Here's the list : 1. Existence to feel magical again 2. Things to be completely effortless 3. Authenticity 4. Dispassionate mind 5. Full soberness/lucidity 6. The desire to be nobody 7. Merging with the target object (Samadi) 8. Truth 9. Benovelance 10. Simple and natural lifestyle
If somebody had asked you "What are the 10 most important things you want in your life ?" yesterday, would you have said that ? If somebody asked you the same question 6 months from now, will you say these things ? That's what Leo is trying to address here.
Thanks! Someone is doing it right: takes notes. But i noticed as "modern-lazy-consumer" it's really important to be aware of the fact that the senses to hear and to see aren't that effective if it comes to saving memory. So just copy and paste wouldn't be the best thing to do; still better copied notes then no notes but the important step is writing the notes oneself - it helps a lot to really save it. I use Trello to keep track of my notes and protocols
Ficojepet Well, prioritize. Think about which of these things you will work on over the next 6 months (or however long it'll take you). For me, I'm focused a lot on Life Purpose and Enlightenment (more on life purpose than on enlightenment), which pretty much addresses all of these points. But you might not be at a stage in your journey that allows you to do that, so figure it out. Rick B. Yeah, sure, taking notes is important. But I think what's even more important is developing awareness around what we learn, which might take more than simply taking notes. Depending on who you are, and what you're trying to become aware of, it's going to take more or less effort to develop it. Try to become aware of that (don't just think about it).
After watching your videos and meditating for 3 years I finally had a glimpse of complete awareness this weekend, I was walking in the mall, and all of sudden I started feeling happy, and I was just absorbing every image and sound, there was no judging whatsoever, in fact, it felt like my mind was completely empty, there was no past or future, just the present, it was almost like seeing everything for the first time like you said. As I was walking and looking at other people in the mall, I noticed how they were unhappy, fighting, running, desiring, yelling, thinking about it now I felt somehow "superior", but not in a way that relates to power, but like an adult would look at children fighting and being upset over completely nonsense things. Also I couldn't stop smiling, some people looked at me as If I was crazy, because I was just walking alone and smiling, others smiled back at me, which made me even more happy. It lasted about the time I got home, then I started doing other things like cleaning, watching TV, facebook and games, and back I was to having the mind full of shit. Anyway it was great, I think it was the first time I felt happy for just "being".
Yes! ive had a few glimpses of this. Twice while at home with my grandmother. When I sat with her while I was in this state she knew something was different simply because I wouldn't stop smiling as you said. so my grandma asked what was up and i said "nothing" which was true. Then she asked if I was on drugs and I laughed and said no but she insisted that i was on some sort of drug. 😂 i guess because thats all she knew to attatch such a positive state to from her expereinces in life. I mean it makes sense, the average person cant really comprehend the fact that you could be in bliss simply observing everyday life. But thats what it is!
Thank you Leo!. I've been watching your videos for about 6 months now and you have literally transformed my life in ways I never thought possible. This particular video was especially enlightening for me personally. I just wanted to leave a quick comment to say thank you for helping me on my journey in so many more ways than I could have on my own.
leo you changed my life you dont even have idea how your videos changed me i am greatful i wish i could show you how your videos important to me you opened my mind man
I was aware of all those hidden desires since I can remember. I have no connection to money, social media, material objects do not interest me either. I have self helped myself into re connecting to my child like mentality when it comes to viewing the world and I have had a lot of look with it. I enjoy the simple things in life and I look at very basic natural objects others wouldn't look twice at with "magical eyes" . BUT my problem is. Not many people view the world/life the same way these days! So I'm constantly on a different page to everybody else and feel disconnected from humanity as it has become now and that has made me quite depressed. Causes problems with relationships etc. And because I'm really soulful. Everything effects me a lot deeper than the average.. I get hurt a lot. So it's not always a good thing to be Actualized" unless everyone else is too. So I'm glad you are sharing this information. Love your videos btw :)
That's merely because your actualization is so incomplete. You have a bit of spiritual wisdom in you, but you don't know how to embody it properly, you haven't trained or worked towards that objective -- you just expect it to fall in your lap -- and so you don't know how to relate to others or the world or yourself properly. And now your blame it on self-actualization, when in fact it's just the opposite. The problem is lack of doing what I preach. If you do what I preach, you will not have any problems relating to people or the world. And depression will seem like a joke to you. But that will take some serious inner work.
Maybe you are right with what you're saying.. But you don't know me as a person, I knew a lot about what you preach before I watched your videos. I know how to relate to people, I just can't find many people I relate to because they aren't aware of the things we know about self actualisation lol. I know you can convince your mind to overlook things that might bother you and stop yourself from overthinking and whatever else. But don't you think that is suppressing human nature? Or do you think humanity just uses their brains LESS these days because of the internet etc.. food for thought, (see people like thinking) not always a bad thing. Plus animals do dumb shit just as much as humans, it's just life. Maybe self actualisation could actually be damaging to our brain
Suppressing human nature is what YOU are doing. And what I'm suggesting you stop doing. You're not aware of what true human nature even is yet. Keep your mind open and keep following along. You will learn with time all the things you got backwards.
I like Leo's new strategy of basically only talking about enlightenment and just not calling it enlightenment. Probably smart cause those who are working towards awakening they know exactly what he's talking about and those who are in opposition to the whole enlightenment thing just keep getting nudged in that direction without getting turned off by the label. Clever shit.
Shhhhh....it's a secret. (Honestly, I want to be able to do this too and haven't been able to figure out how to do it. Props to Leo for this strategy. I would love to learn it too.)
I've gotten a lot better at talking about it with people then I used to be. Now I mostly talk about my first awakening experience by describing my Ego as a Character in a Story and saying that all of a sudden I realized I wasn't my character but that I was the thing that is aware of my character. I'm the thing experiencing the story, not the story itself. When you explain it like this without making it this big mystical thing people usually get it. Lolz... and then you just send them an Eckhart Tolle video or something. All you can do is just plant a seed and then it'll grow or it won't.
Erik Reuter yeah at first when he made the enlightenment videos I was turned off due to its religious baggage that I've put on it but now I'm set on the truth of no self
I never do any comments this is the 1st one ever but I have to say that this has changed my life and I'm going Through a lot of changes right now and I just saw your last video on life unfolds in chapters so these work hand-in-hand and I wanted thank you for putting in the work to provide this content to help people like me who are going through these hard times thank you... I Bought your life purpose course in have been following you for several years now and again thank you for doing what you do
If you watch all or enough of Leo's videos, contradictory as some may be, you will find yourself appreciating whichever one your life can relate to for now. I love your videos, and share them with my friends, and hope they can open their minds as I do mine. Thanks Leo!
I've been thinking a lot lately about stripping life down to its very core, so this video came at the right time for me :) But my question is.. is it really possible to live in the world as it is right now, and applying all this? I'm not saying that because things are the way they are, that they have to stay the same, but I feel like the only way would be to run away on the top of a mountain :P if I just stay where I am I'm going to have to keep on working (bills don't pay themselves), keep interacting (and even with the ones I love there's judgement, expectations, explanations), and just deciding what to do with my life (and choosing a career it's already more than 'just being' or 'just living' and it always comes with difficulties, whatever the path). I don't know if what I said makes sense (sorry my mother tongue is Italian), but I really can't grasp how to live simply and without conditioning, but at the same time keep on functioning in the real world. Thank you for the brilliant video anyway, it was seriously inspiring! ☆
Leo, Living a real natural, simple life is one of the best treats for me. I always have 1000 times more free time than anyone I know. So I decided I felt like going to the mountains and living in a forest by a river of pure water I could drink from for a while . PERFECT, I was there for 5 months straight, after a few months of being there, just simply waking up and walking over to some trees ,sun shining down, looking up at the leaves, listening to them russling in the wind was the best experience. There was no me, just the sound of the leaves and the wind, I was the tree the wind the sound! Yaaaaaaaa I recommend you let the poplars be your guide to experience one day Leo, when you have time
Leo you're my master now. This is the best video of yours I watched! Probably because you're coursing so much and it's so authentic but also because I agree with everything you're saying and it's so stupid that I know that and I'm doing something totally different. I knew good few of those 10 things that I want them already, but what's funny is I didn't know that I don't want the thing which you're mentioning in the end, that we don't really want. Jesus so much work to became happier person! Thank you Leo.
These videos are such a profound meditation for me. They help keep me present and proud to be existing. It’s so easy for me to slip into memes and current events whilst loosing sight of my own ground zero. Thank you so much for creating these well put together and organized stream of consciousness videos.
Thanks for this video Leo. I identify with so much you've said here. The concept I resisted the most was relationships, and not in a purely romantic sense. I feel that we are here for relationship. There's obviously a large body of psychology out there around how it influences our lives, and that the lack of them, or lack of interaction on some basic level with other humans, can drive one to insanity. I personally believe that our relationships are the mirrors that show us to ourselves, all of the parts both good and bad. How can we truly exist and feel free without others? How am I to know who I am without knowing who you are? I think it is the concept of relationship (be it with environment, circumstance, or others) that allows the space for development and growth... to provide the path for realization, and then as you teach, Actualization, or moving into the Truth. Thanks for the great video, I look forward to the next one!
These are all very difficult goals. I have reached a new level of happiness in life applying many of the strategies you proposed in these videos you create every week. I have watched many of your videos that seemed irrelevant to me at the time but have become very useful in my life as I watched my world fall into a complete chaos of my own creation. I had the wisdom & knowledge to handle the biggest loss of my life. After my life crashed and burned I was able to get a change of viewpoint, an increase of wisdom, and clarity on many things that lead to the chaos I referred to earlier. All these things have helped me recover stronger then I thought was even possible. Thanks for sharing your thoughts insight and wisdom.
Hi Leo, I have been following the stoics and practicing meditation. Now every day feels enhanced, nature feels enhanced, life feels enhanced , i practice negative visualisation which enhances the time i spend with my child and parents even more. and I get to experience this everyday. Thanks for your help Leo keep up the great work.
Thank you Leo. Well said and good points, very direct. I do believe, however, other than you seem to say, that realizing the truth means that one will no longer be concerned about matters of time. Actualizing the truth, being identified with truth will dissolve thoughts like "if I just had done this 20 years earlier. " Time is irrelevant to truth. There is no time.
