The questions: Metaphysical: About reality 1. How come existence exists at all? 2. What is existence? 3. How is existence related to non-existance? 4. Why is reality structured as it is? 5. Are there other possible ways reality can be ordered other than our own? 6. Why are the laws of physics the way they are? 7. Which comes first: consciousness or matter? Does consciousness come out of matter of does matter occur within consciousness? 8. What is matter, energy, space, time? 9. What is outside the universe? Is it infinite or finite? Why? 10. What existed before the big bang? 11. How does the material interact with the immaterial? 12. What governs what’s possible and impossible in the universe? What sets limits on the universe? 13. What governs emergent propreties (eg atoms, molecules)? 14. How can emergent propreties arise out of nowhere? 15. What makes a thing a thing? What is an object (a single thing, multiple things)? 16. Does reality have a bottom most scale? Eg lower than atoms, and lower than than. Does reality have a top most scale eg higher than planets, universes etc. Are there limits or do the levels go infinitely up and down 17. Does the evolution of the universe have a purpose? If so, where does it lead to? 18. Does external reality exist at all? 19. What is God? What would the concept of God entail? 20. What are thoughts? 21. How did life start? Aka Where did it all come from? Epistemic: The study of knowledge 1. How do we know what we know? 2. How can I know anything for certain? 3. What makes justifications valid? 4. Why do billions of people believe in God? 5. Why do people disagree about good and bad, right and wrong, moral and immoral? 6. How come intelligent people delude themselves? Eg scientists who are creationists. How can I be sure that I’m not deluded? 7. How do I know that I’m not indoctrinated aka brainwashed into believing things without thinking about them myself. 8. What is science? Is it the best way of arriving at knowledge? 9. What are the limits of science? Are there things that science can’t understand/explain? 10. What is mathematics? What makes it valid? 11. What are the limits of mathematics? Is it displayed by reality or projected by the human mind? 12. What is rationality? How does it work and why is it valid? Limitless? Displayed by reality or projected by the human mind` 13. Which is more valid, the senses, rationality, or intuition? 14. What are the biases/blind spots of humanity as a whole? 15. How do animals understand reality? 16. Are there creatures with higher intelligence than humans? If so, how can we be certain of our knowledge? 17. Why is human knowledge taken as the ultimate truth? 18. What is truth? Is is objective or subjective 19. Where does understanding come from? How can we rely upon it? 20. What is the ultimate truth? 21. What is the best way to acquire knowledge? 22. Is reality understandable? Can humans understand it all or not because we are limited Self: You as an individual 1. How can I be sure that I exist at all? 2. If I exist, what am I? Biological? How do I know? 3. How did I, aka the indentity of me, come into being? 4. What justifies indentifying with the body or the mind? If the body is yours and the mind is too, who owns these things 5. If I am the body and the mind, what is everything else. Where do ‘I’ stop and the rest of the world begin? 6. What is in control of my thoughts? 7. What is my role in reality? My purpose? 8. How should I live my life to maximise happiness? Consciousness: The mind and all mental fabrications 1. What is consciousness? 2. How is perception possible? 3. What unifies our senses into a seamless experience? 4. What if there are higher levels of consciousness? What would that mean for our understanding of the world? 5. What about the different levels of consciousness eg on psychedelics, meditation. What do they mean? Are they better/worse/more or less real than ordinary consciousness? 6. Are consciousnesses separate or is consciousness one thing? 7. Can artificial consciousness be created 8. Can consciousness be split or joined? 9. Could inanimate matter be conscious? 10. Is consciousness only accessible to higher level beings or is it everywhere in the world? 11. What are the laws governing qualia (qualities of the senses)? Only reason I typed these was to ponder them while on LSD, so praise lord psychedelics!
Finally, I found someone who thinks like me. Often I try to explain these questions to someone but they won't even bother to think about it. Man will die along with his consciousness, I think if universe is a game for all of us, then solving these questions are our ultimate missions. Thanks again Leo!
From one like mind to another, thank you. My entire life has been dedicated not just to these existential matters, but in influencing others to pursue these matters as well. The best part for me: those moments of enlightenment when the person asking the questions, be it yourself or another, looks at their life and how they've been living it, and finally understands WHY they've been living it in that way. In order to satisfactorily answer most of the WHY questions concerning life, self and choice, you must almost always inevitably answer one of the 64 you listed here, or a question from a similar line of thought... So, in short, bravo, and job well done! You can't help anyone who will not help themselves, but you've offered a great starting point for those who finally are looking to take that first step towards advanced self-actualization.
Great video so far. :) The question "How Can I Tell I'm Not Deluded?" really haunted me during my childhood. I can handle it better now, but back then I couldn't emotionally and it instilled a lot of doubt in myself. My older sister who is 15 years older than me is mentally challenged and perpetually has the interests and personality of a 7 or 8 year old. So, when I was 8 or 9, I started to question what that meant about her reality compared to mine. Did she see and hear the same things as me? What were her thoughts like? How does she understand things? Is there some measurable/noticeable quality about her thoughts that are significantly different than mine? The the question came "Does she know that she's mentally challenged and understand what that entails?" Then I thought "What if I'm mentally challenged and I just don't understand what that means because I'm too mentally challenged to tell that I'm mentally challenged?" Then the thought, "What if I'm insane and too insane that to tell that I'm insane?" I would spend hours just freaking myself out about it and would get terrified of coming off as weird, insane, stupid, and slow in social situations. I never fit in as a child and got made fun of quite a bit, so I would wonder if this was why.
Gerardo R Thank you. I always had a habit of contemplation. I spent a lot of time alone in my room as kid, and I would always run through different scenarios and ask a bunch myself a bunch of existential questions... I never got an answer from the Barbie dolls though. ;D
Watching thought is the key - not analyzing it, thinking about it. Both analysis and contemplation of a problem are still thinking and thus compound the conundrum. Dispassionate watching without looking for a solution frees one of mental reactivity and offers possibilities of insightful resolutions.
You had the questions but did you ever think to run an experiment to find out if you were insane? For instance, when you thought you were insane, did you go read what insanity meant & then ask yourself if you matched any of the symptoms from the definition that you read? I used to be terrified of schizophrenia when I was young though it didn't run in my family. A long time ago when I used to get panic attacks, I would really freak out as I didn't know what was happening to me. However, when I got a blood pressure measuring system, I could check my pulse rate & find out it was normal & this would calm me down & I could talk myself out of the panic. I had kids make fun of me when I was young too, but when I look back, I can see it was just a few specific assholes who would instigate for laughs. It wasn't everyone.
shitmandood No. It was more of a what if I'm so out of touch with reality that I could never be in touch with it. So, the thought process was, if everything I experienced was a result of my insanity... even my research of insanity would be tainted by it. But this was more of an unconscious thought process back then. Like, if I were doing it now it would be like 'it seems like I'm typing a TH-cam comment but I could really be doing anything else but my brain distorts the information.'
There exist only NOW. NOW is the same as BEING. Humans are BEING. Everything is BEING. For anything to BE is for nothing to BE, like for a sensation to BE is for a non-sensation to BE. These two BEs make BEING, like up and down make height. We are not human BEINGs, we are BEING humans. From BEING, language is created, like from paper and pencil, the written word is created. The label of human is part of language, and the relation of language with BEING, is that of the word dog and the BEING dog. There is only BEING. BEING is a truth that BEING human cannot deny because every BEING human knows it is I. I is BEING. I am.
man, you added 64 questions on to each question, you were taking questions right out of my head. by the time you got to the red question, I was like why ask why, I'm going to have bud dry.but it was really a glass of red wine, everything made since after that! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!!
