56:07 "Why does consciousness exist?" I think the simpler answer would be - consciousness needs no reason to exist because 'reasons' are created in consciousness.
Causality is part of the limited reality we experience. Consciousness doesn't have to obey this rule. It amazes me, it is just like the scuentist start talking once they don't know how to explain how everything came to exist. That causality is something in our reality that doesn't have to apply when trying to explain those things
@Sir Feynman - Science is an aspect of the human experience and it will forever evolve and change. Truth, on the other hand, is self-evident and non-changing. You essentially checkmate yourself when you demand scientific proof for the existence of the very thing from which "proof" as a concept, was conceived.
@allen higgins Im in the exact same boat as you. People are so inbedded in their own ego's that they dont welcome anything like this, they see it as wishy washy but i see it as one of if not the most important thing to learn about.
I am from India and I do study about Consciousness, Nonduality and Advaita Vedanta from many teachers, ancient teachers and scriptures to understand the nature of Reality But I must admit this video on Consciousness by Leo is one of the best pointers on Consciousness. Thank you Brother.
this is not an opinion , only an idiot would see it like that. Consciousness can express itself as an idiot and write what you just wrote. You are consciousness expressing itself as an idiot. Its okay all love.
"... is a rock conscious...?" The correct formulation of this question I believe it should be : " can consciousness experience itself in the form of a rock ? " The answer is clearly yes. Consciousness can in my opinion experience existence as a photon , a molecule, a single cell organism , a solar system or anything else we can think of. Let's not limit consciousness to the level of brain functions , self awareness and so on.
correct even Erwin Schrodinger has a video about this. Its called can Electrons Think ? Keep In Mind Erwin Schrodinger is a Nobel Laurate and A Founding Father of Quantum Mechanics.
I feel like i'm a child being told stories and analogies to remember what home is, and it works, and so is relaxing and I feel being slowly sucked into consciousness. Just like this video was a song that when fully listened, put you back at your original place. thank you Leo.
Everything he says is true! I have this book (the yoga of time travel) i have it since 4 years never read it. Today i took it will watching this video. It was an amazing experience. Time travel is real! You can see into past,present,future! With your mind you can do so much! I hope you understand.
Like the new look *Leo* ! To be able to talk longer than an hour with that drive and preciseness about something it's proof that you actually know what you're talking about. You really have something there! Keep the good insights coming, we need this!
Leo, you have an incredible physical and mental resemblance to a great friend of mine, who unfortunately passed away four years ago. Our friendship lasted for more than thirty years, discussing fundamental topics like this. Love to you.
Incredibly well said... Research into consciousness will continue to confirm what mystics and spiritually awakened beings have described for thousands of years. Our most advanced sciences are just starting to catch up to the realization that consciousness is infinite and transcendent....and in this way humanity is awakening :) thanks for the video!
Love your look, Leo! Keep it! After the challenge I see you more cheerful and eager to educate. Also, I see that your tone is getting less and less judgmental. I can actually feel more love and empathy in your voice. You are starting to understand the students more and meet them at their level. This episode was outstanding. Finally, seeing you smile more like in this video makes me much more willing to listen and internalize what you are saying, don't know why.
I'm currently upto 20:20 of this video and it is so amazing. Advaita is very difficult to understand and I have been studying this for a while, but you bring a new dimension of understanding to this; an originality, and I find that amazing. Thank you.
My friends and I have been sharing your videos for two years now. A good friend of mine came over and our conversations are exploration, lightheartedness and we are self improved on quality of life overall as a personal review. I've started my own business as a byproduct of taking care of my mental and emotional health as a byproduct of consciousness work. My life has done a 360 in two short years. I am thankful for your help. Thank you Leo! Great videos, I can not thank you enough for your life purpose! Great job! You are changing lives.
for people that don't understand or keep getting confused by the word "nothing", think absolute purity. No outside influence, no anything, just pure pureness.
"...and it never will be able to". The most presumptuous, over-confident statement I've heard this month. I do appreciate passionate curiosity and articulate exploration based on determined self inquiry, but not over-sold proclamations and "answers" - especially if they carry danger of settling questions not yet ripe for everyone.
This was 5 years ago - Leo appears at best health here and projects an adorable enthusiasm of a little boy whilst explaining. Good watching him this way - That seemed to have changed a few years later.......
Finally! You're back leo! Plz dnt judge me But i actually fell off track last month.. U were like my meditations tht kept reminding me of my higher self.. M gonna get back on track now!
You know how they say the purpose of life is to live? Well, that's it. Trying to explain and understand everything, every little bit, means deviating from the true purpose of living. It's like playing a game with friends, but then stopping the game to recheck the rules and setup. Just play... Consciousness is us playing. When you stop to analyze "THE GAME" you become defocused, confused. But still, analyzing is part of the fun.
the purpose is to live, but "to live" can have many purposes of it's own, beyond itself being a "purpose to". As there is no default purpose, to say "to live" is as vague as to say "to not do anything that's about life", because anything you do is a purpose already, it goes from smaller to bigger purposes
I recommended my viewers to go watch your channel because I thought about stopping doing videos. Now you even start to look like me with the beard. Perfect timing. Eventually people don’t see the difference:)))) Excellent as always. Thx Leo
I don't know what it is about these videos, probably the up close personal conversation-like feel of the content, and the length of time I spend looking at his face because the videos are so long, but I could so easily fall in love with this person.
56:05 - "Why does consciousness exist?" This question has no answer and the reason for that is because consciousness is the metaphysical primary. "Explanation" is a derivative of consciousness and is therefore a second order reality. In other words, the concept of "explanation" itself presupposes consciousness and would not even exist without it.
