The Dangers Of Misapplying Spiritual Teachings
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
- Some important clarifications about the serious nature of spiritual work and many ways in which it can be abused and misinterpreted.
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Warning: Spiritual work is inherently risky and dangerous if misapplied or misunderstood. Actualized.org teachings are not suitable for people with serious mental disorders such as: suicidal depression, schizophrenia, psychosis, bipolar, ADHD, drug addiction, or other psychiatric or medical conditions. Leo's teachings assume you have a stable and well-ground mind and life. If your mind is ill or unstable, these teachings may lead to a deterioration of your condition and even suicide if misapplied. Self-help and spirituality are not substitutes for professional treatment for such conditions. If spiritual work is causing your life to unravel in unhealthy ways, discontinue the work until your mind has stabilized and you are safe. Actualized.org teachings are very advanced and can easily be misunderstood and misapplied. Nothing Leo teaches ever promotes physical self-harm. Any time Leo talks about “facing one’s death” he is NOT talking about suicide or physically harming your body, but rather ego-death and spiritual awakening. Never confuse these two things.
Warning: Psychedelic substances are inherently risky and dangerous in many ways. Only use psychedelics if you are willing to take 100% responsibility for the consequences. Do not take psychedelics if you are too young, too immature, on mind-altering medication, or if you have a mental disorder. By listening to Leo you agree that Actualized.org is not responsible if you misuse psychedelics and injure yourself or others. If you decide to use psychedelics you must exercise extreme caution and carefully follow safety protocols. Leo’s use of psychedelics is always done with extreme caution and attention to safety. You should treat psychedelics like a loaded gun.
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No matter how 'advanced' personal development gets, I've personally found that basic self-help concepts such as practicing gratitude, developing hobbies, physical exercise etc. are always helpful 🙏🏼💚
So true.
@@astridlopez6447 lmao commenting on everyone i see. 2:12:54
staying with the feet on the ground
Anyone who claims to be enlightened is NOT enlightened, because only the human EGO would assume this spiritual state and then feel compelled to tell others.
That's right. I experienced full kundalini awakening with profound direct experience of Source. I have been on the path for 28 years. What you are saying is absolutely true and essential.
Condolences to the family of the person in question. Very responsible response Leo!
Could be Connor Murphy
I heard it's someone named soonhei
Léo Gura killed Connor Murphy
@@luiznunes3612 lol
@@luiznunes3612 your mom
The Tolle thing was, “I cannot live with myself.” Then realized who was it that could not live with whom, and then surrendered.
@@Snuqls what makes you say that ?
@@Snuqls Horseshit, he's made my life far better with his book, just like Leo with his videos.
leo teaches people they are god, and that they imagined everything. People kill themselves
everyone is surprised? what is wrong with you people? Leo is a narcissist and he's brainwashing you
@@enterthevoidIi I’m open to that possibility too, but what he says resonates with me on such a deep level. He also says to question even his teachings too. We just have to use discernment
Most people i meet in the spiritual world come to it to flee themselves, they tend to ignore personal developpement. If you dont try to actualize yourself, spiritual practices will lead nowhere. this channel helped me understand this 3 years ago because i saw that leo was just trying to better himself "at first" and spiritual work came to him gradually as he was learning.
And I think for me, spirituality actually taught me that I do not have to change myself. I and everyone around me are like keystones that support eachother and the entire universe, and if one was missing the whole structure could not exist. Sincere condolences to the person who is gone, and his family.
@@Miketar2424 "I don't have to change myself" what?
@Dar Thremis yes that's what i meant by it, i'm not talking about some avatar fantasy stuff.
@@heraldojacques8386 that part grabbed my attention too, it's not about having to change or not, understanding aspects of reality and yourself will eventually lead to changes, conscious changes that happen because you want them and not because you have to. You dont HAVE TO change yourself, unless you WANT TO.
Well said
I was around 20 and at the time I was watching Leo's teachings for about 1 year. I'm from Eastern Europe > Romania, finished high school, didn't go to college. couldn't afford it and to be honest didn't see any value in wasting even more time in the formal education system. In my close family nobody went further than high school so there wasn't any pressure for me to try and do more than my parrents did in terms of education. I started working different minimum-wage jobs, couldn't fit in no matter what and my body started hurting just thinking about going back to that job, doing meaningless work just to be able to survive. I contemplated suicide, I was thinking:
"What the fuck am I doing here on this Earth ? Is this what I was born to do, work a minimum-wage shit job all my life then get a shitty retirement pension and die ?"
I certainly knew that I was not going to do that for much longer. I went into a deep 1 year depression where all I did everyday was sleep for 12 hours: this was my favourite part, basically not existing and the other 12 hours just played an online MMORPG on my computer, getting lost in that virtual world because that was the only place I felt I have control over my life and I can be and do whatever I want in that world, basically what I wasn't capable of doing in the real world.
After 1 year doing virtually nothing, living off the back of my parents like a parasite, just sleeping and gaming I finally got bored of being in that state of depression, I can't explain how or where did this new sensation of hope came over me because I'm not religious but anyway I decided to fly to UK where my transformation started. Settled down there, rented a cheap room and started a part time ~30h/week job as a chef to be able to survive.
Soon after my second paycheck I got myself a new computer and started learning frontend development, I had this calling since a young age: computers, figuring out how things work and solving problems, but didn't give it a go until this point.
The most important thing I did which is the reason I think I'm alive today is that I started going to gym. Was a skinny guy and I'm still not huge but I pride myself on being natural and been goind for about 2 years, still going strong. I can't stress this enough for everybody out there: gym, will literally change your body chemestry and make you motivated to achieve more and more in life. Once you release that energy and watch yourself get stronger you will never think about suicide again, that will seem like a stupid joke, you will laugh at yourself just thinking back when you were depressed because of what gym does to the human brain.