I have thought this way as a young child as well. As I grew older I realized how many people are either disinterested or afraid to discuss existential matters, especially when it challenges their own religion or lack thereof. Which is okay; not everyone benefits from contemplating these topics. Also, physics fucks everything up even more. Which is why I fell in love with the subject. The more scientists observe about our world, the weirder theories have to get to explain everything. Like the fact that the speed of light can be measured the same in different frames of reference. Or that electrons act as both waves with superposition, and particles with mass. Or that measurements of time are relative to our frame of reference. If Einstein never was open minded about the possibilities that some of Newtonian physics could be wrong, we would have never had the theory of relativity. Even if it sounds impractical, the "crazy" modern physics is used for technology that affects our current society. One example is satellites, and without those the world would be very different, right? I don't believe everyone needs to be a deep thinker to have a fulfilling life. But it is important that there are people out there who are curious in these matters, to be open minded and fulfill their curiosity while challenging current beliefs. Not only can it lead to scientists and engineers who drive tech advancements (one of the key elements of economic growth) but also can give people a healthy outlet for imagination by sustaining their own curiosity and personal growth.
Personal development starts when we start questioning ourselves the most basic believes. I love you Leo, you are the most intelligent person I have seen in my life
Another benefit to encourage yourself to ask these questions is this: the difficulty of the questions themselves will force the brain to consume more calories and carbs to investigate, therefore along with your exercises you slim down faster. As always Leo, you deliver great content that's engaging!
Damn Leo, It's so weird how you can with one simple video initiate a sense of relief in me after a stressful and suffering week. Maybe it's the communication that you provide that is so calming, you should be a psychologist.
Hey Leo. I don’t know if you’ve stumbled upon this book but I believe you’ll get so many of the answers you are seeking. It’s the law of one book series which is a channelled material under a trance state. And also I want to thank you cause what you’re doing is really needed rn in this world- sharing the truth.
hey leo, are you gonna do a video on?: - low awareness? - how to center your life around self observation/ meditation/ enlightenment/ truth ( i d'ont really have "one" clear word but i think you know what principle i mean)? - how to become independent? - traps or possible blind spots/ mistakes in personal development? - to let go of or go into the desire to succes?
Very nice video Leo! I had naturally been fascinated by these kinds of questions while growing up. It's only since I went to uni and was exposed to cultural theory that I realised that exploring these questions is the basis of self development. It's crazy how much my perception of everything has changed since looking into this stuff! This video has given me a lot more to think about!! Thanks:)
Hey Leo! I’m very pleased to have discovered this channel just today. My inner child - the voice that’s been asking “why” from early days - is excited to see some representation :D
the greatest video I have ever seen to challenge the human experience and ignite the curiosity to delve into the far reaches of consciousness and the reality of the eternal universe. I thank you from the bottom of my perceived heart and mind. Love you man!
Leo it would be great if you consider putting subtitles to some of your videos..I know that this means more work for you but it really would be great if for example my mom whose not speaks English could see your videos.I really hope you considered this 😊..I'm from Greece i love what you do and stay tune and I think it would be great if I can share it with more people.Keep inspiring us to think more.
I was waiting for this kind of video to be shot Leo. it is obvious that you have reached another level of understanding reality. the more i ask these questions the more this feeling of " something great i'm about to understand" arises. i can't exactly explain the feeling and also i can't penetrate my mind enough to understand mysteries. mind blowing moments of connecting dots and ideas.
Thank you for making this video! I used to ask myself these things since I was like 10. I used to believe that I was weird or different because no would really talk about these things.
This perfectly put together video is totally amazing, BRILLIANT!!!. It's the best video I've seen on the INTERNET. Seriously this is Brilliant, Almost everything you touched base on are things I've pondered. Yet, I don't know too many others who can even fathom these questions. I'm very grateful for you and the time you put in to these videos. ENJOY!!!Thank you Leo for sharing.
One that I ponder from time to time is this. What is art? Is it a form of entertainment? An elaborate form of communication? What are the differences between movies, paintings, photos, games and music? Are these different forms of art arbitrary distinctions? How many are there, like is that clown that ties balloons into flower shapes a kind of sculptor? Is balloon figures a form of art, and if so, are regular balloons art? When does something stop being art and become just regular reality?
Teddy Scribner Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Here's another question: Why is it a bad question? What makes a question bad? Can there even be a bad question?
hey leo ive been watching your vids for years and i believe this is one of your best vids by far. I see the more vids u make the better they become. Thumbs up keep up the great work 👍
Thanks for the questions you have asked and it shows the amount of hard work you are doing in your life and parting the knowledge to seekers unselfishly . thanks a lot
i remember 3 years ago i subscribed to this channel and ever since i havent watched a video of his. and now im just like, damn i must have missed some good shit
That's too bad. I believe I subscribed 2.5 years ago & I've been watching them regularly since. I've even gone back & listened to them again (just completed listening to all of this year's again). Also got the Life Purpose course & the book list. I haven't finished the LP course yet however. My damn job has been a time sink & caused me to pause for a couple months so far. I need a less demanding job if such a thing exists.
***** Since I didn't really journal it, it's hard to put it into words or even pinpoint an exact thing. Overall, I'd say my outlook is better long term than it used to be. I was going through a crisis when I found Actualized.org. The emotional crisis has since burned out & I believe the meditation has played a key role in helping me with my issues. I've placed various mental filters in my mind to check my reaction against other people, I spend more time thinking about social interaction before responding or reacting to it where I can. My relationships with women & socializing have improved. I seem to be holding down a higher paying job now & also working on a life purpose. I get along with everyone I work with. I'm steadily getting wealthy. I also feel more organized. I used to feel lonely too, but since my crisis burned out, I've made my peace with it & it doesn't bother me. When I talk to other people & I see some weakness from their discussion, I usually give out some advice on things that Ive learned & it's typically well-received. Some of my older friends have distanced themselves from me since I've gone through these changes, but I appear to be building some new friendships, though none of them are close. Even last Friday, there was this gal who I was hanging around in the bar with who was starting to flirt with another guy. She was giving that guy a back rub, he was 60 years old & me & this woman were not that old. The former me would've been completely pissed off & severed ties. Instead, the new me ran the situation through my internal filters: a.) She wasn't my gf only a friend who can do what she wants. b.) Don't waste time on emotional investment. c.) Maybe she really wants this guy? I should be happy for her. d.) If she leaves with him, I'll just find somebody else. Not a big deal. After a bit, I started telling her how I liked the color of his blue shirt. I had no reaction to her behavior. To me, it was like a warning being given, but I never would've seen that in the past. The old me would've excused myself & got away from the scene...through jealousy & possessiveness. Now it's just seeing it for what it is & giving up the idea of forcing a situation that is out of my control. Next thing you know, she was hanging around me again. And the old guy got pissed off & jealous! I could tell by the body language that I've been learning to read the past few years. I was thinking to myself: he's 60 years old & he's still fucking with his own ego!! He hasn't learned. I find that in social interaction, it's one of the best places to gauge how you're doing because that's where a lot of pain can come from. Other things I'll do often is take note of when I'm judging myself or others & I make that a habit. I'll also take note if others are judging. When I listen to people talk to each other or me, I decide when the ego is in play on their end & it can help me make action on what I will say or do based on the information gained by what they have said. Anyhow, that's just a few different things I've learned & made use of in daily life. I'm curious as to how different I'm going to be even 5 years from how. Wish I had started earlier but didn't really know until 2012. Just walking around stumbling in the dark until the crisis hit me.
This experience I had Leo, is that consciousness experiences itself with me or us, you and all existence simultaneously, as if it ( consciousness) enjoys freeing itself through me and everything. My head felt outside of itself.
A lot of the things Leo mentions in this video I think about everyday, sometimes I just completely zone out and miss the train, or walk into something, or something stupid like that because I cant stop thinking about it...
Good stuff, man. I would personally like to see an extensive philosophy playlist of which I know you're capable. Your "Ultimate Model for Knowledge" video is my favorite so far.