“I was just materialistic boy” haha makes it sound like you were some sort of super hero with the power of denying the fundamental nature of consciousness XD
but I mean u can allways shift back, by this I dont mean ignore everything that says that the universe is not just materalistic but that u can be open minded put that knwledge or theories better said at the back of ur mind and listen materalistic peoples theories with a clear open mind and u can allways refrain to those theories that u have at the back of u head whenever u desire.
For me, this is the best video you have made. Because despite having read so many books and watched so many videos on non-duality, I have always had an "interesting, yeah maybe...but what about X though...still hasn't really convinced me any" reaction. But you present this perspective as not only tenable, but arguably more tenable [the only tenable? in the sense that to only ever experience consciousness throughout life, and yet only see it as secondary and limited, is very questionable]. So yes, its giving me some serious thoughts. And maybe some interesting change of direction, actions and perspective may follow, with time. Good work!
I absolutely love your videos. In fact, I think the way you explain , deep matters in a clear, uncluttered way - I think you are one of the best speakers, I've come across through the internet. Keep the video's coming my friend.
I recently started my journey about understanding consciousness and have improved a lot, but then after watching few videos from some neurobiologist who claimed that this is all happened in neurone level and is a biological phenomenon at the Quantum level etc., I got somewhat confused. Today by chance I watched your this video, and believe me, your superb explanation and fantastic analogies fully clarified my mind. You got wonderful talent in this area, really enjoyed listening you. I felt really energized. Thank you so much. Very much looking forward your next talk. Be blessed!
Hey, happy to hear you started your journey but if i could give you an advice, it would be to not be leeching to people's persective of it in hope of an explanation. Not neuroscientists, not leo, not anyone. I am not saying that its not good content and valuable information because i would be lying, but don't borrow someone else's glasses in hope to fix your vision because each pair of glasses is unique to the owner.
@@manarmeziani857 Hi, Definitely, I'm not following anybody blindly. However, you will have to admit that, once you are in deep sleep state for decades, totally ignorant from self awareness or conspicuousness, you can not awake until some one who already been awakened and knew about the reality (no matter to what extent) could guide you and show you the directions, that ultimately result in your awakes. That exactly happened to me. In the first phase of discovery, I got all sort of mixed information from variety of peoples, and everyone try to convince their own point of view, like Leo is one example, and others from scientific communities etc. I personally liked Leo point of views, but after watching his other videos on this topics, I feel he went to extreme level. Regardless, my own journey continue resulting more and more enlightenment, that's beyond explanation.
Happy to say that what you said in some of your videos to watch your previous videos again, is proving right! I actually was mindblown the first time i listened to this video like 4 months ago, and NOW I GET IT. Only now i GET IT! You really have to be a good teacher and know what to teach when to teach it in the correct order.
@@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt It's not unfortunate. It just is. If there is a shooting at a store it's not unfortunate, negative, positive, etc. That people are trying to run out of the store. The ego is simply trying to survive. The ego is doing it's job, it's not good or bad, or unfortunate. It just is.
Life may be cruel and nasty but putting that aside it's marvelous as well and like what Leo says in a lot of his uploads and in this video the fact that we are even conscious of our existence is what makes life so profound and intriguing.
I Love the quest in you, the self searched work and knowledge you are imparting. Your holistic approach, the topics you are speaking on, it's all amazing, wonderful. I absolutely Love it All. Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 praying for your endless, Ultimate Evolution! Enormous Love....
Love the shirt and the beard :) Through us, the universe becomes conscious of itself. So we have a great responsibility :) Consciousness is pure and infinite potential. Pure potential cannot be conscience of itself. Hence it needs a vehicle, such as enlightened humans to become conscience of itself.
Katrin Eskandary there is no “we” we are just a idea or a thought of consciousness itself. Our soul takes a vessel but that’s not in the deepness of what Leo is talking about the soul and the vessel itself are all in consciousness being the field of awareness
Leo grew a beard to show that time has passed since the last video. But on the subject matter, probably the deepest topic I can think of(from my limited perspective).
I love your videos. Your the first person to test consciousness and become conscious and record your finding, saving me 30-40 years of meditation etc. now I can go forward. Just your videos alone opened my mind and my day revolves around self improvement. I feel like it’s my job to shift perspectives of my family and friends before the ultimate day when. I die. And am infinitely reunited w myself. And can enjoy every aspect of every existence unbiased. I hope you read this. Even the ultra close minded comments on here are laughable. But we’re laughing at ourselves. #oneness
Hello Leo! Consciousness doesn’t exist in the “strange loop” so whether neuroscientists would find a way to deal with the strange loop or not, each one of us should go through a journey to deserve to be enlightened and eventually merge with the infinite consciousness. If we will end up going to the doctor to get enlightenment then soon after that it will transform to a new business!!! As you said before, consciousness can’t be bought or taught!!! Thank you!
"right now you think you're a human being sitting here who has consciousness. but you are not that. you are the universe being conscious and thinking that it is a human being" this is mind blowing stuff.
In order for the nothing to realize is nothing it has to become something, so it becomes everything. You can't imagine nothingness without being conscious, without being aware. It's so incredible that it's actually hard to explain with words, but in the mind you understand it fully. It's a feeling. It's an awareness. Consciousness is thought.
