Leo Gura

There is no you. There is no observer. There is no witness. There is just the dream. You don't exist even within that dream. It's much more radical than solipsism. EVEN when you're in your house, it still doesn't exist. The entire dream is non-existent. Even when its right before your eyes. Because the substance of the dream is literally nothing. This dream we call "reality" has very consistent rules in certain local places. The counter-question for you is: why do you expect dreams to not be consistent? That's your problem right there. You're placing silly expectations upon metaphysics. Not only isn't there a world outside your perception. There isn't even a you who's perceiving! You're not thinking about this existentially enough. You're stuck in the naive realist paradigm. Do some DMT and you'll immediately see where you're wrong. Escaping the illusion is not easy. Your entire life is an absorption into this dream. So you're not likely to see it as a dream unless you make a massive effort.

How could it not disappear? If it didn't literally disappear, you couldn't go to work, because your consciousness would be populated by "your house". The reason you can't be both at your house and at work is because your consciousness needs to empty itself first. Like an LCD screen, it has a hard time displaying two images at the same time. This is not a matter for speculation or philosophy. You need to look at your direct experience. Blink your eyes right now and notice that your room disappears. That's what's literally true. Everything else is concept. Your mind fudges literal truth so that you can live in a cushy conceptual matrix. This work is all about stripping down the conceptual matrix to what is literally true. Don't conflate this with silly expectations of burglars not being able to enter your house. When you're switching paradigms, you have to recontextualize all your old facts about reality. Instead of thinking of reality as a solid physical thing, think of it as a collections of dreams or hallucinations. In a dream, a tiger can eat you, even though both the tiger and your body are imaginary. Reality is literally no different than a dream. It's just a bit more consistent, clear, and vibrant. There is no "substance" behind the dream. The dream is not taking place anywhere, like in your brain. There is no brain! There is no world. It's just pure dream afloat in nothingness. That's idealism for ya.

@love Consider a non-traditional, "alternative" position in medicine. Traditional medicine is pretty lame and low consciousness anyways. Make your own niche in life. You don't have to go with the herd off the cliff.

I've received emails and comments from people who are finding their life purpose at 60 and 70.

It's both, depending on your level of consciousness. The Divine Paradox is this: God is in all things, and yet God is not any of those things. Atman = Brahman. Form and formlessness are one. The Absolute is the sum total of everything relative. But practically, you need to learn to distinguish God (Nothingness, formlessness) from all the forms you see around you (Maya). Even though Maya and God are identical, a distinction can still be made between the Absolute and the Relative. Since you're already extremely familiar with the Relative, your work now is to connect with the Absolute. Once you accomplish that, then you can come back into the Relative to see that it's actually not separate from the Absolute. It's sorta like separating an egg yoke from the white, and then merging them back together into one whole egg. You can't appreciate the wholeness of the egg until you've experienced the yoke and white separately.