"The need to understand will never free you from the need to understand but only lengthen the ability for you to need things to understand. And then when that breaks apart we find an invitation into the simplicity of acknowledgement" Kept thinking about that quote from Matt Kahn as the questions went on. Perhaps understanding is a good initial vehicle for consciousness that ends up being a hinderance at higher levels of perceptions. Acknowledgement has certainly helped me break through the plateau I was in.
Acknowledgement of all that is, including the need to contain the vastness of the universe into our limited potential for conceptual understanding. Acknowledgement in the sense of unconditional love for everything regardless if it's the mental illusion of the relative world projected onto the canvass or the absolute truth of what the canvass is outside of judgement and comparison. Even if that description is just another layer of conceptualization I feel acknowledgement can serve as a bridge between the self-defeating journey of understanding and the completeness of direct experience.
It's humbling to be reminded the extent of Mans ignorance, Mans curiosity, Mans ability to question, and efforts to answer. Isn't it that only enlightenment or the path to enlightenment can set the mind at ease?
Questioning is good, if one thinks or feels it is; suffering from not having the answer seems to be designed by evolution; it's not the quest that brings satisfaction for the quest is a kind of craving. The path to the end of suffering is the path to the end of suffering.
There is simultaneously no answer and infinite answers. What you discover is that you have beliefs and realize those beliefs can be shaken loose. You open your mind to seeing things from perspectives you were previously blocking. When you can see things from new angles, you find new possibilities. New possibilities means a richer life experience.
the question ? i was left with after your video that i "religiously" watch was in my journey in trying to answer a perplexing mind question i fell upon one of your videos almost a year ago now, is, who discovers who... does the man chose the book or does the book chose the man? Did i happen to discover your body of work or did your body of work discover me? whatever the answer, I'm just thankful for your insights. gratitude.
Loving this video, Leo! This is the kind of stuff I'd day dream about in highschool with my best friend, it's funny that we get so detached from these beautiful questions because of "practical reasons" in adult life. Thank you, made my day :)
I used to think that, thought after thought, getting deeper and deeper and then you dig a hole of the unknown, confusion and things that have no answers to them, or even make sense. People thought I was just overthinking or overanalysing. I was being serious, just no one has the answers.
I have a good question that just popped during this video and it's how can I make sure to be independent on my growth? How can I make myself ''get out of the box'' by myself. How can I create thought in such a way that they expand and deepend instead of cycling? Thank you for this video, your language is very clear and direct, love it :)
I've been questioning all of these questions for a long time now. The problem is, when I try and discuss them with people on an intellectual level, everyone just tells me "Who cares" or "You're thinking too much" and then they carry on with their everyday mundane lives like it means something. Why is it so hard for my fellow brothers to try and get a grasp on the nature of reality itself, and then they shield themselves off like they're a separate being from our universe? That's what gets me.. We're the only creatures (that we know of) smart and aware enough to question these things and yet most of us brush them aside like they're meaningless. To me, that's the greatest flaw with human egotism. There's a magnificent force at work in the universe, from the micro to the macro, and yet 99.9% of us take it for granted.
A great question I always add to any other I ask myself is: "by which rules am I playing?" A spoken or written answer needs a Set to get any sense. Q: "are these carrots sweet?" A:" no if compared to peaches but yes if compared to broccoli". The so called Ultimate or Absolute questions, those about truth, claim to be free from any subjectiveness but still ask for answers that are made up in the realm of subjective experience...in a way we want to go beside the matrix of what we try to analyze. Acceptance is getting rid of the desire for absolutes... Meditation and self inquiry also create a set to our questions, maybe a wide one but still not ultimate, this doesn't take away ANY value from them.
For me, all these questions are answered with one truth: Love is the greatest power in the universe, and if I love myself, I can generate as much power as I want. Ever since I truly believed in the infinite power of self love, I haven’t had a single moment of doubt, hate, fear or powerlessness. I’ve manifested my self love to the point where all I feel is positive, and every moment gets better and better. I seriously love whoever is reading this and they are the most beautiful and perfect person in the world. My greatest wish is that you, yes literally you reading this now. When you truly love yourself, we’ll meet eachother.
Great Video I have had a lot of these question for the past 15 years but was never able to put into words. i loved the intelligent People who are deluded question.
One thing I know for sure is that everything is relative. Human conciousness is based on duality and that is how we distinguish between things. To know where we are we relate to other things to find out where we are in space and time (past, now and future). We can enter a state of near non-duality by meditating and merging with the surroundings. If you become everything, there is no more difference between you and them, there is only being in the infinite 'now'. Our experience is in between the subjective (thoughts from matter) and objective (matter/geometry from physics and thoughts).
I love to ask questions that require immense and critical thinking, I love to challenge viewpoints, whether ignorant or intelligent. But what about open ended questions? For example "What do you get for the Man Who has everything?" A question with no real answer almost as much as our existence itself, we question it but will we ever really know? This video sparks a light that opens borders in the mind for someone who cares, or someone that is curious. It's human nature to ask questions and find answers to the ones we keep to ourselves. Another thing I like to question is, if we do have an explicit reason to be here, what greater purpose can this reason be used for? You don't make a product unless it has a bigger picture, to translate that into an analogy would be, Say we find the reason we're here, fool proof, smart, irrefutable. Then What's the purpose of the reason within itself? What most people don't understand, whether it's because they don't care, don't try, or over analyze it. The big question of our existence is part of a larger picture. Why are we here? What basis does that reason exist for? What's the bigger picture here? How can we accept this answer? Like you say many times in this video, it's very interesting. I'd love to know myself.
This is the first time I have heard one person connect so many complex questions together. I have been questioning these things for most of my life. I have come to the conclusion that with the way our brains work that we most likely will never be able to answer any of these questions with certainty. But it is wonderful to contemplate the many possibilities that could be the actual truth. It would be interesting even to know how much of reality we actually experience knowingly. I find that people are living so much of their lives in their heads but not in reality. Interesting. Lol.
The depth of his questions requires that you "dig into yourself," that you have to "deconstruct yourself," create answers which are not answered in an "academic or intellectual way." Yes, that's exactly what Gura does.
Truly fascinating questions to ponder...Actually, as I was listening, I experienced an expansion of awareness when the questions were directed towards myself and consciousness was experienced as a going beyond the senses. Everything is consciousness. There is no big or small, only the relation to the body makes us think so.
Another mind blowing video Leo. You should make guided meditations because i love that one you made but its getting kinda repetitive listening to it everyday. :)
Oh boy. This is gonna be a ride. First question is responsible for making me stop and stare at my hands approximately 4 times a day. I mean, that one alone, FUCKS ME UP on a regular basis. My boss asked me why I stop working and just stare blankly sometimes. It's real hard to not seem crazy when you're being super productive, then you just stop and stare for 45 seconds before snapping out of it. Just my morning existential crisis, nothing to worry about. Curiosity is a fickle bitch.
My first contact with this phenomenon was just gazing at the sky and I had this overwhelming knowingness that the universe sees itself through all life throughout the cosmos and through everything we can't understand plants insects all units unified field of a broad expansive awareness.
Interesting questions are entertainment for the person identity. 1. The most useful question to delve into is "Who is asking these questions?" All other questions, at any level, are the play of thought arguing or debating with itself, always trying to assure itself of its ultimate reality, which it fears is not so. 2. Thoughts *are* material, although an invisible form of materiality. Thoughts are a form of expression of energy. 3. Someone/something/no thing is the watcher, the observer of all this "existence". 4. Don't confuse logic as something independent of thought. Logic IS a particularly ordered form of thinking - just as belief is a limited way of thinking. 5. Epistemology is within the realm of thought, and therefore, like all other forms of thought it is limited. In essence it is a structured process of thinking about thought. Thus it is still thought. 6. Who is observing all of this thought? One might make the following observation of the relationship between thought and the manifested world we experience. - Before any material object, invention, etc. comes into physical existence it is first visualized in the mind (thought). - For example, a chair, a table, a car, a house, an airplane, etc. are conceived in the mind (thought). Then, based on perceived needs and possibilities particular conditioned processes of thinking activate and imagine how to physically manifest the object held in mind. With enough experience of various repetitive processes the objects of thought are manifested in the 'material' world via construction, engineering, craftsmanship, skill, etc. - Does this maybe hint at the possibility that the world of 'experience' may be a manifestation of thought (our personal mentally projected world)? 7. Therefore consider - What is the ultimate knowledge? Is it possible that the impersonal YOU (Self), is the observer or watcher of all experience? Maybe to know who or what you are is the ultimate question that leads to the understanding of all other questions.