Leo has helped me go to the next level with understanding consciousness , thank you bro ! Now , what to do with this knowledge? Be grateful for EVERYTHING in consciousness and align with LOVE
Welcome back Leo! I'm happy your retreat went well. I just wanted to quickly share that you are absolutely correct about your view. I know I briefly shared with you before you left about my death experience... but my view coming back from the other side was that in the "death" of this form, I was instantaneously back to being "Awareness" or "Consciousness" as you say. There was no I, but there was pure presence and awareness. There was only Me, for lack of a better term, as the observer of all things, occupying the Void (absence in totality). I was completely in the moment but understood that I had always been. It seems you experienced something similar. The description you give of consciousness basically taking human form is very accurate and I'm so proud of you for this journey and grateful that you're sharing this gift with others. It's hard to keep it inside now that you know it! ;) Well done my friend.
Thanks guys. Fantastical Leo! I searched to see if "awareness" came up, and this comment did. Do (either of) you find "awareness" a usefull distintion. In general I get the impression that consciousness is more often used as maybe awareness in its mode of being "aware of". So with this impression in the context of this video, I am substituting "awareness" for "consciousness". I'm curiouse about where language is going for non dual conversations, so thanks for any sharing you have on this.
Really eye opening video Leo! I have been watching your videos for almost 3 years and started meditating for 2 years and yet I had no understanding what consciousness really was. Thanks a lot and keep making videos! Love from India.
Can you imagine a non universe? Or can you imagine non existence? Nothing existing?....There can't be non existence because there is always the thought....The question of "Why are we here?"....There is no other way to be in the nothingness but to be/to exist. In order to be aware of nothingness there must be awareness. In other words even nothingness has to be imagined, has to be thought. It's magic baby😎
But see... what is a thought? You re still interpreting. What Leo is saying here is> There nothing else, other than nothingness itself, without any meaning, and that s precisely why you have consciousness. Think deeper about that.
I have understood the info you present, but in following your videos, I’m finding deeper understanding to the point of experiencing dramatic life changes that I attribute directly to the intensity and directness with which you communicate your research.
D. A. Gwin literally same! My life has become amazing! And so fulfilling I cannot express with words how I truly feel. But I can use my words to say how thankful I am for what Leo does for us. I’m glad to see you’ve resonated similarly to me 🙂
Same here. I used to be miserable every time something does not go my way in life. Now I have learned that there really is nothing to worry about, because the worst that could happen is death, and we are all just figures interfering with themselves in a universe made of themselves and that made them. And the universe doesn't give a damn who survives. So I just take everyday as it comes, and I do my best with no pressure whatsoever.
haven't watched your videos in awhile and it's so beautiful to see how much you've expanded. Definitely, a different energy behind your words, but your ability to explain still remains Leo :) oh and I love the new look!
Your analogy of the infinite clay as the creative force "nothingness" fired off quite an awakening experience for me this morning on my way to work. It has been a long while since I've had that happen and I thank you for helping me and others along our path! Thank you for what you do!
Hey Leo! I’m a huge fan. I think I’ve watched every one of your videos. Have you ever considered applying your video game design skills with your pedagogy? For example, I can envision a video game that is designed to teach the various levels of consciousness. Looking forward to future videos!
Wow, this is really interesting and makes a lot of sense. I'd love you to talk to Sam Harris about this. I think you two probably agree on this stuff more than you think.
Leo, with all your free spiritual teachings which are way deeper than most teachings these days .... you’re like trying to translate buddhism principles to an every day languages for an easier understanding, where all of us who are still sleeping are just struggling to even get a grasp of these. I am guessing you’re a boddhisatva in past life who is back to earth life to help us all. Thank you, thank you and thank you for all your effort untill this moment.
What you are saying can be understood only when one feels it with ultra awareness or death experience or with psychedelics. I've felt that oneness feeling like 'i am everything and everywhere in the entire universe and i am nothing at the same time'. For non experienced ones let me tell you with example, you can fell air but you cannot see,it is around you in the earths atmosphere, it is filling the space. But in space there is only space but not any air, entire universe is filled with that unseen space. And that space is filled with conciousness, like earths atmosphere space is filled with air. Conciousness is the background entity, non physical, core aspect of cosmos existence. Coming from cosmos to your home, cosmos conciousness filled with space and earth's atmosphere level conciousness is filled with space and air, light. And now, conciousness in your body shape is filled with muscle, air, space, prana/energy, water, liquid, etc, if you remove one after another the end and core remaining thing is conciousness which is completely non physical and non imaginative. Yet you can experience or feel, realise when you transcend/delete your physical body level and mind level through enhanced awareness, perception. With normal mind analysis you cannot get there, with meditation you may transcend mind but not enough to experience what conciousness is. Yes may be possible if you be in that meditation state for more than 50 or more years, literally freezing your body and mind without distracting mind for even 1 micro second, not even bird sounds in Himalayas. So you may not be achieve that on this earth. Here comes the psychedelics it fastens the process it immediately transcends the body ( to your knowledge of you are drunk, you forget what happened before night) and it also transcends the thinking/analyzing mind, then space, time after some point there is nothing to transcend ONLY CONCIOUSNESS REMAINS INFINITELY, THATS THE CORE YOU. YOU ARE INFINITE CONCIOUSNESS, IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE/COSMOS. NOW, you are part of that conciousness, attained some 'space' on earth plane, filled with some air, body muscle, water, blood, energy, little voltage/electricity, etc. Literally you youself trapped into a living form. And the twist is you are soooooooo busy in watching with eyes, hearing with ears, sensing with skin and analyzing with mind, you forget the core essense of your conciousness. Like a fish living and swimming in water but unable to see water. Like we feel the air but unable to see. Like we are conciousness unable to realise. For some reason, not knowing or not understanding this is better, because after that everything looks unworthy and there is no point in having this physical form, but only to educate or awaken people to realise this until we are present in this physical form. 😂😂 hope you tried best in imagining what i said, but for sad your imagination is wrong! You cannot do this with your imagination. If you are serious to understand this, go for psychedelics. If not, just stop aspiring to experience, only you feel is regret/frustrated for not understanding what it is exactly. Better take conciousness for granted and believe in some quantum jumping or law of attraction and live a prosperous 'human form life' atleast. Do not waste your time in struggles, negative emotions, stressful moments. Apply tools, live happy life. Love ❤💟
My goodness what a superb video. To give what to me is the best explanation of the unexplainable I've ever heard. It's shined a light where there wasn't one previously. Many thanks.
