Actualized.org Enlightenment is realizing there is no one! ... no individual self with a "life situation" ... so after that what is there to "resolve" and who is the one who sees his life a a problem ? ...
That kind of overly-simplistic thinking is precisely why I issued this warning. There is much more to life than enlightenment. So long as you're breathing, there is a life situation. And most people will have to resolve many aspects of life first before they even understand what enlightenment is, never mind actualizing it. Oversimplify the maze at your own peril.
Actualized.org Important Warning: There never was a maze. It is just a dream in the mind. See it as a complicated maze to be solved (a problem) or see it as a beautiful complex wonder to be lived... there is no solution because there is no problem. And he who tries to find a solution will always keep finding how more vast and complicated this imaginary problem is... Its funny actually... the more you try to find a solution to an imaginary problem and the more you learn and read books about it, the more you are strengthening the problem, making it larger and more complex!
This channel is like finding a big balloon inside the maze, you catch it and it lifts you up to see it from up above. Thank you Leo, you helped a lot. (:
I am so grateful for Leo he has changed my life forever! Before watching his videos and expanding my awareness I was a corporate employee at the NBA making over 80k a year. However, I wasn’t fulfilled and knew I wasn’t following my purpose. I left my cubicle behind to pursue my passion as a rapper. I’ve been homeless, lived in a van, tent, camper, hostel you name it! Mediatakeout got ahold of my story and shared it with the world😥. It was hard having so many judge me and say such evil things. Thanks to Leo he’s helped me to master the art of not caring what anyone thinks. I’m now proud to share my journey with everyone on my channel. Feel free to join the ride, sending love to you all! Thank you Leo!💚💚
One of the greatest videos I've ever seen. I keep bitching about my social anxiety while I realize that social anxiety is just in my head. Just a non-existent problem. Thanks Leo! You really opened my eyes.
I’ve been watching this channel for the last 2 years but have been taking Leo’s videos extremely seriously for the last 2 weeks or so watching his deepest videos multiple times over and really trying to grasp the complexity of the issues he discusses like consciousness and reality and infinity and so on. Even within the last couple days I feel my world view has changed because I’m actually beginning to understand this stuff. But after watching this video I realize how little I actually know and how long and difficult this journey is. Im only 19 so I have much to learn. Thank you for everything Leo, you truly don’t know how much I appreciate what you do for us.
I’m 18 at the time of reading this and I’m choosing to go to college, so you don’t need to worry about understanding it, as long as you can withold the perspective in your heart. I’ve chosen to go to uni because with such “a conscious mind” i’ve developed over time, I’ve learned how to enjoy even the most trapping of things for the sake of exploration. Like going to uni with a mind of, what can i learn from this, even knowing that i won’t learn what I wish i could. Only those things that are meant to show me how to get out of the trap itself. Life’s a mirror
Wow! You have seriously have enlightening me! Ever since I got my heart broken about 5 weeks ago, I been listening to your videos. That breakup was probably one of the best things that happenned to me in my life, because fir the first time in my life I have started seeking to self develop! I seriously have been focusing on paying off my debts and quit my job in the future to travel the world and find myself! I am currently 44yrs old.
I’ve been a seeker for a long time and tried different things to free myself from the mind. I then realized is not possible to get outside of my thoughts. If I am outside of my thoughts then how do I know that? I would still be knowing it from the help of thought. So thoughts are always there and gives us information. Don’t waste time seeking, you will only find your thoughts in everything. There is no way you can be free from your thoughts/mind/memory or what ever you want to call it. You are not separated from your thoughts, there is no YOU and thoughts. The YOU----> is the thought. These thoughts were put in to you from culture, society, parents, and so on. Check it out for yourself. You don’t have your own thoughts/knowledge or even memory. These are just memory and no one outside of it owning these memories. That is the illusion of the self. Leo can talk how much he want about escaping the maze but you will never be free from thought, you are the thought. If there is no you there then you’re simply physically dead. Either Leo knows this or he is still seeking to find this so called enlightenment. Or he knows all of it but knows that there are fools to believe that words will help anyone to be free. So there is this enlightenment market and market = money
I can really see your emotions coming through some of your latest videos and holding back tears. I have been following actualizad for 1.5 years now and doing the work. Seems like you are getting deeper as well in your own self. Thanks for all the content.
This would make an AMAZING cartoon animation. I have been bringing up my daughter to think differently and have tried my best not to tell her what to believe and allow her to follow her own intuition. I am newer to your channel but a kids version of this message would be amazing and that is why I think also an animation would really bring it to another level of understanding for younger visual learners. Thank you Leo for all that you do. It’s always a joy to watch your videos.
I feel the love Leo puts in all this, I feel it emanating from the video - the vibes he gives off, his tone - somehow I sense him much more humble and giving towards the whole world. Maybe my timeline is wrong or i'm fooling myself but ever since his 1 month break there's this loving view towards everything that I've been getting from him in the videos. This is powerful growth.
Life Is A Maze Notes You start out life as a rat dropped into a maze. - I start life with zero understanding - have no idea who I am, what reality is, what this maze is and why it is here, no idea what traps exists, what my desires are, or how my mind and society work, etc. - I don’t even have the idea that I am inside the maze. - This is where I begin in life. Most of my life, I had no idea I was in a maze. I have been bombarded with all this programming from culture, society, and environment. This makes me think the maze is more understood than it is. Society prescribes values to me in this maze that I have not questioned. The truth is that I do not know anything. Philosophical questions are dismissed through social matrix. The social matrix convinces me that this maze is about chasing cheese after cheese on this rat race for cheese. I have been following the other rats who are chasing cheese and not contemplating life. It is easy to not know alternatives to life. What should I be working towards in life? Understanding is the key to figuring out this maze I am. All problems boil down to a lack of existential understanding. Don’t be lost in solving petty problems. Focus on understanding. Stay in touch with my situation in that I know far less about the maze than I think. Society thinks it has a grasp on what reality is. Science is very convincing, but we really do not know. Appreciate the depth of this maze and ponder the depth of my predicament. Question my place within the maze and just how much I do not know and how much programming I have been brainwashed with. Make a life-long commitment to solve this maze. Figure out what this maze is at a fundamental level. This is the most serious commitment I can do. The point of life is to figure out the maze. The maze is very tricky and misleading. It is a maze within a maze within a maze. The maze is nonphysical and infinite and intelligent. The maze is a giant mind. The maze is counterintuitive and paradoxical. There are so many dead ends and traps in the maze. Many ways to get lost. People only follow the paths that other rats have followed. Most of the maze is not known. I have mostly explored parts of the maze that most other rats have explored. To think reality is physical is to trap myself in a maze within a maze. When I lock myself into a paradigm, the majority of the maze becomes inaccessible. The maze is alive, dynamic, and shapeshifting all the time. The maze is my own mind, and there are many deceptions and trickery in this maze. Even though the maze is infinite, it is possible to solve the maze and master it. Nobody can tell me how to solve the maze because I created my own maze. We are all in a maze of our own making. Every rats maze is different and unique. The maze is not the same from generation. The maze of 100 years ago is different than today. The maze of a rat born in Africa is vastly different than a rat born in America. Yet, rats are very similar, predictable, and also different. The maze of life is all about the journey. It is a puzzle and mystery for me to solve independently by myself, being self-reliable. There are many traps in this maze: - abusive relationships - cults/ideology - being lost in tv and video games My job is to be smarter and cleverer than the average rat. Less than 1% of rats ever solve this maze. Most rats die never knowing the maze. Everyone I know is stuck inside the maze and the majority are just chasing cheese and don’t care about figuring out the maze. Solving the maze does not mean accumulating the most cheese. It just means you are a big fat rat. I solve the maze when I: - Understand who I am - discover what my vision, purpose, and function is in the maze - understand what reality is - discover the traps in the maze and avoid them To solve the maze I need these key principles: - inquiry, research, and independent exploration Many dangerous traps in this maze that could end my life. Most people don’t do any serious research in life. They just stumble around. There is no sense of strategy for most people. Research means I need to devour books, courses, google, contemplation, teachers, courses, asking high quality questions, forums, psychedelics, meditation Almost nobody does this intentionally and consistently. Research isn’t following other rats and blindly believing. Research is my own independent investigation into this maze. School does not count as research. That is chasing cheese, not solving the maze. Serious research is by myself and for myself for a life-long endeavor. Independently verify everything in my direct experience. Learn to ask high quality questions consistently and daily. Most people do not ask high quality questions. Seriously engage in contemplation. This is a way to escape the maze. Google is a tool to help to escape the maze. Any question I have is probably in google. Solving this maze is easier and harder than ever. I have all these tools but also a lot of distractions. Stop following other rats and think for myself. There are no quick-fixes. Religion is not a quick-fix. The lessons of religions may not always apply today. Study the maze itself rather than how to get more cheese - this is going meta. Study existential domain and personal domain. Study hundreds and diverse perspectives, which will help me not get stuck in the maze. Everyone has a partial perspective. Nobody has the full truth, only partial truths or delusions and deceptions. Cross-referencing all the sources to determine what is true and false. Read at least 300 high quality books from various disciplines and domains. Essentials: - radical open-mindedness - honesty - intention and focus - -Helps with clarity and focus - solitude and free time - Strong work ethic - Note-taking and commonplace journaling - Vision - Patience & Perseverance It will take a lot of patience to figure this maze out. Enjoy the process of navigating and figuring out this maze. Have an adventure and enjoy this process. Have a serious sort of fun, where I am working towards my vision to solve this maze. - Daily practices that raise consciousness such as meditation, contemplation, etc. Awareness isn’t everything. It is one component. I need heart, love and intuition into my research and life purpose and into this whole process to figure out life because I love the maze. I need to use my intuition more than logical brain because my intuition is more intelligent. Live every day of my life as though I am figuring out this maze. This is my highest strategic intent. Ask myself every day: “What am I doing today?” - I am figuring out life and solving this maze - I am doing independent research and contemplation - I am working towards my vision and life purpose I am waking up everyday thinking about how I need to solve the maze of my life. I am making plans and creating a vision and contemplating. Make full use of my time in the maze and enjoy it. I don’t need to know how to solve the maze. All I need is the intent, desire, will, and sense of purpose every day to grow, improve, and solve the maze. I will have ups and downs in life. Whenever I am deeply stuck and lost in the maze remember this: - Cultivate hope - Trust the process, heart, vision, and strategic intent. - Trust in my mission and vision - There are millions of solutions floating around and I only need a few of them. I have to be aware of them and act on them. - Suffering is there to motivate me to solve the maze. Suffering is a powerful force and guidance system. Without suffering, I would be stuck chasing cheese. Action-Steps: 1. Commit to contemplating the maze every day to try to get one step closer to a deeper understanding. The deeper understanding will help me figure it out and improve my life. Spend every day contemplating the maze and myself. 2. Do independent research - Read many books and take notes from many different sources. Get in the habit of taking notes and compiling them into my journal so I can cross-reference and transfer to long-term memory. 3. Ask high-quality questions daily to help me figure out and navigate through this maze. 4. Gain greater introspection into when I am chasing cheese vs. when I am taking steps to grow and solve the maze. 5. Become aware of the traps of this maze, as well as the solutions and wisdom of the maze. High Quality Questions: 1. What is a powerful habit that I can adopt right now that would radically change my life? 2. What is the most creative thought that I can have? 3. What are some of the highest quality questions that I could ask? 4. What is the most creative thing that I can create or do? 5. What are some of the most common traps in maze? 6. What traps have I fallen into? 7. What is my greatest vision for my life? 8. What is most worthwhile to do? 9. How am I being petty in life? 10. What would be my biggest regret if I did not have a tomorrow? What would I appreciate most about my life if I did not have a tomorrow? Remember: Life is A-Maze-Ing = Amazing!! :D
The reward is when I can open up other people’s mind by changing the way they look at something. It’s quite amazing to watch their wheels turning and u can almost see them opening up new doors of thought. It’s a thing of beauty. That for me is bliss and quite humbling when I realize it’s not me - it’s Self.