Can consciousness be split? That's very interesting. Imagine there is another consciousness having the same thoughts, feelings, sensations and so on as you. But then, how do you differentiate between consciousnesses? Do they even have attributes? This is really interesting to think about.
Leo, great news, I'm 15 and had enlightenment, man...ik bragging my age is quite an egocentric play but still I'm rlly proud of myself...the thing Is that the experience only lasted an hour but I can tap back into the state of mind if i use the neti neti method. but it was my first try of the neti neti method and had it . (: it was heaven. the grass was intense with energy. a bug flee on my lap and it made me feel intense love
Interesting list! However, I noticed that many of the questions especially in the metaphysics category are based on the assumption that time exists. For example, the question "what was before the big bang" assumes that there is a past, present and future. Since we perceive things like that, these are still good questions but I'd like to add the question whether time even exists or whether it's just a human projection onto reality, to the list.
Just because time may have not existed before the big bang, doesn't mean there was no cause for the big bang to happen. Everything that led to the big bang could have happen at the very instant it happend. Causality is not limited to time. You may can not ask what happened before the big bang, but what 'created' it. But after all, this is just another concept my mind came up with to have an explanation for something I can't grasp.
Right. Causality is a concept of mind (thought). Thought likes nice neat answers. A beginning and ending to things. Specific systems, methodologies and orders that give it a feeling of security. I am now referring to self-referential thought whose interest is basically *me, mine, I vs you*, etc. What is proven by thought about the projections of thought, is still thought and limited. That is the nature of thought. The witness/observer that is beyond thought demonstrates the limitation of thought.
Hey guys, thank you for your replies to my comment. I get your points but I might have not been clear enough with what I meant. I didn't mean that we should question whether time came with the big bang or not. I meant that before we ask any question that has a time-dimension to it like "what was before the big bang", "when was the earth created", "how old is the universe" etc. we should ask whether time even exists in the first place. For example, you know what happened yesterday, right? And you know what happens today. Obviously, things that happened yesterday and things that are happening today cannot happen at the same time. But how do you know? Of course you know because you perceive it like that. But is it actually the case? Or is it perhaps also possible that you only perceive certain aspects of reality creating the illusion of time? Not saying this is true. Just saying it's an interesting question that can shed a completely different light on other questions. Like, if it was true that time is an illusion, you would approach questions like "what was before the big bang" is an entirely different way, right?
Dude, it's like you are a clone of me. This these are all questions that I've been pondering over for a long time. Sometimes I break peoples' minds when I challenge their understanding of existence. Not sure that was the best thing to do. haha But thinking about these things, I think, has made me a happier person because I view things far less concretely and so I don't get as attached to ideas and "believe" in them.
Fascinating, as always, Leo. Thank you for this video. I have asked myself many of these questions (but not all - so, lots of fun to me!). I would like to point a proposition of a evolutionary biologist that raised a doubt about our senses. It seems that accurate senses are a lot less necessary for evolution, and those would be too expensive to development, so it seems more plausible to imagine that our perception of reality is a lot less accurate than we would appreciate (that sounds counterintuitive, but putting things like crime rates, continuous wars, destruction of earth's environment and the persistence of famine in our present world, it actually makes a lot of sense). That may have huge impact in our assumptions about the quality of our rationality, which may be as inaccurate as a consequence of dealing with misunderstood information. Although, of course, it is at least as good to suppose it's own inaccuracy, but possibly flawed never the less. That's just to add to the questions of certainty, biases, etc. By the way, the video is very inspiring. Thank you for that too!
We can't prevent obsessive thoughts from popping up but it is very possible to stop them. The brain is very bad at thinking about two things at the same time and it is possible to train one self to immediately switch to a different topic should an unwelcome thought intrude into one's mind. It can be as fast as like 200ms, which is not enough for the intrusive thought to develop into anything significant. This technique works even against love (as in the biochemical attachment to one specific woman, not talking about passion for objects and activities) - both as prevention and a cure. Although once love is allowed to fully set in, the battle gets really tough - it's very unsettling and annoying. I'm currently preparing a video discussing the topic.
Regarding the question of hoe the material and immaterial influence each other, I thought of this quote by Alan Watts, "First we split the world up using concepts like material and immaterial, then we forget we did it, then we wonder how to put the two together!"
The questions:
Metaphysical: About reality
1. How come existence exists at all?
2. What is existence?
3. How is existence related to non-existance?
4. Why is reality structured as it is?
5. Are there other possible ways reality can be ordered other than our own?
6. Why are the laws of physics the way they are?
7. Which comes first: consciousness or matter? Does consciousness come out of matter of does matter occur within consciousness?
8. What is matter, energy, space, time?
9. What is outside the universe? Is it infinite or finite? Why?
10. What existed before the big bang?
11. How does the material interact with the immaterial?
12. What governs what’s possible and impossible in the universe? What sets limits on the universe?
13. What governs emergent propreties (eg atoms, molecules)?
14. How can emergent propreties arise out of nowhere?
15. What makes a thing a thing? What is an object (a single thing, multiple things)?
16. Does reality have a bottom most scale? Eg lower than atoms, and lower than than. Does reality have a top most scale eg higher than planets, universes etc. Are there limits or do the levels go infinitely up and down
17. Does the evolution of the universe have a purpose? If so, where does it lead to?
18. Does external reality exist at all?
19. What is God? What would the concept of God entail?
20. What are thoughts?
21. How did life start? Aka Where did it all come from?
Epistemic: The study of knowledge
1. How do we know what we know?
2. How can I know anything for certain?
3. What makes justifications valid?
4. Why do billions of people believe in God?
5. Why do people disagree about good and bad, right and wrong, moral and immoral?
6. How come intelligent people delude themselves? Eg scientists who are creationists. How can I be sure that I’m not deluded?
7. How do I know that I’m not indoctrinated aka brainwashed into believing things without thinking about them myself.
8. What is science? Is it the best way of arriving at knowledge?
9. What are the limits of science? Are there things that science can’t understand/explain?
10. What is mathematics? What makes it valid?
11. What are the limits of mathematics? Is it displayed by reality or projected by the human mind?
12. What is rationality? How does it work and why is it valid? Limitless? Displayed by reality or projected by the human mind`
13. Which is more valid, the senses, rationality, or intuition?
14. What are the biases/blind spots of humanity as a whole?
15. How do animals understand reality?
16. Are there creatures with higher intelligence than humans? If so, how can we be certain of our knowledge?
17. Why is human knowledge taken as the ultimate truth?
18. What is truth? Is is objective or subjective
19. Where does understanding come from? How can we rely upon it?
20. What is the ultimate truth?
21. What is the best way to acquire knowledge?
22. Is reality understandable? Can humans understand it all or not because we are limited
Self: You as an individual
1. How can I be sure that I exist at all?
2. If I exist, what am I? Biological? How do I know?
3. How did I, aka the indentity of me, come into being?
4. What justifies indentifying with the body or the mind? If the body is yours and the mind is too, who owns these things
5. If I am the body and the mind, what is everything else. Where do ‘I’ stop and the rest of the world begin?
6. What is in control of my thoughts?
7. What is my role in reality? My purpose?
8. How should I live my life to maximise happiness?
Consciousness: The mind and all mental fabrications
1. What is consciousness?
2. How is perception possible?
3. What unifies our senses into a seamless experience?
4. What if there are higher levels of consciousness? What would that mean for our understanding of the world?
5. What about the different levels of consciousness eg on psychedelics, meditation. What do they mean? Are they better/worse/more or less real than ordinary consciousness?
