Leo Gura

Yes, but over-rational people misunderstand that.

"Want" is a poetic word here. More accurately God just is. Is-ing and wanting boil down to the same thing. God is fully actualized at all times. What appears to you to be a process which takes time (people being born & dying) from God's POV has all happened in less than on trillionth of a second. Actually in zero time. Everything that will ever happen in the universe has already happened from God's POV. Infinity was fully actualized in zero time for eternity. But for a human to be a human, it must appear as though infinity is slowly unfolding. In truth it exists as folded & unfolded simultaneously because there isn't a difference between the two at the Absolute level. Think of a video game cartridge which already has all the possible gameplay sessions coded in it at once. In a sense, a video game is just an infinite possibility space. Every time you play it, it is different. But all the possible paths are already there baked into the cart. There's nothing you can do which will "surprise" the cart. In a sense, the cart "knows" all. You just have to tell it which paths you want to take. God is the entire cart AND all the individual gameplay sessions which can be played. The two are actually identical.

It's hard for the mind to understand or appreciate such an abstract point from the outset. You have to get deep into the work to appreciate that the snake will eat its own tail. The work is self-undermining, as any truthful teaching must be, because reality is groundless. So no teaching can actually become a solid ground. As soon as it does, it's a false teaching. I explained this long ago in my epistemology episodes. But hardly anyone takes those episodes seriously enough. The nature of reality is such that it cannot ever be pinned down. Anything you say it is, it also isn't, and it is also more than both. That is the nature of infinity.

The point of all of my pointers is that they will eventually undermine and devour themselves, like a snake eating its own tail. My goal is to take you on this amazing journey through your mind, for years, until one day you have an awakening so deep and so profound that you say: OH-MY-GOD! It's all NOTHING! Everything Leo was talking about was just a giant cosmic divine circle jerk which I created for myself in order to realize the fully glory of myself as God. OH-MY-GOD! But why was all this necessary? To show you the enormity of your own mind. Of course none of it is necessary. I just like exploring the mind. Don't think of my teachings as logical proofs. They are poetry and art. All we're doing here is celebrating the profundity of yourself as God.

Like I said, some ways of speaking about the Absolute are more "accurate" or "better" than others. This is a relative matter. It's a matter of fit between teacher and student. You might resonant more with the teachings of someone very different from me. I present things in a way which I feel is modern and appeals to ordinary folks on Youtube in the 21st century. Those detailed claims are still pointers. Like I could make very detailed claims about New York City to you, but none of them are the same as New York City itself. When you reach NYC itself, you'll see that my pointers were "correct" in many ways, but also not at all the same as NYC. Pointers are poetic devices which capture the essence of a thing. Try to describe the smell of a rose in words. You see the problem? Your words will never be it. But some words are better than others. If I wrote: "a rose smells like rotten fish" << that would be bad poetry. If I wrote: "a rose smells delicate and soft like a baby's bottom" << that's much closer There is no such thing as literal understanding. All understanding is poetic.

Like I said above, the mind will understand and speak of the Absolute in a thousand different ways depending on culture, era, brain type, personality type, past lives, genetics, language, etc. You must distinguish the Absolute itself from anything said about it. Anything said about it is always poetic, we might say. There is no one right or wrong type of poetry. Although some types are "higher" or more "truthful" than others. Not all poetry is equally good or equally effective at pointing out the Absolute. Which poetry you prefer will be relative to your mind, your ego, and your needs. If you are an atheist, poetry about God will not inspire you to discover the Absolute. You will prefer more scientific like maps and models. So when I speak of God, that turns a lot of atheistically-minded people off. But this cannot really be avoided since what they refuse to admit is God. And God is the most accurate word for it. Also keep in mind that there are many facets and degrees of depth to the Absolute. So not every awakened person has realized all the facets and degrees. So they may speak of one facet but not the other. This problem is called the 5 Blind Men And The Elephant (google it). Very, very few people have seen the entire elephant fully.