Keept going to the gym, learning and sharpening my skills as a developer, building my portfolio and all that jazz, having no idea whether I'm ever going to actually have a job in this field. The important distinction here is that even after that 1 year of depression hell I actually managed to be passionate about living life again. The point here is: **Don't make a permanent decision based on temporary emotions.** Today I'm 24 and at few months ago at the end of 2020 I got my first job as a frontend developer, earning more then I ever thought I would be able to earn considering my education level and trust me I'm quite a lazy person, if I don't like doing something I will do everything in my power to stop doing it. But this new job doing what I actually enjoy is something else, I could see myself doing this job passionately ultil retirement.
If you didn't find your calling yet: never stop looking for it because it might be just around the corner. Don't give up learning new things, putting yourself in unconfortable situations (you know your weak points) and newer settle for less, always aim very high even if you will miss, keep aiming high because it's better to aim high and miss then aim low and settle there for the rest of your life, if you do that you will be in pain everyday of your life, depressed, wondering why you're even here.
Some people will have an existential crisis and kill themselves because they act in the heat of the moment of emotional weakness.
Some people will raise up from that existential crisis because they know deeply that things will get better, there's no other way.
The video intro quote sums it up pretty good.
Kevin, this is such an uplifting story! I admire you, your strenght and i wish you well. You will have a good life.
Disagree massively with the gym suggestion, I have been suicidal before and gym was just something I did to fill in my day, i made progress but it certainly didn't do anything to fix the problem was simply a distraction; you also have to bear in mind that advice for certain people is very dangerous. In my case I overworked myself at the gym due to emotional trauma, and ended up injuring myself.
💚 From Syria to all ....we are all One and our essence Is peace , stillness , pure Love , pure Consciousness , pure Awareness and bliss ....God Is our true nature and our soul .
Thanks for sharing that , I’ve been thinking of gym too , it’s simply higher energy there , awesome story of transformation.
Great story man🙏
Actualized definitely saved my life and help me cure my depression and anxiety,so thank you, Leo, much LOVE
00:20 the topics and the context 📰
1:18 What happened?
2:33 what do we make of this?
3:55 other related videos▶️
5:20 The warnings, traps, harping, obvious/ common sense stuff 🤷🏼♀️🤷♂️🤦♂️🤦♀️
11:55 teaching this stuff and it’s struggles
19:25 consequences
27:50 how do you teach deep truths about spirituality, without ppl fucking it up for themselves and everyone else?❓
33:50 the general disclaimer and common sense because people♻️
36:00 spiritual emergency 🚨 and story time 📖
54:32 fear mongering, the ego incentive, and responsibility
1:11:37 suicides happen from...
1:19:32 What you're getting yourself into.
1:42:07 Leo's thoughts on suicide
1:47:37 Health and it's connection to spirituality
2:00:50 Weaponizing and discrediting the teachings because people
2:08:30 truth/Truth and solutions
2:12:30 common sense stuff
@Philip great point.
Leo, it's not the message, it's that we are so gullible when you are in the question, me for example I'm addicted to you Leo and everything you say it means so much to my logic. I changed my beliefs while listening your videos since I discovered you at August 2020
@Philip maybe at least learn how to spell psychedelics before critiquing 😁
Please stop doing these timelines
Thank you
I hope you guys that are following Leo and other teachers are doing well. Remember to take a step back from sprirituality if you feel its not doing any good for you at the moment. Your mindset should feel nice, and fun when leaning these topics, otherwise you have fallen into a trap that need to be taken care of.
Remember that love is your goal. Thats the most important indicator of you growing. (in my opinion)
And i hope you dont take this event to your heart Leo, because it was not in your control. I know your intentions leo, and its very close to your heart.
@lux free the illusion Mya is just as beautiful as what you think absolute truth is. don't just agree with what Leo says for batum because that's the issue that started all of this.
Id maybe rephrase that as "take a step back from anything destabilising if its hurting you, and maybe focus on the concrete, low hanging fruit things/ideas that give you a more peaceful/positive state of being. Ive often found inner work uncomfortable, yet that is usually a prerequisite to SOME insights
@@perfectionprogression4151 yes thats a great way to put it
We need some Kripperino-like meme comment accounts for Leo too
@Organic Tomato love em anyway. That's the the real spiritual work. To practice empathy and compassion for those who are hateful. To see past their mask and into the divinity that's in everything
This is why your "This is an advanced teaching" warning is important and not a joke like folks like to joke about here. I've always took that seriously, but also seek to verify these teachings myself in a safe and effective way which you often communicate.
@@ifollowtheantichristandthe9218 it is subjective to your own experience. Leo is speaking in general terms.
@@ifollowtheantichristandthe9218 Advanced teaching is relative to what do you need to know in order to comprehend something, for example : Someone who doesn't understand the concept of numbers cannot understand what addition/division/multiplication is, and has no idea how to do it, we can say that addition/division/multiplication are advanced teachings for him. Another example : if someone doesnt have some understanding of the concept of ego, a topic like spiral dynamics could be considered advanced teaching for him, he still needs some building blocks before being able to integrate it.
Leo - I've been checked out from spiritual considerations for at least the last year, and the sadness and frustration and ill health I've experienced makes it evident. Almost like I had this weird backslide from stage green or yellow back to orange. I'm so happy that my painful experiences have led me back to this path, again, into my truer self -- and I can't express how grateful I am that, after all these years, you're still there, helping us along. Thank you.
"A lot of people come to spirituality with the purpose of escaping suffering". So true. Thank you Leo for all of your teachings and for helping us stay grounded too.