Marvelous job, Leo. The first time I realized this I was amazed at the feeling that I'd always known this deep down. Listening to this video, I got that "frisson" again - realizing in amazement that it has to be this way and it's actually obvious. This should be the first video the seeker watches - go straight to the Absolute without wasting time on peripheral spiritual matters that may be valid but are not fundamental.
Fuck no. Rogan is a very strange and arrogant dude, claiming plants feel as much pain as animals. Furthermore, he goes on to say it's more humane to not eat and kill plants themselves, but eat and kill MUCH MORE plants by feeding animals with them, and THEN kill and eat animals, therefore multiplying suffering by who knows how much.
56:07 "Why does consciousness exist?" I think the simpler answer would be - consciousness needs no reason to exist because 'reasons' are created in consciousness.
That's also occuring in consciousness
tubeboy8 well that is only true assuming that consciousness is the only and the first thing that exists
Causality is part of the limited reality we experience. Consciousness doesn't have to obey this rule. It amazes me, it is just like the scuentist start talking once they don't know how to explain how everything came to exist. That causality is something in our reality that doesn't have to apply when trying to explain those things
@@jonnejenjonne2894 you can t really even say first 👉 because that would assume it had a beginning
@Sir Feynman - Science is an aspect of the human experience and it will forever evolve and change. Truth, on the other hand, is self-evident and non-changing. You essentially checkmate yourself when you demand scientific proof for the existence of the very thing from which "proof" as a concept, was conceived.
KEEP THE BEARD
You are purely amazing! Thank you for sharing your wisdom through enlightenment. You are a huge inapiration for me. Love 💐💖
and go to the gym
@allen higgins Im in the exact same boat as you. People are so inbedded in their own ego's that they dont welcome anything like this, they see it as wishy washy but i see it as one of if not the most important thing to learn about.
Who cares
"Got a fancy shirt, got a fancy beard how do ya like that?" Love it! Your joy is exuding through my screen
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration.” -Nicola Tesla
Electromagnetism infinity flexing in to reflections mirrors of everything else created you and you will be able to see it as you
Only trick is you made you nothing else in infinity just returning to your self
Or else?
Electromagnetism have to have algorithm to return to your self ? Home? As you returned home al the same time any time without living place and matter?
It should be algorithm to crack
Searching for consciousness is like the sun shining on itself.
That’s clever ; )
What do you mean?
@@suijurisel6669 Searching for consciousness is like an eye ball trying to look at itself 👀
-Alan watts
@@stargod3064 lol
Leo please never stop making videos. I hope you understand the service you are doing the world
yeah, sometimes i feel like he's gonna go jesus, stop making videos and go on doing whatever haha
@@mananlamsal if anything watching this video has made me more inclined to learn about science
Yeahh true truee ♥️🌍
@@mananlamsal why couldnt god manifest physical laws? Youre too narrow minded to comprehend the term "infinite conscioussnes"
Please 🙏
Beautiful video my brother. Your explanations on these topics never cease to inspire me and expand my understanding. Blessings unto you!
Koi Fresco *Vishuddha Das* hi
Koi Fresco *Vishuddha Das* can you be my mentor?
Awesome you watch Leo too Koi, cool to see you here!
Koi Fresco *Vishuddha Das* - Leo isn't vegan tho...
Love seeing you here brother!
A SHIRT AND BEARD?!
Leo just reached super enlightenment
nah he finally got classy :)
classy and sassy :P
Yes!
No doubt about it, the evidence is too strong!
and this was merely the start, look at him now all freshly enlightened
Love them both!
I am from India and I do study about Consciousness, Nonduality and Advaita Vedanta from many teachers, ancient teachers and scriptures to understand the nature of Reality But I must admit this video on Consciousness by Leo is one of the best pointers on Consciousness. Thank you Brother.
This is the best opinion/explanation on consciousness I’ve ever heard. Thank you
this is not an opinion , only an idiot would see it like that. Consciousness can express itself as an idiot and write what you just wrote. You are consciousness expressing itself as an idiot. Its okay all love.
Shes Funny go play your video games loser
@@shesfunny6362 said the ego…
Leo did a great job of pointing to what conciousness is while explaining that you can't point to conciousness.
I LOVE the shirt amd the beard he he-- Its like you had a makeover. Sooo excited you're back yay!
LEO'S BACK!!! I missed you. Now, let's watch this gold content.
The legend returns
ahahaha the nerd became a master
"... is a rock conscious...?"
The correct formulation of this question I believe it should be : " can consciousness experience itself in the form of a rock ? "
The answer is clearly yes. Consciousness can in my opinion experience existence as a photon , a molecule, a single cell organism , a solar system or anything else we can think of.