Aloha Leo, I was soooo curious what this would reveal then was pleasantly surprised that you've described my active desires & achievement of them at times! I wonder how much age/spiritual development comes into play; since turning 70 recently, I recommited to Truth & have been experiencing these qualities. I never wanted marriage/family/kids etc....the usual societal desires..just spiritual growth. And to say my ongoing experience of what u speak of here is like heaven 🥰. I soooo appreciate your work, Mahalo!!
Awesome video to make me realize that those things existed. Some of those things I believe I genuinely want but could not articulate in to words and details that you have described them with. I don't understand one point. One time you said self-actualization is not the point. I don't agree with saying that life is wasted if actualization and self-improvement does not happen. We are animals and we just breathe and live. Actualization is a privilege and an ability gained in the recent evolutionary years. Some people have more and some have less ability to connect abstract ideas/emotions/knowledge and explore them. People do stupid things and good things but it's not a matter of them being right or wrong. Nothing is wasted. Time passes and things happen. It's just the way of nature. The fact that we just grow old and die is proof that it is not wasted. A tree does not waste it's life producing oxygen and standing in the same place. A horse does not waste it's life eating and running around. Humans do not waste life trying their best to live the life that they believe it's the best for them. I understand your frustration Leo. I see dumb people everyday but they are just doing what humans do. Just because all horses can dance does not mean everyone of them wants to or needs to because there isn't a clear line between what you want and what you think you want. It's all judged in the future with gained knowledge in hindsight. Having said that, I am one of the people who find genine joy in self-improvement and your videos are helping me expand and verbally denounce what my thoughts are and organize them so I can work with them easier. I try everyday to not look at people like they are stupid. I don't want to look at them full of potential but I want to look at them as animals who can behave and organize themselves. Some do it better than others. Some even make plans for self-improvement. We are all part of nature though, and nothing is wrong. I just do what's best for me and give to the world what I believe and want.
Wysłuchałam tego kilka razy na przestrzeni paru lat i za każdym razem bawi mnie to zaciekawiło i rozśmiesza do łez! Zwłaszcza jak Leo całkiem słusznie zresztą wyzywa nas od głupców a potem prosi żebyśmy to robili klikneli na „Subskrybuj”. LEO! Uwielbiam Cię!!!
This list hits home with me. Still living up to it.. that is the struggle. Existence to feel magical.... I like hearing the word magic... I say it every now and then. Effortless.. wow... that is something many of us want. I am getting older...and what I thought was important has evolved. I appreciate this list.. and will be reminding myself often.
This was extremely painful for me to listen to. . . . By far my #1 self-improvement video I've ever watched. This was just mind-blowing, Leo! Even after a year of doing personal development, I still haven't fully realized just how much a sham my current strategy in life is.
Actualized.org I can already feel it getting worse. Feels kind of like falling into depression but sort of a weird mindful and aware kind of depression.
The quality of your content is so amazing. No bullshit and always straight to the point, even if its unpleasant - always facing reality head on. Still can't believe this is completely free...
Amazing video, amazing food for thought, amazing how you served it, amazing Theo. You are a younger version of King Solomon. I always thought of myself as pretty grounded and confident person but you are taking me to a whole new level - I was just but a child in personal development but your videos are changing that. Amazing amazing amazing Leo.
This might be the most powerful video you have put on utube and this should be the most watched video you have produced but most people have no idea how to fully comprehend this video. I might also be one of those people but I am watching this for the third time to let it all sink in. Amazing amazing amazing amazing video 👍🏻
When I started listening I thought about “What do I really want?” You NAILED what I was thinking with number 2 & 3. My thoughts before you got to them were, “I want to not be resisting all the time.” -As in I want living to feel effortless/in flow. Also I thought, “I want to live as exactly who I am.” And that’s what you said about being authentic!!! I’m excited to hear the rest of these. You already nailed the two I thought of as wanting the most. And the first one, living in magic, I also definitely have been aware that I want. This is so on point and interesting.
I'm 20 and a half. I've wasted around 5 years. I didn't ignore you in particular, Leo, I ignored Dan Millman. I was just like he said I would be: unable to follow The path. And he was like that too. He basically told me what would happen, and I still repeated his mistakes! How funny is that. But a month ago I rediscovered your channel and most of my basic problems are gone! I can finally sleep whenever I want, I'm focused enough to do the tasks that I have, and I am finally conscious enough to follow the path. I'm really looking forward towards everything (and your course!) now, thank you so much!
Damn dude, I'm appreciating the pithy wisdom you're dropping here, but I feel it's being delivered in too pessimistic a style, that negativity and blatant contempt for humanity's ignorance shine through perhaps a little too much, and overshadow the truth in your words.
Especially the wake up call at the end, where you seem to have given up on the vast majority of our population and their capacity for self development. Humans are wired toward instant gratification, I agree with what you're saying and understand the frustration that stems from dealing with people's willful ignorance, but chastising them for the ill results of their good intentions may alienate you from your audience. People don't like to hear the truth because it's painful, even though suffering is required for true introspection, leading with the intensity you do may just drive people back to their perscription medications.
I admire what you are doing, and have come to the conclusion most material possessions and goals are fictions of the ego, and ultimately empty. These quintessential properties of mind are the only things of value in this human life. Yet even the Samadi, the highest orgasm, is empty if not everyone can experience it's elation.
Maybe I'm being a little too flowery and vague in message. What I mean to say is that reading the comments on this video it's apparent some people have missed your message because they percieve an air of condescension. Perhaps being less edgy in your delivery would serve a broader audience.
Most of my criticism is derived from your tone. Your tone seems to convey a blatant contempt, or irritation, primarily with the people you are trying to help, for the bad habits you are trying to cure them of. I do hope you take this under consideration, and that it does not challenge the stylistic theme "No B.S." of your channel too much to be kinder in your future videos.
Thank you for this video Leo If I were to add a few: 11. The desire to be nobody [and nothing] 12. The Desire to be everybody and everything 13. Synchronicity (definitely part of existence feeling magical) 14. Aligned with myself and Reality 15. Timelessness and Flow It just so happens that when we live in this way... it tends to foster wonderful relationships, financial abundance etc etc. Most people are looking for the outside-in approach, which a plethora of us are lost in... but when we go from inside-out as I feel is implied and suggested by Leo, we can enjoy it all. Even if we don't get the money/relationships/free time etc, they really do pale in comparison to these... and yet of course, I think it's safe to say, most of us would prefer more money and more harmonious relationships
1000% agree. Recently I was thinking what I truly wanted as a young child and I realized I didn't want any of those things like money or a husband or fame or status like I thought I wanted later. I wanted that happiness and freedom (which manifests in all the 10 ways you talked about) that can only come from awakening and everything I did was a means to get that but it got warped later in life. Now i'm coming back to that original desire..
Leo i love you bro. been alone with my work and my girl for like more than 5 years now..i hope i find people like you so i can hang around and have cool things to say and do. Keep doin your thing we love you Leo!
I don't know if I'm just convincing myself... but listening to your words I'm feeling like I always felt that all the things that a girl of my age is supposed to want (sex, relationships, things, being beautiful and popular) are not important. I've always felt like those things couldn't be my goals. There's always this little voice in my head saying "Am I really supposed to care about those things? To suffer for them? To work and spend time for them?". And now I'm asking myself if I may be feeling that way because I genuinely know that life is not about those shitty things... I don't know, but I feel really illuminated by your video (it's the first time I watch one your videos, never heard about you, sorry). Let me know you thoughts
I saw this guy's comment in which he expresses his gratitude to you for changing his life, so I would want to do the same, I am the person who I always wanted to become, you have helped me more than any friend in my life ❤️
I heard your video titled ‘10 important things you don’t know you want’. Reading on Hindu, Jain and Buddhist philosophy I do on an understanding level know that these internal goals (such as equanimity, complete consciousness, detachment) are the end objective of human life. But then as a lay man on the street who is still struggling to meet her more external goals (such as having a successful intimate relationship; doing work that I love), how does one prioritise between these two set on goals? Is it that when the external goals (such as having a successful intimate relationship; doing work that I love) are satisfied should one move more internal goals (such as equanimity, complete consciousness, detachment)? Or are these both complementary to each other and the pursuit of external goals should be done keeping the internal goals as a way of life? Whether its sages or entrepreneurs, how do I find a role model who balances both?
Hi Leo. I really enjoy your videos - they've helped me see the world in a different way, so thank you. I was wondering - and this is not meant as an attack, I'm just curious. Are you vegan? What is your opinion about it? I've become vegan since beginning this self-development journey.
I don't what the fuck happened to me but at that moment my fingers had a seizure or something and ended up dropping my phone and breaking its screen lmao
I think on paper this is the perfect guide for someone trying to actualize or make their life more humble. At the same time I think telling people their ultimate goals and wants in life are the wrong thing. One thing I've learned is that life is really a journey from point A to point B, no matter what your ultimate goal is and regardless of weather or not you ultimately get there, its about filling time and finding a purpose or an objective in place of a meaningless life. Life is all about the person living it giving it a meaning during your time here. You sir have a very humble ultimate goal which is to become the best and most actualized self you can be, but no one is wrong for their wants and desires because anyone assigning a purpose to life is doing something right. Thank you.
Realmayo17 I think you can still have goals and dreams but reframe them as ultimately meaningless which they are. I think that will also help in achieving them.
another great video. I do realize the items on this list are the things I really want. I get the whole awakening thing, I had an awakening two years ago, before that I suffered from depression my whole life, just being miserable from never having a job, basically still a child at 30 years old and not living up to my potential. I've had tons of mystical experiences since then and my life is so much better now. I had to scale it back a bit because you spoke of the importance of self-reliance and getting a career so I am focusing on your more practical videos to build my self-confidence and find my life purpose. Mostly I just wanted to say thank you because you have helped me so much, I have so much gratitude for your work. Unfortunately, it is so rare to find this level of authenticity anywhere. thank you again Leo from the bottom of my heart.
Very interesting video. I have started my process of self awakening, and some of these ideas I have come across. A few questions came to my mind this morning if someone actually achieved all 10 goals.. 1) What kind of person would they become? 2) What kind of job would they hold? 3) What kind of relationships would they have? 4) How would they survive in this world? It seems that perhaps my ego wants all of these things and blocks me from truly understanding the ultimate goal of all of this.