6. Are consciousnesses separate or is consciousness one thing?
7. Can artificial consciousness be created
8. Can consciousness be split or joined?
9. Could inanimate matter be conscious?
10. Is consciousness only accessible to higher level beings or is it everywhere in the world?
11. What are the laws governing qualia (qualities of the senses)?
Only reason I typed these was to ponder them while on LSD, so praise lord psychedelics!
thanks mate
thanks dude
no problem
thanks so much
***** Good eye! Some questions were so similar that I put them next to the same number ;)
just realized all his videos are in one take. that's pretty awesome for being a hour long video most of the time
I couldn't believe it either --- no sleep, no breaks, no food --- he even changed his shirts to give the illusion of a different video. Incredible.
I would say they are one shot, not necessarily one take.
They like 4 hours now
Time is a social construct
When you are passionate about something you can talk for hours..
Finally, I found someone who thinks like me. Often I try to explain these questions to someone but they won't even bother to think about it. Man will die along with his consciousness, I think if universe is a game for all of us, then solving these questions are our ultimate missions. Thanks again Leo!
From one like mind to another, thank you. My entire life has been dedicated not just to these existential matters, but in influencing others to pursue these matters as well.
The best part for me: those moments of enlightenment when the person asking the questions, be it yourself or another, looks at their life and how they've been living it, and finally understands WHY they've been living it in that way.
In order to satisfactorily answer most of the WHY questions concerning life, self and choice, you must almost always inevitably answer one of the 64 you listed here, or a question from a similar line of thought...
So, in short, bravo, and job well done! You can't help anyone who will not help themselves, but you've offered a great starting point for those who finally are looking to take that first step towards advanced self-actualization.
Great video so far. :) The question "How Can I Tell I'm Not Deluded?" really haunted me during my childhood. I can handle it better now, but back then I couldn't emotionally and it instilled a lot of doubt in myself. My older sister who is 15 years older than me is mentally challenged and perpetually has the interests and personality of a 7 or 8 year old. So, when I was 8 or 9, I started to question what that meant about her reality compared to mine. Did she see and hear the same things as me? What were her thoughts like? How does she understand things? Is there some measurable/noticeable quality about her thoughts that are significantly different than mine? The the question came "Does she know that she's mentally challenged and understand what that entails?" Then I thought "What if I'm mentally challenged and I just don't understand what that means because I'm too mentally challenged to tell that I'm mentally challenged?" Then the thought, "What if I'm insane and too insane that to tell that I'm insane?" I would spend hours just freaking myself out about it and would get terrified of coming off as weird, insane, stupid, and slow in social situations. I never fit in as a child and got made fun of quite a bit, so I would wonder if this was why.
You are pretty wise to ask yourself at a young age
Gerardo R Thank you. I always had a habit of contemplation. I spent a lot of time alone in my room as kid, and I would always run through different scenarios and ask a bunch myself a bunch of existential questions... I never got an answer from the Barbie dolls though. ;D
Watching thought is the key - not analyzing it, thinking about it.
Both analysis and contemplation of a problem are still thinking and thus compound the conundrum.
Dispassionate watching without looking for a solution frees one of mental reactivity and offers possibilities of insightful resolutions.
You had the questions but did you ever think to run an experiment to find out if you were insane? For instance, when you thought you were insane, did you go read what insanity meant & then ask yourself if you matched any of the symptoms from the definition that you read? I used to be terrified of schizophrenia when I was young though it didn't run in my family.
A long time ago when I used to get panic attacks, I would really freak out as I didn't know what was happening to me. However, when I got a blood pressure measuring system, I could check my pulse rate & find out it was normal & this would calm me down & I could talk myself out of the panic.
I had kids make fun of me when I was young too, but when I look back, I can see it was just a few specific assholes who would instigate for laughs. It wasn't everyone.
shitmandood No. It was more of a what if I'm so out of touch with reality that I could never be in touch with it. So, the thought process was, if everything I experienced was a result of my insanity... even my research of insanity would be tainted by it. But this was more of an unconscious thought process back then. Like, if I were doing it now it would be like 'it seems like I'm typing a TH-cam comment but I could really be doing anything else but my brain distorts the information.'
I contemplate all these questions everyday of my life for the past 5 years and have loved every minute of it!
There exist only NOW.
NOW is the same as BEING.
Humans are BEING.
Everything is BEING.
For anything to BE is for nothing to BE, like for a sensation to BE is for a non-sensation to BE.
These two BEs make BEING, like up and down make height.
We are not human BEINGs, we are BEING humans.
From BEING, language is created, like from paper and pencil, the written word is created.
The label of human is part of language, and the relation of language with BEING, is that of the word dog
and the BEING dog.
There is only BEING.
BEING is a truth that BEING human cannot deny because every BEING human knows it is I.
I is BEING.
I am.
man, you added 64 questions on to each question, you were taking questions right out of my head. by the time you got to the red question, I was like why ask why, I'm going to have bud dry.but it was really a glass of red wine, everything made since after that! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!!
I have thought this way as a young child as well. As I grew older I realized how many people are either disinterested or afraid to discuss existential matters, especially when it challenges their own religion or lack thereof. Which is okay; not everyone benefits from contemplating these topics. Also, physics fucks everything up even more. Which is why I fell in love with the subject. The more scientists observe about our world, the weirder theories have to get to explain everything. Like the fact that the speed of light can be measured the same in different frames of reference. Or that electrons act as both waves with superposition, and particles with mass. Or that measurements of time are relative to our frame of reference. If Einstein never was open minded about the possibilities that some of Newtonian physics could be wrong, we would have never had the theory of relativity. Even if it sounds impractical, the "crazy" modern physics is used for technology that affects our current society. One example is satellites, and without those the world would be very different, right? I don't believe everyone needs to be a deep thinker to have a fulfilling life. But it is important that there are people out there who are curious in these matters, to be open minded and fulfill their curiosity while challenging current beliefs. Not only can it lead to scientists and engineers who drive tech advancements (one of the key elements of economic growth) but also can give people a healthy outlet for imagination by sustaining their own curiosity and personal growth.
Personal development starts when we start questioning ourselves the most basic believes. I love you Leo, you are the most intelligent person I have seen in my life
Another benefit to encourage yourself to ask these questions is this: the difficulty of the questions themselves will force the brain to consume more calories and carbs to investigate, therefore along with your exercises you slim down faster. As always Leo, you deliver great content that's engaging!
Damn Leo, It's so weird how you can with one simple video initiate a sense of relief in me after a stressful and suffering week. Maybe it's the communication that you provide that is so calming, you should be a psychologist.
Same, watching his videos on sunday is like a holiday.
You are suffering from stress because you are a moron, I think you should consider changing that.
excuse me? please reconsider the words you choose
Adam Sujkowski Do you know his/her life?
A Happy Broccoli
It's absolutely irrelevant, the fact that he "suffers" from stress is moronic in itself.
i just love your head
I drew him while watching this video :D
+Shaun Dobbie what makes it creepy..
Can we see your drawing?
Extreme Z7 yh lol
Suhrab Ghafori
idk wut u r saying. lol
Hey Leo. I don’t know if you’ve stumbled upon this book but I believe you’ll get so many of the answers you are seeking. It’s the law of one book series which is a channelled material under a trance state. And also I want to thank you cause what you’re doing is really needed rn in this world- sharing the truth.
hey leo,
are you gonna do a video on?:
- low awareness?