People often find spirituality at very low points in their life. I would guess this is not the first time we have lost a brother to suicide. It’s a tragedy all the same though. My heart goes out to their family. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. Rest In Peace friend.
This is so true. When you are disgusted with the external world you have the urge to go inside. Inside means you want to awaken. You need some guidance from someone who is trully awakened. A guru.
The more I advance in spiritual work the more i care about the physical life as i see how precious everything is. Including the physical, including my life as anyone else life.
Honestly I haven't watched your content in a long time, but I sense a new humiltiy and openheartedness that wasn't there before. The way you now meet your listener at eye-level is truly beautiful.
I used to belong to a spiritualist Church in Melbourne Australia and it was a very weird place
Some of the mediums gave out really negative weird confused sort of energy
There was a hierarchy between the mediums leaders and the rest of the congregation
The mediums had afternoon tea at their own table and they had better food than the rest of us
People weren't very welcoming like they are in normal churches.(I'm no longer a Christian anymore because that made me crazy for other reasons.)
Instead some of them were quite hostile
I persisted for a while because I was desperate to get direction in my life and was looking to the readings of the mediums for this
But after a while I realised that there was something seriously wrong with the people there
I think that some of them were affected by demons and they were channelling demons not deceased family members
There was a great big diagram of a 6 pointed star
The more I went there the more angry I found myself becoming as soon as I walked in the door
The messages the mediums gave where sometimes quite helpful but there were also some that we're just silly nonsense or were totally wrong
What a relief to walk away from that sort of dabbling
I'm so sorry to hear one of your followers ended their life. I remember you saying a while back something along the lines of, 'do not abuse the body'. Life is just too complicated for some people though. So sad ❤️❤️❤️
Meditating and trying to transcend without cleaning up all your bs first is reckless to say the least. Wake up, clean up should be the exact other way around. In fact, when you've cleaned out your shadow, which is what your ego rests upon, you automatically wake up anyway. Meditation is at best a waste of time, at worst a one-way ticket to psychopathy. Don't even mention psychedelics.
I also started watching your vids at age 17 and wow I cant believe how far your channel has come! I new you were gonna be big!! Again thanks for all of your insights!
R.I.P. SoonHei 🙏😔
Too Soon hey? Too soon 😔
It is just a dream.
@Patrick M. SoonHei is just imaginary, just neurons firing in your brain, but when you sleep, SoonHei is gone, he is just a thought.
Sonhei means dream in portuguese... :(
@@limjian7638 Don't disrespect the death.
For what it's worth, I've suffered from suicidal thoughts for many years, and your channel has helped me numerous times. Last week I lost my brother, and your video came out with perfect timing to help me deal with the emotions and questions I was struggling with. I can't thank you enough for bringing us along with your journey.
Do you meditate my friend? Sad to hear about your brother
@@mrksgb8607 sometimes, but not in the way most would I guess. I quiet my mind from thoughts, just by paying attention to it. A technique I learnt from listening to Eckhart Tolle, that has helped me a lot. I'm not sure it counts as a meditation though. Thank you for the condolences :)
I'm sorry for your loss...
@@davidrewit Thank you very much.
They used to blame suicides on heavy metal music in the 1980’s. The band Judas Priest was sued by a family who’s child played their album and took his life shortly after.
Heavy metal is depressing af. Not to say you're gonna sue a band but it definitely sinks you deeper into the low vibes.
@@atmanvisual190 Or not! Try playing heavy metal while in a cold shower, really good way to start the day
Woah holy shit man sorry to hear that Leo this is not your fault at all we walk the way to enlightenment with many demons to overcome 🙏 I have gotten suicidal In the past and your teaching filled in the blanks and helped God to save me and show me the infinite you are a great teacher thanks man really I wish you could have known before how he was thinking
Respect to the one feeling the loss.Respect to the one who decided to leave.
This episode is much needed. Deep foundational. An essential. Thank you for sharing all your effort, Leo. 🙏🏻🍀
I was put off to Leo for a long time but I feel like he's alot more humble now.
Same
I agree
Absolutely love how your mind works.
I’m a thinker so your break down helps my mind get out of the way because the way you explain makes EVERYTHING so freakin’ CLEAR and understandable.
Nobody else does this.
I don’t think I would be able to receive other spiritual concepts or life coaching with out having a deeper foundation
MOSTLY due to actualized.
Easy example: I wouldn’t really want to consistently meditate unless I could understand WHY it even matters first at a deeper level then experience it myself.
I get so much value that I can’t even articulate it all. So grateful.
I recommend the work of Swami Kriyananda. He brings so much joy to the same essential teachings that Leo discusses. Both are great in conjunction.
@@dariofromthefuture3075 thanks- Will check it out. I read a lot of other sources as well, of course but love the unique multi-layer breakdown on this channel.
Oh my goodness what timing , I was just looking over a bridge, 1000 ft bridge today At Lees ferry Crossing near Lake Powell today thanking how beautiful the structure was and how beautiful the canyon is . And how terrifying it would be to jump off it . I too at one time was suicidal and it gets better it always gets better if you just wait it out And pray and ask for help and even asked Jesus too , he is here to help us .. for real . Truth . Our very own heart centered Divinity . This was a good talk cause on this journey I’ve felt like I was losing it many times and it’s been terrifying and so profound love at different times. We’re all just walking each other home .
Just this past week I deliberately decided to unsubscribe from your videos for personal reasons and this happened 😥 Feels like an omen. After your God-Realization video it's become clearer to me now how focused you are on advanced content I'm simply not ready for yet. Your videos have been life-changing for me, but now, being more honest and serious with myself, I realize the level I'm at and should pursue. Nonetheless I know you have good intentions, my journey with this work is just the beginning and I look forward to being back on "your level". Keep up the great content 🙏
That's a very mature position. I feel you!