It would have been great if I saw your videos like 15 years ago. I have always been kind of a rebel against mainstream and society, ignoring pressure, doubting everything/everyone, building my own values system and doing my own thing (based on observation and experience). But it wasn't until my mid thirties that I became fully aware of all that you spoke of in this video. And without awareness, one cannot fully utilize and shape one's life. Watching your videos must feel amazing to people in their early twenties. It takes so much time to realize all this on one's own. Your videos are like driving a Ferrari instead of taking a walk.
Leo... how can you shed your identity and become nobody/blank... when you're in a system that constantly reminds you of that identity or the limitations of it based on your abilities/race/economic circumstance etc...
Leo, thank you for your lessons. I am quite happy that before i watched this video i have understood that my life is wrong, a couple of months ago. I understood that my relationship was pulling me down and was pausing my developement. Firstly, i noticed my bla bla talker in my head that can`t shut up. I read The power of now, there the author teaches us to see our lives in a detached way and also to keep silent inside your head. I`m practicing it now. A couple of days ago i started to get this feeling of detachement of all of the emotions, distractions and so on. You just don`t care. It feels amazing. You feel so free. When i left my boyfriend after 3 years of living together i didn`t cry. I felt releifed , it seemed like i`ve lost 30 pounds from my soul. I want to become a fashion designer. I started learning about this staff myself and i realized that this industry is a pot of shit which is making people want buy things they don`t need. They pay 2 $ per day to Bangladesh workers so that they are starving. And those big fishes eat their escargos, i wonder how rotten those people are. How can they get up knowing that they are making money from those stupid people. Still, i want to be a fashion designer, to make the simplest high-quality clothing to reach that: a woman is wearing my dress and everyone sees the woman, not the dress. Modern closing distracts us from a person wearing them. You know, i would throw away almost 99,9% of the closing we can buy in shops, because it is fucking shit, no one needs it and i want people to stop buying those things that make them more poor. I think that one day our society chose the wrong way of developement and what we`re doing here is we`re trying to restore the original purpose of human living. For example, i truely believe that our goal is not to kill animals and eat them. This is for tigers. But no one will ever say that meat is not for us because that 1 % of reach people are making money on killing animals and selling their meat to unconscious customers. My flow of thoughts is quite enormous now. I am writing a diary with my thoughts. I am from Russia so excuse my English. I am 20 years old. I hope that i am thinking in the right direction. Your channel is a diamond. I am extremely happy that i found it.
This list is exactly what I knew I was aligning with for years , doesn’t mean I posses them fully but no doubt they are the most important things!! Love seeing them compiled into a list!!!
+seth chizmar DMT is the root molecule of psilocybin and DMT is produced in the brain specifically in the pineal gland. Meditation and enlightenment techniques activate this gland which gives off DMT directly into the brain causing an enlightenment experience, ergo it is lifelong.
Watched three videos of you so far. I notice a common pattern where you approach a subject from a lot of negative assumptions, like you are talking to someone in particular who happens to have a lot of issues. From there you warn about some idea that will solve the issues, but you anticipate a lot of resistance from the person you are talking to, then you finally present the idea and hammer with it in a combat with this fictional person who is reacting against it. All in all its like a work of persuasion. I guess this is what some people need. I wish there was more truth seeking and less bullshit though! for me it takes you too long to get to the meat, and then the ideas are not very deep, and get diluted in this fake combat of yours against whatever shadow you're facing.
I support the way you directly and without apologies tell people: "You are going on the wrong path", but stop calling people stupid. Or warn people that you might say something offensive. It is demeaning.
This video will be your downfall in the western world, please read the following. As a teenager I have experienced this that you are explaining to some degree. I developed health issues and anxiety in my teens, which ultimately lead to depression and social isolation from society. I was in hell through trying to follow the things you claim to let drift past your consciousness, I was reliant on relationships to make me happy and fell out my conscious drivers seat to a point where I was falling for every escape my mind crossed over with no self control, whether consuming bodily destroying foods for a basic bliss point, or engaging in sexual activity any chance my thoughts drifted by advising me to go for the short term escapes. Funnily enough you mention one day they will make a pill, well I have already experienced what you mentioned to some degree by intoxication. I consumed marjuana, yes marjuana. I experienced what is known as an ego death, where my mind suddenly became clear from all the distractions or social ideals. I spat all this onto a table and examined it, picking apart the very underlying reasons behind why this is happening in both my reality and my mind. I can get to this point similarly by meditation, where every time I am taken away from that moment of a pure clear mind with an external thought, I can challenge and assess these thoughts and realise how many are dominant. Sex addiction. Fast food addiction. Poor self control. I can manipulate my lateral and medial prefrontal cortex to show me the answers, rather than relying on hope and faith to one day reach my natural blissfulness. Marjuana with deep musical lyrics about such detachments from reality allow me to return to my ego death. It is one of the most beautiful moments of my life, to feel in many ways that the magic which I used to experience as a child can be regained through such deep analogies between reality and such psychological and philosophical encodings we have become desensitised to, or simply unaware of. Now I realise most people hear drugs and instantly shift their minds into a negative judgemental mechanism. Want to know why? In Freud's Psychoanalytic personality theory he developed minds or personalities are made of 3 components. The Id, Ego and Super Ego. The Id is a compulsion which is usually through evolution, for survival. An example is seeing an attractive opposite sex member and at times having a compulsion for spontaneous sexual activity, yet of course we would never take such action. This is because the Ego is shaped through our society and social norms. It is what society says is the moral and ethical actions which we must abide unconsciously. The Ego therefore works with the Id to reach the compulsive need, such as asking an opposite member on a date, putting on a mask to reach such an end product of the Id's sexual compulsion to continue your coding, therefore surviving your genetics. The Super Ego is the part of your mind or personality which wants to be moral, to become to perfect copy of yourself, through which anything going against it will be replaced with guilt. See the link? The ego is avoiding the concept of drug use because it is associated by the media as illegal and a downfall. You are being unconsciously manipulated by anything you see on the media since they understand the instruments of the psychodynamic. If they promote marjuana, you freely consume it and realise their western materialistic brainwashings of greed and selfishness which allows them high consistent productivity in basic working labour. Ask yourself, what is more immoral? Consuming a natural plant, or eating an innocent animal which only difference from yourself is you have a 'larger level of consciousness'. The media allows the consumption of animal meats, so your ego and super ego is free of restraint leading you to the Id compulsions to eat it. Do you all see the bigger picture? If anything further to make you shift your subconscious judgements, the whole of psychoanalysis and base of current psychology and neurological science was by a man high on cocaine. Now in the video you claim knowledge is nothing more than a delusional distraction, alongside sex or alcohol for example. Yet knowledge is the very reason I have figured this out. Through knowledge you can reach the blissful conscious free of external restraints. You seem like an intelligent individual, so isn't that a contradiction and hypocritical claim? You used your knowledge and higher level of both understanding and communication to reach your current mindset. Your advice, which most is incredible I must agree, falls flat in that argument. Such a way of thinking will cause a personal downfall mentally for the harsh reality we must realise. You could follow your advice and become a monk for example, with limited independent requirements for living, or follow the golden mean which I am pursuing in the western world. The golden mean was introduced by the Philosopher Aristotle, through intellectual endeavour which represents a motivated thirst for knowledge, balanced with the control of ones emotions to reach this conscious bliss point between austerity (manner or attitude) and excess of materialistic and psychological needs. A 'genius' who is poor is psychologically better off than an 'idiot' who is rich. Wealth is in the mind. We currently live through the five senses and the individual world around us, and due to the philosopher Aristotle's teachings we have built our western society around him. Your claims fit more inline with the philosopher Plato's abstract reality perception, which personally I agree with too to much extent, but we have not followed Plato's philosophies, we have followed Aristotle's. So if you want to reach this bliss point in our western societies and live through the realities difficulties, we must follow the Golden mean. Detaching from reality is not what our western worlds are built upon unfortunately, we have gone down a different tangent, so the world will not fit in line with your beliefs. You will most likely end up on the streets if you cut off any motivations for advance in knowledge capabilities. Learn as much knowledge as you can, always use your opportunities to read around philosophy and psychology to not be victim to your mind and the worlds corruption, with such insight find an effortless need for self control and selflessness but allowing stability.
I feel so freaking lucky and grateful that I have seen this video at the age of 18... While you're talking I can't help thinking how many mistakes the awarness of this kind of things at my age can prevent in my life. Thank you!
Dearest Leo, You are the best life instructor. I want to meet you in person and talk about a lot of things(mostly about life). I am so glad I found your videos. Every video you make is life-changing. I really do wonder if your life is almost perfect. Like you know how to deal with almost any situations, persons, and etc. I want to be like that too. Hope you all the best!
when u said ' u don't even need actualization, IRONICALLY' in that sentence I found my way clear to that completely just keep doing this work I appreciated
Outstanding no body ever tells you this because you don't like it and 99.99 percent of the world is the other way and this seems to be crazy but the fact is this is the truth, thanks Leo you are bold enough in presenting the Truth.
I thought that 4 and 6 were the wants of freedom. Identity and Dogma unconsciously restrict the freedom of your mind from change, growth, and improvement. Then take benevolence along with some lifetime goal and let that drive you while also being detached, free. When looking at it this way I just don't see the contradiction. The situation is that these topics are so complex that black and white logic don't really work, something used in contradictions.
I have two questions for you to answer. 1. If money shouldn't be our ultimate goal so why are you shooting all these videos about how to become a millionaire and if sex shouldn't be our ultimate goal then why do you have a playlist like 20 videos about sex! and so on? you get the idea. Why are you helping us to achieve somethings that you say are not important. 2. What shall I do after watching this video? What shall I conclude? I concluded that finding any job that will help me get by (have a home and food and medication) is sufficient and I shall live the rest of my life doing nothing. Am I right? Please excuse my bad English as it is not my first language.
Life comes in stages, if I am obsessed with sex and money then maybe I need to go down that road until I realize it's a dead end, then I can move on to something better having realized the truth. The island example and the example of extreme lifestyle minimalism are not for your average materialistic westerner. This idea is terrifying to us in the same way rehab is terrifying to a drug addict. Deep down we just want to be fully aware in the moment.