It flows like water, without any thought or effort on my (small selfs) part. In the Bhagavad Gita it is noted that it’s immoral to unsettle a mind that is not ready. I knows if its about to unsettle a mind by intuition and discernment. If it is supposed to be, if Self wants to speak and be heard, there is no effort, no resistance, no fear, no thought It just flows 🙏
The video game example worked with me very well. I used to play a lot more video games and I found a hilarious situation that seems "good" and "bad" at the same time. I became really good at video games so I got bored with medium and moved up to hard. I slowly progressed, but realized that it was ultimately the same thing. I started playing a lot of video games while easily figuring the strategies to beat them faster and faster. I started to understand that the completionist who wanted 100% did not ultimately change the result of the game or final boss because it's all the same. After getting everything you eventually quit anyway. Finally, I realized that I was wasting so much time and effort on video games because the world around me was the same and the virtual weapons were meaningless. This lead me to playing less video games, resulting in more introspection and research until I stumbled upon this channel. I still help my brother, sister, and father because they get stuck on video games sometimes. Now I look at them but not in a mean judgemental way. I realize dad will always waste more money on expansion packs to get his destiny characters leveled up and my sister will always want a new game console and more video games. She will never finish them all. I don't know how to help them exactly because they are very invested in throwing money away.
Since starting with actualized.org I've also since left my toxic marriage, I am raising my two wonderful children, I am pursuing my life dreams. I mentioned starting my business, my why is because I am taking control of my future here instead of clocking in every day and wasting my life. I usually don't comment much on your videos but these days I am still wanting to extend gratitude. I was so toxic for myself and now I am feeling like I was when I was younger which I haven't noticed I haven't felt in years. It has taken two long years and my mind and life is still clearing up one day at a time! I have also finally tried shrooms since my life has taken a turn and calmed down as a meditation and wow. I am missing so much.
Is life about understanding, or living? If you finally figure out that there never has been anything to figure out, that's wonderful. But if you've constantly stressed yourself out about figuring it all out, you've chased a gigantic pile of cheese. And here you are, all enlightened, not having lived life. By "living life" I am not referring to any sort of hedonistic or opportunistic notion. But "being" is bliss, and you can bask in all miracle of existence. Life does not require you to constantly stress yourself about understanding.
Understanding life allows for a vast amount of experiences to occur that you had never foreseen. Its not an either or situation. Living and understanding are intertwined within one another.
“If you are truly awaken, and see how people around you are still sleeping, then slowly tiptoe around the room. Respect their dreams and be amazed by the perfection of their own time...just as you realized your own perfect time.”
One thing I think matters is that escaping the maze shouldn't be an end to itself, but to enjoy the journey - shure you've heard this one thousand times... And the other is that if I want to finally escape the maze afterall, if I take it as that, I have to be so aware of everything, so mindful and couchious.. (I need a dictionary, but for now I'm skipping it) OK.. And of course be at the top of the all, having controle over myself and just a sense of freedom in it.. Freedom and having a lot of options makes the maze amazing and not a pain. Thanks Leo! I have watched carefully all of your videos, I just make sure that I have some good time for them so I don't need to go back all the time to be Shure I paid my complete attention.. (if I choose wrong words it just means I am too excited to post before I check the grammar and vocabulary..)
If he put all his knowledge into the book. Nobody would read it. It would sit on the shelf as one of those someday books. And someday never comes. He just got through telling us in the video how he can't get an intelligent question out of just about anyone, implying that nobody is doing any of the actual hard work involved in what he's saying. People are stuck in the Between Time....that part between thinking & action without taking the action.
Studying different perspectives has been huge for me in every area of life. Love that you mention that. I think it's huge to pay attention to your ahas, especially the ones that repeat. Not that I am an authority on waking up though he he.
For whatever reason what you say resonates with me Leo. I watch 2 or 3 videos of yours a week. Its helping me. Its useful. Thank you. I appreciate you sharing your wisdom with me.
What if escaping the maze is merely chasing another sort of a cheese? And what if rats who think themselves freed from being in the maze are merely deluded and mislead by other rats who write books about "Escaping the maze"? The maze is infinite and tricky to claim to be certain about anything. And maybe looking for self-awareness from the position of "avoiding the traps", "escaping the maze" means building some concept of obstacles and fighting with them? Any self-awareness journey might be started from full and entire acceptance and happiness wherever you are.
I have been watching your videos for the last three years....And now, thanks to you, I read a book a week, meditate, self enquire and contemplate. My life's completely changed sir. I have no words to thank you.
Wow amazing videos !! Great to see you back Leo. It’s been 4 years but you put up that evergreen content to help people everywhere no matter how old the video. Thank you for helping me dig deeper into this game called life 🙏🏾💯. I love you my friend !!!
Okay Leo here is serious questions, where do i find the rats that have escaped the maze to learn from? How do I know if they have truly escaped the maze?
Leo I just want to thank you for all your dedication on teaching us the truth of this human experience. I have much respect for you because you ask for nothing in return. I am truly working on myself and I am slowly becoming a better version of myself. Its a lot of work and I wont give up on it. I honestly know that I will be my higher self one day during this life time. I just want to thank you so much because you are a big part of this journey I am in every day. I am 26 years old and I am grateful for realizing this early in my life during this human experience and my spirit knew that by choosing this body that it was going to do whatever it take to achieve our highest purpose. I am just at the beginning but im wont give up. I know you talk about most people not becoming the god that we are meant to be but just dont forget about the ones that are truly in that path. It takes a long time but I rather spend my time becoming my higher self than satisfying my ego. I had a psychedelic experience and that is when it all started. Positive vibes sending you way 💜
Thank you Leo for this one! And also very excited about the episode about intention. What is it? Where does it come from? What's the difference between desire and intention?
@@haleyyou공감합니다. 리오한테 들은 새로운 생각들을 주변 친구나 가족한테 말하면 이상한 취급 받기 마련이죠. 저는 리오가 한 말 중에 "좋고 나쁘고는 없다, 오직 관점이 그것을 만들뿐이다"라는 말을 듣고 살인, 강간은 나쁜 것이 아니라고 생각을 했을 정도였으니까요.(합리화된다는 것은 아니지만요) 그 때 한참 매일 2시간씩 리오 말 들으면서 깨달음을 얻었다고 생각하고 다른 사람들은 deluded되었다며 자만할 때가 있었는데.. 지금은 생각이 더 성장을 해서 매순간 다른 모든 사람들의 관점에서 생각해보려고 노력하고 언제나 내 생각이 어느 한쪽에 치우치지 않았나 자신을 많이 돌아봅니다. 모든 가능성을 열어두고 독단적이고 이상적주의적 생각들을 버리려고 노력하니까 많이 성장하게 되더라구요. 예전엔 우울증이 있어서 행복할 수 있는 방법과 행복의 철학을 리오한테 배우기 시작하면서 슬픈 감정을 달랬는데 너무 리오한테 의존적이게되고 맹신하게 되는것이 함정이더라구요. 이젠 더 많은 생각과 경험을 통해 리오를 무조건적으로 수용하지 않고 저만의 생각을 함께 길러가고 있습니다. 근데 제가 저의 원래 생각들을 버리고 개방적인 생각을 가지기까지 뼈를 깎는 노력을 했다고 생각합니다. 원래의 신념과 철학을 부정하는 것은 원래 나의 자아를 부정하는것과 같아서 더 심한 우울증도 걸렸던 것 같아요. 그렇기에 리오의 영상을 남보고 이해하라고 하는건 웬만한 의지가 있지 않은 한 불가능하다고 느꼈습니다. 지금 나이가 고2인데 2년동안 너무 생각만 하고 살아온것이 조금 아쉽지만 그래도 많은 것을 얻어갔다고 생각합니다.