Some months ago I did the same, sometimes it is too much for the ego and you need a break and to go back to the basics. Now I'm back watching him but I make a note that I need more work in the basics so I just take it as what the future holds for me.
It's good to take breaks from this stuff. I do it too. Best of luck ❤️
The news to unsubsidized leaves you without choice. You could be cutting yourself off from the exact video that is exactly what you need to hear at that time. Just take a break from some and listen to the others. Even though you aren't there yet, don't miss the ones you are very ready to hear. But as you wish, we do have choices.
I have done the same. I highly recommend Swami Kriyanda’s videos here on RUclips when you feel ‘in over your head’. He speaks of the same expansive states but brings so much joy and grounding to it. He is an essential balancer to Leo’s more intensive intellectual approach.
This goes out to you Connor
Conor Murphy is faking his own death and is using thia video claiming it was him who killed himself. He has no respect for the actual person who committed suicide. If you go over to his RUclips channel called Conor Murphy you will see the video. It's quite disturbing
It's him tho.
@@antoinemasson166 it's soonhei who committed suicide. I follow his sister he's definitely alive
ruclips.net/video/-VvFGNXTD4E/видео.html
I’m looking forward to seeing your future videos on health. Thank you, Leo for everything you do. 🙂 Greetings from Bulgaria
During my spiritual journey I developed DPDR (depersonalization/derealization) after a vipassana retreat that triggered a past trauma of a very bad weed trip. It was one of the hardest and scariest times of my life where I had to go through panic attacks every night for almost 2 weeks, feeling I was gonna die each night. Be extremely careful with psychedelics and drugs in general because even light drugs like weed can trigger really negative experiences. I am much better now and no longer get panic attacks, thanks to all the helpful resources and open-minded psychologist I talked to. Be careful everyone, this journey ain't easy.
" The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable " ~ Carl Jung 💚
You're right about the Tick example, I got Lyme disease from camping, and it's something I am grateful for, but it's been challenging dealing with the pain.
Rip Connor murphy
keep up the work leo . we all appreciate your wisdom . what we decide to do with this wisdom is all our personal responsibility . no one could ever blame you for this as no one would ever blame the engineer who built that bridge.
Once when I was on LSD I was thinking about my dad and I just suddenly realized that my dad and his entire life story is currently being imagined by me. I already knew this intellectually but, for the first time, I got a serious hit of this experientially and it was an INSANE insight. The insight was so deep that when it hit me my eyes shot wide open were the opened the widest that they had ever been in my life 😳... my whole body writhed on the bed that I was laying on. I fucking freaked out. I was experientially aware that there are literally no other people at all and I am imagining every other person. Only the present moment exists... all stories are fictions... including other people. It was very difficult to stomach yet I knew it was true. I was only able to maintain this state of awareness for about 10 seconds until it went away... I was seriously shook. I was confused because I've had this insight before but this was a different level of lucidity that I've never had before... it was simultaneously fascinating and frightening.
I thought I'd share this because when Leo says that realizing that there are no other people is a terrifying insight... he's not joking.
I have empathy for that.
Do you exist?
Dude, I've had childhood moments where I was playing then suddenly dropped everything and remember asking my brother "is this real right now?" because everything felt like a dream...like a dream *I* was projecting *outward*
Flash forward years later and I've tried psychedelics and had similar moments to you.
However two things to ponder. Are those insights for sure the truth? Idk. they are powerful, but how do we know they are "the truth" or baseline reality?
And 2. Could that be some elaborate coping mechanism that was from traumatic childhood experiences so you "dissociate" and feel like you're dreaming / you're creating everything. And all the LSD is doing is bringing back a trauma and you're experiencing it that way?
Who knows. Interesting stuff. But I tend to believe with what you're saying. Life does seem to be happening from Inside-OUT rather than outside-in.
Bro maybe you should stop telling people they can literally kill themselves like in your last video about God realization?
Also, are you sure you are not fooling yourself by believing ego death is the same as the death of your body? One you have experienced, the other you don't have experienced.
I'm afraid people will think I'm crazy or my country will imprison me
This is the first video every seeker should watch before doing any spiritual work.
Because?
yea i agree
Even better advice would be to just not do any "spiritual work". If you truly want to awaken, forget spirituality.
@@luminon9635
Shit advice.
@@godofdogs6198
Sings: “It ain’t necessarily so...” 🎤
I have Schizoaffective Disorder, which is Bipolar and Schizophrenia. Mental illness is basically the manifestation of a deeper problem, just like how many diseases manifest, usually due to our disbalance, fragmentation, and our bodies being in a lower vibrational frequency that ultimately attracts these illnesses. I just wanted to say that not all people with mental illness are "stupid". I have met some very intellectual people who have mental illness. However, they were mentally stable. I first became psychotic at the age of 18, without the use of drugs or alcohol. I was watching a meditation video(I dont even know why I started watching it). After, I went upstairs and heard a telepathic voice in my head that seemed to have came from an external source that said, " Do not be afraid, you are beautiful." I then looked in the mirror and I could see my own aura. During my early 20's, I had a interesting experience with psychedelics that helped me find out more about myself. I think mental illness is a very large problem. Many people are affected by mental illness and that needs to be looked into more especially by spiritual gurus. It's a little scaring navigating through spirituality with a metal illness. I've been feeling better after starting certain supplements and medication. I've also changed my lifestyle alot. I've been doing DNA repair/ chakra cleansing meditations everyday. Last night, as I was going to sleep I started seeing images in my head, such as; shapes and eyes. I honestly am kinda afraid of diving deeply into spirituality, but I really want to heal and improve my quality of life. I've been feeling great lately. I am stable and have the desire to do things, such as; learn more about spirituality, learn more about myself, and grow. I've been feeling alot better since getting back into spirituality. I also want to get into Psychotherapy/Shamanism. Thanks for the great information!