I very much agree with these 2 points. Leo also seems quite contradictory by opposing relationships, yet at the same time posting videos on how to attract a partner. Very confusing: so are relationships worthwhile or not? I am a Husband and Father, but also know at the same time, this doesn't and shouldn't solely define me, yet these relationships have grown me as a person in ways I could never have imagined (particularly the latter). Again I am reminded that Leo is nearly 15 ears younger than me and is not a parent, so yes, I have every right to counter certain ideas he comes up with, by which I am putting critical thinking into practice: a subject on which he has a video, by the way. Also, he says we want to be nothing, have no material ambitions and basically live like monks, in which case why does Leo post videos about building businesses and making lots of money? Yes, I am aware of the paradoxical nature of life, but for someone at a major crossroads in their life, these contradictions do not really help.
David S I agree with all you said David. These contradictions are not helpful for you when you are at major crossroads in life. It is probably more helpful for those who are extremely social and don't take any rest or those who are generating tens of millions of dollars each year and don't take any rest. And in my case, I used to be extremely introverted so living like a monk won't help me. I believe it is better for me to learn how to be more sociable and probably after that I will decrease my time spent on social life and do nothing like Leo said.
I honestly believe that Leo is so much on to something/everything with all his teachings, and ideas that I can't even imagine what the future holds for this guy (and me personally and all you other guys who follow Leo). But god damn... I don't want to stroke your ego, Leo, but (trying to be careful with my phrasing all through the message, obviously) stay on the path. You have more influence than you might imagine, man.
yes, I am confused about this too. I love the content and I do not feel offended by his provocations, but I feel like too many people will get fight or flight response and shut their minds.
He has actually said more than once, that he really makes these videos for himself. So many people always tell him he should change, or do, say, act, speak, etc, differently. I love him just the way he is. His style of communicating resonates with me :)
wtf are you even saying in this video. dude, you might not realize but you're getting crazier by the day... you're pushing this enlightenment thing too far
He started to learn ab enlightenment because his ego fought it will make him a better person, and he started to awake he realized there is nothing more important than that. I know you will not understand what i say, but i left this comment for others who are willing to start on this journey too ;)
For me those things are not necessary. I already love my life. I see all this stuff as a bonus. It sure would be nice to be even more fullfilled. I guess you can always be more fullfilled and there is no maximum. Advice from me: Don´t overthink what leo is saying. Letting go is the way to go. Have a wonderfull day everyone
Not waisted. Gotta go through this to want this. Motivation to open your self to this list one at a time starts with wanting the pain to be bearable. It’d be sooooooooo good to not carry all the crap and find magic everywhere every moment. This is my motivation? I will find what I really want cuz it’s for me to see. I have to learn different prospectives. Wonder what the tree will teach me? What can I teach the tree? Sweet.
Amazing, l would like to add that some people have yearned these things forever, sort of half asleep or seeing these things from the corner of your eye, until somebody puts into words , inspirational, brilliant, thank you so much Leo.
funny thing is ... every single thing you listed ... sounds so me. its like i really want these things and you put them into words so i now realize kind of everything i ever wanted. this is crazy... like, really, i need to get deeper into this! thank you. thank you so much!
I believe I was fortunate enough to experience Samadhi unintentionally. After 5 months of me being confused and basically pretending it had never happened (who do you talk to about this?) I found this video of you describing it perfectly (even the part about resisting it out of close mindedness). THANK YOU!
Leo I have intuitively felt all the things you discuss almost as long as I can remember. I have naturally come to want the 10 things on the list through time and regular meditation. I believe I could walk the path toward enlightenment if only it wasn't for work. I work too many hours but have no other choice as I have a family that I love to take care of and a house to pay off. Meditating and being kind to others doesn't pay the bills!! If only!!!
+Rowan Gillett How badly do you really want these things if you refuse to strategize and work towards them? You don't really want it. You want your petty current life more. Which is why you have it.
Thank you for your channel Leo. I've been listening to your recordings for approx 6 months now, they're on my phone and I listen to at least one most days. They're deep so like you say I've had to listen to each one many times over, and will have to come back to them many times again. I've got my meditation habit down, and I'm reaping the results, which has been a rocky ride so far. Raising your awareness certainly rakes all sorts of crap up, but it's all part of the journey. It's amazing how much stuff I've got going on in my unruly mind. But with knowledge of self I'll grow, and silence my monkey mind. Anyhoo, thanks again, and keep up the good work! It's much appreciated, Ste.
in essense, what we really want is not to find Truth, but become it. what Leo lays out here are all the small truths you must realize along your path before becoming absolute.
Watching this video I've caught myself saying "well I already know that" "I have some of those talents/ attributes etc." then I'll kinda stop myself and realize how much more humility I need to have or get it back in check. The difference I have made in being able to take a step back and ponder things a little more Or start to see things in a different light is incredible! I started watching these videos for now I know; an all together fucking pathetic reason but that was something that I didn't find. But what I did come across and learn is so much more fulfilling than I could have ever imagined! I have literally been STARVING for knowledge and insight and all these other little crazy things I've heard about ever since and I could not be more grateful. Being able to understand my mind has literally saved me. I seriously can't wait to see what else I can try to absorb
Great video Leo. I hadn't identified and put into words your list, but I know I am working through a few of those stages at present. I had a break down around december, and moved out of the house from my wife. I took this time to gather myself together. I also used psychedelics again as I hadn't done them for quite some time. This for me was a great awakening, it was also self counseling, and I became aware of my situation and relationships with people I had never had before. I a still processing a lot of this stuff, and I am struggling to conform to societal pressures and others ideologies and unawareness. I feel like I am becoming more balanced in my mind and emotions, and feel like I have surpassed my marriage, even though I do still care and love my wife very much. Our society is geared towards making people always pay just to exist. You can't just camp somewhere indefintely as you will be moved on. If you own land you have to keep paying each year just to have it through rates. This locks everyone into needing to make money and participate i society. I find this hard as I don't want to do that, yet I need to eat, have shelter. So I am constantly looking for a way to achieve my basic needs, without doing a stressful job that consumes my time. One way to do this is to realise you need a lot less than you think. This cuts down on costs, but also should make you question why you have the things you do have. It is sad most people are not coping well with our current society, look at the rise in depression and anxiety. I think this is a direct reflection of our society failing people and their ability to participate in it. I was watching the checkout people at the supermarket the other week, and I thought how miserable they looked. I thought what are these peoples potential if not having to work in this crappy jobs? Our society often forces people to work all week, and spend a lot of time traveling to work or for work. This makes people tired and worn out. Wearing people out is great for our society as it minimizes their chance of stopping to think and reflect. So I think psychedelics are a great fast track if used properly to gain insight and allow deep reflection to find another way to obtain what you truly want.need.
90 days in county jail was the experience I needed to wake up. Sobering circumstances indeed. While I was locked up I began to see the counter intuitive nature of things play out and the resistance to the natural order of reality caused many of the inmates great discomfort and struggle. You truly to have let go with totality and place your faith in God’s ability to direct your steps.
To varying degrees I am and always have been in touch with these concepts. Still, modern society has done a good job of throwing me way off track. Thanks for helping me become more self aware
Very insightful as always Leo. For the six months i've been subbed I feel my life has very much improved and I've gained a lot of insight that I may otherwise have never gained if not stumbling on your channel and for that I thank you and the work you do.
I think this is your best video... I've slowly through the years kind of ended giving in to similar conclusions... yet its wisdom that can only be practiced instead of just thinking about it endlessly
Great vid. Keep in mind in order to succeed in anything in life you mustn't get tripped up on #6.. we need to have confidence to succeed and part of that skill is recognizing your strengths and believing in yourself. For #10- if you perceive you're running around like a chicken w your head cut off then you will be. If you perceive your lifestyle as peaceful then it will be no matter what you're doing. #findit
Here's the list :
1. Existence to feel magical again
2. Things to be completely effortless
3. Authenticity
4. Dispassionate mind
5. Full soberness/lucidity
6. The desire to be nobody
7. Merging with the target object (Samadi)
8. Truth
9. Benovelance
10. Simple and natural lifestyle
but, ..but I alredy know I want those
except for 7
If somebody had asked you "What are the 10 most important things you want in your life ?" yesterday, would you have said that ?
If somebody asked you the same question 6 months from now, will you say these things ?
That's what Leo is trying to address here.
Thanks! Someone is doing it right: takes notes.
But i noticed as "modern-lazy-consumer" it's really important to be aware of the fact that the senses to hear and to see aren't that effective if it comes to saving memory. So just copy and paste wouldn't be the best thing to do; still better copied notes then no notes but the important step is writing the notes oneself - it helps a lot to really save it.
I use Trello to keep track of my notes and protocols
Tancrède Pouyat
I have literally no idea
Ficojepet
Well, prioritize. Think about which of these things you will work on over the next 6 months (or however long it'll take you).
For me, I'm focused a lot on Life Purpose and Enlightenment (more on life purpose than on enlightenment), which pretty much addresses all of these points.
But you might not be at a stage in your journey that allows you to do that, so figure it out.
Rick B.
Yeah, sure, taking notes is important. But I think what's even more important is developing awareness around what we learn, which might take more than simply taking notes. Depending on who you are, and what you're trying to become aware of, it's going to take more or less effort to develop it. Try to become aware of that (don't just think about it).
After watching your videos and meditating for 3 years I finally had a glimpse of complete awareness this weekend, I was walking in the mall, and all of sudden I started feeling happy, and I was just absorbing every image and sound, there was no judging whatsoever, in fact, it felt like my mind was completely empty, there was no past or future, just the present, it was almost like seeing everything for the first time like you said.
As I was walking and looking at other people in the mall, I noticed how they were unhappy, fighting, running, desiring, yelling, thinking about it now I felt somehow "superior", but not in a way that relates to power, but like an adult would look at children fighting and being upset over completely nonsense things. Also I couldn't stop smiling, some people looked at me as If I was crazy, because I was just walking alone and smiling, others smiled back at me, which made me even more happy.
It lasted about the time I got home, then I started doing other things like cleaning, watching TV, facebook and games, and back I was to having the mind full of shit. Anyway it was great, I think it was the first time I felt happy for just "being".
Amazing how are things going now
Yes! ive had a few glimpses of this. Twice while at home with my grandmother. When I sat with her while I was in this state she knew something was different simply because I wouldn't stop smiling as you said. so my grandma asked what was up and i said "nothing" which was true. Then she asked if I was on drugs and I laughed and said no but she insisted that i was on some sort of drug. 😂 i guess because thats all she knew to attatch such a positive state to from her expereinces in life. I mean it makes sense, the average person cant really comprehend the fact that you could be in bliss simply observing everyday life. But thats what it is!