Fire. Key takeaway for me: Nobody will provide you with the full truth, so get a very wide range of perspectives under your consideration - reading hundreds and hundreds of books, exploring and contemplating all that you can for deliverance from the maze. I like how deliberate that is. The season of my life is presently to elucidate my goals, act deliberately, and then execute effectively. I'm still trying to permanently escape that comfortable unconscious haze that often tries to pull me in. Progress is steadily upward.
Leo if one day you stop making these videos my heart will be broken. you enlighten the ideas that we never think about and we actually should be thinking of. bless you, you are a big man
About two years ago, I was literally stuck in a maze for hours or possibly days idk, completely sober, while sitting on my bed. There were people in every room just sitting and standing around and if i would go back to the previous room it would be a new room that i have never been in. It was like an old poorly lit... place of rooms. An infinite maze of insanity. This is one of many experiences of all sorts i had over the course of i don't even know. Well over a week. I was able to switch back and forth occasionally between the bedroom i was in and the other place. I might have died and didn't realize it i really have no idea. I do not understand the predicament that we are in at all.
I don't know where to begin. This happened, i stopped being a materialist, discovered alan watts, then discovered Leo all within about a couple weeks of each other. Before this i was "dry as a bone" as alan watts says. This entirety of this experience expands out into a book. It's real simple though. I was sitting on a bed and got lost. I should never have been a materialist to begin with because i have had strange occurrences as a small child that i always vividly remembered but never fully appreciated. I tend to get really super deep into thought and i guess thought has the power to take you places. This is where i transcended a sort of active nihilism that the ego was involved with. That was the meaning i suppose.
Well, hopefully you never ended up turning yourself in to the hospital because that was the end result of all this. It eventually got a little out of hand.
"Making a commitment to figure this out". I made that commitment when I was 11 and the few people I told laughed at me dismissively. I've always know the only reason I'm here is to figure out the maze and that's all I'm really interested in doing. Another awesome video!!
Love this perspective! One thing; by shaping yourself (choosing where you put your intention in order to grow) you also change the maze.. Your inner and outer world are connected.
Leo talks about the need for a note taking system that will let you organize your vision as it arises. I use, and have used for years, 3 x 5" cards, stapled together and often grouped together under a title card held together with gumbands. Periodically, I go through them and throw away shallow and irrelevant ideas. Reading down through the comments, I see the sentiment now and again expressed that Leo is a scolder. He is in a sense but he does it in a way that doesn't bother me. I'm pretty sure that if I talked with him one on one, I could vigorously debate him and he'd have no problem with that. I don't agree with everything he says - I think he misses some things... but I think he's also miles beyond most people and I'm appreciating how he's setting certain aspects of the puzzle into place for me. He is very sure of himself, some might say too sure; but I think Leo is laying out a way of life for people who want to explore their own way out of 'the maze' (as he calls it here) instead of just doing what some teacher or guru says to do. This might not be a path for everyone but I have been through teachers and gurus galore and I see no way to really reach the deepest depth except to go it alone. I'm taking from Leo what will enhance my ability to do that.
Hey Leo, I'm an iPEC graduate specialising in dating for men and I'm so inspired every time I listen to you. I have so much appreciation for giving me the fundamental tools on how to navigate in this maze. Please let me know where I could find the people who escape/understood enough the maze that would be happy to teach me. Lastly when I get the opportunity to meet you, I can be of service to you free of charge. Would be my honour to have you as my mentor :)
The first step to escaping the maze is to realize you are in the maze. You exit the maze when you realize the maze was never actually there to begin with.
Within the body mind, the maze can only be a finite representation or a model existing within infinite Consciousness. The understanding of the truth brings a transformation of the metaphor from a finite projection to its infinitely fractal nature where pain and pleasure cease to exist, where all that is only is to be independently from human perception.
The maze, expands at a pace that isn’t fathomable by the human mind. The maze includes the human mind and only by becoming the maze can one catch a glimpse of its infinite nature
Leo, I'm 22 years old and I'm on the same journey you're on. Meditating, experimenting with psychedelics, praying to God, excluding myself from society as much as possible, experimenting with social media, meeting with PhDs and realizing they're useless, googling. I used to work at a bank and found myself falling into the system, pending a job promotion and raise, I fell into a deep depression because I knew I was living my life's purpose. I came out of an extremely abusive house hold as a child so I always held on to the hope that there had to he more to this reality. Being a friend of yours would be great because no one understand what I'm trying to do. I married young due to my mother's religious pressure but I spend most of my time alone trying to put in the time and work. Some of your videos have angered me but I've found it's only because you're speaking truth and sometimes the truth is hard to listen to. Anyway, thank you for your work. But I can truly say I've found a way to think for myself and I'm putting in the work. I hope to see a new world of peace and helping those that don't understand, understand why they're here.
"In Zen. We don't find the answers, we lose the questions." Leo, you are lost in the maze because you keep your beLIEf in it. You want a hard question for you ??? Why are you a teacher before you found what you are looking for for yourself first ? Are you out of the "maze" yet ? Obviously not, so you are the blind leading the blinds... How can you be sure you're not if you haven't figure out all the truth of yourself for yourself first ? ( and with every new video it seems you only keep digging deeper or building stronger, the maze of illusion called Maya...) Love.
fardeen shaik He teaches! That is what he is doing here. So he is a teacher, or at least puts himself in that role and I'm sure some people look at him that way, they learn from him, no need to get too scientific of philosophic about that. He teaches others about and how to emancipate themselves without being able to emancipate himself.
The man has helped tons of people with their lives. He has every right to do so. Never claimed to be enlightened. But certainly seems to understand how this maze works on a deep level. Beautiful projections there also.
whats wrong about a teacher who is still learning himself? on this path you fail and make progress. once you think you are done on this path you stand still and therefore fail.
You are a great spirutal guide that woke my interest in what I always had in me! The mystic is now taking form, thankfull for being awoke and acknowled! Keep up the good work🙏
Leo the amount of work you are talking about may be what you require to understand truth but it may not be for others ... if one has a real desire to understand absolute awareness all it takes is earnestness and maybe just one book and a good mentor !! Just my views .. I love the work you do
I think this is gonna help me out a lot. I appreciate you man. I never actually understood what self-actualization meant until I saw this video. amazing.
I can sleep at night no matter what is going on. Something I was never able To do. Tossing and turning. Thoughts racing. Now. Doesn’t matter what is going. When I lay down it all just disappears. Life is a play. When you understand this your focus can on whatever it wants
Life is an intense journey, when you truly go deep into Lucid Dreams and go into these trivial Multiverses and see all these different dream acts and more, we don't realize there are pockets and pockets of information, bigger and bigger, like you said Meta Reality above a Reality. I used to think I was somewhat of a Zen Devil, because I have pretty crazy dreams and things seem to just come to me, but I realize it is similar to a baby scribbling on paper, going Meta is a necessary! I have gone so deep into the Maze, it changes my character so much, but I descend back into and out of it, I do fall into traps. But I have noticed the patterns here and there, but I might have an Existential Issue, because as I figure out more, I descend into chaos more, or is this an illusion?
Leo, even if most people who watch your videos never heed your advice or actually do this work, just know that there are those of us that do the work and take it seriously. Your videos have been very helpful and inspiring for me. So much so, that just saying thank you falls very short.
Question for you Leo: how do we go about navigating the maze, escaping the false distractions of consumerism, and living authentically in recognition of our mortality? God there's so much good stuff here. 20:37 "What does it mean to solve the maze? You solve the maze when you discover who you are, what reality is, and what your place is within this reality. And when you discover how and why people get lost in this maze." I remember reading a bit of Heidegger (and I found him somewhat difficult to comprehend) and one concept he introduced that's relevant to your video is "das Gerede" (or "chatter"). Chatter and noise everywhere in our modern culture. From bombardments of advertising on glowing rectangular screens telling you what to buy, what to desire, what to do, how to think...to the trivial BS and gossip about the Kardashians or watching/judging the neighbors eccentric behavior and which professional sports team is winning against some other arbitrary sports team in their endeavor to move a ball from one geographic location to another also arbitrarily defined geographic location..... It's all so exhausting. And meaningless. It's hard to escape. If you live in a social construct (i.e. society), as we all generally do, this trival noise surrounds us. I can't stand having conversations with coworkers/colleagues about the latest departmental gossip or how the football team fared this weekend, or the latest album on vinyl. And yet, I recognize myself as a social being, and it's important to engage with others to be, well, social. And so I feel trapped by society in this regard. It forces me to live in an inauthentic manner, because of the pressure (financial mostly) behind modern living. Sure, I could move out to the woods and buy a parcel of land to build a cabin and try to ensconce myself from societal chatter, but it's very difficult to escape. And even if it were theoretically possible to escape completely, would you truly want to? As a social construct, we get lonely when isolated from our fellow daseins for too long. Even the solitude loner needs to interact with people every now and then. So what to do? Heidegger famously suggested that people spend more time in graveyards lol to better appreciate their own mortality, but I'm curious Leo, what would you recommend? As always, love your videos.