Let's not limit consciousness to the level of brain functions , self awareness and so on.
Vagabond_Shadow im agree
woah.
So why can't consciousness experience a cyborg dragon?
Abhishek shah I can’t believe I’m responding to you😕but it can
correct even Erwin Schrodinger has a video about this. Its called can Electrons Think ? Keep In Mind Erwin Schrodinger is a Nobel Laurate and A Founding Father of Quantum Mechanics.
MAN this video turned on a switch in muy brain of something I've been trying to articulate my whole life
Otto Leisner same
That beard is pure consciousness
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So is my penis
@@DiamondPenguin10Turtlesea your mental age is 9
@@DiamondPenguin10Turtlesea thats also true🤣
I feel like i'm a child being told stories and analogies to remember what home is, and it works, and so is relaxing and I feel being slowly sucked into consciousness. Just like this video was a song that when fully listened, put you back at your original place. thank you Leo.
hi Leo, I don't care about the beard or the shirt. I'm just glad to see you're alright and back helping us :)
Thanks for coming back. It’s been a long wait. I love you and the precious insights you have given to so many.
This video is 5 years ago what are you talking about
The example given at 16:48 actually raised my consciousness level for a while. Very good example. Thanks Leo.
Alan watts said the same
I dig the beard and the shirt. The beard adds a hint of wisdom to your look and the shirt adds a hint of professionalism. Glad to have you back Leo!
Everything he says is true! I have this book (the yoga of time travel) i have it since 4 years never read it. Today i took it will watching this video. It was an amazing experience. Time travel is real! You can see into past,present,future! With your mind you can do so much! I hope you understand.
Like the new look *Leo* !
To be able to talk longer than an hour with that drive and preciseness about something it's proof that you actually know what you're talking about.
You really have something there!
Keep the good insights coming, we need this!
Leo, you have an incredible physical and mental resemblance to a great friend of mine, who unfortunately passed away four years ago. Our friendship lasted for more than thirty years, discussing fundamental topics like this. Love to you.
Incredibly well said... Research into consciousness will continue to confirm what mystics and spiritually awakened beings have described for thousands of years. Our most advanced sciences are just starting to catch up to the realization that consciousness is infinite and transcendent....and in this way humanity is awakening :) thanks for the video!
Love your look, Leo! Keep it! After the challenge I see you more cheerful and eager to educate. Also, I see that your tone is getting less and less judgmental. I can actually feel more love and empathy in your voice. You are starting to understand the students more and meet them at their level. This episode was outstanding. Finally, seeing you smile more like in this video makes me much more willing to listen and internalize what you are saying, don't know why.
Thumbs up for the beard, dude!
Consciousness is the backboard of experience. Thus all experience is "written" upon consciousness 🙏🏾
I'm currently upto 20:20 of this video and it is so amazing. Advaita is very difficult to understand and I have been studying this for a while, but you bring a new dimension of understanding to this; an originality, and I find that amazing. Thank you.
My friends and I have been sharing your videos for two years now. A good friend of mine came over and our conversations are exploration, lightheartedness and we are self improved on quality of life overall as a personal review. I've started my own business as a byproduct of taking care of my mental and emotional health as a byproduct of consciousness work. My life has done a 360 in two short years. I am thankful for your help. Thank you Leo! Great videos, I can not thank you enough for your life purpose! Great job! You are changing lives.
+Zen Fellows Sweet! :)
Love the new look Leo, keep it on!
There is no beard.
Quantum physics debunks the beard!
Lmfao
its just an illusion.
If a beard grows at a retreat, and nobody is there to see it, did it really happen?
😂 haha. preach.
I kind of get it! Thanks for leading us into deeper look at "EVERYTHING".
I watched this video 4 times over the last 5 years and didn’t grasp it until the last time around. Truly brilliant work.
so conciously delightful to have you back....looking good, sound fantastic!
I would be really cool if you went to the Joe Rogan podcast
Romazho Joe already had Deepak Chopra on and he already said all this.
@@naturalisted1714 really? when was Deepak on JRE?
Ted Bolha Atheism, Death And Philosophy Leo is a much better communicator and much more skilled in dealing with the materialist’s objections.
for people that don't understand or keep getting confused by the word "nothing", think absolute purity. No outside influence, no anything, just pure pureness.
Leo, you're starting to become a sage!
Ma baby boy is growing up
he alredy is in a way
A sage wouldn't care about a fancy shirt or what you think of his beard. An ego would though...
A sage would'nt care about shitting in the toilet, An ego would though......
This was the most narcissistic and egoistic talk he ever gave
To sum it up or to expand (haven't watched yet) conciousness is the thing that connects everything, because it is everything. YOU are everything.
"...and it never will be able to". The most presumptuous, over-confident statement I've heard this month. I do appreciate passionate curiosity and articulate exploration based on determined self inquiry, but not over-sold proclamations and "answers" - especially if they carry danger of settling questions not yet ripe for everyone.
Isn't it funny that Leo spent 1hr+ explaining consciousness and yet most of the comments are about his new physical look?
when you understand consciousness, you stop talking and wondering about consciousness
This is almos exactly the way I experience existence now. I have never taken any substance. Only meditation and self enquiry. 👊🏽
This was 5 years ago - Leo appears at best health here and projects an adorable enthusiasm of a little boy whilst explaining. Good watching him this way - That seemed to have changed a few years later.......
“Mario doesn’t know about the pixels!”
I laughed so hard I almost dropped my notebook in which I write my favorite Leo-isms
Yea thats great one haha
Finally! You're back leo! Plz dnt judge me But i actually fell off track last month..
