Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 3

This is one of the best visualizations of God-Consciousness that I've ever seen.

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Amazing!

You can't visualize Awakening much better than that.

What you're seeing in that animation is that the entire room is a Cosmic Hallucination. The entire room Awakens to itself as God.

That's what real spiritual experience feels like. Clearly that's very different from belief, or theory, or religion, or science. It's even different from most meditation. Most meditation cannot get you that conscious. But some people experience life like that by default, from birth, just thanks to genetics. Those people are the mystics, gurus, and psychics.

Note: That visualization is a bit exaggerated. You should not expect your Awakening to look so colorful and cartoony. Your Awakening will likely feel more grounded and mundane.

Imagine going to your guru or priest and asking him, “Is 1+1 really 2? I am doubtful. Please tell me."

It is not the guru’s job to convince you that 1+1=2. If the guru tells you "Yes", he has failed you. The guru’s job is to help you realize that you can know 1+1=2 by the the light of your own Mind. The guru’s job is not to tell you what the truth is, but to show you that you can find the truth yourself. The guru gives you homework, not the answer.

Don't ask the guru for the answer, ask the guru what work to do to reach the answer. Ask the guru what work he did to reach the answer.

Why can't the guru just give you the answer? Because the answer is a profound experience that needs to be created through work.

If you come to a coach and ask him, "What's it like to run a marathon?" What will be his answer? "Go run a marathon." Because running a marathon in a profound experience, not a theory. To know what a marathon is, you must run it. A good coach inspires you to run a marathon, knowing that the marathon will educate you. The real guru is the marathon, not the coach. No coach can teach you what the marathon can teach you.

This is why good gurus do not give direct answers. They are not being evasive, they need you to run.

This is how Pokemon was talked about when it first came out in the 1990s.

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The point is, your mind sees whatever it wants to see.

Why are there more mentally ill people in the spiritual field than the general population? Atheists and rationalists like to believe that it’s because religion is a mental illness. No! That’s wrong. It’s because people with mental illness have looser minds, which makes it easier for them to be conscious of the mystical aspects of Consciousness/Reality. Mental illness really means that there is no material Reality at all, but the rationalist mind is so rigid and dogmatic that it needs to deny this to maintain its solidity and sanity. The scientific, rationalist mind is terrified of discovering that its own sanity is just a hallucination. That’s why it dismisses mystical insight as mental illness. Mentally ill people have less scientific and rationalist minds, the scientists and rationalists take this a bug, but it’s actually a feature of Consciousness. This is not to say that mental illness is a good thing, it isn’t, but mental illness exists because Consciousness is much broader than scientific rationality. Mental illness has access to more of Reality can science does because science artificially limits itself out of fear of delusion. This is ironic, since science's fear of delusion causes science to end up deluded. But then again, that's exactly how fear works. Excessive fear causes the realization of the thing feared.

There is also more mental illness in artists than the general population — why? Because art requires connection to creativity and spirit, which requires more loose states of mind than science or academia. The kind of looseness of mind that’s required to create the best art would get your career killed in professional academic circles. But the problem for academia is, that kind of creativity is also required to do ground-breaking, revolutionary science. Which is why most science is so stale and lame. In theory, scientists and academics love ground-breaking new science, but in practice they are bigoted towards the states of mind required to generate such breakthroughs in understanding. Breakthroughs in science require breakthroughs in Consciousness, in perspective, not just more measurement, more math, more data, and more technological gadgetry.

Mental looseness vs mental rigidity is in a trade-off relationship. The looser the mind the easier it is to have crazy new ideas, but the easier it is to just become crazy and deluded. But the rigid mind has locked itself in cage and thrown away the key. It's really a question of, How adventurous and risky is your mind? The more adventurous your mind is, the more advanced things you can discover about MIND, but the more likely you are to become crazy in the process. Exploring MIND is a dangerous game. You can explore MIND so deeply that you stop even taking death seriously, which is more likely to get you killed. Ultimately, the reason scientists are so closedminded is because they are terrified of death and insanity. Ironically, the attachment to rationalism is fear-based, not logic-based. Logic does not tell you that you should cling to logic, the ego's fear and insecurity does. Logic itself does not regard itself as king, the scientific ego does. "Everything should be logical", is not a logical statement, it is an egoic statement.

Note: No, I am not mentally ill, in case you thought I was rationalizing my own mental illness. I wish my mind was more loose than it is. I suffer from mental rigidity, not looseness. I am too rational. I have to work hard to make myself less scientific. I spent decades undoing science in myself, which is why I can outsmart scientists.

The problems with democracy:

Note: I am pro democracy. It's just important to be realistic about its challenges. Democracy requires that we don't take it for granted.

The challenge for every genuine spiritual teacher is that they know they can’t tell you what God is, they need you to realize it yourself. Teaching God is no different than teaching math: the student has to do the homework and grok the equations for himself. God is no more a belief system than math is. This is why religion is so harmful. Imagine if we turned math into a religion. That would be bad math. If you love math, the last thing you would want is for math to be turned into a religion. A religion of math is not more mathy, it’s less mathy. Dogmatizing and ideologizing math destroys the purpose of math. The purpose of math is to be directly conscious of the truths of math, not to memorize and believe in math. Memorizing math ruins math. Preaching math ruins math. Indoctrinating math ruins math. Pushing math on others ruins math. The purpose of math education is to teach the student to love the beauty of math. So it is with God.

God is a beautiful thing, and anyone presenting God in an ugly way is doing it wrong. All of the religious versions of God are much uglier than God really is. Humans take something so Beautiful and present it so ugly, soiled by the ugliness of their own minds.

God is the Beauty of Mind.

If you think math is beautiful, wait till you see God. Math is just a subset of God's Beauty. And religion is ugly as a pig caked in its own shit. If you love God, you should hate religion.