Nice Tune Up Episode!...I like the idea of doing these 'reintroduction to the path' episodes occasionally...great for those who are new as well as regulars...lookin' forward to the intention episode.
Working on escaping the maze right now and started to document the journey on videos and my first journal. Thx Leo, for inspiring me to actually actualize...
Truly life changing insights and such a large collection of valuable information here. So thankful and appreciative of the effort put into actualized.org. Thank you Leo!
Life is a maze, truly wonderful laying of fundamentals to understand the maze and the truth is it is almost self explanatory, thanks leo for giving us a better option. You are on the right track the foundation you are laying right now will live eternal like James Allen's footprints. Not for profit but for a noble cause.
So many books!!! It’ll be another trap. Using a human mind doesn’t bring you out of the maze, puts even deeper and pride arises. I like Mooji’s approach on that. Ignoring the mind, finding your true identity. It takes a lot of practice getting rid of the ego and conditioning.
38:00- One must read 300 Books? lolol. This is sneaky ego stroking because YOU'VE read that many. How many books did Gautama Buddha read? Or Jesus, or Sadhguru, etc. Discharging such constructed beliefs is the way out of "the maze" more so than fortifying it by congratulating oneself over how much one "knows".
@@NickOleksiakMusic True. A book is a pointer. So is a one line stanza. Volumes of books and pedantic bookishness won't crack the egoic trap. When it cracks it's like it was never there.
Thanks for sharing that about your grandmother- that's a beautiful thing. This awakening or whatever one calls it hit me in may of 2017. Totally unexpected. Ironically I have Trumpy-Tot and Colbert to thank. So despondent and disgusted with everything, driving down Normandie ave in Los Angeles and seeing Late show with Colbert Banners outstrung from lamposts and thinking of the stupid petulant back and forth vitriol of humankind, I just surrendered and totally relaxed- checked out I guess. I was over This- whatever This is. Fully unexpectedly everything became seemingly much quieter and scenery- surroundings, everything was "colored" with empty tender presence that didn't even recognize me or anything else. It was amazing and so ordinary at the same time. I wasn't there. My body was but I was not- just awakness seeing itself in everything- the drunk passed out on the sidewalk, the stopsigns, the cars, trees, the engine noise, the buildings and trash etc. There was a toggling between seeing and mentally commentating. Couldn't do both simultaneously. Anyway, this went on for about 20 min. Had to go into a meeting and couldn't keep my eyes dry. Now it feels so elusive... Keep up the music- it does wonders:) Just got done listing to Go to the Mirror from The Who's Tommy. It sums this whole trap up. cheers
It sounds like you're just trying to find a way to puss out on the hard work required to read 300 non-fiction self-help books. I've got Leo's book list & those are some of the hardest damn books to read. I've got a couple that I've barely cracked because they're so intimidating.
@@shitmandood I have his booklist too. Lots of great stuff. Many I've read years ago. I was giving Leo shit. Nothing personal. He's doing great things. Yours pussily, Ryan
Gross ego venting starting around 25:00. I realize that you might despair at the lack of peers you'll encounter at these higher levels, but you don't serve yourself, or your students by constructing a value hierarchy around enlightenment and knowledge then sitting on it like a throne passing judgement. Also be sure you're not making the mistake that your way towards actualization is the only way. There have been many actualized individuals through the course of history that did not read textbooks to obtain enlightenment. I agree that it helps, but it's a needless limitation that you are inflicting upon your followers.
It may not be the only way, though I have to say that I find it a clever choice to persuade the viewer into reading a pile of serious literature. It may be something that the average viewer is not used to do, but could significantly benefit from. He will not only learn the content of these books but also the focus and persistence that such study demands. Also it challenges the viewer to tap into other sources of wisdom besides actualized.org. Stumbling upon the limitations of this channel is a good sign btw :)
@MrBlodhund "he said it was different for everyone" He says that a lot and then oops-identally forgets in followup vids with the strokefest all over again. But this is a quality of minding... dreaming ourselves as if there is a myself as apart from a yourself. One ego movement demarcating itself in fractals as if each one isn't the same movement. "It's a feature not a bug" ;-)
Thank you so much for your videos Leo. You never sold out in a blue mentality. You kept true to truth and you spread love and light. I'm very grateful.
Leo, I love you & i love how at this level, your latest video, you present the information so humanly and so relatable.. I was scared that this information at this level would be beyond me especially the latest videos but you come down to earth and delivered in such a ground-breakingly human way,.
More and more your "ranting"-style keeps me driving away from your videos. After starting a video in a quite calm voice you tend to phase into ranting mode. Is that intentional?
I can actually appreciate his passionate rantings . (Btw if you are into calm and soothing voices there are some channels I can wholeheartedly recommend)
@insiderperson18279 LavenderTowne (who basically draws stuff) and Super Eyepatch Wolf (who analyzes anime and other popular media) are my personal favorites in that aspect. Be ware though, it may be another distraction within the maze. I can also recommend The Diamond Net, a channel that revolves around spirituality/psychology. I think Emerald (the author) shares great information that is accessible for right/left brained thinkers alike. She's very calm and honest and doesn't have this in-the-face kind of style that Leo sometimes has.
Thx for sharing. I'm aware of distraction patterns more and more - and in fact - at the moment I enjoy distractions and their ability to show me how I can be distracted - always a good laugh when it finally clicks and I grin at myself and myself back at me. I'm curious whether/when/how this mechanic is getting boring to _me_
Pretty good. It's always good to reflect on this a sort of thing because your right people don't think about this stuff and it IS the most important thing in life.
Well, I don't have words to thank you for this episode. I wish I knew more about the non-physical maze. I'm 4 years into awakening and i'm trying to figure it out.
Important Warning: Solving the maze does not merely mean enlightenment. It means resolving your entire life situation, finding your place in life.
Actualized.org Enlightenment is realizing there is no one! ... no individual self with a "life situation" ... so after that what is there to "resolve" and who is the one who sees his life a a problem ? ...
thank you master ... i needed this motivation and re contextualization ..
emotional mastery and a balance as well.
That kind of overly-simplistic thinking is precisely why I issued this warning.
There is much more to life than enlightenment.
So long as you're breathing, there is a life situation. And most people will have to resolve many aspects of life first before they even understand what enlightenment is, never mind actualizing it.
Oversimplify the maze at your own peril.
Actualized.org Important Warning: There never was a maze. It is just a dream in the mind. See it as a complicated maze to be solved (a problem) or see it as a beautiful complex wonder to be lived... there is no solution because there is no problem. And he who tries to find a solution will always keep finding how more vast and complicated this imaginary problem is... Its funny actually... the more you try to find a solution to an imaginary problem and the more you learn and read books about it, the more you are strengthening the problem, making it larger and more complex!
This channel is like finding a big balloon inside the maze, you catch it and it lifts you up to see it from up above.
Thank you Leo, you helped a lot. (:
nicely put
Perfectly put
Beautiful!
Brooo that analogy!!
Hahaha. I lived it.
I felt it. Quite literally.
This reminds me of a quote by Harriet Tubman "I could have freed more slave, but I didn't have the time to convince them they were slaves."
+julian baughman Nice!
There is no convincing at all certain point. I love this. At a certain degree you learn to convince yourself that you cannot convince selves
I just wanted to sleep.... but now I’ll be up rethinking my entire life. Thanks Leo!
lol
Lol!
Sounds about right
You can escape the maze when you go to sleep :)
Same
I am so grateful for Leo he has changed my life forever! Before watching his videos and expanding my awareness I was a corporate employee at the NBA making over 80k a year. However, I wasn’t fulfilled and knew I wasn’t following my purpose. I left my cubicle behind to pursue my passion as a rapper. I’ve been homeless, lived in a van, tent, camper, hostel you name it! Mediatakeout got ahold of my story and shared it with the world😥. It was hard having so many judge me and say such evil things. Thanks to Leo he’s helped me to master the art of not caring what anyone thinks. I’m now proud to share my journey with everyone on my channel. Feel free to join the ride, sending love to you all! Thank you Leo!💚💚
i love your chanel :)
Camila Meireles thank you beautiful!💚
One of the greatest videos I've ever seen. I keep bitching about my social anxiety while I realize that social anxiety is just in my head. Just a non-existent problem. Thanks Leo! You really opened my eyes.
There is a reason for your social anxiety. Its not just simply there... a lot of people are cruel and shit
I’ve been watching this channel for the last 2 years but have been taking Leo’s videos extremely seriously for the last 2 weeks or so watching his deepest videos multiple times over and really trying to grasp the complexity of the issues he discusses like consciousness and reality and infinity and so on. Even within the last couple days I feel my world view has changed because I’m actually beginning to understand this stuff. But after watching this video I realize how little I actually know and how long and difficult this journey is. Im only 19 so I have much to learn. Thank you for everything Leo, you truly don’t know how much I appreciate what you do for us.