Every word that comes out of my mouth is mental scaffolding. But beyond that is Absolute Truth. It I cannot speak because I am it. No one can ever speak Absolute Truth, they can merely point to it. My teachings are "true" in the sense that they do a decent job of pointing you towards Absolute Truth. But they are not it. But also they are! That is the divine paradox. You should expect a strange loop here due to the self-reference problem. Since you ARE the Absolute Truth, you cannot think it or speak it. Absolute Truth is prior to thought or speech, yet it is also not separate from them. Because Absolute Truth is total ONENESS.

Why are you saying this? Have you not studied the hundreds of awakened one who accessed and spoke of the Absolute? I expect you to be beyond such unstudied objections.

It's not a thesis. It's Absolute Truth! See, the reason you have a hard time accepting this is because you still hold Truth as a mental thing. It isn't. If it's a mental thing, it isn't Absolute Truth. Once Truth stops being a mental/conceptual thing for you, once you BECOME THE TRUTH, there cannot be any more doubt, because doubt is a mental thing. Doubt is actually fear and delusion. God does not doubt itself. Other than via the devils it creates. It's the devil who doubts.

Haha. Of course! It cannot be otherwise. You must stop looking at the finger and look at the moon. You are still operating at the literally symoblic level, confusing map with the territory. The Tao that can be named is not the Eternal Tao. And yet we still call it the Tao and write books about it.

Absolute Truth is Absolute. So of course it's certain. The paradox of being totally openminded is that you will eventually reach a point where you 100% Absolutely Without-A-Single-Doubt understand Absolute Truth.

The two are deeply one. God gives you guidance if you ask for it and listen carefully to your highest thoughts and feelings. Your highest feelings are God speaking to you. Or rather it is you reconnecting with the Goodness of God. But also, suffering IS deep guidance. You may not like it but suffering shows you the way to God.

That is what I've said from the beginning. The Truth cannot be spoken. And yet I must speak it. I've spoken much in the past about the limitations of language & why Truth cannot be proven or symbolized.

That's exactly correct. The Truth happens to be farfetched. That's not a bug, that the key feature, LOL. Oh absolutely! See my 3 part series on Self-Deception. It's WAY worse than you can imagine. The self-deception is utterly total. Pretty much Without an ego you can't be born at all! Ego is literally the fantasy that you were ever born.

I am pointing you to amazing things you can discover for yourself. How will you discover them unless someone brings their possiblity to your attention with a story? It's like I'm an explorer in on Mars. I send you back stories of stuff I've discovered back to Earth and you are very skeptical. That's understandable, but my purpose is to get you excited to actually come visit Mars for yourself and see all the cool stuff that's here. If you never visit Mars, you will never understand its depth and beauty. I don't have a problem. You merely imagine I do.

Yes, it's extremely loaded. As all spiritual terminology is, precisely because the devil/ego deliberately corrupts it. See, the ego's whole modus operandi is to call falsehood truth and truth falsehood. It cannot survive without doing so.

The "I" you're referring to in that statement is ego. Ego can fabricate whatever it wants, but that's not Absolute Truth. However you think reality is, is how it will appear to you. Because you are imagining the whole thing. Also, you and I are one. So you and I both ARE the Truth. Truth is not something you "have". It's what you ARE. And it is the same for all people. But the mind will understand it and speak of it many different ways. It's also important to distinguish relative from absolute truth. You can "have" your relative truths which will be different for all people, but Absolute Truth is one. I will have videos in the future explaining the differences between absolute and relative truth, and what Truth really is. It's a complicated and nuanced topic.

It both is and isn't mine. Truth is what I am. Truth is the only thing that exists. See, the problem here is, you guys speak of "truth" but you don't actually have a direct consciousness of what "truth" is. You confuse it with conceptual constructions, ideas, models, and beliefs. Absolute Truth is none of that. And yet also all of that. Discover for yourselves. No degree of believing me will be Absolute Truth.