@@UrAWizard 2 years later, watsup with you, a reminder to reflect.
delete facebook, so toxic, throw out your TV, just be mindful of what you consume
Thank you Leo!. I've been watching your videos for about 6 months now and you have literally transformed my life in ways I never thought possible. This particular video was especially enlightening for me personally. I just wanted to leave a quick comment to say thank you for helping me on my journey in so many more ways than I could have on my own.
I love how bold you ended this. I've never had someone that was so in-your-face about this lol but it certainly gets the point across!
Thank you Leo for being that rare person who crossed my path and tell my: " What the f*ck are you doing ?! "
leo you changed my life you dont even have idea how your videos changed me i am greatful i wish i could show you how your videos important to me you opened my mind man
I was aware of all those hidden desires since I can remember. I have no connection to money, social media, material objects do not interest me either. I have self helped myself into re connecting to my child like mentality when it comes to viewing the world and I have had a lot of look with it. I enjoy the simple things in life and I look at very basic natural objects others wouldn't look twice at with "magical eyes" . BUT my problem is. Not many people view the world/life the same way these days! So I'm constantly on a different page to everybody else and feel disconnected from humanity as it has become now and that has made me quite depressed. Causes problems with relationships etc. And because I'm really soulful. Everything effects me a lot deeper than the average.. I get hurt a lot. So it's not always a good thing to be Actualized" unless everyone else is too. So I'm glad you are sharing this information. Love your videos btw :)
That's merely because your actualization is so incomplete. You have a bit of spiritual wisdom in you, but you don't know how to embody it properly, you haven't trained or worked towards that objective -- you just expect it to fall in your lap -- and so you don't know how to relate to others or the world or yourself properly. And now your blame it on self-actualization, when in fact it's just the opposite. The problem is lack of doing what I preach. If you do what I preach, you will not have any problems relating to people or the world. And depression will seem like a joke to you.
But that will take some serious inner work.
You got it backwards, I businessed the most meaningful shit, so I don't have to drum up business.
Maybe you are right with what you're saying.. But you don't know me as a person, I knew a lot about what you preach before I watched your videos. I know how to relate to people, I just can't find many people I relate to because they aren't aware of the things we know about self actualisation lol. I know you can convince your mind to overlook things that might bother you and stop yourself from overthinking and whatever else. But don't you think that is suppressing human nature? Or do you think humanity just uses their brains LESS these days because of the internet etc.. food for thought, (see people like thinking) not always a bad thing. Plus animals do dumb shit just as much as humans, it's just life. Maybe self actualisation could actually be damaging to our brain
Suppressing human nature is what YOU are doing. And what I'm suggesting you stop doing.
You're not aware of what true human nature even is yet. Keep your mind open and keep following along. You will learn with time all the things you got backwards.
I think you've got it backwards
I like Leo's new strategy of basically only talking about enlightenment and just not calling it enlightenment. Probably smart cause those who are working towards awakening they know exactly what he's talking about and those who are in opposition to the whole enlightenment thing just keep getting nudged in that direction without getting turned off by the label. Clever shit.
Shhhhh....it's a secret. (Honestly, I want to be able to do this too and haven't been able to figure out how to do it. Props to Leo for this strategy. I would love to learn it too.)
I've gotten a lot better at talking about it with people then I used to be. Now I mostly talk about my first awakening experience by describing my Ego as a Character in a Story and saying that all of a sudden I realized I wasn't my character but that I was the thing that is aware of my character. I'm the thing experiencing the story, not the story itself. When you explain it like this without making it this big mystical thing people usually get it. Lolz... and then you just send them an Eckhart Tolle video or something. All you can do is just plant a seed and then it'll grow or it won't.
Yeah, I've been doing that as well. Alan Watts, J Krishnamurti and Sadhguru are great references for people.
+Erik Reuter ~Agreed! That's all one can do. Plant seeds.
Erik Reuter yeah at first when he made the enlightenment videos I was turned off due to its religious baggage that I've put on it but now I'm set on the truth of no self
Wonderful , straight to the point. Its still a mystery to me that you produce such high quality videos consistently.
same
Yeah that is interesting
Leo's a genius.
Tons and tons of deliberate practice :D
Amazing
I never do any comments this is the 1st one ever but I have to say that this has changed my life and I'm going Through a lot of changes right now and I just saw your last video on life unfolds in chapters so these work hand-in-hand and I wanted thank you for putting in the work to provide this content to help people like me who are going through these hard times thank you... I Bought your life purpose course in have been following you for several years now and again thank you for doing what you do
I was listening to you in my phone as an audiobook and the audio is so clean and the quality is amazing!
Μe too!!
Martin Nikl which app did u use? I'd Love to be able to listen to Leo's podcasts offline!!
If you watch all or enough of Leo's videos, contradictory as some may be, you will find yourself appreciating whichever one your life can relate to for now. I love your videos, and share them with my friends, and hope they can open their minds as I do mine. Thanks Leo!
I am laughing while listening! He is a genius and his ability to express, wow!
This..this is how I've been feeling for the last 5 yrs! This make me so emotional because everyone around me doesn't see this...but I do!
I've been thinking a lot lately about stripping life down to its very core, so this video came at the right time for me :)
But my question is.. is it really possible to live in the world as it is right now, and applying all this? I'm not saying that because things are the way they are, that they have to stay the same, but I feel like the only way would be to run away on the top of a mountain :P if I just stay where I am I'm going to have to keep on working (bills don't pay themselves), keep interacting (and even with the ones I love there's judgement, expectations, explanations), and just deciding what to do with my life (and choosing a career it's already more than 'just being' or 'just living' and it always comes with difficulties, whatever the path).
I don't know if what I said makes sense (sorry my mother tongue is Italian), but I really can't grasp how to live simply and without conditioning, but at the same time keep on functioning in the real world.
Thank you for the brilliant video anyway, it was seriously inspiring! ☆
Share all your questions and concerns...
Also asking myself: how to apply them in my real life
Leo, Living a real natural, simple life is one of the best treats for me. I always have 1000 times more free time than anyone I know. So I decided I felt like going to the mountains and living in a forest by a river of pure water I could drink from for a while . PERFECT, I was there for 5 months straight, after a few months of being there, just simply waking up and walking over to some trees ,sun shining down, looking up at the leaves, listening to them russling in the wind was the best experience. There was no me, just the sound of the leaves and the wind, I was the tree the wind the sound! Yaaaaaaaa I recommend you let the poplars be your guide to experience one day Leo, when you have time
Sounds nice
Leo you're my master now. This is the best video of yours I watched! Probably because you're coursing so much and it's so authentic but also because I agree with everything you're saying and it's so stupid that I know that and I'm doing something totally different. I knew good few of those 10 things that I want them already, but what's funny is I didn't know that I don't want the thing which you're mentioning in the end, that we don't really want. Jesus so much work to became happier person! Thank you Leo.
These videos are such a profound meditation for me. They help keep me present and proud to be existing.
It’s so easy for me to slip into memes and current events whilst loosing sight of my own ground zero.
Thank you so much for creating these well put together and organized stream of consciousness videos.
Thanks for this video Leo. I identify with so much you've said here. The concept I resisted the most was relationships, and not in a purely romantic sense. I feel that we are here for relationship. There's obviously a large body of psychology out there around how it influences our lives, and that the lack of them, or lack of interaction on some basic level with other humans, can drive one to insanity. I personally believe that our relationships are the mirrors that show us to ourselves, all of the parts both good and bad. How can we truly exist and feel free without others? How am I to know who I am without knowing who you are? I think it is the concept of relationship (be it with environment, circumstance, or others) that allows the space for development and growth... to provide the path for realization, and then as you teach, Actualization, or moving into the Truth. Thanks for the great video, I look forward to the next one!
Most people are way too distracted by relationships. Discover yourself first, then you can have great relationships all you want.
+Actualized.org you're low key saying when you discover yourself you won't need or want relationships
These are all very difficult goals. I have reached a new level of happiness in life applying many of the strategies you proposed in these videos you create every week. I have watched many of your videos that seemed irrelevant to me at the time but have become very useful in my life as I watched my world fall into a complete chaos of my own creation. I had the wisdom & knowledge to handle the biggest loss of my life. After my life crashed and burned I was able to get a change of viewpoint, an increase of wisdom, and clarity on many things that lead to the chaos I referred to earlier. All these things have helped me recover stronger then I thought was even possible. Thanks for sharing your thoughts insight and wisdom.
i can't wait to come home from work every sunday to find one of your videos :)) gonna watch it right now
loved it for the most part
you're such a cutie
What part did not do it for you? :)
+Shaun Dobbie lol
Don't just watch,. You must do the work and achieve these
Hi Leo, I have been following the stoics and practicing meditation. Now every day feels enhanced, nature feels enhanced, life feels enhanced , i practice negative visualisation which enhances the time i spend with my child and parents even more. and I get to experience this everyday. Thanks for your help Leo keep up the great work.
Thank you Leo. Well said and good points, very direct. I do believe, however, other than you seem to say, that realizing the truth means that one will no longer be concerned about matters of time. Actualizing the truth, being identified with truth will dissolve thoughts like "if I just had done this 20 years earlier. " Time is irrelevant to truth. There is no time.
Aloha Leo, I was soooo curious what this would reveal then was pleasantly surprised that you've described my active desires & achievement of them at times! I wonder how much age/spiritual development comes into play; since turning 70 recently, I recommited to Truth & have been experiencing these qualities. I never wanted marriage/family/kids etc....the usual societal desires..just spiritual growth. And to say my ongoing experience of what u speak of here is like heaven 🥰. I soooo appreciate your work, Mahalo!!
Awesome video to make me realize that those things existed. Some of those things I believe I genuinely want but could not articulate in to words and details that you have described them with.
I don't understand one point. One time you said self-actualization is not the point. I don't agree with saying that life is wasted if actualization and self-improvement does not happen. We are animals and we just breathe and live. Actualization is a privilege and an ability gained in the recent evolutionary years. Some people have more and some have less ability to connect abstract ideas/emotions/knowledge and explore them. People do stupid things and good things but it's not a matter of them being right or wrong. Nothing is wasted. Time passes and things happen. It's just the way of nature. The fact that we just grow old and die is proof that it is not wasted. A tree does not waste it's life producing oxygen and standing in the same place. A horse does not waste it's life eating and running around. Humans do not waste life trying their best to live the life that they believe it's the best for them.