I’m 18 at the time of reading this and I’m choosing to go to college, so you don’t need to worry about understanding it, as long as you can withold the perspective in your heart.
I’ve chosen to go to uni because with such “a conscious mind” i’ve developed over time, I’ve learned how to enjoy even the most trapping of things for the sake of exploration.
Like going to uni with a mind of, what can i learn from this, even knowing that i won’t learn what I wish i could. Only those things that are meant to show me how to get out of the trap itself. Life’s a mirror
Wow! You have seriously have enlightening me! Ever since I got my heart broken about 5 weeks ago, I been listening to your videos. That breakup was probably one of the best things that happenned to me in my life, because fir the first time in my life I have started seeking to self develop! I seriously have been focusing on paying off my debts and quit my job in the future to travel the world and find myself! I am currently 44yrs old.
I’ve been a seeker for a long time and tried different things to free myself from the mind. I then realized is not possible to get outside of my thoughts.
If I am outside of my thoughts then how do I know that? I would still
be knowing it from the help of thought. So thoughts are always there and gives us information. Don’t waste time seeking, you will only find your thoughts in everything.
There is no way you can be free from your thoughts/mind/memory or what ever you want to call it. You are not separated from your thoughts, there is no YOU and thoughts. The YOU----> is the thought. These thoughts were put in to you from culture, society, parents, and so on. Check it out for yourself. You don’t have your own thoughts/knowledge or even memory. These are just memory and no one outside of it owning these memories. That is the illusion of the self. Leo can talk how much he want about escaping the maze but you will never be free from thought, you are the thought. If there is no you there then you’re simply physically dead.
Either Leo knows this or he is still seeking to find this so called enlightenment. Or he knows all of it but knows that there are fools to believe that words will help anyone to be free. So there is this enlightenment market and market = money
I can really see your emotions coming through some of your latest videos and holding back tears. I have been following actualizad for 1.5 years now and doing the work. Seems like you are getting deeper as well in your own self. Thanks for all the content.
This would make an AMAZING cartoon animation. I have been bringing up my daughter to think differently and have tried my best not to tell her what to believe and allow her to follow her own intuition. I am newer to your channel but a kids version of this message would be amazing and that is why I think also an animation would really bring it to another level of understanding for younger visual learners. Thank you Leo for all that you do. It’s always a joy to watch your videos.
I feel the love Leo puts in all this, I feel it emanating from the video - the vibes he gives off, his tone - somehow I sense him much more humble and giving towards the whole world. Maybe my timeline is wrong or i'm fooling myself but ever since his 1 month break there's this loving view towards everything that I've been getting from him in the videos. This is powerful growth.
Life Is A Maze Notes
You start out life as a rat dropped into a maze.
- I start life with zero understanding
- have no idea who I am, what reality is, what this maze is and why it is here, no idea what traps exists, what my desires are, or how my mind and society work, etc.
- I don’t even have the idea that I am inside the maze.
- This is where I begin in life.
Most of my life, I had no idea I was in a maze. I have been bombarded with all this programming from culture, society, and environment.
This makes me think the maze is more understood than it is.
Society prescribes values to me in this maze that I have not questioned.
The truth is that I do not know anything.
Philosophical questions are dismissed through social matrix.
The social matrix convinces me that this maze is about chasing cheese after cheese on this rat race for cheese.
I have been following the other rats who are chasing cheese and not contemplating life. It is easy to not know alternatives to life.
What should I be working towards in life?
Understanding is the key to figuring out this maze I am.
All problems boil down to a lack of existential understanding.
Don’t be lost in solving petty problems. Focus on understanding. Stay in touch with my situation in that I know far less about the maze than I think.
Society thinks it has a grasp on what reality is. Science is very convincing, but we really do not know.
Appreciate the depth of this maze and ponder the depth of my predicament. Question my place within the maze and just how much I do not know and how much programming I have been brainwashed with.
Make a life-long commitment to solve this maze. Figure out what this maze is at a fundamental level. This is the most serious commitment I can do.
The point of life is to figure out the maze.
The maze is very tricky and misleading. It is a maze within a maze within a maze. The maze is nonphysical and infinite and intelligent. The maze is a giant mind.
The maze is counterintuitive and paradoxical. There are so many dead ends and traps in the maze. Many ways to get lost.
People only follow the paths that other rats have followed. Most of the maze is not known. I have mostly explored parts of the maze that most other rats have explored.
To think reality is physical is to trap myself in a maze within a maze.
When I lock myself into a paradigm, the majority of the maze becomes inaccessible.
The maze is alive, dynamic, and shapeshifting all the time. The maze is my own mind, and there are many deceptions and trickery in this maze.
Even though the maze is infinite, it is possible to solve the maze and master it.
Nobody can tell me how to solve the maze because I created my own maze. We are all in a maze of our own making. Every rats maze is different and unique.
The maze is not the same from generation. The maze of 100 years ago is different than today.
The maze of a rat born in Africa is vastly different than a rat born in America. Yet, rats are very similar, predictable, and also different.
The maze of life is all about the journey. It is a puzzle and mystery for me to solve independently by myself, being self-reliable.
There are many traps in this maze:
- abusive relationships
- cults/ideology
- being lost in tv and video games
My job is to be smarter and cleverer than the average rat.
Less than 1% of rats ever solve this maze. Most rats die never knowing the maze.
Everyone I know is stuck inside the maze and the majority are just chasing cheese and don’t care about figuring out the maze.
Solving the maze does not mean accumulating the most cheese. It just means you are a big fat rat.
I solve the maze when I:
- Understand who I am
- discover what my vision, purpose, and function is in the maze
- understand what reality is
- discover the traps in the maze and avoid them
To solve the maze I need these key principles:
- inquiry, research, and independent exploration
Many dangerous traps in this maze that could end my life.
Most people don’t do any serious research in life. They just stumble around. There is no sense of strategy for most people.
Research means I need to devour books, courses, google, contemplation, teachers, courses, asking high quality questions, forums, psychedelics, meditation
Almost nobody does this intentionally and consistently.
Research isn’t following other rats and blindly believing.
Research is my own independent investigation into this maze.
School does not count as research. That is chasing cheese, not solving the maze.
Serious research is by myself and for myself for a life-long endeavor.
Independently verify everything in my direct experience.
Learn to ask high quality questions consistently and daily.
Most people do not ask high quality questions.
Seriously engage in contemplation. This is a way to escape the maze.
Google is a tool to help to escape the maze. Any question I have is probably in google.
Solving this maze is easier and harder than ever. I have all these tools but also a lot of distractions.
Stop following other rats and think for myself.
There are no quick-fixes.
Religion is not a quick-fix. The lessons of religions may not always apply today.
Study the maze itself rather than how to get more cheese - this is going meta.
Study existential domain and personal domain.
Study hundreds and diverse perspectives, which will help me not get stuck in the maze.
Everyone has a partial perspective. Nobody has the full truth, only partial truths or delusions and deceptions.
Cross-referencing all the sources to determine what is true and false.
Read at least 300 high quality books from various disciplines and domains.
Essentials:
- radical open-mindedness
- honesty
- intention and focus
- -Helps with clarity and focus
- solitude and free time
- Strong work ethic
- Note-taking and commonplace journaling
- Vision
- Patience & Perseverance
It will take a lot of patience to figure this maze out. Enjoy the process of navigating and figuring out this maze. Have an adventure and enjoy this process. Have a serious sort of fun, where I am working towards my vision to solve this maze.
- Daily practices that raise consciousness such as meditation, contemplation, etc.
Awareness isn’t everything. It is one component.
I need heart, love and intuition into my research and life purpose and into this whole process to figure out life because I love the maze.
I need to use my intuition more than logical brain because my intuition is more intelligent.
Live every day of my life as though I am figuring out this maze. This is my highest strategic intent.
Ask myself every day: “What am I doing today?”
- I am figuring out life and solving this maze
- I am doing independent research and contemplation
- I am working towards my vision and life purpose
I am waking up everyday thinking about how I need to solve the maze of my life.
I am making plans and creating a vision and contemplating. Make full use of my time in the maze and enjoy it.
I don’t need to know how to solve the maze. All I need is the intent, desire, will, and sense of purpose every day to grow, improve, and solve the maze.
I will have ups and downs in life. Whenever I am deeply stuck and lost in the maze remember this:
- Cultivate hope
- Trust the process, heart, vision, and strategic intent.
- Trust in my mission and vision
- There are millions of solutions floating around and I only need a few of them. I have to be aware of them and act on them.
- Suffering is there to motivate me to solve the maze. Suffering is a powerful force and guidance system. Without suffering, I would be stuck chasing cheese.
Action-Steps:
1. Commit to contemplating the maze every day to try to get one step closer to a deeper understanding. The deeper understanding will help me figure it out and improve my life. Spend every day contemplating the maze and myself.
2. Do independent research - Read many books and take notes from many different sources. Get in the habit of taking notes and compiling them into my journal so I can cross-reference and transfer to long-term memory.
3. Ask high-quality questions daily to help me figure out and navigate through this maze.
4. Gain greater introspection into when I am chasing cheese vs. when I am taking steps to grow and solve the maze.
5. Become aware of the traps of this maze, as well as the solutions and wisdom of the maze.
High Quality Questions:
1. What is a powerful habit that I can adopt right now that would radically change my life?
2. What is the most creative thought that I can have?
3. What are some of the highest quality questions that I could ask?
4. What is the most creative thing that I can create or do?
5. What are some of the most common traps in maze?
6. What traps have I fallen into?
7. What is my greatest vision for my life?
8. What is most worthwhile to do?
9. How am I being petty in life?
10. What would be my biggest regret if I did not have a tomorrow? What would I appreciate most about my life if I did not have a tomorrow?