Not with that attitude. There can be no access to Truth without radical openmindedness. The things I talk about are extremely advanced. Do not make a mockery of these teachings with simplistic expectations. You mind will absolutely not be able to warp itself around the Truth. I've told you guys many times the importance and trickeries of epistemology. You don't know what you don't know. You don't know what you can or cannot know. Hence the wisest course of action would be remain radically open and tread carefully. Just because you disagree with the things I say does not make them false. There is also the possibility that your ability to discern truth from falsehood is corrupted by ego and lack of consciousness such that when you hear the highest truths they will sound preposterous to you. Precisely because that's what serves your survival and maintains your imaginary worldview.

@Truth Addict Hahaha! I've told you many times. Verify everything I say. The reason you're not understamding what I said is because you have not reached those levels of consciousness because you aren't doing the practices seriously enough and you are not studying the books seriously enough. It's just that simple. Stay openminded. Don't let the religious language fool you. You will eventually discover that Truth and the good life are identical. There will come a point in your growth when your understanding will be so deep you will sound like a madman to others. They will not be able to know how you know the things you know. And yet you will possess the highest Truth. And no one will understand you nor will you be able to explain yourself. And so it must be. Because by that point you will have done 10-20 years of work which no one else is willing to do. P.S. Watch your projections.

You cannot imagine, symbolize, or qualify the Absolute in any way whatsoever. So you might as well stop trying. It will never work and you will waste years of your life trying. At some point you have to ditch all metaphor, maps, and symbols because none of them are the Absolute. You must to the meditative practices.

It takes some practice before your videos will be release worthy. Make like 50 videos just for yourself. Just for practice and experimentation. So there is no pressure to publish them. Then you'll be much better. A writter doesn't release his first 50 pieces of writting, nor does an artist. It takes a lot of practice in any field to reach the point where your work is ready for public release. With making videos it's actually easier than with music, writting, or painting. Those all requires many years of practice to release anything decent.

That's definitely more challenging. At your age I would spend more time on awakening and spiritual practice. Of course you can work on some books and so forth, or start a community, but also your priorities should be different at your age. It's less about impacting the world and more about deepening your spiritual connection with yourself. Awakening is more satisfying than meeting any career objectives anyhow. You don't want to be filling the last quarter of your life with a busy work schedule at the cost of your spirituality.

@Gili Trawangan You've only seen the tip of the iceberg so far. What you're missing is that this field of consciousness which everything is, is infinitely intelligent. Everything you see is materialized by this pure intelligence via Will into being. "Physical reality" is actually occuring inside a giant Mind which "thinks" it into being. Like a dream. Start to deeply notice the intelligence of every little thing around you. Every particle of dust is filled with infinite intelligence. Once you start to notice it, it will take your breath away. You've just gotten to used to overlooking the intelligence of everything. Also, there is no how. The very mechanism of reality is before you on full display. Reality does not work via any mechanism. It is impossibly direct. The how is the what. What a thing is is exactly how it is coming into being. In nonduality there are no mechanisms because those are all dualistic. It's hard for people to appreciate how radical this is. It means, for example, that your sense organs are not actually causing your perceptions. Nonduality denies sense organs basically because all of that is mechanical, dualistic, and indirect. Nonduality breaks all scientific chains of causation. From a certain level of consciousness you will see that there is no causation at all. Everything is instant manifestion. As if the whole universe exists in suspended animation. It is Eternal and Absolute. Keep tripping and you will discover more of these facets of God. Awareness is nothing. Even to call it a witness is too much and incorrect. There is no witness. The witness is nothing. If you turn your gaze back in on itself and ask what it is, you can feel there's nothing there. That's your so-called "witness". Just zero.

@Pernani Don't follow instructions blindly like a robot. You must intuit the purpose and reason behind the technique. Then you will not need so much instruction as you will know what is the goal.