I understand your frustration Leo. I see dumb people everyday but they are just doing what humans do. Just because all horses can dance does not mean everyone of them wants to or needs to because there isn't a clear line between what you want and what you think you want. It's all judged in the future with gained knowledge in hindsight. Having said that, I am one of the people who find genine joy in self-improvement and your videos are helping me expand and verbally denounce what my thoughts are and organize them so I can work with them easier.
I try everyday to not look at people like they are stupid. I don't want to look at them full of potential but I want to look at them as animals who can behave and organize themselves. Some do it better than others. Some even make plans for self-improvement. We are all part of nature though, and nothing is wrong. I just do what's best for me and give to the world what I believe and want.
Michael Moon great point
Wysłuchałam tego kilka razy na przestrzeni paru lat i za każdym razem bawi mnie to zaciekawiło i rozśmiesza do łez! Zwłaszcza jak Leo całkiem słusznie zresztą wyzywa nas od głupców a potem prosi żebyśmy to robili klikneli na „Subskrybuj”. LEO! Uwielbiam Cię!!!
I didn't understand what you meant by "look upon the world like glass" and then I just did it. Just did it. And it was awesome.
This list hits home with me. Still living up to it.. that is the struggle. Existence to feel magical.... I like hearing the word magic... I say it every now and then. Effortless.. wow... that is something many of us want. I am getting older...and what I thought was important has evolved. I appreciate this list.. and will be reminding myself often.
This was extremely painful for me to listen to.
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By far my #1 self-improvement video I've ever watched. This was just mind-blowing, Leo! Even after a year of doing personal development, I still haven't fully realized just how much a sham my current strategy in life is.
It'll get worse before it gets better. Stay with it.
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I can already feel it getting worse. Feels kind of like falling into depression but sort of a weird mindful and aware kind of depression.
The quality of your content is so amazing. No bullshit and always straight to the point, even if its unpleasant - always facing reality head on. Still can't believe this is completely free...
Amazing video, amazing food for thought, amazing how you served it, amazing Theo. You are a younger version of King Solomon. I always thought of myself as pretty grounded and confident person but you are taking me to a whole new level - I was just but a child in personal development but your videos are changing that. Amazing amazing amazing Leo.
This might be the most powerful video you have put on utube and this should be the most watched video you have produced but most people have no idea how to fully comprehend this video. I might also be one of those people but I am watching this for the third time to let it all sink in. Amazing amazing amazing amazing video 👍🏻
YO I TELL YA WHAT I WANT WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT
Haha
So, tell me what you want. What you really really want?
I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha)
This comment deserves to be #1
When I started listening I thought about “What do I really want?”
You NAILED what I was thinking with number 2 & 3. My thoughts before you got to them were, “I want to not be resisting all the time.” -As in I want living to feel effortless/in flow. Also I thought, “I want to live as exactly who I am.” And that’s what you said about being authentic!!!
I’m excited to hear the rest of these. You already nailed the two I thought of as wanting the most. And the first one, living in magic, I also definitely have been aware that I want.
This is so on point and interesting.
Great job and thank you for sharing all of this!
I'm 20 and a half. I've wasted around 5 years. I didn't ignore you in particular, Leo, I ignored Dan Millman. I was just like he said I would be: unable to follow The path. And he was like that too. He basically told me what would happen, and I still repeated his mistakes! How funny is that.
But a month ago I rediscovered your channel and most of my basic problems are gone! I can finally sleep whenever I want, I'm focused enough to do the tasks that I have, and I am finally conscious enough to follow the path.
I'm really looking forward towards everything (and your course!) now, thank you so much!
Damn dude, I'm appreciating the pithy wisdom you're dropping here, but I feel it's being delivered in too pessimistic a style, that negativity and blatant contempt for humanity's ignorance shine through perhaps a little too much, and overshadow the truth in your words.
Especially the wake up call at the end, where you seem to have given up on the vast majority of our population and their capacity for self development. Humans are wired toward instant gratification, I agree with what you're saying and understand the frustration that stems from dealing with people's willful ignorance, but chastising them for the ill results of their good intentions may alienate you from your audience. People don't like to hear the truth because it's painful, even though suffering is required for true introspection, leading with the intensity you do may just drive people back to their perscription medications.
I admire what you are doing, and have come to the conclusion most material possessions and goals are fictions of the ego, and ultimately empty. These quintessential properties of mind are the only things of value in this human life. Yet even the Samadi, the highest orgasm, is empty if not everyone can experience it's elation.
Maybe I'm being a little too flowery and vague in message. What I mean to say is that reading the comments on this video it's apparent some people have missed your message because they percieve an air of condescension. Perhaps being less edgy in your delivery would serve a broader audience.
Most of my criticism is derived from your tone. Your tone seems to convey a blatant contempt, or irritation, primarily with the people you are trying to help, for the bad habits you are trying to cure them of. I do hope you take this under consideration, and that it does not challenge the stylistic theme "No B.S." of your channel too much to be kinder in your future videos.
@@dredada4292 lmao @ "vagina palates"
Thank you for this video Leo
If I were to add a few:
11. The desire to be nobody [and nothing]
12. The Desire to be everybody and everything
13. Synchronicity (definitely part of existence feeling magical)
14. Aligned with myself and Reality
15. Timelessness and Flow
It just so happens that when we live in this way... it tends to foster wonderful relationships, financial abundance etc etc. Most people are looking for the outside-in approach, which a plethora of us are lost in... but when we go from inside-out as I feel is implied and suggested by Leo, we can enjoy it all. Even if we don't get the money/relationships/free time etc, they really do pale in comparison to these... and yet of course, I think it's safe to say, most of us would prefer more money and more harmonious relationships
Your videos are so fucking on point brother. Thank you for your work.
1000% agree. Recently I was thinking what I truly wanted as a young child and I realized I didn't want any of those things like money or a husband or fame or status like I thought I wanted later. I wanted that happiness and freedom (which manifests in all the 10 ways you talked about) that can only come from awakening and everything I did was a means to get that but it got warped later in life. Now i'm coming back to that original desire..
Best video i have ever seen. How can i pay you back?
+Fernando Santacroce By embodying what was said.
great answers leo , you are great 💖
U said it......
He has a course on his website, buy it you won't regret it either.
Leo i love you bro.
been alone with my work and my girl for like more than 5 years now..i hope i find people like you so i can hang around and have cool things to say and do.
Keep doin your thing we love you Leo!
I don't know if I'm just convincing myself... but listening to your words I'm feeling like I always felt that all the things that a girl of my age is supposed to want (sex, relationships, things, being beautiful and popular) are not important. I've always felt like those things couldn't be my goals. There's always this little voice in my head saying "Am I really supposed to care about those things? To suffer for them? To work and spend time for them?". And now I'm asking myself if I may be feeling that way because I genuinely know that life is not about those shitty things... I don't know, but I feel really illuminated by your video (it's the first time I watch one your videos, never heard about you, sorry). Let me know you thoughts
I saw this guy's comment in which he expresses his gratitude to you for changing his life, so I would want to do the same, I am the person who I always wanted to become, you have helped me more than any friend in my life ❤️
I heard your video titled ‘10 important things you don’t know you want’.
Reading on Hindu, Jain and Buddhist philosophy I do on an understanding level know that these internal goals (such as equanimity, complete consciousness, detachment) are the end objective of human life.
But then as a lay man on the street who is still struggling to meet her more external goals (such as having a successful intimate relationship; doing work that I love), how does one prioritise between these two set on goals?
Is it that when the external goals (such as having a successful intimate relationship; doing work that I love) are satisfied should one move more internal goals (such as equanimity, complete consciousness, detachment)?
Or are these both complementary to each other and the pursuit of external goals should be done keeping the internal goals as a way of life?
Whether its sages or entrepreneurs, how do I find a role model who balances both?
Vrushti Doshi I'm conflicted about this too.
Your are the role model, up to you to take to responsability. Or to continue the search, but 1st option is the best;)
I'm literally freaked out by how much you know me better than I thought I knew myself.I gotta start changing some things in my life. Thank you again
Hi Leo. I really enjoy your videos - they've helped me see the world in a different way, so thank you. I was wondering - and this is not meant as an attack, I'm just curious. Are you vegan? What is your opinion about it? I've become vegan since beginning this self-development journey.
Wow! I'm more genuine and authentic than I thought I was after watching this video.
23:24 I thought my laptop was freezing lol !!
Same
I thought I was merging with my laptop lol! I was like.... OMG... SAMADI!!!
LOL
Tru
I don't what the fuck happened to me but at that moment my fingers had a seizure or something and ended up dropping my phone and breaking its screen lmao
I think on paper this is the perfect guide for someone trying to actualize or make their life more humble. At the same time I think telling people their ultimate goals and wants in life are the wrong thing. One thing I've learned is that life is really a journey from point A to point B, no matter what your ultimate goal is and regardless of weather or not you ultimately get there, its about filling time and finding a purpose or an objective in place of a meaningless life. Life is all about the person living it giving it a meaning during your time here. You sir have a very humble ultimate goal which is to become the best and most actualized self you can be, but no one is wrong for their wants and desires because anyone assigning a purpose to life is doing something right. Thank you.
Realmayo17 I think you can still have goals and dreams but reframe them as ultimately meaningless which they are. I think that will also help in achieving them.
I love you Leo! brilliant...so funny and so real, many people might say arrogant, but I like it ;-)
yes he is a kind person
yesss love that he isn't trying to be smiley and fake with it.
Liz Obasuke .
another great video. I do realize the items on this list are the things I really want. I get the whole awakening thing, I had an awakening two years ago, before that I suffered from depression my whole life, just being miserable from never having a job, basically still a child at 30 years old and not living up to my potential. I've had tons of mystical experiences since then and my life is so much better now. I had to scale it back a bit because you spoke of the importance of self-reliance and getting a career so I am focusing on your more practical videos to build my self-confidence and find my life purpose. Mostly I just wanted to say thank you because you have helped me so much, I have so much gratitude for your work. Unfortunately, it is so rare to find this level of authenticity anywhere. thank you again Leo from the bottom of my heart.
LEO walks into a pizzeria and says: Heeeeeeeey,can you make me ONE WITH EVERYTHING? (get it, enlightenment joke?)
Lol
Lol🤣
I’m like it very much
i didnt get it... explain pls
And he gets NO THING because he does not really need pizza 😮😊
Very interesting video. I have started my process of self awakening, and some of these ideas I have come across. A few questions came to my mind this morning if someone actually achieved all 10 goals..