- how to center your life around self observation/ meditation/ enlightenment/ truth ( i d'ont really have "one" clear word but i think you know what principle i mean)?
- how to become independent?
- traps or possible blind spots/ mistakes in personal development?
- to let go of or go into the desire to succes?
Very nice video Leo! I had naturally been fascinated by these kinds of questions while growing up. It's only since I went to uni and was exposed to cultural theory that I realised that exploring these questions is the basis of self development. It's crazy how much my perception of everything has changed since looking into this stuff! This video has given me a lot more to think about!! Thanks:)
thank you for every second you do it for us
Leo please make more videos like these.. about existence,spirituality and enlightenment.
they're really interesting and some of the best out there!
Great episode with enormous value. Gave me enough to ponder on for a lifetime.
Hey Leo! I’m very pleased to have discovered this channel just today. My inner child - the voice that’s been asking “why” from early days - is excited to see some representation :D
the greatest video I have ever seen to challenge the human experience and ignite the curiosity to delve into the far reaches of consciousness and the reality of the eternal universe. I thank you from the bottom of my perceived heart and mind. Love you man!
Leo it would be great if you consider putting subtitles to some of your videos..I know that this means more work for you but it really would be great if for example my mom whose not speaks English could see your videos.I really hope you considered this 😊..I'm from Greece i love what you do and stay tune and I think it would be great if I can share it with more people.Keep inspiring us to think more.
I was waiting for this kind of video to be shot Leo. it is obvious that you have reached another level of understanding reality. the more i ask these questions the more this feeling of " something great i'm about to understand" arises. i can't exactly explain the feeling and also i can't penetrate my mind enough to understand mysteries. mind blowing moments of connecting dots and ideas.
+Chouaib Mallek Welcome to true spirituality. It goes so freaking deep, you won't believe it till ya see it.
It’s great hearing my thoughts reflect back to me
Great video! It's reassuring to know that someone else has asked the same questions. Has kept me thinking, always a great start to a Sunday. Thanks!
Thank you for making this video! I used to ask myself these things since I was like 10. I used to believe that I was weird or different because no would really talk about these things.
Am I the only one who gets long sleepless nights filled with extreme overthinking after watching leo's videos?! 😂
Leo, you have taught me so much. Thank you for your contribution to the world. You're a true inspiration.
This perfectly put together video is totally amazing, BRILLIANT!!!. It's the best video I've seen on the INTERNET. Seriously this is Brilliant, Almost everything you touched base on are things I've pondered. Yet, I don't know too many others who can even fathom these questions. I'm very grateful for you and the time you put in to these videos. ENJOY!!!Thank you Leo for sharing.
thank you so much Leo. "what is the best way to acquire knowledge?" definitely one of my favorite questions
One that I ponder from time to time is this. What is art? Is it a form of entertainment? An elaborate form of communication? What are the differences between movies, paintings, photos, games and music? Are these different forms of art arbitrary distinctions? How many are there, like is that clown that ties balloons into flower shapes a kind of sculptor? Is balloon figures a form of art, and if so, are regular balloons art? When does something stop being art and become just regular reality?
bad question.
Teddy Scribner Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((
Here's another question: Why is it a bad question? What makes a question bad? Can there even be a bad question?
It is a bad question because it is not an argument about reality. It is a linguistic argument.
Teddy Scribner It's as much a linguistic question as the questions about what conciousness is in the video.
well I would say that any argument about definitions is useless.
I've been watching these videos for months now, very helpful and awesome stuff. I really like the upfront, and clear approach 👍
It's like he can stare right through you, the way his eyes look... it carries a sort of wisdom. It is lovely, like a spirit guide.
hey leo ive been watching your vids for years and i believe this is one of your best vids by far. I see the more vids u make the better they become. Thumbs up keep up the great work 👍
A very fitting video after last nights mushroom trip! Thank you Leo...it was an amazing experience.
Loved the video. Keep up the phenomenal work, Leo!!
The self is a result, the shape and attitude you adopt from your conscious interaction with your environment.
Thanks for the questions you have asked and it shows the amount of hard work you are doing in your life and parting the knowledge to seekers unselfishly . thanks a lot
This is a sincere question without any pretention behind it; what is it that you are calling,"actuallized". That is ,THE , question one should ask.
YOU BRING A GREATER DEEPER THOUGHT ON LIFE IN MANY WAYS, WHICH NEEDS TO HAPPEN TO REALLY LIVE !!
i remember 3 years ago i subscribed to this channel and ever since i havent watched a video of his. and now im just like, damn i must have missed some good shit
That's too bad. I believe I subscribed 2.5 years ago & I've been watching them regularly since. I've even gone back & listened to them again (just completed listening to all of this year's again). Also got the Life Purpose course & the book list. I haven't finished the LP course yet however. My damn job has been a time sink & caused me to pause for a couple months so far. I need a less demanding job if such a thing exists.
***** Since I didn't really journal it, it's hard to put it into words or even pinpoint an exact thing. Overall, I'd say my outlook is better long term than it used to be. I was going through a crisis when I found Actualized.org. The emotional crisis has since burned out & I believe the meditation has played a key role in helping me with my issues.
I've placed various mental filters in my mind to check my reaction against other people, I spend more time thinking about social interaction before responding or reacting to it where I can. My relationships with women & socializing have improved. I seem to be holding down a higher paying job now & also working on a life purpose. I get along with everyone I work with. I'm steadily getting wealthy. I also feel more organized. I used to feel lonely too, but since my crisis burned out, I've made my peace with it & it doesn't bother me.
When I talk to other people & I see some weakness from their discussion, I usually give out some advice on things that Ive learned & it's typically well-received.
Some of my older friends have distanced themselves from me since I've gone through these changes, but I appear to be building some new friendships, though none of them are close.
Even last Friday, there was this gal who I was hanging around in the bar with who was starting to flirt with another guy. She was giving that guy a back rub, he was 60 years old & me & this woman were not that old.
The former me would've been completely pissed off & severed ties. Instead, the new me ran the situation through my internal filters:
a.) She wasn't my gf only a friend who can do what she wants.
b.) Don't waste time on emotional investment.
c.) Maybe she really wants this guy? I should be happy for her.
d.) If she leaves with him, I'll just find somebody else. Not a big deal.
After a bit, I started telling her how I liked the color of his blue shirt. I had no reaction to her behavior. To me, it was like a warning being given, but I never would've seen that in the past. The old me would've excused myself & got away from the scene...through jealousy & possessiveness. Now it's just seeing it for what it is & giving up the idea of forcing a situation that is out of my control.
Next thing you know, she was hanging around me again. And the old guy got pissed off & jealous! I could tell by the body language that I've been learning to read the past few years. I was thinking to myself: he's 60 years old & he's still fucking with his own ego!! He hasn't learned.
I find that in social interaction, it's one of the best places to gauge how you're doing because that's where a lot of pain can come from.
Other things I'll do often is take note of when I'm judging myself or others & I make that a habit. I'll also take note if others are judging. When I listen to people talk to each other or me, I decide when the ego is in play on their end & it can help me make action on what I will say or do based on the information gained by what they have said.
Anyhow, that's just a few different things I've learned & made use of in daily life. I'm curious as to how different I'm going to be even 5 years from how. Wish I had started earlier but didn't really know until 2012. Just walking around stumbling in the dark until the crisis hit me.
you have such a peaceful face leo and I trust you...you have helped me a lot! have a wonderful day
This experience I had Leo, is that consciousness experiences itself with me or us, you and all existence simultaneously, as if it ( consciousness) enjoys freeing itself through me and everything. My head felt outside of itself.
+Ethan Texeira That isn't the universe, that is you! You got a gimpse of your true Self as Nothingness.
A lot of the things Leo mentions in this video I think about everyday, sometimes I just completely zone out and miss the train, or walk into something, or something stupid like that because I cant stop thinking about it...