Remember: Life is A-Maze-Ing = Amazing!! :D
The reward is when I can open up other people’s mind by changing the way they look at something. It’s quite amazing to watch their wheels turning and u can almost see them opening up new doors of thought. It’s a thing of beauty. That for me is bliss and quite humbling when I realize it’s not me - it’s Self.
It flows like water, without any thought or effort on my (small selfs) part.
In the Bhagavad Gita it is noted that it’s immoral to unsettle a mind that is not ready.
I knows if its about to unsettle a mind by intuition and discernment.
If it is supposed to be, if Self wants to speak and be heard, there is no effort, no resistance, no fear, no thought
It just flows 🙏
Leo do a course on spirituality stage by stage like u did with life purpose course .
The video game example worked with me very well. I used to play a lot more video games and I found a hilarious situation that seems "good" and "bad" at the same time. I became really good at video games so I got bored with medium and moved up to hard. I slowly progressed, but realized that it was ultimately the same thing. I started playing a lot of video games while easily figuring the strategies to beat them faster and faster. I started to understand that the completionist who wanted 100% did not ultimately change the result of the game or final boss because it's all the same. After getting everything you eventually quit anyway. Finally, I realized that I was wasting so much time and effort on video games because the world around me was the same and the virtual weapons were meaningless.
This lead me to playing less video games, resulting in more introspection and research until I stumbled upon this channel. I still help my brother, sister, and father because they get stuck on video games sometimes. Now I look at them but not in a mean judgemental way. I realize dad will always waste more money on expansion packs to get his destiny characters leveled up and my sister will always want a new game console and more video games. She will never finish them all. I don't know how to help them exactly because they are very invested in throwing money away.
“Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.”
-Osho
I like that! I like Osho very much.
Mumbo jumbo exactly
This mystical sensation of something mysterious is just an evidence of ignorance and probably lazzyness
@@hamburgertv1438 the urge for demystification is the ultimate evidence of stupidity and mediocrity...
Allow moments in life unexplainable. Allow life to be non explained
Since starting with actualized.org I've also since left my toxic marriage, I am raising my two wonderful children, I am pursuing my life dreams. I mentioned starting my business, my why is because I am taking control of my future here instead of clocking in every day and wasting my life. I usually don't comment much on your videos but these days I am still wanting to extend gratitude. I was so toxic for myself and now I am feeling like I was when I was younger which I haven't noticed I haven't felt in years. It has taken two long years and my mind and life is still clearing up one day at a time! I have also finally tried shrooms since my life has taken a turn and calmed down as a meditation and wow. I am missing so much.
Is life about understanding, or living?
If you finally figure out that there never has been anything to figure out, that's wonderful. But if you've constantly stressed yourself out about figuring it all out, you've chased a gigantic pile of cheese. And here you are, all enlightened, not having lived life.
By "living life" I am not referring to any sort of hedonistic or opportunistic notion. But "being" is bliss, and you can bask in all miracle of existence. Life does not require you to constantly stress yourself about understanding.
Trying to understand life is also a way of living it. Actually the only way of not living a life is being dead XD
Understanding life allows for a vast amount of experiences to occur that you had never foreseen. Its not an either or situation. Living and understanding are intertwined within one another.
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.
Literally listened to that song today!
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved.
Yup, that's the tune that comes to mind - it did to me anyway
I was just kidding it reminded me of the song. I like to say instead despite being a sage I am still just a mouse in a maze :)
Alright this is hilarious.
“If you are truly awaken, and see how people around you are still sleeping, then slowly tiptoe around the room. Respect their dreams and be amazed by the perfection of their own time...just as you realized your own perfect time.”
But Leo.. I can't even solve the 2D maze from the newspapers
I died 😂
@@wabalubadubdubdub still trying lmao
One thing I think matters is that escaping the maze shouldn't be an end to itself, but to enjoy the journey - shure you've heard this one thousand times... And the other is that if I want to finally escape the maze afterall, if I take it as that, I have to be so aware of everything, so mindful and couchious.. (I need a dictionary, but for now I'm skipping it) OK.. And of course be at the top of the all, having controle over myself and just a sense of freedom in it.. Freedom and having a lot of options makes the maze amazing and not a pain. Thanks Leo! I have watched carefully all of your videos, I just make sure that I have some good time for them so I don't need to go back all the time to be Shure I paid my complete attention.. (if I choose wrong words it just means I am too excited to post before I check the grammar and vocabulary..)
plz write a book n put all your knowledge into it
i did'nt think about that.well non of the shelf can be that much spacious.😃
He is writing a book about epistomology
His knowledge can't be put into a book. It's too broad.
Yeah here it is, the book is called Actualized.org
If he put all his knowledge into the book. Nobody would read it. It would sit on the shelf as one of those someday books. And someday never comes. He just got through telling us in the video how he can't get an intelligent question out of just about anyone, implying that nobody is doing any of the actual hard work involved in what he's saying. People are stuck in the Between Time....that part between thinking & action without taking the action.
Studying different perspectives has been huge for me in every area of life. Love that you mention that. I think it's huge to pay attention to your ahas, especially the ones that repeat. Not that I am an authority on waking up though he he.
One of the best episodes.
For whatever reason what you say resonates with me Leo. I watch 2 or 3 videos of yours a week. Its helping me. Its useful. Thank you. I appreciate you sharing your wisdom with me.
What if escaping the maze is merely chasing another sort of a cheese?
And what if rats who think themselves freed from being in the maze are merely deluded and mislead by other rats who write books about "Escaping the maze"?
The maze is infinite and tricky to claim to be certain about anything.
And maybe looking for self-awareness from the position of "avoiding the traps", "escaping the maze" means building some concept of obstacles and fighting with them? Any self-awareness journey might be started from full and entire acceptance and happiness wherever you are.
Daria even if it is... who cares? It’s so much better than all the other materialistic cheese’s that others pursue.
Theres a deeper meaning that you’re not seeing
☯️♾️🕉️
I have been watching your videos for the last three years....And now, thanks to you, I read a book a week, meditate, self enquire and contemplate. My life's completely changed sir. I have no words to thank you.
West world 3 confirmed
Wow amazing videos !! Great to see you back Leo. It’s been 4 years but you put up that evergreen content to help people everywhere no matter how old the video. Thank you for helping me dig deeper into this game called life 🙏🏾💯. I love you my friend !!!
Yesss that's how you start a Sunday morning
Once you taste that enlightenment you start fucking with power and power is blind where you can see.
It's obvious that your work is becoming deeper and deeper every month and you're also growing as you create this work. Well done!
Okay Leo here is serious questions, where do i find the rats that have escaped the maze to learn from? How do I know if they have truly escaped the maze?
Leo I just want to thank you for all your dedication on teaching us the truth of this human experience. I have much respect for you because you ask for nothing in return. I am truly working on myself and I am slowly becoming a better version of myself. Its a lot of work and I wont give up on it. I honestly know that I will be my higher self one day during this life time. I just want to thank you so much because you are a big part of this journey I am in every day. I am 26 years old and I am grateful for realizing this early in my life during this human experience and my spirit knew that by choosing this body that it was going to do whatever it take to achieve our highest purpose. I am just at the beginning but im wont give up. I know you talk about most people not becoming the god that we are meant to be but just dont forget about the ones that are truly in that path. It takes a long time but I rather spend my time becoming my higher self than satisfying my ego. I had a psychedelic experience and that is when it all started. Positive vibes sending you way 💜
Cheers!
Thank you Leo for this one! And also very excited about the episode about intention. What is it? Where does it come from? What's the difference between desire and intention?
very interesting topic !
@@haleyyou 이 채널을 꾸준히 본지가 2년이 넘어가는데 한국인을 본게 첨이네여 ㅎㅎ
@@haleyyou공감합니다. 리오한테 들은 새로운 생각들을 주변 친구나 가족한테 말하면 이상한 취급 받기 마련이죠. 저는 리오가 한 말 중에 "좋고 나쁘고는 없다, 오직 관점이 그것을 만들뿐이다"라는 말을 듣고 살인, 강간은 나쁜 것이 아니라고 생각을 했을 정도였으니까요.(합리화된다는 것은 아니지만요) 그 때 한참 매일 2시간씩 리오 말 들으면서 깨달음을 얻었다고 생각하고 다른 사람들은 deluded되었다며 자만할 때가 있었는데.. 지금은 생각이 더 성장을 해서 매순간 다른 모든 사람들의 관점에서 생각해보려고 노력하고 언제나 내 생각이 어느 한쪽에 치우치지 않았나 자신을 많이 돌아봅니다. 모든 가능성을 열어두고 독단적이고 이상적주의적 생각들을 버리려고 노력하니까 많이 성장하게 되더라구요. 예전엔 우울증이 있어서 행복할 수 있는 방법과 행복의 철학을 리오한테 배우기 시작하면서 슬픈 감정을 달랬는데 너무 리오한테 의존적이게되고 맹신하게 되는것이 함정이더라구요. 이젠 더 많은 생각과 경험을 통해 리오를 무조건적으로 수용하지 않고 저만의 생각을 함께 길러가고 있습니다. 근데 제가 저의 원래 생각들을 버리고 개방적인 생각을 가지기까지 뼈를 깎는 노력을 했다고 생각합니다. 원래의 신념과 철학을 부정하는 것은 원래 나의 자아를 부정하는것과 같아서 더 심한 우울증도 걸렸던 것 같아요. 그렇기에 리오의 영상을 남보고 이해하라고 하는건 웬만한 의지가 있지 않은 한 불가능하다고 느꼈습니다. 지금 나이가 고2인데 2년동안 너무 생각만 하고 살아온것이 조금 아쉽지만 그래도 많은 것을 얻어갔다고 생각합니다.