I do make outlines of points I want to cover I don't practice much I don't get any feedback from anyone other than you guys after you watch the videos. I don't have any general format for the videos other than the intro and outro. I would probably just not obey it or leave the country. Especially not for some stupid kind of war like Iraq or Veitnam. Those were political wars of pointless aggression. I act low-key. I'm not too chatty. I like to check YT comments or listen to music while I'm waiting in line. I am more comfortable and authentic with strangers than before. But I'm just not a naturally chatty guy unless I'm talking about something of substance. I don't like small-talk. Family hasn't really changed. I'm just more conscious of my own emotional reactions and trigger points. I'm not a fan of Russian authors. Overrated in my opinion. All the themes the cover are neurotic and pointless when one understands the possibilities of consciousness. Who wants to read about misery and depression? It's like punching yourself in the nuts. Ballerinas and classical music? Yeah, perhaps. But I'm not into that sort of thing. There ain't nothing special about Russian architecture. Most of it is clunky. I am a fan of art. Which doesn't mean all types of art, but the types I like, and I tend to be very picky. The purpose of art is to self-express, to entertain, and to impact people emotionally. Seen from the highest perspective, all art is just a glorification of the infinite beauty of creation (God). Ideally art helps raise peoples consciousness. At a workshop Both of course. I study 100s of sources, and then use that base of data to generate fresh insights. Most of the insights come spontaneously simply from filling my head with so much amazing and diverse raw data. The whole process is deeply intuitive. The best insights are not logical connections, but intuitive ones. They just pop out. The mind is an insight-generating machine if you just use it right. I don't plan much. I used to plan more, now I plan less so that I can enjoy work more, go on tangents, and let things be more organic and intuitive. I'm capable of planning. I used to do it a lot. But it's just so tedious and not fun for me. I doubt anyone would want me. And the audience there would generally be way too mainstream to receive that kind of message. I can't talk about absolute infinity in a 5 minute sound bite. No. But I never had that many of them to begin with. 1) 26, 29ish 2) It's an interesting substance. But also dangerous. Never do it alone. You must have a trip-sitter. You're free to live however you want. I'm not here to convince you to live my way. My way is my way. Not everyone will resonant with my way. My way is not the only way. If you've never awoken, it's hard to explain to you just how amazing it is. Everything else you've ever experienced in life is like 0.1% as great as awakening. I guess you'll never know what you're missing. But that's true of 99.999% of people on this planet. They lived without ever having lived. And they know even suspect that. I don't usually do interviews because my passion is communicating directly to people. Most interviews are very shallow, basically just PR stunts. That said, some interviews are enticing. Talking to Joe Rogan would be cool because we'd have a lot to talk about and the format would allow for depth. I'm not sure how Joe picks his guests. If you wanna suggest my name to Joe, that would be sweet. I would do it if he offered.

@Ilya The point of do nothing is expose awareness. Awareness is good in this case. If only you were really aware, you'd be aware that awareness is Nothing.

@Joseph Maynor Yup, that's the gist of the world's problem. Questioning oneself is the hardest work on earth. Which is why people come up with every excuse and distraction imaginable not to do it. The trick is to become more and more aware of how you trick yourself out of doing self-inquiry.

@abgespaced 1) Be ware of turning the art of mental-masturbation into your life purpose. A purpose needs to have an IMPACT statement component. We covered this in the course. What IMPACT are you planning to make on people/world? Generating ideas is not an impact. Eating cake is not an impact. Having sex with a hot girl/guy is not an impact. Taking notes is not an impact. Organizing your closet is not an impact. Reading a book is not an impact. 2) The domain of mastery is like the vehicle you most want to learn and use to make your impact. Like, if my impact is to kill people, my domain of mastery will be explosives, or firearms, or swordfighting, or nuclear physics, etc.

@Joseph Maynor Everything you've ever encountered in your life from age 0 to now, was not absolute. It was all infinitely far from absolute. Which is why it's all disappeared into the past. Even your ideas of "reality" disappear as soon as you turn on the TV and stop thinking about them. If something starts or stops, comes or goes, it is, by definition, not absolute.

@JustinS Hazzah! Now we know their Achilles heel! Ghosts love frozen grapes! Get some more grapes, set them out on your dining table, hide underneath the table with your vacuum cleaner and try to suck one of them in there. Post video on Youtube. Profit. Retire to the Bahamas to sip Pina Coladas on the beach.

I'm saying you could be a non-physical organism All that needs to happen is your memory is wiped, and you're instantiated into this reality. Right now you see yourself like a snake, but maybe you're an organism which is more like a hydra.

What? Why?

The point you're missing is: enlightenment is NOT an experience. It's prior to all experience. Your model of reality doesn't allow for such a thing to be possible -- because you're still operating under a naive realist paradigm without realizing it. Which is why you're confused. Imagine for a second actually becoming "the external world", not just experiencing it, but actually becoming it. And when you do, you realize, it is Nothing, and identical to the "internal world".