1) What kind of person would they become?
2) What kind of job would they hold?
3) What kind of relationships would they have?
4) How would they survive in this world?
It seems that perhaps my ego wants all of these things and blocks me from truly understanding the ultimate goal of all of this.
I feel kind of lost now and don't know what i should do next
It would have been great if I saw your videos like 15 years ago. I have always been kind of a rebel against mainstream and society, ignoring pressure, doubting everything/everyone, building my own values system and doing my own thing (based on observation and experience). But it wasn't until my mid thirties that I became fully aware of all that you spoke of in this video. And without awareness, one cannot fully utilize and shape one's life.
Watching your videos must feel amazing to people in their early twenties. It takes so much time to realize all this on one's own. Your videos are like driving a Ferrari instead of taking a walk.
Leo... how can you shed your identity and become nobody/blank... when you're in a system that constantly reminds you of that identity or the limitations of it based on your abilities/race/economic circumstance etc...
+Crystal Walker See my enlightenment playlist.
Leo, thank you for your lessons. I am quite happy that before i watched this video i have understood that my life is wrong, a couple of months ago. I understood that my relationship was pulling me down and was pausing my developement. Firstly, i noticed my bla bla talker in my head that can`t shut up. I read The power of now, there the author teaches us to see our lives in a detached way and also to keep silent inside your head. I`m practicing it now. A couple of days ago i started to get this feeling of detachement of all of the emotions, distractions and so on. You just don`t care. It feels amazing. You feel so free. When i left my boyfriend after 3 years of living together i didn`t cry. I felt releifed , it seemed like i`ve lost 30 pounds from my soul. I want to become a fashion designer. I started learning about this staff myself and i realized that this industry is a pot of shit which is making people want buy things they don`t need. They pay 2 $ per day to Bangladesh workers so that they are starving. And those big fishes eat their escargos, i wonder how rotten those people are. How can they get up knowing that they are making money from those stupid people. Still, i want to be a fashion designer, to make the simplest high-quality clothing to reach that: a woman is wearing my dress and everyone sees the woman, not the dress. Modern closing distracts us from a person wearing them. You know, i would throw away almost 99,9% of the closing we can buy in shops, because it is fucking shit, no one needs it and i want people to stop buying those things that make them more poor. I think that one day our society chose the wrong way of developement and what we`re doing here is we`re trying to restore the original purpose of human living. For example, i truely believe that our goal is not to kill animals and eat them. This is for tigers. But no one will ever say that meat is not for us because that 1 % of reach people are making money on killing animals and selling their meat to unconscious customers. My flow of thoughts is quite enormous now. I am writing a diary with my thoughts. I am from Russia so excuse my English. I am 20 years old. I hope that i am thinking in the right direction. Your channel is a diamond. I am extremely happy that i found it.
The final was fucking hard to swallow but you are sooo right man :D
This list is exactly what I knew I was aligning with for years , doesn’t mean I posses them fully but no doubt they are the most important things!! Love seeing them compiled into a list!!!
Sounds like psilocybin.
I think DMT might be more precise.
Except, you know, lifelong.
+seth chizmar DMT is the root molecule of psilocybin and DMT is produced in the brain specifically in the pineal gland. Meditation and enlightenment techniques activate this gland which gives off DMT directly into the brain causing an enlightenment experience, ergo it is lifelong.
You know what's difficult?
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Source?
I'm 15 and I've worked on many of these things unconsciously, I think I've come really far thank you for this Leo now I won't ever stop :D
Watched three videos of you so far. I notice a common pattern where you approach a subject from a lot of negative assumptions, like you are talking to someone in particular who happens to have a lot of issues. From there you warn about some idea that will solve the issues, but you anticipate a lot of resistance from the person you are talking to, then you finally present the idea and hammer with it in a combat with this fictional person who is reacting against it. All in all its like a work of persuasion.
I guess this is what some people need. I wish there was more truth seeking and less bullshit though! for me it takes you too long to get to the meat, and then the ideas are not very deep, and get diluted in this fake combat of yours against whatever shadow you're facing.
Wow, watch more videos then. If you think Leos ideas are not very deep you either miss a lot or picked the "lighter" ones.
Depth is a matter of perspective - in the three I've watched depth is replaced by self aggrandizing.
I agree, leo is insightful and interesting but all the condescension and sarcasm is off putting :(
He has insight, but it's like he's trying to pick up a drunk girl with it, and he only knows how to neg.
+Yohami Zerpa hey, do you know what makes a pessimist, a pessimist?
I support the way you directly and without apologies tell people: "You are going on the wrong path", but stop calling people stupid. Or warn people that you might say something offensive.
It is demeaning.
This video will be your downfall in the western world, please read the following.
As a teenager I have experienced this that you are explaining to some degree. I developed health issues and anxiety in my teens, which ultimately lead to depression and social isolation from society. I was in hell through trying to follow the things you claim to let drift past your consciousness, I was reliant on relationships to make me happy and fell out my conscious drivers seat to a point where I was falling for every escape my mind crossed over with no self control, whether consuming bodily destroying foods for a basic bliss point, or engaging in sexual activity any chance my thoughts drifted by advising me to go for the short term escapes.
Funnily enough you mention one day they will make a pill, well I have already experienced what you mentioned to some degree by intoxication. I consumed marjuana, yes marjuana. I experienced what is known as an ego death, where my mind suddenly became clear from all the distractions or social ideals. I spat all this onto a table and examined it, picking apart the very underlying reasons behind why this is happening in both my reality and my mind. I can get to this point similarly by meditation, where every time I am taken away from that moment of a pure clear mind with an external thought, I can challenge and assess these thoughts and realise how many are dominant. Sex addiction. Fast food addiction. Poor self control. I can manipulate my lateral and medial prefrontal cortex to show me the answers, rather than relying on hope and faith to one day reach my natural blissfulness.
Marjuana with deep musical lyrics about such detachments from reality allow me to return to my ego death. It is one of the most beautiful moments of my life, to feel in many ways that the magic which I used to experience as a child can be regained through such deep analogies between reality and such psychological and philosophical encodings we have become desensitised to, or simply unaware of.
Now I realise most people hear drugs and instantly shift their minds into a negative judgemental mechanism.
Want to know why? In Freud's Psychoanalytic personality theory he developed minds or personalities are made of 3 components. The Id, Ego and Super Ego. The Id is a compulsion which is usually through evolution, for survival. An example is seeing an attractive opposite sex member and at times having a compulsion for spontaneous sexual activity, yet of course we would never take such action. This is because the Ego is shaped through our society and social norms. It is what society says is the moral and ethical actions which we must abide unconsciously. The Ego therefore works with the Id to reach the compulsive need, such as asking an opposite member on a date, putting on a mask to reach such an end product of the Id's sexual compulsion to continue your coding, therefore surviving your genetics. The Super Ego is the part of your mind or personality which wants to be moral, to become to perfect copy of yourself, through which anything going against it will be replaced with guilt.
See the link? The ego is avoiding the concept of drug use because it is associated by the media as illegal and a downfall. You are being unconsciously manipulated by anything you see on the media since they understand the instruments of the psychodynamic. If they promote marjuana, you freely consume it and realise their western materialistic brainwashings of greed and selfishness which allows them high consistent productivity in basic working labour.
Ask yourself, what is more immoral? Consuming a natural plant, or eating an innocent animal which only difference from yourself is you have a 'larger level of consciousness'. The media allows the consumption of animal meats, so your ego and super ego is free of restraint leading you to the Id compulsions to eat it. Do you all see the bigger picture?
If anything further to make you shift your subconscious judgements, the whole of psychoanalysis and base of current psychology and neurological science was by a man high on cocaine.
Now in the video you claim knowledge is nothing more than a delusional distraction, alongside sex or alcohol for example. Yet knowledge is the very reason I have figured this out. Through knowledge you can reach the blissful conscious free of external restraints. You seem like an intelligent individual, so isn't that a contradiction and hypocritical claim? You used your knowledge and higher level of both understanding and communication to reach your current mindset. Your advice, which most is incredible I must agree, falls flat in that argument. Such a way of thinking will cause a personal downfall mentally for the harsh reality we must realise. You could follow your advice and become a monk for example, with limited independent requirements for living, or follow the golden mean which I am pursuing in the western world.
The golden mean was introduced by the Philosopher Aristotle, through intellectual endeavour which represents a motivated thirst for knowledge, balanced with the control of ones emotions to reach this conscious bliss point between austerity (manner or attitude) and excess of materialistic and psychological needs. A 'genius' who is poor is psychologically better off than an 'idiot' who is rich. Wealth is in the mind.
We currently live through the five senses and the individual world around us, and due to the philosopher Aristotle's teachings we have built our western society around him. Your claims fit more inline with the philosopher Plato's abstract reality perception, which personally I agree with too to much extent, but we have not followed Plato's philosophies, we have followed Aristotle's.
So if you want to reach this bliss point in our western societies and live through the realities difficulties, we must follow the Golden mean. Detaching from reality is not what our western worlds are built upon unfortunately, we have gone down a different tangent, so the world will not fit in line with your beliefs. You will most likely end up on the streets if you cut off any motivations for advance in knowledge capabilities.
Learn as much knowledge as you can, always use your opportunities to read around philosophy and psychology to not be victim to your mind and the worlds corruption, with such insight find an effortless need for self control and selflessness but allowing stability.
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I feel so freaking lucky and grateful that I have seen this video at the age of 18... While you're talking I can't help thinking how many mistakes the awarness of this kind of things at my age can prevent in my life. Thank you!
This video fucked me up a bit, I don't know what to do at all now.
Dearest Leo, You are the best life instructor. I want to meet you in person and talk about a lot of things(mostly about life). I am so glad I found your videos. Every video you make is life-changing. I really do wonder if your life is almost perfect. Like you know how to deal with almost any situations, persons, and etc. I want to be like that too. Hope you all the best!
I want to be nobody. Valar Morghulis.
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This is a good one
Valar Doheirys
when u said ' u don't even need actualization, IRONICALLY' in that sentence I found my way clear to that completely just keep doing this work I appreciated
How old r y'all watching this? I'm 15 :))
Moa Forsén 17
im 30
I'm 15 as well
Life was suppose to be solely sub conscious..but the ego came. We will get there someday. Thanks Leo.
Why do I feel anxiety listening to you?
