Truth Addict

@AlphaAbundance In Islam, Muslims fast for 30 days every year in a month called "Ramadan". The tradition goes like this: as the sun rises up you stop eating and drinking and having sex, until the sun comes down, then you can go back to normal. That cycle occurs every single day for a whole month. In my opinion, it's safer. Because intensive deprivation can probably initiate important health risks. And as @ajasatya was saying; there's a middle way. Try not to harm yourself through spirituality. Because that might backfire.

@EvilAngel The Devil (ego) gets angry. Angels feel sympathy. And God is watching.

@Aakash it's not that you've lost it. You've never had it in the first place. What you're referring to as knowledge is really just concepts and imagination. True knowledge is gained through experience, not thinking. 'Everything is one' is not a concept that you understand, it's an experience to be had. It's an experience so intimate, that you can't distinguish yourself from other.

@TKP Who is the one who has experienced both dual and non-dual experiences?

Could you please elaborate (on devotion)?

I don't know how much this equals in your country, but in mine, I could completely cut off work, and 3£ a day would be more than enough for me. This means nearly 9 years of practice.

@Fairy You are not enlightened. I can't imagine someone whose whole notion of reality flipped upside-down in a moment, and still be able to talk about it right away. You currently have an idea of enlightenment. Now, work towards actualizing it. When you're there, you won't be able to distinguish between you and other.

Interesting! Thanks.

@SQAAD Eat until you're completely full, you will become detached from food for a while. {(paradox)}. Same goes with the rest.

Ideally that would mean death.

@George Fil language itself is a lie, don't be too literal using it. So, no matter how hard you try to convey truth with words, you will not, ever. Use the words which advance your agenda no matter what, it's fine as long as you are conscious and sympathetic.

@Oskar-O Music is just a language. Just like the English language. For a cat, music means nothing. For a banana, music means nothing. For an infant, music means nothing. Musical taste is something you acquire by time. Just like any language. All the meanings are generated by you, the mind. Watch Leo's episode about meaning, value and purpose.

Guys who is Leo?

@Jonson question your fear, what is it? How does it arise? Where exactly do you feel the fear in your body? etc... And if a doctor will be of help, why haven't you asked him yet?

@Jonson running away from your fears will only make them worse, try to find out what fear is and what its purpose is. Masturbation has nothing to do with that, I mean, sure it keeps you stuck in your imagination and that's a part of the problem. But also, being with a gf is no less thought-provoking. So... My advice is that you question your fears to death.

Women in general don't focus on the content of what you say in your approach. Make up a story and go tell it to a girl, she'll listen. And if you give the right vibrations, you'll connect. Just be comfortable with your body and voice as if you are talking to an old friend. I once played a dramatic role. I selected a character and built a story to it: I played the angry guy who desperately needed a cigarette. I just walked to her, and asked politely for a cigarette (watched her smoking a minute earlier), and as she was giving me the cigarette, I started to talk spontaneously, I said I had a rough time today and I really need a cigaretee etc..., that instantly got her attention (always speak emotions at first approach), she couldn't help but to feel for my act, she even joked about me stealing her lighter, after that everything worked itself out etc... Point is:on approach, speak from your heart or act like it. Shut your mind down.

@FredFred Don't feel pathetic, most guys went through the same experience. You're attached to her because you trained your mind unconsciously to do that, and now you think that she's someone so special, while all that's only happening in your mind. There are more than a million girls in the world. Why do you think she's special? It's not the end of the world. You will find another one, eveyone does.

@Jonson Fear is an illusion, created by thought, which is also an illusion. There's nothing to fear ultimately. You need to stop believing your thoughts, simply by just sitting in silence and watching them more consciously.

@Solace @Nahm Thank you guys

@Nahm okay I understand, but you're using thought here which can't be trusted. It's true, we can't answer these questions, but I have to be skeptical here, I equally can't know if anything changes at all or stays the same, it's just a belief, time and memory are illusions, how do I know if anything perceived from memory is true? I've been betrayed many times by memory, that's why it can't be trusted. In my direct experience, there's the awareness of something that I suspect is an illusion. The question is, if I am all, why am I perceiving from this specific perspective? Of course, there's no answer, because that implies belief. Where does this end? Insight has to occur. How? Practice, I think. How much? A lot. Q: is it better to cram practices in one long sit? Or a little every time?

@Wisebaxter Notice when you are having a meal, do you need any knowledge to chew and swallow? Your whole life was run by the old same bs concepts you had back then, and they got you here. Point is, there is no need to question basic survival to death. A little questioning from time to time is healthy, but you need to stay alive for the big event

@Leo Gura sure thing, thank you for everything Leo

I don't want to seem arrogant. It's just an insight that hit me while I was playing video games today, which were completely irrelevant. My mind was all over the place, and I was watching it. I thought: it's really nice to know all that I know, how can I share my insights with others? I thought: Hell! Not possible. I could spend a lifetime explaining to someone and they won't ever understand what my insights are. And the reason that is, is because wisdom can't be taught, it has to be earned. Otherwise, it'll be turned into dogma, and that's exactly what happened with religion. And that's what Leo does not want to happen with his teachings, because that'll turn them into ideology. It's really that simple. I don't know if there's a better way to fix this issue, and I know I didn't discover anything new. But, that's how insights work, you don't know until you know.

@Leo Gura I think I'd have to start with destroying the illusion, but that wouldn't be enough, because the mind is an illusion-creating-machine, therefore I'd have to teach them somehow how to stop the illusion or at least detach from it. I also need to find their motives, and find a way to encourage them to die. Of course, I must, first of all, not be deluded. It seems easy on paper, but the Devil is always a sneaky bastard! And it will be much harder to convince others to abandon their comfy illusions, because I already know how hard it is to fight my own devilry.

@RichardY let's focus on the main topic here, which is religion. What is religion's aim basically? Ego death, Truth, enlightenment, etc... So, any other activity is not religion-related. The other points you suggested can be valid, it's a matter of perspective. @Joseph Maynor thank you for the correction, but you understood what I meant.