YH Y. I dont understand !
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Fire. Key takeaway for me: Nobody will provide you with the full truth, so get a very wide range of perspectives under your consideration - reading hundreds and hundreds of books, exploring and contemplating all that you can for deliverance from the maze. I like how deliberate that is. The season of my life is presently to elucidate my goals, act deliberately, and then execute effectively. I'm still trying to permanently escape that comfortable unconscious haze that often tries to pull me in. Progress is steadily upward.
The more I watch your videos the more I see that I need to rewatch your older videos because I didn't fully understand them.
Romazho you can understand them in different levels. Wise my friend
I do the exact same thing
Leo if one day you stop making these videos my heart will be broken. you enlighten the ideas that we never think about and we actually should be thinking of. bless you, you are a big man
About two years ago, I was literally stuck in a maze for hours or possibly days idk, completely sober, while sitting on my bed. There were people in every room just sitting and standing around and if i would go back to the previous room it would be a new room that i have never been in. It was like an old poorly lit... place of rooms. An infinite maze of insanity. This is one of many experiences of all sorts i had over the course of i don't even know. Well over a week. I was able to switch back and forth occasionally between the bedroom i was in and the other place. I might have died and didn't realize it i really have no idea. I do not understand the predicament that we are in at all.
How so?
I don't know where to begin. This happened, i stopped being a materialist, discovered alan watts, then discovered Leo all within about a couple weeks of each other. Before this i was "dry as a bone" as alan watts says. This entirety of this experience expands out into a book. It's real simple though. I was sitting on a bed and got lost. I should never have been a materialist to begin with because i have had strange occurrences as a small child that i always vividly remembered but never fully appreciated. I tend to get really super deep into thought and i guess thought has the power to take you places. This is where i transcended a sort of active nihilism that the ego was involved with. That was the meaning i suppose.
Well, hopefully you never ended up turning yourself in to the hospital because that was the end result of all this. It eventually got a little out of hand.
Just a little though and i wouldn't trade it for anything.
Yeah sure, im going to sleep now though.
"Making a commitment to figure this out". I made that commitment when I was 11 and the few people I told laughed at me dismissively. I've always know the only reason I'm here is to figure out the maze and that's all I'm really interested in doing. Another awesome video!!
Amazin' ,only an hour.I might be able to get through this one
Love this perspective! One thing; by shaping yourself (choosing where you put your intention in order to grow) you also change the maze.. Your inner and outer world are connected.
I love the unique taste of this kind of videos which is leaving you confused, mindfucked, challenging and hopeful at the same time.
Mmm it hurts though Lol
Leo talks about the need for a note taking system that will let you organize your vision as it arises. I use, and have used for years, 3 x 5" cards, stapled together and often grouped together under a title card held together with gumbands. Periodically, I go through them and throw away shallow and irrelevant ideas. Reading down through the comments, I see the sentiment now and again expressed that Leo is a scolder. He is in a sense but he does it in a way that doesn't bother me. I'm pretty sure that if I talked with him one on one, I could vigorously debate him and he'd have no problem with that. I don't agree with everything he says - I think he misses some things... but I think he's also miles beyond most people and I'm appreciating how he's setting certain aspects of the puzzle into place for me. He is very sure of himself, some might say too sure; but I think Leo is laying out a way of life for people who want to explore their own way out of 'the maze' (as he calls it here) instead of just doing what some teacher or guru says to do. This might not be a path for everyone but I have been through teachers and gurus galore and I see no way to really reach the deepest depth except to go it alone. I'm taking from Leo what will enhance my ability to do that.
Ths weekend a video on unconditional love plz.. Thnks leo!
sarthak. bangwal - That's a topic that I would like to see from him as well.
What we need is a sequel to squirting.
Hey Leo, I'm an iPEC graduate specialising in dating for men and I'm so inspired every time I listen to you. I have so much appreciation for giving me the fundamental tools on how to navigate in this maze. Please let me know where I could find the people who escape/understood enough the maze that would be happy to teach me. Lastly when I get the opportunity to meet you, I can be of service to you free of charge. Would be my honour to have you as my mentor :)
The first step to escaping the maze is to realize you are in the maze. You exit the maze when you realize the maze was never actually there to begin with.
The maze is just lines on papers.
Thanks Leo. Your channel is the one, what helps me anytime when I find myself completely lost.
Within the body mind, the maze can only be a finite representation or a model existing within infinite Consciousness. The understanding of the truth brings a transformation of the metaphor from a finite projection to its infinitely fractal nature where pain and pleasure cease to exist, where all that is only is to be independently from human perception.
The maze, expands at a pace that isn’t fathomable by the human mind. The maze includes the human mind and only by becoming the maze can one catch a glimpse of its infinite nature
Well said
This channel is one hell of a Treasure !
Life is A Maze Ing
I’ll see myself out
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Leo, I'm 22 years old and I'm on the same journey you're on.
Meditating, experimenting with psychedelics, praying to God, excluding myself from society as much as possible, experimenting with social media, meeting with PhDs and realizing they're useless, googling. I used to work at a bank and found myself falling into the system, pending a job promotion and raise, I fell into a deep depression because I knew I was living my life's purpose. I came out of an extremely abusive house hold as a child so I always held on to the hope that there had to he more to this reality.
Being a friend of yours would be great because no one understand what I'm trying to do. I married young due to my mother's religious pressure but I spend most of my time alone trying to put in the time and work. Some of your videos have angered me but I've found it's only because you're speaking truth and sometimes the truth is hard to listen to. Anyway, thank you for your work. But I can truly say I've found a way to think for myself and I'm putting in the work. I hope to see a new world of peace and helping those that don't understand, understand why they're here.
Wasn't*
"In Zen. We don't find the answers, we lose the questions." Leo, you are lost in the maze because you keep your beLIEf in it.
You want a hard question for you ???
Why are you a teacher before you found what you are looking for for yourself first ? Are you out of the "maze" yet ? Obviously not, so you are the blind leading the blinds... How can you be sure you're not if you haven't figure out all the truth of yourself for yourself first ? ( and with every new video it seems you only keep digging deeper or building stronger, the maze of illusion called Maya...)
Love.
Leo clearly seems to have a hidden agenda.
fardeen shaik He teaches! That is what he is doing here. So he is a teacher, or at least puts himself in that role and I'm sure some people look at him that way, they learn from him, no need to get too scientific of philosophic about that. He teaches others about and how to emancipate themselves without being able to emancipate himself.
The man has helped tons of people with their lives. He has every right to do so. Never claimed to be enlightened. But certainly seems to understand how this maze works on a deep level.
Beautiful projections there also.
whats wrong about a teacher who is still learning himself? on this path you fail and make progress. once you think you are done on this path you stand still and therefore fail.
He is doing his best. Do not want to be perfect and do the best you can at this moment.
You are a great spirutal guide that woke my interest in what I always had in me! The mystic is now taking form, thankfull for being awoke and acknowled!
Keep up the good work🙏
Amazing and inspiring
Leo the amount of work you are talking about may be what you require to understand truth but it may not be for others ... if one has a real desire to understand absolute awareness all it takes is earnestness and maybe just one book and a good mentor !!
Just my views .. I love the work you do
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Thank you for this speech and all of your videos. This channel is a real treasure on yt. I can't express how grateful i am for your work!
Is this based on the book ‘Who’s got my cheese ‘?
I think this is gonna help me out a lot. I appreciate you man. I never actually understood what self-actualization meant until I saw this video. amazing.
Maybe this weeks video got lost in the maze...
Thank you Leo, for trying to communicate these important information, although it is almost impossible to communicate.
A person can’t think outside of his perspective .
I can sleep at night no matter what is going on. Something I was never able
To do. Tossing and turning. Thoughts racing. Now. Doesn’t matter what is going. When I lay down it all just disappears. Life is a play. When you understand this your focus can on whatever it wants
Life is an intense journey, when you truly go deep into Lucid Dreams and go into these trivial Multiverses and see all these different dream acts and more, we don't realize there are pockets and pockets of information, bigger and bigger, like you said Meta Reality above a Reality. I used to think I was somewhat of a Zen Devil, because I have pretty crazy dreams and things seem to just come to me, but I realize it is similar to a baby scribbling on paper, going Meta is a necessary! I have gone so deep into the Maze, it changes my character so much, but I descend back into and out of it, I do fall into traps. But I have noticed the patterns here and there, but I might have an Existential Issue, because as I figure out more, I descend into chaos more, or is this an illusion?
We need to find a way to educate young people about the Maze! We got to bring a new age of Revolution to this world, that would be so fun!
Can you please help me to get into this world? I'm still a newbie looking for answers and new experiences
The greatest gift you ever gave me was to fuel my inclination to ask better questions. Thank you Leo
Hey leo is emotional labour supposed to be painful?Please help!
Is it the most painful thing we do in our life?