@Mert Nonduality and souls are not necessarily mutually exclusive. No more so than nonduality and bodies are. It isn't hard to conceive that a human organism is constructed not only out of physical matter, but the organism is rooted much more deeply into the fabric of reality, at levels which sit below physical reality, or "our universe", or our current life, such that even if our entire universe is annihilated, remnants of the organism you currently think of as yourself may remain in some more fundamental substrata of reality. Yes, everything is nondual, but that doesn't really say jack about how reality is specifically structured and how organisms work. The most advanced and hardcore mystics -- people who've spent 10,000-50,000 hours in meditation -- talk about past lives. Are they just being cute? Are they just deluded? That's a rather arrogant and dismissive stance to take, IMO. In my experience, when a person like that tells you something about reality, you should consider it very seriously, even if it first sounds stupid. Which is not to say you should believe them blindly.

@Principium Nexus Being and awareness boil down to the same thing. The screen is nothing. You are nothing. Everything is known by this nothing. Your job is realize that you are this nothing right now. Which of course means there is no you per se. There is no "who" which percieves this nothing. Nothing just is. Isness is awareness. This cannot be grasped prior to enlightenment. The grasping of this IS enlightenment. If you could grasp it, you'd already know it and wouldn't be here asking questions. Watch out for the this trap of trying to know before you know. You can't know ahead of time. You can't get a "sneak peak" using your mind. You're trying to cheat. Instead just accept that you don't know for now and patiently self-inquire.

@Hardik jain Best way to face any fear is to tackle it head-on. 10 day solo retreat in the woods. Or a Vipassana retreat. It will be painful at first, but massive growth will happen.

A good way to make sense of it is to consider how video games work: In a video game, like a first-person shooter, it seems like the player's view point converges on his eyes, but actually, the entire screen is rendered simultaneously. The avatar's eyes/body/brain in a video game is not responsible for what is seen on the screen, they are part of the screen. It's an illusion.

Totally different. They have almost nothing in common. Shadow work will not enlighten you. Shadow work is like therapy. It operates in the psychological domain, not the existential domain. @Extreme Z7 Good work! Keep it up. Don't get sloppy or complacent. You're just warming up

Good and bad are mental fabrications. But becoming conscious of the Truth will melt your heart. Everything that human beings call "bad" is really just various forms of selfishness. When you stop having a self, it will be harder to do "bad" stuff simply because your selfish impulses get de-fanged at high levels of consciousness. When you're deeply conscious, you have no need to act selfishly. And so others see you as a "saint". But really, you're just cognizant of reality, that's all. When you finally cognize Absolute Infinity, you'll be shocked at how loving it is. You'll drown in its love.

@Alxtrov You'll have to experiment and decide for yourself. Most meditation that's taught these days is not oriented towards enlightenment breakthrough. It's mostly taught for relaxation, etc. I think self-inquiry is the most direct way to enlightenment, short of 5-MeO-DMT. But meditation can be helpful in building your awareness and focus muscles. With meditation, you're not going to break through to enlightenment unless you do massive amounts of it. Like many thousands of hours, and mostly in 24/7 retreat-like settings. A 1-hour per day meditation habit is not going to enlighten you, unless you are super lucky. I suggest hardcore self-inquiry and also doing hardcore meditation retreats, if you really care about results here.

@Anirban657 No, I don't think so. The self hasn't been yet created at birth, so enlightenment is just not applicable. It takes a baby about 2.5 years to start recognizing itself in the mirror. Until then, it is effectively enlightened, but doesn't know it.

@Edvard Read The Book Of Not Knowing VERY carefully.

Yes I speak it. I don't know any other languages. Depends on how you define "junk food". Stuff like candy bars? Pizza? Burgers? Bread? Cakes? Soda? Fast food? No. I always had high maturity. It was there when I was 7 years old, etc. I always thought about adult topics, even at that age. I started existential questioning very early on, since my early teens. It wasn't about reading books. I was about contemplating how life works and why it works the way it works. That's actually a lot more effective than reading a bunch of books. I would call it a deep curiosity about the structure of reality. Genius? No. I don't think so. Some in-born intelligence and consciousness? Sure, probably. But it's still not easy for me to grow. Growth is always relative to your old self, so it's always a struggle no matter where you're at.

@Edvard No, you're still missing the point here.