Good stuff, man. I would personally like to see an extensive philosophy playlist of which I know you're capable. Your "Ultimate Model for Knowledge" video is my favorite so far.
+DMillion106 More coming soon.
This put a smile on my face.. Ive been thinking about many of these questions for years now. such an amazing video. thank you for this.
I'm so so happy about the direction you'v taken regarding your future videos.
"The need to understand will never free you from the need to understand but only lengthen the ability for you to need things to understand. And then when that breaks apart we find an invitation into the simplicity of acknowledgement"
Kept thinking about that quote from Matt Kahn as the questions went on. Perhaps understanding is a good initial vehicle for consciousness that ends up being a hinderance at higher levels of perceptions. Acknowledgement has certainly helped me break through the plateau I was in.
+soundlurker Yes, but acknowledgement of what? And on what level of consciousness? That's the key!
Acknowledgement of all that is, including the need to contain the vastness of the universe into our limited potential for conceptual understanding. Acknowledgement in the sense of unconditional love for everything regardless if it's the mental illusion of the relative world projected onto the canvass or the absolute truth of what the canvass is outside of judgement and comparison. Even if that description is just another layer of conceptualization I feel acknowledgement can serve as a bridge between the self-defeating journey of understanding and the completeness of direct experience.
It's humbling to be reminded the extent of Mans ignorance, Mans curiosity, Mans ability to question, and efforts to answer. Isn't it that only enlightenment or the path to enlightenment can set the mind at ease?
Questioning is good, if one thinks or feels it is; suffering from not having the answer seems to be designed by evolution; it's not the quest that brings satisfaction for the quest is a kind of craving. The path to the end of suffering is the path to the end of suffering.
Good questions!
There is simultaneously no answer and infinite answers. What you discover is that you have beliefs and realize those beliefs can be shaken loose. You open your mind to seeing things from perspectives you were previously blocking.
When you can see things from new angles, you find new possibilities. New possibilities means a richer life experience.
When you die, what happens is you come round into an alien life form holding a giant bong with other aliens staring at you asking "bro, how was it???"
Haha!
the question ? i was left with after your video that i "religiously" watch was in my journey in trying to answer a perplexing mind question i fell upon one of your videos almost a year ago now, is, who discovers who... does the man chose the book or does the book chose the man? Did i happen to discover your body of work or did your body of work discover me? whatever the answer, I'm just thankful for your insights. gratitude.
Loving this video, Leo! This is the kind of stuff I'd day dream about in highschool with my best friend, it's funny that we get so detached from these beautiful questions because of "practical reasons" in adult life. Thank you, made my day :)
I used to think that, thought after thought, getting deeper and deeper and then you dig a hole of the unknown, confusion and things that have no answers to them, or even make sense. People thought I was just overthinking or overanalysing. I was being serious, just no one has the answers.
I have a good question that just popped during this video and it's how can I make sure to be independent on my growth? How can I make myself ''get out of the box'' by myself. How can I create thought in such a way that they expand and deepend instead of cycling? Thank you for this video, your language is very clear and direct, love it :)
I've been questioning all of these questions for a long time now. The problem is, when I try and discuss them with people on an intellectual level, everyone just tells me "Who cares" or "You're thinking too much" and then they carry on with their everyday mundane lives like it means something. Why is it so hard for my fellow brothers to try and get a grasp on the nature of reality itself, and then they shield themselves off like they're a separate being from our universe? That's what gets me.. We're the only creatures (that we know of) smart and aware enough to question these things and yet most of us brush them aside like they're meaningless. To me, that's the greatest flaw with human egotism. There's a magnificent force at work in the universe, from the micro to the macro, and yet 99.9% of us take it for granted.
+Pinsir Harris There is a deep reason this. Because the ego cannot co-exist with the answers to many of these questions.
That one that gets me every time is pondering how anything exists at all. It's very very strange
A great question I always add to any other I ask myself is: "by which rules am I playing?"
A spoken or written answer needs a Set to get any sense.
Q: "are these carrots sweet?"
A:" no if compared to peaches but yes if compared to broccoli".
The so called Ultimate or Absolute questions, those about truth, claim to be free from any subjectiveness but still ask for answers that are made up in the realm of subjective experience...in a way we want to go beside the matrix of what we try to analyze.
Acceptance is getting rid of the desire for absolutes...
Meditation and self inquiry also create a set to our questions, maybe a wide one but still not ultimate, this doesn't take away ANY value from them.
For me, all these questions are answered with one truth:
Love is the greatest power in the universe, and if I love myself, I can generate as much power as I want.
Ever since I truly believed in the infinite power of self love, I haven’t had a single moment of doubt, hate, fear or powerlessness.
I’ve manifested my self love to the point where all I feel is positive, and every moment gets better and better.
I seriously love whoever is reading this and they are the most beautiful and perfect person in the world. My greatest wish is that you, yes literally you reading this now. When you truly love yourself, we’ll meet eachother.
One of my favorite channels of all time!
Before watching:
"Who am I" is one of them for sure.
Haha let´s see :)
This is great I love these questions and existential matters in general. Thanks Leo!
Hi Leo, I really appreciate your uploads.
Great Video I have had a lot of these question for the past 15 years but was never able to put into words. i loved the intelligent People who are deluded question.
One thing I know for sure is that everything is relative. Human conciousness is based on duality and that is how we distinguish between things. To know where we are we relate to other things to find out where we are in space and time (past, now and future).
We can enter a state of near non-duality by meditating and merging with the surroundings. If you become everything, there is no more difference between you and them, there is only being in the infinite 'now'.
Our experience is in between the subjective (thoughts from matter) and objective (matter/geometry from physics and thoughts).
I love to ask questions that require immense and critical thinking, I love to challenge viewpoints, whether ignorant or intelligent. But what about open ended questions?
For example
"What do you get for the Man Who has everything?"
A question with no real answer almost as much as our existence itself, we question it but will we ever really know?
This video sparks a light that opens borders in the mind for someone who cares, or someone that is curious. It's human nature to ask questions and find answers to the ones we keep to ourselves.
Another thing I like to question is, if we do have an explicit reason to be here, what greater purpose can this reason be used for?
You don't make a product unless it has a bigger picture, to translate that into an analogy would be,
Say we find the reason we're here, fool proof, smart, irrefutable. Then What's the purpose of the reason within itself?
What most people don't understand, whether it's because they don't care, don't try, or over analyze it. The big question of our existence is part of a larger picture.
Why are we here?
What basis does that reason exist for?
What's the bigger picture here?
How can we accept this answer?
Like you say many times in this video, it's very interesting. I'd love to know myself.
To summarize, you are a moron.
Every single time I see a video of yours...i'm just like wow. This was realllyyy eye opening.
Holy crap I was just thinking about this! "How one make make them self curious about something they weren't naturally curious about already?"
Of course, we have to do our own heavy lifting, Leo. Great point.
I am a SUCKER for these videos!! These are the things I think about almost daily! I get so deep into thought about it!
This is the first time I have heard one person connect so many complex questions together. I have been questioning these things for most of my life. I have come to the conclusion that with the way our brains work that we most likely will never be able to answer any of these questions with certainty. But it is wonderful to contemplate the many possibilities that could be the actual truth. It would be interesting even to know how much of reality we actually experience knowingly. I find that people are living so much of their lives in their heads but not in reality. Interesting. Lol.
the first thing i thought when i listended to this:
"Leo, did you take drugs again?" haha ;)
Wish this was up yesterday when I was tripping haha
This is pure gold!
The question "what is existence" got me in it's grip and I'm going insane, literally. Help!
Because it’s you!
The depth of his questions requires that you "dig into yourself," that you have to "deconstruct yourself," create answers which are not answered in an "academic or intellectual way." Yes, that's exactly what Gura does.