Slowely massaging through the personal (why's) of the parts that have created some reaction, will give you the most peace
He has a video: "Projecting into teachers\mentors" look that.
Is the ego fearing its death
Leo, every single word that you spoke here was magically meditative to me. It kinda reminded me of my own daily experiences.Thanks!😊
I gave up cable news cause it stands for never ending worthless shit lol
Outstanding no body ever tells you this because you don't like it and 99.99 percent of the world is the other way and this seems to be crazy but the fact is this is the truth, thanks Leo you are bold enough in presenting the Truth.
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4 [Dispassionate Mind] & 6 [Desire to be nobody] contradict the 9th [Worldly Benevolence]
Paradoxical af a lot of this
I thought that 4 and 6 were the wants of freedom. Identity and Dogma unconsciously restrict the freedom of your mind from change, growth, and improvement. Then take benevolence along with some lifetime goal and let that drive you while also being detached, free.
When looking at it this way I just don't see the contradiction. The situation is that these topics are so complex that black and white logic don't really work, something used in contradictions.
Paradox is the better term
or counter-intuitive maybe. I can not say whether or not. But I am guessing your conceptualized guess is not worth much either.
" Identity and Dogma unconsciously restrict the freedom of your mind from change, growth, and improvement" YES that is really the effect of it - word!
I have two questions for you to answer.
1. If money shouldn't be our ultimate goal so why are you shooting all these videos about how to become a millionaire and if sex shouldn't be our ultimate goal then why do you have a playlist like 20 videos about sex! and so on? you get the idea. Why are you helping us to achieve somethings that you say are not important.
2. What shall I do after watching this video? What shall I conclude? I concluded that finding any job that will help me get by (have a home and food and medication) is sufficient and I shall live the rest of my life doing nothing. Am I right?
Please excuse my bad English as it is not my first language.
Life comes in stages, if I am obsessed with sex and money then maybe I need to go down that road until I realize it's a dead end, then I can move on to something better having realized the truth.
The island example and the example of extreme lifestyle minimalism are not for your average materialistic westerner. This idea is terrifying to us in the same way rehab is terrifying to a drug addict. Deep down we just want to be fully aware in the moment.
Not sure if you noticed, but this is a self-development channel
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I very much agree with these 2 points. Leo also seems quite contradictory by opposing relationships, yet at the same time posting videos on how to attract a partner. Very confusing: so are relationships worthwhile or not? I am a Husband and Father, but also know at the same time, this doesn't and shouldn't solely define me, yet these relationships have grown me as a person in ways I could never have imagined (particularly the latter). Again I am reminded that Leo is nearly 15 ears younger than me and is not a parent, so yes, I have every right to counter certain ideas he comes up with, by which I am putting critical thinking into practice: a subject on which he has a video, by the way.
Also, he says we want to be nothing, have no material ambitions and basically live like monks, in which case why does Leo post videos about building businesses and making lots of money? Yes, I am aware of the paradoxical nature of life, but for someone at a major crossroads in their life, these contradictions do not really help.
David S I agree with all you said David. These contradictions are not helpful for you when you are at major crossroads in life. It is probably more helpful for those who are extremely social and don't take any rest or those who are generating tens of millions of dollars each year and don't take any rest.
And in my case, I used to be extremely introverted so living like a monk won't help me. I believe it is better for me to learn how to be more sociable and probably after that I will decrease my time spent on social life and do nothing like Leo said.
I honestly believe that Leo is so much on to something/everything with all his teachings, and ideas that I can't even imagine what the future holds for this guy (and me personally and all you other guys who follow Leo). But god damn... I don't want to stroke your ego, Leo, but (trying to be careful with my phrasing all through the message, obviously) stay on the path. You have more influence than you might imagine, man.
But who are you to tell?
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Get the hell out of our cult. We worship Leo
+MAXFLEX123 lol
Exactly!!!
+MAXFLEX123 Good luck
Leo you literally know me way better than I know my self, how can anyone dislike this
He's a little too 'preachy'. Honestly, I can hear the unhappiness in his voice. So he's telling others what to do. Tell yourself maybe??
yes, I am confused about this too. I love the content and I do not feel offended by his provocations, but I feel like too many people will get fight or flight response and shut their minds.
He has actually said more than once, that he really makes these videos for himself. So many people always tell him he should change, or do, say, act, speak, etc, differently. I love him just the way he is. His style of communicating resonates with me :)
This is my favorite video. I still watch it every couple of months.
wtf are you even saying in this video. dude, you might not realize but you're getting crazier by the day... you're pushing this enlightenment thing too far
He started to learn ab enlightenment because his ego fought it will make him a better person, and he started to awake he realized there is nothing more important than that. I know you will not understand what i say, but i left this comment for others who are willing to start on this journey too ;)
For me those things are not necessary. I already love my life. I see all this stuff as a bonus.
It sure would be nice to be even more fullfilled. I guess you can always be more fullfilled and there is no maximum.
Advice from me: Don´t overthink what leo is saying. Letting go is the way to go.
Have a wonderfull day everyone
Not waisted. Gotta go through this to want this. Motivation to open your self to this list one at a time starts with wanting the pain to be bearable. It’d be sooooooooo good to not carry all the crap and find magic everywhere every moment. This is my motivation? I will find what I really want cuz it’s for me to see. I have to learn different prospectives. Wonder what the tree will teach me? What can I teach the tree? Sweet.
Amazing, l would like to add that some people have yearned these things forever, sort of half asleep or seeing these things from the corner of your eye, until somebody puts into words , inspirational, brilliant, thank you so much Leo.
funny thing is ... every single thing you listed ... sounds so me. its like i really want these things and you put them into words so i now realize kind of everything i ever wanted. this is crazy... like, really, i need to get deeper into this! thank you. thank you so much!
I believe I was fortunate enough to experience Samadhi unintentionally. After 5 months of me being confused and basically pretending it had never happened (who do you talk to about this?) I found this video of you describing it perfectly (even the part about resisting it out of close mindedness). THANK YOU!
Leo I have intuitively felt all the things you discuss almost as long as I can remember. I have naturally come to want the 10 things on the list through time and regular meditation. I believe I could walk the path toward enlightenment if only it wasn't for work. I work too many hours but have no other choice as I have a family that I love to take care of and a house to pay off. Meditating and being kind to others doesn't pay the bills!! If only!!!
+Rowan Gillett How badly do you really want these things if you refuse to strategize and work towards them?
You don't really want it. You want your petty current life more. Which is why you have it.
+Actualized.org true.... for now
Thank you for your channel Leo. I've been listening to your recordings for approx 6 months now, they're on my phone and I listen to at least one most days. They're deep so like you say I've had to listen to each one many times over, and will have to come back to them many times again. I've got my meditation habit down, and I'm reaping the results, which has been a rocky ride so far. Raising your awareness certainly rakes all sorts of crap up, but it's all part of the journey. It's amazing how much stuff I've got going on in my unruly mind. But with knowledge of self I'll grow, and silence my monkey mind. Anyhoo, thanks again, and keep up the good work! It's much appreciated, Ste.
in essense, what we really want is not to find Truth, but become it. what Leo lays out here are all the small truths you must realize along your path before becoming absolute.
Watching this video I've caught myself saying "well I already know that" "I have some of those talents/ attributes etc." then I'll kinda stop myself and realize how much more humility I need to have or get it back in check. The difference I have made in being able to take a step back and ponder things a little more Or start to see things in a different light is incredible! I started watching these videos for now I know; an all together fucking pathetic reason but that was something that I didn't find. But what I did come across and learn is so much more fulfilling than I could have ever imagined! I have literally been STARVING for knowledge and insight and all these other little crazy things I've heard about ever since and I could not be more grateful. Being able to understand my mind has literally saved me. I seriously can't wait to see what else I can try to absorb
Great video Leo. I hadn't identified and put into words your list, but I know I am working through a few of those stages at present. I had a break down around december, and moved out of the house from my wife. I took this time to gather myself together. I also used psychedelics again as I hadn't done them for quite some time. This for me was a great awakening, it was also self counseling, and I became aware of my situation and relationships with people I had never had before.
I a still processing a lot of this stuff, and I am struggling to conform to societal pressures and others ideologies and unawareness.
I feel like I am becoming more balanced in my mind and emotions, and feel like I have surpassed my marriage, even though I do still care and love my wife very much.
Our society is geared towards making people always pay just to exist. You can't just camp somewhere indefintely as you will be moved on. If you own land you have to keep paying each year just to have it through rates. This locks everyone into needing to make money and participate i society. I find this hard as I don't want to do that, yet I need to eat, have shelter.
So I am constantly looking for a way to achieve my basic needs, without doing a stressful job that consumes my time. One way to do this is to realise you need a lot less than you think. This cuts down on costs, but also should make you question why you have the things you do have.
It is sad most people are not coping well with our current society, look at the rise in depression and anxiety. I think this is a direct reflection of our society failing people and their ability to participate in it.
I was watching the checkout people at the supermarket the other week, and I thought how miserable they looked. I thought what are these peoples potential if not having to work in this crappy jobs? Our society often forces people to work all week, and spend a lot of time traveling to work or for work. This makes people tired and worn out. Wearing people out is great for our society as it minimizes their chance of stopping to think and reflect.
So I think psychedelics are a great fast track if used properly to gain insight and allow deep reflection to find another way to obtain what you truly want.need.
90 days in county jail was the experience I needed to wake up. Sobering circumstances indeed. While I was locked up I began to see the counter intuitive nature of things play out and the resistance to the natural order of reality caused many of the inmates great discomfort and struggle. You truly to have let go with totality and place your faith in God’s ability to direct your steps.
To varying degrees I am and always have been in touch with these concepts. Still, modern society has done a good job of throwing me way off track. Thanks for helping me become more self aware
Very insightful as always Leo. For the six months i've been subbed I feel my life has very much improved and I've gained a lot of insight that I may otherwise have never gained if not stumbling on your channel and for that I thank you and the work you do.
I think this is your best video... I've slowly through the years kind of ended giving in to similar conclusions... yet its wisdom that can only be practiced instead of just thinking about it endlessly
Great vid. Keep in mind in order to succeed in anything in life you mustn't get tripped up on #6.. we need to have confidence to succeed and part of that skill is recognizing your strengths and believing in yourself.
For #10- if you perceive you're running around like a chicken w your head cut off then you will be. If you perceive your lifestyle as peaceful then it will be no matter what you're doing. #findit