U were like my meditations tht kept reminding me of my higher self..
M gonna get back on track now!
sarthak. bangwal if you need support try to find a healthy Sangha in your area.
You know how they say the purpose of life is to live? Well, that's it. Trying to explain and understand everything, every little bit, means deviating from the true purpose of living. It's like playing a game with friends, but then stopping the game to recheck the rules and setup. Just play...
Consciousness is us playing. When you stop to analyze "THE GAME" you become defocused, confused.
But still, analyzing is part of the fun.
Alex Munteanu playing=learning=experiencing
the purpose is to live, but "to live" can have many purposes of it's own, beyond itself being a "purpose to". As there is no default purpose, to say "to live" is as vague as to say "to not do anything that's about life", because anything you do is a purpose already, it goes from smaller to bigger purposes
I want off the board. I don't want to be a story. I want to be the book.
to live you have to strategically setup the right conditions to actually live. This is where the understanding comes into place
but explaining and understanding IS part of living. Everything is infinite to itself. There is no wrong here.
Welcome back you wonderful man
I recommended my viewers to go watch your channel because I thought about stopping doing videos. Now you even start to look like me with the beard. Perfect timing. Eventually people don’t see the difference:)))) Excellent as always. Thx Leo
I don't know what it is about these videos, probably the up close personal conversation-like feel of the content, and the length of time I spend looking at his face because the videos are so long, but I could so easily fall in love with this person.
56:05 - "Why does consciousness exist?" This question has no answer and the reason for that is because consciousness is the metaphysical primary. "Explanation" is a derivative of consciousness and is therefore a second order reality. In other words, the concept of "explanation" itself presupposes consciousness and would not even exist without it.
I hate you leo because you changed me. I was just materialistic boy
aha welcome to the club
“I was just materialistic boy” haha makes it sound like you were some sort of super hero with the power of denying the fundamental nature of consciousness XD
but I mean u can allways shift back, by this I dont mean ignore everything that says that the universe is not just materalistic but that u can be open minded put that knwledge or theories better said at the back of ur mind and listen materalistic peoples theories with a clear open mind and u can allways refrain to those theories that u have at the back of u head whenever u desire.
For me, this is the best video you have made. Because despite having read so many books and watched so many videos on non-duality, I have always had an "interesting, yeah maybe...but what about X though...still hasn't really convinced me any" reaction. But you present this perspective as not only tenable, but arguably more tenable [the only tenable? in the sense that to only ever experience consciousness throughout life, and yet only see it as secondary and limited, is very questionable]. So yes, its giving me some serious thoughts. And maybe some interesting change of direction, actions and perspective may follow, with time. Good work!
I absolutely love your videos. In fact, I think the way you explain , deep matters in a clear, uncluttered way - I think you are one of the best speakers, I've come across through the internet. Keep the video's coming my friend.
You are consciousnesses gift to humanity for centuries of hard work.
You are the universe contemplating on consciousness itself. Keep it up!
Guess who's back, back again. Leo's back. Tell a friend.
Rub my back, rub my, back, rub my back
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself- Carl Sagan
I recently started my journey about understanding consciousness and have improved a lot, but then after watching few videos from some neurobiologist who claimed that this is all happened in neurone level and is a biological phenomenon at the Quantum level etc., I got somewhat confused. Today by chance I watched your this video, and believe me, your superb explanation and fantastic analogies fully clarified my mind. You got wonderful talent in this area, really enjoyed listening you. I felt really energized. Thank you so much. Very much looking forward your next talk. Be blessed!
Hey, happy to hear you started your journey but if i could give you an advice, it would be to not be leeching to people's persective of it in hope of an explanation. Not neuroscientists, not leo, not anyone. I am not saying that its not good content and valuable information because i would be lying, but don't borrow someone else's glasses in hope to fix your vision because each pair of glasses is unique to the owner.
@@manarmeziani857 Hi, Definitely, I'm not following anybody blindly. However, you will have to admit that, once you are in deep sleep state for decades, totally ignorant from self awareness or conspicuousness, you can not awake until some one who already been awakened and knew about the reality (no matter to what extent) could guide you and show you the directions, that ultimately result in your awakes. That exactly happened to me. In the first phase of discovery, I got all sort of mixed information from variety of peoples, and everyone try to convince their own point of view, like Leo is one example, and others from scientific communities etc. I personally liked Leo point of views, but after watching his other videos on this topics, I feel he went to extreme level. Regardless, my own journey continue resulting more and more enlightenment, that's beyond explanation.
Happy to say that what you said in some of your videos to watch your previous videos again, is proving right! I actually was mindblown the first time i listened to this video like 4 months ago, and NOW I GET IT. Only now i GET IT! You really have to be a good teacher and know what to teach when to teach it in the correct order.
Love the beard and shirt look! Happy to have you back Leo!! :))
damn leo ,i came to question reality ,but now im questioning my sexuality , looking great ! and amazing content as always!!!
John Wayne question also the position of your nose within your face and why its on your face why not between your two greasy biscuits!
It's a relief to know that I am nothingness but I exist!
Even worse, there is no free will and your awareness is merely a witness to the decisions made by the non-conscious mind.
@@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt There is no better or worse. That is only a perception.
@@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt It's not unfortunate.
It just is.
If there is a shooting at a store it's not unfortunate, negative, positive, etc. That people are trying to run out of the store.
The ego is simply trying to survive.
The ego is doing it's job, it's not good or bad, or unfortunate. It just is.
@@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt Sure.