This is awesome. Great job guy in my computer.
Truly fascinating questions to ponder...Actually, as I was listening, I experienced an expansion of awareness when the questions were directed towards myself and consciousness was experienced as a going beyond the senses. Everything is consciousness. There is no big or small, only the relation to the body makes us think so.
Another mind blowing video Leo. You should make guided meditations because i love that one you made but its getting kinda repetitive listening to it everyday. :)
I am having a human evolution. Thanks Leo!
Oh boy. This is gonna be a ride. First question is responsible for making me stop and stare at my hands approximately 4 times a day.
I mean, that one alone, FUCKS ME UP on a regular basis. My boss asked me why I stop working and just stare blankly sometimes. It's real hard to not seem crazy when you're being super productive, then you just stop and stare for 45 seconds before snapping out of it. Just my morning existential crisis, nothing to worry about.
Curiosity is a fickle bitch.
My first contact with this phenomenon was just gazing at the sky and I had this overwhelming knowingness that the universe sees itself through all life throughout the cosmos and through everything we can't understand plants insects all units unified field of a broad expansive awareness.
Interesting questions are entertainment for the person identity.
1. The most useful question to delve into is "Who is asking these questions?" All other questions, at any level, are the play of thought arguing or debating with itself, always trying to assure itself of its ultimate reality, which it fears is not so.
2. Thoughts *are* material, although an invisible form of materiality. Thoughts are a form of expression of energy.
3. Someone/something/no thing is the watcher, the observer of all this "existence".
4. Don't confuse logic as something independent of thought. Logic IS a particularly ordered form of thinking - just as belief is a limited way of thinking.
5. Epistemology is within the realm of thought, and therefore, like all other forms of thought it is limited. In essence it is a structured process of thinking about thought. Thus it is still thought.
6. Who is observing all of this thought?
One might make the following observation of the relationship between thought and the manifested world we experience.
- Before any material object, invention, etc. comes into physical existence it is first visualized in the mind (thought).
- For example, a chair, a table, a car, a house, an airplane, etc. are conceived in the mind (thought). Then, based on perceived needs and possibilities particular conditioned processes of thinking activate and imagine how to physically manifest the object held in mind. With enough experience of various repetitive processes the objects of thought are manifested in the 'material' world via construction, engineering, craftsmanship, skill, etc.
- Does this maybe hint at the possibility that the world of 'experience' may be a manifestation of thought (our personal mentally projected world)?
7. Therefore consider - What is the ultimate knowledge? Is it possible that the impersonal YOU (Self), is the observer or watcher of all experience? Maybe to know who or what you are is the ultimate question that leads to the understanding of all other questions.
Can consciousness be split? That's very interesting. Imagine there is another consciousness having the same thoughts, feelings, sensations and so on as you. But then, how do you differentiate between consciousnesses? Do they even have attributes? This is really interesting to think about.
I get the feeling that many including myself could debate most of these questions and come to an agreeable answer.
When you look deeper you would understand/feel that agreeable answer really does not exist - definitely not on the level of our mind.
I guess this refers to: "you want your life magical again" since a few months i can feel the magic in my bones :) thx Leo!
Leo, great news, I'm 15 and had enlightenment, man...ik bragging my age is quite an egocentric play but still I'm rlly proud of myself...the thing Is that the experience only lasted an hour but I can tap back into the state of mind if i use the neti neti method. but it was my first try of the neti neti method and had it . (:
it was heaven. the grass was intense with energy. a bug flee on my lap and it made me feel intense love
even moving my arm was intense because of how good it felt
Leo is such an impressive individual.
Interesting list! However, I noticed that many of the questions especially in the metaphysics category are based on the assumption that time exists. For example, the question "what was before the big bang" assumes that there is a past, present and future. Since we perceive things like that, these are still good questions but I'd like to add the question whether time even exists or whether it's just a human projection onto reality, to the list.
from what we know now there wasn't any time or space before the big bang.
Just because time may have not existed before the big bang, doesn't mean there was no cause for the big bang to happen. Everything that led to the big bang could have happen at the very instant it happend. Causality is not limited to time. You may can not ask what happened before the big bang, but what 'created' it.
But after all, this is just another concept my mind came up with to have an explanation for something I can't grasp.
Right. Causality is a concept of mind (thought). Thought likes nice neat answers. A beginning and ending to things. Specific systems, methodologies and orders that give it a feeling of security. I am now referring to self-referential thought whose interest is basically *me, mine, I vs you*, etc.
What is proven by thought about the projections of thought, is still thought and limited. That is the nature of thought. The witness/observer that is beyond thought demonstrates the limitation of thought.
Hey guys, thank you for your replies to my comment. I get your points but I might have not been clear enough with what I meant. I didn't mean that we should question whether time came with the big bang or not.
I meant that before we ask any question that has a time-dimension to it like "what was before the big bang", "when was the earth created", "how old is the universe" etc. we should ask whether time even exists in the first place.
For example, you know what happened yesterday, right? And you know what happens today. Obviously, things that happened yesterday and things that are happening today cannot happen at the same time. But how do you know?
Of course you know because you perceive it like that. But is it actually the case? Or is it perhaps also possible that you only perceive certain aspects of reality creating the illusion of time?
Not saying this is true. Just saying it's an interesting question that can shed a completely different light on other questions.
Like, if it was true that time is an illusion, you would approach questions like "what was before the big bang" is an entirely different way, right?
Dude, it's like you are a clone of me. This these are all questions that I've been pondering over for a long time. Sometimes I break peoples' minds when I challenge their understanding of existence. Not sure that was the best thing to do. haha But thinking about these things, I think, has made me a happier person because I view things far less concretely and so I don't get as attached to ideas and "believe" in them.
Heii, Leo.
I am still waiting for that video on guided meditation of letting go.
Thank you! And you`re doing a great job!
I believe that i have special sense for quality. Thats why I'm here. I have the abilty to find quality where noone else can see.
Fascinating, as always, Leo. Thank you for this video.
I have asked myself many of these questions (but not all - so, lots of fun to me!).
I would like to point a proposition of a evolutionary biologist that raised a doubt about our senses. It seems that accurate senses are a lot less necessary for evolution, and those would be too expensive to development, so it seems more plausible to imagine that our perception of reality is a lot less accurate than we would appreciate (that sounds counterintuitive, but putting things like crime rates, continuous wars, destruction of earth's environment and the persistence of famine in our present world, it actually makes a lot of sense). That may have huge impact in our assumptions about the quality of our rationality, which may be as inaccurate as a consequence of dealing with misunderstood information. Although, of course, it is at least as good to suppose it's own inaccuracy, but possibly flawed never the less.
That's just to add to the questions of certainty, biases, etc.
By the way, the video is very inspiring. Thank you for that too!
Those questions are so interesting for a analytical meditation sessions! Thanks!
We can't prevent obsessive thoughts from popping up but it is very possible to stop them. The brain is very bad at thinking about two things at the same time and it is possible to train one self to immediately switch to a different topic should an unwelcome thought intrude into one's mind. It can be as fast as like 200ms, which is not enough for the intrusive thought to develop into anything significant. This technique works even against love (as in the biochemical attachment to one specific woman, not talking about passion for objects and activities) - both as prevention and a cure. Although once love is allowed to fully set in, the battle gets really tough - it's very unsettling and annoying.
I'm currently preparing a video discussing the topic.
Thankyou leo! Deep questions to think about!!
Leo that was really enlightening.
They are some great questions to think about.... and I like them because so many have no yes or no answers. You have to really think about them.
Regarding the question of hoe the material and immaterial influence each other, I thought of this quote by Alan Watts,
"First we split the world up using concepts like material and immaterial, then we forget we did it, then we wonder how to put the two together!"
+The deathless face of the unborn mind. Yes, it's very important to investigate how we use language to trap ourselves sometimes.