside. We're all the same but because of how the ego comes to be as we go grow along with the world, we become 'different' people. When I started to think about this, I thought: "How can you not care about everyone else when it's you." I also thought that the idea of caring for one's self was kind of selfish and I wanted to laugh because of it XD. Like I said, I'd appreciate some feedback on this insight. As in, is this how one see's the world when they have the eye's of the 'enlightened?' I really just want to know whether or not I'm heading towards the right path. I'd also really love to have Leo's feedback on this so... @Leo Gura. Sorry for the tagging but I'm not sure whether or not you'd actually catch this post. One more insight- this was more of a comforting idea than an understanding, so I'm kind sketchy of it: When I die, there's nothing to be afraid of because there's LITERALLY NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF. When I die, I won't even know I died- I'll be back to the place that I was at before I was born. And I won't remember anything before it because there's no need to remember. lol If you don't understand what I'm trying to get at, I'm sorry. But if you wan't to know what I'm really trying to get at, here's the link to the lecture I listened to- it has most of the things I'm talking about - Also, I'd like to share another thing on my mind. Like I mentioned before, I was listening to one Alan Watts' lectures, I've actually been listening to a lot of his lectures. I've noticed that a lot of his ideas we're similar to Leo's but some of them we're also distinctly different. It gives me a sense that there REALLY is something to it if Leo and Alan we're talking about almost similar things, but it also made me wonder which one is the most right. One example is how Alan talks about order and chaos and how things require the other and with out the other, the other can't happen or can't be. With Leo, he talks about how there's really nothing. Like how there's no such thing as evil, it's just a concept. Well, that's what I wanted to share. I sorta feel like it doesn't make sense or that it's not structured right/completely for other's to understand but in any case, I just wanted to share it.

I have yet to have this experience. I've had times when I get an insight of reality and I start breathing heavily as if I need to take it all in.

Yes and no. My real goal is to have the eye's/perspective of the world of someone's that's enlightened; I wan't to be able to enjoy life as if I was a kid again. And the no part is because of one of Eckhart Tolle's teaching that goes something like this: a goal isn't something that's possible because that's thinking in the future which doesn't exist. There's only now, you can be enlightened now.

I just listened to a guided meditation and as I was going through the video, I started to be conscious of thoughts. I didn't identify myself with them, I just let them happen as if they were background noise. Now, that got me thinking: Is the conscious, real me capable of thinking? I was recalling the moment I stopped identifying with the thoughts and I wondered if the talking to myself in my head was the conscious, real me or just another one of those thoughts.

Hello, I'd like to start off by introducing myself. My name is Paul and I've been following Leo's teachings for maybe 2 months now (give or take) and I've honestly been amazed at my improvements. I was actually introduced to Leo by my older sister a few years ago with his "Spiritual Enlightenment - The Most SHOCKING Truth You'll Ever Hear" video. Back then, I had trouble understanding what was being said I also had some resistance through the whole video. I didn't pursue these teachings any further which I somewhat regret but I also realize now that I may have had a worse experience with the Truth if I had continued with it at that young of an age. It was 2 months ago that I really wanted to do something about my constant abnormal behaviors. I looked up a bunch of self-confidence videos and then, saw a suggestion of the legendary video "How To Stop Caring What People Think Of You" by Leo. I remembered the face from the thumbnail (and the always interesting poses). I clicked on the video hoping to fix my problem. My problem was that for the last few years before I watched the video, I've always lived through my days as if there was an audience or a camera that I had to impress and that they were always watching. I would even act abnormally when I'm alone in my own room as if there's still someone that I had to impress. During the video, I was having moments of amazement from what I was hearing; the information and examples that Leo gave made so much sense. He had me hooked. That day, I had the most confidence I've had in years and I also started to binge watch a lot of Leo's videos on YouTube; I was impressed by how practical a lot of his videos were. A couple weeks go by and I finally got around to the two-part topic of Absolute Infinity. I had strong resistance throughout the video because it was all so new to me but the thing is that it also made so much sense. Soon after watching those two videos, I spent a few days thinking about it and I saw my perception of the world change around me. Of course, I soon sorta forgot about it; I still had it in the back of my mind everyday though. FINALLY... a few weeks after the Absolute Infinity videos, we get to yesterday. I got around to watching the three-part topic of Enlightenment. It was the third one ("Enlightenment - Part 3 - Creating An Experience Of No-Self") that gave me the most mind blowing experience I've ever had. I've had very small doubts about all the stuff that Leo was talking about and of Leo himself, but obviously, I still had a feeling that there was something to what he was saying or else I wouldn't have spent so much time on all his videos. But the experience that I received from that video practically blew all my doubts away. I soon found myself wanting to get to that state of mind again. We come to now. I plan on repeating the guided meditation from the video many times over and to do my own meditation and achieve a no-self experience by myself. I also would like to add that the rest of my day, after having the experience, I had a blast of confidence, a feeling of safety- like there's just nothing like a good nothing. I really can't explain it (which is funny because of the many times Leo talked about how words won't be able to do these experiences justice. I also plan on working on my ego which honestly, is the part that I'm excited about because I just know that something amazing will happen when I get my ego small enough. Thanks again, Leo! And best of luck to everyone going through the same journey!