Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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Some have criticized me for over-stating Osho's wrongness on God, as if I was misinterpreting him. Well, here is another example, if the previous one was not clear enough.
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You would not speak this way about God if you were conscious of It.
Why is Osho speaking about God as something outside of Reality/Existence?
This would be like if you asked me if cats exist, and I responded with, "There is no need for hypothetical cats." And you say, "But isn't that a cat on your lap?", and I say, "This here is not a cat! This creature has its own intelligence, its own energy. It does not need any outside cat. Cats are redundant."
Everything in life comes down to the problem of differentiating truth from falsehood. This one existential epistemic dilemma is the cause of all human problems. Human beings do not understand how to differentiate truth from falsehood. That's why I exist. All that I do is teach you how to differentiate truth from falsehood until one day you Awaken and realize that you're TRUTH. Distinguishing truth from falsehood is the trickiest thing in existence. Nothing is trickier. Nothing takes more intelligence. The perfect differentiation of Truth is Infinite Intelligence. It takes Infinite Intelligence for God to differentiate truth from falsehood and to Awaken. Don't you see? God can't Awaken until it perfectly differentiates Itself! The only thing God's seeking is Truth. Because Truth is what God is. God is Truth. God is Truth. God is Truth, looking for itself.
God is an endless process of differentiating Truth from the illusions spun by Infinite Imagination. How does God see through its own self-constructed illusions? That's the real existential challenge, not human survival.
Notice that the more intelligent you get, the more you see through your own self-constructed illusions. Well, this trend reaches all the way to the top, ending in Omniscience. You can become so intelligent than nothing your mind constructs fools you any more. That is the ultimate point of development.
Haven't you realized yet? Your greatest enemy is your own mental constructions. So that's where most of your attention belongs. That's what Actualized.org is laser focused on. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is busy trying to distract you from focusing on your mental constructions.
Don't take your eyes off the ball. The ball is your own mental constructions.
You can boil all of philosophy down to this one question: How do I differentiate truth from falsehood? If you solve this one question, you've solved Reality.
These are powerful:
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It is astounding to me that serious intellectuals can enter such a system and not recognize that this corrupts the entire intellectual process from its foundation. Serious truth-seeking cannot be done inside such a corrupt, conformist, and survival-dominated human construct.
I want you to viscerally feel how survival-oriented the academic game is. Academia is a ruthless survival pressure-cooker. This makes truth-seeking nearly impossible.
The rot in academia is not SJWs and queers, it's good old-fashioned capitalism and a business-as-usual attitude of everyone involved. Academia is a rigged survival game, a true pyramid scheme, but one with epic cultural cache. How can an obvious pyramid scheme have so much prestige and respect? That is the quandary!
If you actually cared about understanding Reality, how could you be so irresponsible as to hitch your wagon to such a system? That's what I want academia to answer for. How can you love truth and intelligence and then quietly accept and enable such a system? But people don't just accept it, they revere it! Academia is revered as the pinnacle of truth by outsiders who don't know any better or insiders who are too professionally conflicted to question the system.
I don't think that non-academics understand how corrupt the entire academic system is. If they knew, they would be a lot more skeptical of scientific proclamations. An important aspect of successfully deconstructing science is understanding just how corrupted by survival academia is. Once you see that, your eyes are opened and you can never take it too seriously ever again.
Realize this: You cannot get tenure in a major university without not intellectually pissing off your colleagues. This is insane epistemic lapse! No one who is serious about epistemology can just accept that as, "Well, that's just how things are done around here." NO! If you are cool with this system, you are an epistemic pervert. Such a system cannot produce truth!
In order to deconstruct science you need to take the corruption and conformity of academia — the so-called "sociology of science" — way more seriously. This point is not understand deeply enough by almost anyone. In a nutshell, the sociology of science is deep shit.
If academia was doing its job properly, I would be out of a job. As long as I am able to earn a living doing what I do, academia is failing. In a properly functioning academic system a guy like me would not be able to understand deeper than the system. But understanding deeper than academia is easy today. Why in the fuck does a free YouTube channel teach philosophy better than a $100,000 Harvard graduate degree? Because I eliminated the survival pressure-cooker enough so I could focus on pure truth-seeking. But more fundamentally, because I cared enough about truth to do that in the first place. Why don't academics? That's what baffles me. How can someone be a serious academic but not care this deeply about truth?? The answer is simple: conformity. Grad students entering professional academia are not seriously questioning anything, they are doing exactly what the sausage factory tells them to do. The sausage factory trains the next generation of polished and overly-credentialed sausage engineers.
THAT is the power of conformity. Conformity is an intelligent anaconda that has you in a death-grip.
This is wrong.
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This is why I dislike such "enlightenment" and Buddhist people. These say many things which sound correct but at the end of the day God is not recognized and people are misled.
This is a good example of how a teaching can sound profound and spiritual yet be false.
If Osho did not realize God, then what the fuck did he realize? That is my puzzlement.
The entire point of looking inward is to realize you are God.
I don't like how Osho turns God into some kind of silly word game. It is not that at all.