Thank you! Too many comments to get mine through here but in listening to this video (and I am very familiar with Leo) I could only think, "Why does he keep referring to the guy as stupid?" We all know he could have been in depression or any state of mind that would push him to take his life.. That has nothing to do with stupid. I listened to the 2.5 hours but that pretty much spoiled it for me... Wishing you the best of the best. Kenny
Thank you for this video. I watched at least half of your videos from the channel and at some point I really got lost between duality and non duality. This video really really helped me to get out of that depressed confused state. I knew it was ego, but I didnt knew how to get out of that state and it became really uncomfortable. So I kept watching some more videos and I found my answers. Thank you Leo! ❤
Good!
@@ActualizedOrg 49:47 she lost herself, she lost everything about the notion of herself AND YOU CALLED IT
👉 ENLIGHTENMENT ❓️❓️❓️
she is paradised and you call enlightenment ❓️❓️
There are many big cracks in New Age, yoge, meditation..
I don't believe there is some mental issues with those people, i can prove logically. The problem is purely with meditation.
After Swimming in a dirty river, you can't say not to allow water to go into your mouth.
When you believe you are in oneness with that supream consciousness why we have to be conscious ourself or else we will die❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️
Search on RUclips many EX New Age who got freed from suicidal thought after leaving it. As part of understanding the reality behind it, else wasting so much time is just a waste of time and inversely misleading innocent people.
Without Jesus everything we try will be in vain, period.
58:45 if there's nothing wrong, that means human is wrong for punishing a thief....
1:08:36 killing oneself is also a sin in Christianity.
Talking about your sayings that one can kill a neighbor and rape a women, has more to do with one's consciousness that is build in DNA. Even a small child knows that killing is wrong. Who built this notion human? It was God himself. So the one who fears God or who expects heaven will never to that purposely because to kill is already not naturally driven energy.
God didn't say commit sins as you wish i will forgive you... but said don't sin, love your enemies.
1:12:43 there are many youtube testimonies about New age, where people got drown to suicidal thoughts. The main reason behind is due to the negative energy of meditation and not due to natural causes.
Good video, It reminds me of something taught to me when I was too young to understand. "God will not do anything for you, but he will give you the power to do it for yourself." I also think based on my experiences that it is very dangerous to awaken those who do not like themselves or their past actions. The more you wake up the more you understand, life is our fault, and our achievement. There is no one else except ourselves to blame. We are the universe's attempt at understanding ourselves and this is the one thing I am not sure you can ever get away from.
You have to nope yourself backwards pretty hard to regress from that realization.
Then maybe I will need to look for a religion that makes me think someone else will save me.
Regarding confession, i disagree. One has to regret their sins for absolution to be valid. That's quite an important point
I have to agree here, even though I'm an atheist. If there is an omnipresent god that values repentance its not going to be fooled by a deathbed or weekend "um, sorry about that. We good now?" at all.
I was just thinking to myself “when is Leo going to post another video” and here we are, synchronicity. 🙂
@@dcktater7847 nice one 👍🏼
@@christianhorvath791 collapse
Now you understand why people who "know" don't really "speak" about it right?
Its dangerous too, I've received death threats because of how much it disrupts a systen
Wow
Leo, this saddens me but I am glad you have created this video. This is also very timely for me and others who have recently left a specific group. I left when I noticed multiple posts by people in the group threatening suicide, and the leader saying NOTHING. The fact that you took the time to make this video says a lot about you as a person. Thank you!
Very needed reminder! Thank you. As Jamie Wheal puts it: this work is like technical mountaineering, we have to learn all that we can but in the end our life is in our hands. You drop the rope, you are dead. You misjudge the weather, you are dead, you overestimate your skills, you are dead. But if we manage all these risks appropriately for our skill level, it is one of most profound experience we can have.
Leo has played a HUGE part in helping me. Thank you for everything you have done for me Sir. . Eternity grateful.
Really,? How?
@@michaeldanielson3098 the teachings help me put into perspective the world we live in. To surrender my ego. Have compassion and empathy for others. Pursuing a purpose. Being my best self for myself and my daughter.
I have to say, my son listened to Leo for over a year and he was pretty intellectual and unselfish and kind. He took his life with a gun after experiencing several personal failures. He had also been doing some psychedelics. He felt dth was just another option.
i am sorry about your son.
my condolences
Man the tumbnails on this channel are allways onpoint.
Leo has changed my life forever. I can't imagine never watching and learning from his videos. They are powerful and have changed not only mine but so many lives in so many beautiful ways. Remember that too. Condolences to the family 💗
What you consider "shit" others do not. Just because one person commits suicide does not mean he's influencing people to do so. Extremely far from that though.
People interpret things the wrong way all the time. And yes leo has helped change many lives in beautiful ways. Id love to hear how or where Leo promotes suicide? Have you watched his videos?
@while fools talk the wise is quiet thing is, I don't think you do. Clearly you don't do the work and understand what Leo is teaching. People commit suicide for many different reasons. Spirituality can teach things that are difficult to hear and can be understood in the compelete wrong way. How is that Leo's fault? I think this video was very professional of him. Your just projecting your own thoughts and ideas on to something you probably know nothing about. If you started sharing or teaching things your passionate about and someone commits suicide, I think you'd agree your not a fault. People just choose to view things from their limited perspective. That's something we cannot control.