Yes, it can be very painful, but that's a sign it's working
The seasoned craftsman hits the nail on the head everytime. Much respect Leo🙏
Just one hour today? It is pretty short. I got used to soaking wisdom for hours. :)
yea right! you probably day dream like 60% of the video.
The effort you put in trying to make us understand the fundamentals is highly appreciated. Thank you for your help 🙏🏻
Leo I have an existentiel question: "Life is a dream in a maze" or "a maze in a dream" ?
Life is life
Getting out of maze is waking up from dream
Bdit Nfi9 life is a maze which is a dream
Ha ha ha ha
Maybe it is, but suffering is real.. so better to know how to deal with it properly
Leo, even if most people who watch your videos never heed your advice or actually do this work, just know that there are those of us that do the work and take it seriously. Your videos have been very helpful and inspiring for me. So much so, that just saying thank you falls very short.
I'm glad its only 1 hour long 😂
yea
we need more 4 hours video noob
Yeah I Agree we all got to work on our concentration, escape the maze of social media first 😁
yes yes
The longer the better
Question for you Leo: how do we go about navigating the maze, escaping the false distractions of consumerism, and living authentically in recognition of our mortality?
God there's so much good stuff here. 20:37 "What does it mean to solve the maze? You solve the maze when you discover who you are, what reality is, and what your place is within this reality. And when you discover how and why people get lost in this maze."
I remember reading a bit of Heidegger (and I found him somewhat difficult to comprehend) and one concept he introduced that's relevant to your video is "das Gerede" (or "chatter"). Chatter and noise everywhere in our modern culture. From bombardments of advertising on glowing rectangular screens telling you what to buy, what to desire, what to do, how to think...to the trivial BS and gossip about the Kardashians or watching/judging the neighbors eccentric behavior and which professional sports team is winning against some other arbitrary sports team in their endeavor to move a ball from one geographic location to another also arbitrarily defined geographic location..... It's all so exhausting. And meaningless. It's hard to escape. If you live in a social construct (i.e. society), as we all generally do, this trival noise surrounds us. I can't stand having conversations with coworkers/colleagues about the latest departmental gossip or how the football team fared this weekend, or the latest album on vinyl. And yet, I recognize myself as a social being, and it's important to engage with others to be, well, social. And so I feel trapped by society in this regard. It forces me to live in an inauthentic manner, because of the pressure (financial mostly) behind modern living. Sure, I could move out to the woods and buy a parcel of land to build a cabin and try to ensconce myself from societal chatter, but it's very difficult to escape. And even if it were theoretically possible to escape completely, would you truly want to? As a social construct, we get lonely when isolated from our fellow daseins for too long. Even the solitude loner needs to interact with people every now and then.
So what to do? Heidegger famously suggested that people spend more time in graveyards lol to better appreciate their own mortality, but I'm curious Leo, what would you recommend?
As always, love your videos.
*THE WORLD IS A VAMPIRE*
LMFAO. That's the second Smashing Pumpkins reference so far. You guys are killiing it.
Nice Tune Up Episode!...I like the idea of doing these 'reintroduction to the path' episodes occasionally...great for those who are new as well as regulars...lookin' forward to the intention episode.
Working on escaping the maze right now and started to document the journey on videos and my first journal. Thx Leo, for inspiring me to actually actualize...
Hey
Truly A-maze-ing. I like the way the step back and forth between deep spirituality and practical videos like these.
These comments crack me up!😂
Truly life changing insights and such a large collection of valuable information here. So thankful and appreciative of the effort put into actualized.org. Thank you Leo!
*Maze is a Leo*
Life is a maze, truly wonderful laying of fundamentals to understand the maze and the truth is it is almost self explanatory, thanks leo for giving us a better option. You are on the right track the foundation you are laying right now will live eternal like James Allen's footprints. Not for profit but for a noble cause.
2 minutes, 20 likes :D
So many books!!! It’ll be another trap. Using a human mind doesn’t bring you out of the maze, puts even deeper and pride arises. I like Mooji’s approach on that. Ignoring the mind, finding your true identity. It takes a lot of practice getting rid of the ego and conditioning.
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Oh no
Because he's a Taurus who did psychedelics
I missed this guy for so long.
38:00- One must read 300 Books? lolol. This is sneaky ego stroking because YOU'VE read that many. How many books did Gautama Buddha read? Or Jesus, or Sadhguru, etc. Discharging such constructed beliefs is the way out of "the maze" more so than fortifying it by congratulating oneself over how much one "knows".
@@NickOleksiakMusic True. A book is a pointer. So is a one line stanza. Volumes of books and pedantic bookishness won't crack the egoic trap. When it cracks it's like it was never there.
Thanks for sharing that about your grandmother- that's a beautiful thing. This awakening or whatever one calls it hit me in may of 2017. Totally unexpected. Ironically I have Trumpy-Tot and Colbert to thank. So despondent and disgusted with everything, driving down Normandie ave in Los Angeles and seeing Late show with Colbert Banners outstrung from lamposts and thinking of the stupid petulant back and forth vitriol of humankind, I just surrendered and totally relaxed- checked out I guess. I was over This- whatever This is. Fully unexpectedly everything became seemingly much quieter and scenery- surroundings, everything was "colored" with empty tender presence that didn't even recognize me or anything else. It was amazing and so ordinary at the same time. I wasn't there. My body was but I was not- just awakness seeing itself in everything- the drunk passed out on the sidewalk, the stopsigns, the cars, trees, the engine noise, the buildings and trash etc. There was a toggling between seeing and mentally commentating. Couldn't do both simultaneously. Anyway, this went on for about 20 min. Had to go into a meeting and couldn't keep my eyes dry. Now it feels so elusive... Keep up the music- it does wonders:) Just got done listing to Go to the Mirror from The Who's Tommy. It sums this whole trap up. cheers
It sounds like you're just trying to find a way to puss out on the hard work required to read 300 non-fiction self-help books. I've got Leo's book list & those are some of the hardest damn books to read. I've got a couple that I've barely cracked because they're so intimidating.
@@shitmandood I have his booklist too. Lots of great stuff. Many I've read years ago. I was giving Leo shit. Nothing personal. He's doing great things. Yours pussily, Ryan
lmao...good one.
I can't believe I hadn't watched this video yet! Great one, Leo! Big love to you as always!
Gross ego venting starting around 25:00. I realize that you might despair at the lack of peers you'll encounter at these higher levels, but you don't serve yourself, or your students by constructing a value hierarchy around enlightenment and knowledge then sitting on it like a throne passing judgement.
Also be sure you're not making the mistake that your way towards actualization is the only way. There have been many actualized individuals through the course of history that did not read textbooks to obtain enlightenment. I agree that it helps, but it's a needless limitation that you are inflicting upon your followers.
It may not be the only way, though I have to say that I find it a clever choice to persuade the viewer into reading a pile of serious literature. It may be something that the average viewer is not used to do, but could significantly benefit from. He will not only learn the content of these books but also the focus and persistence that such study demands. Also it challenges the viewer to tap into other sources of wisdom besides actualized.org. Stumbling upon the limitations of this channel is a good sign btw :)
Kevin Johnson he said it was different for everyone
Great comment anyways
@MrBlodhund
"he said it was different for everyone"
He says that a lot and then oops-identally forgets in followup vids with the strokefest all over again. But this is a quality of minding... dreaming ourselves as if there is a myself as apart from a yourself. One ego movement demarcating itself in fractals as if each one isn't the same movement. "It's a feature not a bug" ;-)
Thank you so much for your videos Leo. You never sold out in a blue mentality. You kept true to truth and you spread love and light. I'm very grateful.
It's a shameless that you stopped making videos on social aspects of life... like dating relationship and communication skills
Go TAKE ACTION ON IT THEN. LEO IS DEVELOPING AND YOU ARENT. WATCH VIDEOS ON OTHER CHANNELS ABOUT THAT SHIT DUDE. XD
You’re completely lost !
Leo, I love you & i love how at this level, your latest video, you present the information so humanly and so relatable.. I was scared that this information at this level would be beyond me especially the latest videos but you come down to earth and delivered in such a ground-breakingly human way,.
More and more your "ranting"-style keeps me driving away from your videos. After starting a video in a quite calm voice you tend to phase into ranting mode. Is that intentional?
I can actually appreciate his passionate rantings .
(Btw if you are into calm and soothing voices there are some channels I can wholeheartedly recommend)
@@hab0272 name some pls
Sure, go ahead.
@insiderperson18279 LavenderTowne (who basically draws stuff) and Super Eyepatch Wolf (who analyzes anime and other popular media) are my personal favorites in that aspect. Be ware though, it may be another distraction within the maze. I can also recommend The Diamond Net, a channel that revolves around spirituality/psychology. I think Emerald (the author) shares great information that is accessible for right/left brained thinkers alike. She's very calm and honest and doesn't have this in-the-face kind of style that Leo sometimes has.
Thx for sharing. I'm aware of distraction patterns more and more - and in fact - at the moment I enjoy distractions and their ability to show me how I can be distracted - always a good laugh when it finally clicks and I grin at myself and myself back at me. I'm curious whether/when/how this mechanic is getting boring to _me_
Pretty good. It's always good to reflect on this a sort of thing because your right people don't think about this stuff and it IS the most important thing in life.
This has been the most motivational video for me by far.
Thank you Leo!! Great episode.
Well, I don't have words to thank you for this episode. I wish I knew more about the non-physical maze. I'm 4 years into awakening and i'm trying to figure it out.
11:10 "this maze is filled with...shiny distractions and false exits." Great point Leo