@@JohnDoe-zt3wr
Are you old enough to give consent?
Life may be cruel and nasty but putting that aside it's marvelous as well and like what Leo says in a lot of his uploads and in this video the fact that we are even conscious of our existence is what makes life so profound and intriguing.
I Love the quest in you, the self searched work and knowledge you are imparting. Your holistic approach, the topics you are speaking on, it's all amazing, wonderful. I absolutely Love it All. Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 praying for your endless, Ultimate Evolution! Enormous Love....
"Shape shifting substance"
GENIUS
Love the shirt and the beard :)
Through us, the universe becomes conscious of itself. So we have a great responsibility :)
Consciousness is pure and infinite potential. Pure potential cannot be conscience of itself. Hence it needs a vehicle, such as enlightened humans to become conscience of itself.
Katrin Eskandary there is no “we” we are just a idea or a thought of consciousness itself. Our soul takes a vessel but that’s not in the deepness of what Leo is talking about the soul and the vessel itself are all in consciousness being the field of awareness
Leo grew a beard to show that time has passed since the last video.
But on the subject matter, probably the deepest topic I can think of(from my limited perspective).
I love your videos. Your the first person to test consciousness and become conscious and record your finding, saving me 30-40 years of meditation etc. now I can go forward. Just your videos alone opened my mind and my day revolves around self improvement. I feel like it’s my job to shift perspectives of my family and friends before the ultimate day when. I die. And am infinitely reunited w myself. And can enjoy every aspect of every existence unbiased. I hope you read this. Even the ultra close minded comments on here are laughable. But we’re laughing at ourselves. #oneness
Leo, your videos answered so many of my questions that i couldn't find satisfactory answers to. Thank you.
Hello Leo! Consciousness doesn’t exist in the “strange loop” so whether neuroscientists would find a way to deal with the strange loop or not, each one of us should go through a journey to deserve to be enlightened and eventually merge with the infinite consciousness. If we will end up going to the doctor to get enlightenment then soon after that it will transform to a new business!!! As you said before, consciousness can’t be bought or taught!!! Thank you!
"right now you think you're a human being sitting here who has consciousness. but you are not that. you are the universe being conscious and thinking that it is a human being"
this is mind blowing stuff.
Remarkable, Leo. Thank you for sharing your insights.
In order for the nothing to realize is nothing it has to become something, so it becomes everything. You can't imagine nothingness without being conscious, without being aware. It's so incredible that it's actually hard to explain with words, but in the mind you understand it fully. It's a feeling. It's an awareness. Consciousness is thought.
Leo has helped me go to the next level with understanding consciousness , thank you bro !
Now , what to do with this knowledge? Be grateful for EVERYTHING in consciousness and align with LOVE
Welcome back Leo! I'm happy your retreat went well. I just wanted to quickly share that you are absolutely correct about your view. I know I briefly shared with you before you left about my death experience... but my view coming back from the other side was that in the "death" of this form, I was instantaneously back to being "Awareness" or "Consciousness" as you say. There was no I, but there was pure presence and awareness. There was only Me, for lack of a better term, as the observer of all things, occupying the Void (absence in totality). I was completely in the moment but understood that I had always been. It seems you experienced something similar.
The description you give of consciousness basically taking human form is very accurate and I'm so proud of you for this journey and grateful that you're sharing this gift with others. It's hard to keep it inside now that you know it! ;)
Well done my friend.
Thanks guys. Fantastical Leo! I searched to see if "awareness" came up, and this comment did. Do (either of) you find "awareness" a usefull distintion. In general I get the impression that consciousness is more often used as maybe awareness in its mode of being "aware of". So with this impression in the context of this video, I am substituting "awareness" for "consciousness". I'm curiouse about where language is going for non dual conversations, so thanks for any sharing you have on this.
I felt lack of long lectures on YT... thank God Leo is back hehe appreciate it!
Love the beard
Really eye opening video Leo! I have been watching your videos for almost 3 years and started meditating for 2 years and yet I had no understanding what consciousness really was. Thanks a lot and keep making videos!
Love from India.
i was never so fascinated by a person like by you. pls never stop
Can you imagine a non universe? Or can you imagine non existence? Nothing existing?....There can't be non existence because there is always the thought....The question of "Why are we here?"....There is no other way to be in the nothingness but to be/to exist. In order to be aware of nothingness there must be awareness. In other words even nothingness has to be imagined, has to be thought. It's magic baby😎
But see... what is a thought? You re still interpreting. What Leo is saying here is> There nothing else, other than nothingness itself, without any meaning, and that s precisely why you have consciousness. Think deeper about that.
What does it feel like to be nothing?
perfectly explained..🙏
The lighting set up u r using is also great..
I have understood the info you present, but in following your videos, I’m finding deeper understanding to the point of experiencing dramatic life changes that I attribute directly to the intensity and directness with which you communicate your research.
D. A. Gwin literally same! My life has become amazing! And so fulfilling I cannot express with words how I truly feel. But I can use my words to say how thankful I am for what Leo does for us. I’m glad to see you’ve resonated similarly to me 🙂
Same here. I used to be miserable every time something does not go my way in life. Now I have learned that there really is nothing to worry about, because the worst that could happen is death, and we are all just figures interfering with themselves in a universe made of themselves and that made them. And the universe doesn't give a damn who survives. So I just take everyday as it comes, and I do my best with no pressure whatsoever.
haven't watched your videos in awhile and it's so beautiful to see how much you've expanded. Definitely, a different energy behind your words, but your ability to explain still remains Leo :) oh and I love the new look!