I truly feel for the family who lost their son. I do. I'm just saying, actualised is infact an amazing channel but maybe not for some who aren't open-minded or capable of understanding what he teaches.
@while fools talk the wise is quiet I question almost everything he says. I experience the thing he teaches for myself before I choose to believe. I see you deleted your comment too.
Maybe consider watching some of his videos before you make judgements on how he promotes shit and how his followers are simply blind - your words.
You might learn something✌🏼
@while fools talk the wise is quiet I bet you he has helped make much more people not commit suicide.
I'm so grateful to have heard this teaching. Thank you Leo. My heart goes out to all those who have suffered, are suffering and the families left behind to pick up the pieces. ❤🙏 This topic is very near and dear to me.
I'm sorry for the pain this has caused the family and friends of the suicide victim. My heart goes out to all those who have lost a loved one as well as to you Leo. I know this has weighed heavily on you. It's clear you're processing pain. You're doing wonderful work for many souls and we're very grateful. Your path is unique and important. Love and healing to you and all.💞
Leo do you wear pants in these videos?
Thank you Leo.
It's Friday. Not expecting this, but glad to get an early start on the 2.5 hour video. : D
Humanists in the early Renaissance believed in god BUT they understood that god gave people faculties to make something Of one selves and apply one self to solve problems of humanity. They knew that just believing in god wasn’t going to solve societies problems
I thought i was going psychotic once on a mushroom trip
It's amazing the wealth of knowledge this man has. My only criticism would be how much sun (or lack thereof) Leo gets. Ghostly skin tells me he's rarely outside, in nature. I believe your knowledge would ring with higher wisdom if you chose to absorb energy from the light.
definitely agree
Some people just have a naturally paler complexion bro
@@Alexlamb442 yeah, like not everyone needs that solarium tan effect 🤷🏻♀️
Red to blue & orange to green that’s a beautiful way to understand it!!! Emotions to logic and back again
I have been listening to you Leo since 2015. I am aware of how much you promote a good healthy life. How to improve the mind, the body, the spirit. I didn’t watch your videos the last year. I am catching up. Definitely helping to balance myself. When I listen to you my life improves regardless of the topic of the video you upload. You are here to stay Leo.
People take their life because the wanted to. For one reason or another.
My husband’s grandfather did it at 56 because he had terminal cancer.
My aunt’s friend did it because his girlfriend was sleeping around.
My friends sister did it because her high school boyfriend broke up with her. She was 18. We know that it wasn’t your fault. Stop the guilt. You are not guilty.
thank you so much ! Best wishes and appreciation for you from a Vietnammese :D
hi, i'm also a fellow vietnamese who have been watching Leo's contents for quite sometime. It would be nice if we could have a chat haha
Im Vietnamese but what difference does it make
@@shanechavarria9532 nothing, it's just a noun to identify and make friends :))
Already started with one of my favorite quotes. Nice.
Love Joseph Campbell 😍😍
@@FitOutsideTheBox
🐟 02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”:
Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Absolute is a fictional character of divers mythologies.
According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, the Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Absolutely NOTHING, or conversely, Absolutely EVERYTHING - otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera - yet, as alluded to above, inaccurately referred to as a personal deity by the masses (e.g. “God”, “Allah”, “Yahweh”, “Bhagavan”, etc.).
In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate, Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF. That which can be perceived, can not be perceiving!
Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of ephemeral, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent).
Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an “awakened” individual.
APPARENTLY, this universe, composed of “mind and matter”, was created with the primal act (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it.
Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities).
“Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning “all this is indeed Brahman” or “everything is the Universal Self alone”). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that!
This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything is Infinite Awareness).
HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn't normally mistake the reflected image to be one's real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating form. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances.
Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit-for-tat”) karma is just that - an unverified notion. Likewise, the idea of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief.
Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe. Chapter 11 insightfully demonstrates this truism.
As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous.
Suffering is due to a false sense of personal agency - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is as follows: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling to accept life as it manifests moment by moment.
There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature:
1. Guilt
2. Blame
3. Pride
4. Anxiety
5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future
These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements (which can be perceived with the five senses) and the three subtle material elements (the three levels of cognition, which consist of abstract thought objects), listed above.
Cont...
The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This "resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness" can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life.
Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life.
Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined.
Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture.
So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (ostensively) material universe, you are now able to be liberated from all mental suffering, RIGHT?
WRONG! It is imperative to approach an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another way (in alignment with your essential identity as The Divine). For one who has himself for a teacher, that man has a veritable fool as his teacher.
Even if you adhere closely to the precepts of a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life - all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course.
Furthermore, if you are suitably-qualified and it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to receive discipline from one of the EXTREMELY rare fully-enlightened masters residing on earth at any given time (perchance even the current World Teacher himself), and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by diligently studying authoritative doctrines (especially the most accurate and complete of all extant Scriptures, this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”), serving your guru with great reverence and devotion, and by deliberately avoiding undue harm to oneself, to other individuals, to society as a whole, and to the natural environment, including other life forms.
Most beneficially, you are urged to become VEGAN, since carnism (the destructive ideology which supports the use and consumption of animal products, especially for “food”) is, apart from illegitimate (non-monarchical) governance and feminism, arguably the foremost existential crisis.
Best wishes for your unique, personal journey towards unalloyed peace and HAPPINESS! “The gateway to knowledge is ignorance”.
“You are this universe and you are creating it at every moment, because, you see, it starts now.
It didn't begin in the past - there IS no past.”
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“Find out who you REALLY are so that when death comes…there is no-one to kill, for while you are identified with your role, with your name, with your ego, there is someone to kill. But when you are identified with the whole universe, death finds you already annihilated and there’s no-one to kill”.
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“A wise Rabbi once said 'If I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I, and you are not you'.
In other words, we are not separate.”
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“Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.”
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“The meaning of life is life itself.”
Professor Dr. Alan Wilson Watts,
British-American Philosopher.
(06/01/1915 - 16/11/1973).
“What you seek is seeking you.”
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“Don't you know yet?
It is your light that lights the worlds.”
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“Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
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“We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
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“The lamps are different, but the light is the same.”
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī,
Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
(30/09/1207 - 17/12/1273).
I am just one of those, who overcame depression with the help of Leo's videos...but don't think it was only watching... it was hard work until I realised there is suffering only if I choose to suffer.
One thing I'd like to add....it is very easy to misinterpret what Leo says...and it takes intelligence to grasp the meaning..so don't give up until it happens!
What if killing oneself is what consciousness was supposed to do, because it wanted to experience that specific person's suicide ?
Thank you for this message
You addressed the events that transpired in a very responsible way
I love the fact that even though you are all about transcendental dimensions of being and higher levels of consciousness
You still are relating to subjects and situations and events
In a very relatable human way
It’s encouraging to see
Also very interested to hear about your healing crisis that you experienced !!!
Looking forward to that content Leo !
Leo I don’t know how to tell you this but I don’t think you are correct when you day you don’t have a ton of experience with people with depression. A lot of your audience is or at some point while watching your videos was depressed. It’s just the nature of the age range of people who watch a lot of RUclips and also the nature of the spiritual community, which most people find at low points in their life.
I remember making a comment a few years ago on this channel, where i didnt wanted to do the work because i was not ready, i do regret it of course, i think that part of the problem is trying to digest a lot of this information at once, it can be quite dangerous, and even depressing at first, people in life dont tend to understand why you start such a journey and why is so important.
My ego feels very threatened sometimes by this channel, but i know that helps me to evolve.
a 2,5 hour personal message to Connor Murphy
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You are indeed working for the greater good Leo. The work is very paradoxical. Your teachings are illuminating, robust and intensely insightful.
I like to think that Leo is sort of, talking to himself when he makes these videos. He said he likes to make this content partly because it helps him think through the process himself. And I love to watch and imagine the cogs churning in his mind as he speaks.
Keep up the good work Leo.
He is.
I guess that's an implicit explanation to the phone call video. Thanks Leo for keeping up your work
there is a channel called " Personal Mastery Quest" , which seems to be taking all your previous videos and creating similar ones.
Can someone tell me is he talking about connor murphy death??
No, apparently, the name was soonhei??
@@Stymtyler When did he tell Conner that?
It's nice to to see you taking a more empathetic / mature approach to disseminating these advanced teachings. The #1 reason I didn't send people to your channel is because so many things you said were so easy to misconstrue and twist into a negative frame by the way you presented them. Very, very easy to do. Though this wasn't your intention, it happened to myself and a friend, and created deep existential issues I didn't have the tools to deal with at the time. It led me to dismiss you as a competent teacher. I'm starting to change my opinion seeing how you're treating this situation and seeing not every is built similarly to you. Thanks for your sensitivity and desire to share these things, honestly. Thanks.
Good on you for making this video Leo. But lets also not forget that life is dangerous as well, with or without spirituality. Stress, frustration, repression of emotion, build ups leading to snapping in the form of physical and emotional lashing out at one another or oneself. Reliance on drugs, alcohol and all sorts of acceptable devices to feel safer with (which isn't always a bad thing) and not feel some of whats going on inside. Depression, sadness, confusion, anger, hopelessness dragging on for years which create the questions, is there anything more or what can be done. All leading back to spirituality, healers, doctors, psychiatrics, that can hopefully help, which again, have the same implicit dangers that can come up with life, but hopefully in doing so, one can overcome, accept, understand and improve the overall quality, as opposed to continue forward begrudgingly or freefall down a draining spiral.
It’s all so very sad that it had to come to that for that particular person. I remember warning my son when he was a bit younger, and I was trying to point him in the direction of personal self development, to only watch the content when Leo was wearing a dark shirt and not the white one, unless he first checked with me. I felt his psyche was too fragile and not mature enough to understand the later, more advanced teachings properly in a way that would not be taken on by him as anything other than a set of beliefs. I told him that the whole point was for him to reach the stages himself and some of the later stuff wouldn’t help him, but could harm him, as it wasn’t at the right time for him. It still isn’t for me, some of it, but I can hold it now, and actually know I’m not there yet with some of the stuff, if I ever will be. Plus it has taken a lot of work just to get to that part alone where I understand if I hear a teaching, it’s actually only a belief until I’ve realised it and then grounded it into in my own experience, so am now totally aware of that major difference. I know that my son most definitely wouldn’t have been able to understand that part. I still had to trust him however not to watch though, and to listen to me, and I do understand, some people would still do it anyway, like they would anything, even when warned by someone. I don’t know the answer, other than to put more warnings on, but even that can make things appear more attractive to a certain type of mind, especially a less mature one. It’s a very difficult thing to balance, and the teachings are so v helpful for certain individuals who are at the right stages to properly listen and do the work.. Those same people have nowhere else to go either, as this is not taught anywhere else. I don’t really know what else to say other than it is very upsetting and such a shame. In my opinion this work is still extremely valuable to the right audience but will obviously still be harmful to some.
It seems like you need to make a video about the differences and nuances between what is descriptive and what is prescriptive
While I am not enduring suicidal episodes as extreme or often as I used to, and am more aware of why we "should" live life and not choose suicide, there has been the occasional romanticising of death for me, so this episode really helps Leo
My friend, who also watched your videos killed himself by jumping off
lookout tower on april 13th.