Your analogy of the infinite clay as the creative force "nothingness" fired off quite an awakening experience for me this morning on my way to work. It has been a long while since I've had that happen and I thank you for helping me and others along our path! Thank you for what you do!
Hey Leo! I’m a huge fan. I think I’ve watched every one of your videos. Have you ever considered applying your video game design skills with your pedagogy? For example, I can envision a video game that is designed to teach the various levels of consciousness. Looking forward to future videos!
Everything only exists because of consciousness.
Wow, this is really interesting and makes a lot of sense. I'd love you to talk to Sam Harris about this. I think you two probably agree on this stuff more than you think.
Leo, with all your free spiritual teachings which are way deeper than most teachings these days .... you’re like trying to translate buddhism principles to an every day languages for an easier understanding, where all of us who are still sleeping are just struggling to even get a grasp of these. I am guessing you’re a boddhisatva in past life who is back to earth life to help us all. Thank you, thank you and thank you for all your effort untill this moment.
Ahhhhhh I got so excited this morning when I saw that Leo is back. We missed you, Leo :D
What you are saying can be understood only when one feels it with ultra awareness or death experience or with psychedelics.
I've felt that oneness feeling like 'i am everything and everywhere in the entire universe and i am nothing at the same time'. For non experienced ones let me tell you with example, you can fell air but you cannot see,it is around you in the earths atmosphere, it is filling the space. But in space there is only space but not any air, entire universe is filled with that unseen space. And that space is filled with conciousness, like earths atmosphere space is filled with air. Conciousness is the background entity, non physical, core aspect of cosmos existence. Coming from cosmos to your home, cosmos conciousness filled with space and earth's atmosphere level conciousness is filled with space and air, light. And now, conciousness in your body shape is filled with muscle, air, space, prana/energy, water, liquid, etc, if you remove one after another the end and core remaining thing is conciousness which is completely non physical and non imaginative. Yet you can experience or feel, realise when you transcend/delete your physical body level and mind level through enhanced awareness, perception. With normal mind analysis you cannot get there, with meditation you may transcend mind but not enough to experience what conciousness is. Yes may be possible if you be in that meditation state for more than 50 or more years, literally freezing your body and mind without distracting mind for even 1 micro second, not even bird sounds in Himalayas. So you may not be achieve that on this earth. Here comes the psychedelics it fastens the process it immediately transcends the body ( to your knowledge of you are drunk, you forget what happened before night) and it also transcends the thinking/analyzing mind, then space, time after some point there is nothing to transcend ONLY CONCIOUSNESS REMAINS INFINITELY, THATS THE CORE YOU.
YOU ARE INFINITE CONCIOUSNESS, IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE/COSMOS. NOW, you are part of that conciousness, attained some 'space' on earth plane, filled with some air, body muscle, water, blood, energy, little voltage/electricity, etc. Literally you youself trapped into a living form. And the twist is you are soooooooo busy in watching with eyes, hearing with ears, sensing with skin and analyzing with mind, you forget the core essense of your conciousness. Like a fish living and swimming in water but unable to see water. Like we feel the air but unable to see. Like we are conciousness unable to realise.
For some reason, not knowing or not understanding this is better, because after that everything looks unworthy and there is no point in having this physical form, but only to educate or awaken people to realise this until we are present in this physical form.
😂😂 hope you tried best in imagining what i said, but for sad your imagination is wrong! You cannot do this with your imagination. If you are serious to understand this, go for psychedelics. If not, just stop aspiring to experience, only you feel is regret/frustrated for not understanding what it is exactly. Better take conciousness for granted and believe in some quantum jumping or law of attraction and live a prosperous 'human form life' atleast. Do not waste your time in struggles, negative emotions, stressful moments. Apply tools, live happy life.
Love ❤💟
Well said
Oh thanks God Leo didnt uplaod the sermon at 2 am like he used to.
Emiliano Gonzalez made me laugh and it's 3:30 am here hahaha "the sermon"
Leo has a new shirt and beard because he has evolved into super saiyan form after 30 days of non-stop meditation!
My goodness what a superb video. To give what to me is the best explanation of the unexplainable I've ever heard. It's shined a light where there wasn't one previously. Many thanks.
the best video i ever watched in youtube.. this is the 10 or 12th time im watching this..❤❤
Stylish shirt and beard man! Greetings from chileee!
""The universe is pure software floating in nothingness" Love it!
holy shit leo on suit!!!
dragonslayerplayer200 you look so much like Leo ha haaa!!
lmao @ the dmt smoothie
Fit Outside the Box with Karla Because it is Leo.
Nice pfp.
Haha nice profile pic
Marvelous job, Leo. The first time I realized this I was amazed at the feeling that I'd always known this deep down. Listening to this video, I got that "frisson" again - realizing in amazement that it has to be this way and it's actually obvious. This should be the first video the seeker watches - go straight to the Absolute without wasting time on peripheral spiritual matters that may be valid but are not fundamental.
you should go on joe rogan
It would be interesting
Fuck no.
Rogan is a very strange and arrogant dude, claiming plants feel as much pain as animals.
Furthermore, he goes on to say it's more humane to not eat and kill plants themselves, but eat and kill MUCH MORE plants by feeding animals with them, and THEN kill and eat animals, therefore multiplying suffering by who knows how much.
@Lexonn Jesus I heard Rogan was from that camp, but that he was this stupid... hahaha amazing xD
Cooper London Real maybe, but not Rogan.
Rogan is a really nice guy and means well. Don't judge too harshly guys