He was 19 years old.
I’m so sorry.
I am sorry for your loss.
Lol i bursted in laughter when you told the story of the, guy who had to get a cab, mid retreat to go to the book store.
I’m in dire need of that solipsism video haha
Whenever I watch your videos I feel like I am having a conversation with myself. Thank you.
Thank you Leo, I haven't been in the best mental space and this video helped a lot.
being watching ur videos for years. this came at the best time broooo
so in summary the ultimate danger of misapplying spiritual teachings is falling into suicidal thoughts?? wow that is crazy we have to always stay vigilant for real! Thank You Leo I have been watching so many hours of all your work now for over 2 years! I am so grateful I have been able to develop myself to where I am at right now. And there's much more definitely much more to experience and grow from!
Leo can you say the difference between insight and ideology , is the same right , in a deeper level isn't but in a basic level is the same i think
Leo, what do you advise me? I suffer from psychological fragility and live in the third world. I mean, I am poor and have many needs. Do you advise me to meditate simple, knowing that I cannot meditate?
Hi, I'm not Leo but I thought you deserve an answer. I am in a good city in the "First World" but live hand to mouth and my standard of living is very poor for the first world. The house has rats and the people within it are drug abusers. Surprisingly this is a better situation than before. When I was young, I grounded myself in my imagination to cope with abuse from a cult. I worked labour all my life, slept on jobsites, constantly working 70 hours for minimum wage and dropped out of University because I had no family system to support me, and I was manipulated out of my money by selfish people. Now that I'm older, I am focused on taking the next small step towards my dream to build my own tiny house and live in a rural environment, and also develop a career as a motion capture technician. I feel like the unusually difficult circumatances I was born into have made me far more prepared psychologically to tackle life's problems now thwt I'm older, and I have made peace within myself towards the people who hurt me. Hope you can gain value from my experience ❤
You really can express yourself well.
You're right Leo nobody's going to watch your videos all the way through that doesn't really give a s***. But you take every precaution you can and we appreciate you at least I generally do for what it's worth
You have said many times that in this work we dont hurt the body i think you made it pretty clear but ofc some just want to do it anyway :(
Every single person who has ever left an angry or negative comment on any one of Leo’s videos should be required to watch this in its entirety with an open mind.
Omg im so shocked to hear abt wat happened. RIP🙏🙏🙏🙏
The other thing is that... When you reach a certain point with spiritual growth it becomes incredibly difficult to be around highly unconscious places/groups like at workplaces for example and still at the receiving end of abuse or discrimination and so on. And so when you haven't actualized enough in that world (survival needs) it can really be too much of a contrast and meeting basic survival becomes incredibly challenging.
It’s like we prioritized the inner game and then forgot about an equal amount of “outer game” life skills. I quit a job last month after three months... basically because my boss was completely generic and not helpful.
I started writing a book and fantasized about self employment. And now I’m basically fighting the dark realities of spiritual work and I chalk it up to having too much time on my hands.
Basically, xyz sucked at work... and now xyz sucks while being free to do whatever I want with my time. Since funds are running low... now it’s time to get a job again and I fear repeating the process of committing to the wrong job for years again or not committing or quoting after a few months of keeping my expectations too high.
Ultimately, I know I’m going to be a millionaire someday. I just need to stop expecting it to happen based on having a job that will let me save up enough to start a business. And I don’t know what to do about starting a business without funds. I want to pursue a few different concepts. And I have no idea how to do any of it.
So basically, short of robbing a bank... I have to go back to work for someone else until my inner work and my outer work match each other. That’s the best I can come up with.
@@tiecoolguy I'm sorry to hear, that just sounds incredibly hard. We really need a Universal Basic Income just for the bare necessities of living through life. A lot of suicides or mental health problems are in fact linked to lack of financial support while someone is going through that phase of their life, and our society has little to accommodate those struggling to keep pace with work life. I want to be a pianist and or writer too and yeah that's not something that pays right off the bat. Sounds like a lot of us are going to have to struggle a lot to reach a point where our outer living matches our inner living!
Anyone who claims to be enlightened is NOT enlightened, because only the human EGO would assume this spiritual state and then feel compelled to tell others.
Thank you so much. I actually listened to the whole video because you made SO MANY valid points. This video was exactly what I needed to hear right now. Thank you!
It’s really interesting I came across this today. I had a major epiphany about how I’ve gotten lost in the realms of ideas and surrendered to the point of inaction and getting stuck. My ex fiancé and I dosed L one time, and I had no idea how psychologically messed up he was but he had a violent psychotic break and tried to kill me. After years of large doses myself, I find that I am much less grounded, mind you I have severe PTSD, but I have recently become aware that I’m more out there than grounded and I’m now really working on bringing myself down again.
1:01:10 "But hey you mention shooting yourself in the head on your 30 days crazy experiment."
So sorry to hear. My condolences to the actualized.org community.
How funny, I’m always listening Leo’s episodes from cover to cover, been 4 years now I guess. And hearing him talk(again) about the traps. Made me notice that as I’m doing my work. I’m naturally avoiding these traps, just because I was “brainwashed” by Leo lol. Memories keep surfacing when specifically I learned about certain traps. Not sure if it makes sense for anyone else..
When Leo talked about the sameness of me and other I had a short moment realizing the truth of his statement. I felt uneasy and didn't know how to cope with this realization and quickly tried to rationalize the thought away. Leo did I perfect job of illustrating his point of the possible dangers of this work. I still need to work on my foundations because I want to experience more realizations of this kind in the future but still am reacting too fearfull.
Anyways, great video!