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How does it feel? Like an underlying sense of doom/anxiety that pervades your experience? If it's anything related to stress/cortisol levels, eating a refined carb like bread can quickly stabilize your mood, even if you don't have an appetite. It might seem odd that eating bread could help but that's how our body chemistry is sometimes. It's the same logic behind stress-eating, but don't turn it into an addiction ofc. You could also try showering or going for a walk. Both activities can have meditative effects.

He's not afraid to look egotistical. I think he doubles down on it on purpose. He sees "acting humble" as a façade. Is it egotistical for someone like Leo or Sadghuru to describe themselves as "awake" or "more conscious"? I don't think so. Such concepts and ideas are often used by the ego for self-grandiosity, but not always, and having the courage and authority to say those things as a matter of fact is not a bad practice IMO. It's also a test of true humbleness on your side to see if you are going to be put off by such statements and accuse them of lacking humility or realize that they genuinely do have more experience and knowledge to offer you. Admittedly, his post is very hyperbolic and exaggerated. For example, the part where he says "your whole life and everything out of your mouth has been a lie". Obviously, this isn't exactly true, but it's very eye-catching and dramatic. It would be a mistake to take this at face value since it's just hyperbole to catch your attention. He's just saying that to get his initial point across in a more emphatic way. That's it.

I do think there is a higher risk of instability when it comes to Leo's teaching style, but also, the direct nature of it really speeds up your spiritual progress, at least IME. That's the trade-off. In a sense, Leo has assimilated and personified the teaching style of a psychedelic. He's very direct with what he wants to teach you. He just assumes that you're grounded enough to hear it. He basically just tells you exactly what the psychedelic showed him. Someone like Sadghuru is not gonna do that. Sadghuru will tell you spiritual platitudes that are very palpable in an ordinary state of consciousness. There's no way in hell I was going to learn as much as I did from Sadghuru's videos compared to Leo's videos. Not to put shade on Sadghuru, he also has a great teaching style, and I assume the deeper work happens only in his ashrams. I think this point extends beyond Leo's post, though. This is about his entire teaching style as a whole now.

Is this post of Leo really the straw that breaks the camel's back and causes mental instability? Out of all of his teachings? Really? He called people out for "bullshitting" and being "stupid". This is verbiage you will find across most of the internet, and a lot of his videos as well. If what Leo said seriously destabilizes you mentally then you shouldn't be using online forums, like, at all. Such people are a minority to begin with, and they are seriously mentally unstable. They have much bigger problems to work on than making sure some guy on a forum doesn't use harsh words against them. Using softer language is not what is ultimately going to help or fix people in that state of mind. There is almost always a chance of your words making people offended, making them have an existential crisis, making them angry/emotional, etc. This is unavoidable unless you want to just stop communicating altogether. There comes a point where it becomes neurotic to play this card of "you might seriously mentally damage this person by saying this stuff", which you confirmed never really occurred as you reached out to the OP of the thread. There is definitely a line where language gets too confrontational and unproductive and aggressive. For example, if tomorrow the entirety of the forum were to start communicating the way Leo did indefinitely, I would definitely find that excessive. But, it's not entirely clear where that line is.

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This isn't really anything new from Leo in terms of his teachings. It's just spiced up with swear words. Reminds me of his "Mankind Is The Bullshitting Animal" episode.

Your past self doesn't exist anymore. Literally. You're worrying about ghosts. You are something that is constantly changing and evolving. The Buddha was sitting under a tree talking to his disciples when a man came and spat in his face. He wiped it off, and he asked the man, “What next? What do you want to say next?” The man was a little puzzled because he himself never expected that when you spit on somebody’s face, he will ask, “What next?” He had no such experience in his past. He had insulted people and they had become angry and they had reacted. Or if they were cowards and weaklings, they had smiled, trying to bribe the man. But Buddha was like neither, he was not angry nor in any way offended, nor in any way cowardly. But just matter-of-factly he said, “What next?” There was no reaction on his part. But Buddha’s disciples became angry, and they reacted. His closest disciple, Ananda, said, “This is too much. We cannot tolerate it. He has to be punished for it, otherwise everybody will start doing things like this!” Buddha said, “You keep silent. He has not offended me, but you are offending me. He is new, a stranger. He must have heard from people something about me, that this man is an atheist, a dangerous man who is throwing people off their track, a revolutionary, a corrupter. And he may have formed some idea, a notion of me. He has not spit on me, he has spit on his notion. He has spit on his idea of me because he does not know me at all, so how can he spit on me? “If you think on it deeply,” Buddha said, “he has spit on his own mind. I am not part of it, and I can see that this poor man must have something else to say because this is a way of saying something. Spitting is a way of saying something. There are moments when you feel that language is impotent: in deep love, in intense anger, in hate, in prayer. There are intense moments when language is impotent. Then you have to do something. When you are angry, intensely angry, you hit the person, you spit on him, you are saying something. I can understand him. He must have something more to say, that’s why I’m asking, “What next?” The man was even more puzzled! And Buddha said to his disciples, “I am more offended by you because you know me, and you have lived for years with me, and still you react.” Puzzled, confused, the man returned home. He could not sleep the whole night. When you see a Buddha, it is difficult, impossible to sleep anymore the way you used to sleep before. Again and again he was haunted by the experience. He could not explain it to himself, what had happened. He was trembling all over, sweating and soaking the sheets. He had never come across such a man; the Buddha had shattered his whole mind and his whole pattern, his whole past. The next morning he went back. He threw himself at Buddha’s feet. Buddha asked him again, “What next? This, too, is a way of saying something that cannot be said in language. When you come and touch my feet, you are saying something that cannot be said ordinarily, for which all words are too narrow; it cannot be contained in them.” Buddha said, “Look, Ananda, this man is again here, he is saying something. This man is a man of deep emotions.” The man looked at Buddha and said, “Forgive me for what I did yesterday.” Buddha said, “Forgive? But I am not the same man to whom you did it. The Ganges goes on flowing, it is never the same Ganges again. Every man is a river. The man you spit upon is no longer here. I look just like him, but I am not the same, much has happened in these twenty-four hours! The river has flowed so much. So I cannot forgive you because I have no grudge against you. “And you also are new. I can see you are not the same man who came yesterday because that man was angry and he spit, whereas you are bowing at my feet, touching my feet. How can you be the same man? You are not the same man, so let us forget about it. Those two people, the man who spit and the man on whom he spit, both are no more. Come closer. Let us talk of something else.”

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From what I can see, he decided to take a more extravagant and flamboyant approach by ranting about his take on certain Buddhist philosophies. Yeah, there are harsh words directed at people. but I can see what intention he had behind them, so it doesn't register in my mind as something to be bothered by. The crowbar comment, for example, was referencing a joke about "killing the Buddha on the road with a crowbar". With that context, I don't see it as that big of an issue. I see it as very playful. It's not like he brought up the idea of beating up people with a crowbar completely unsolicited. I don't think he was enraged as you guys might interpret it. I see it as a passionate and hyperbolic on-the-spot rant. But, I might be speaking for myself since I've never really found Leo's teaching style to be "too harsh" as other people have described it. As for whether it's a good way to teach spirituality or not, I don't know. Clearly most people didn't take it well. But, it doesn't seem he cares about appealing to most people anyways.

I didn't say it made it better or worse. You made an objective point out of it so I thought it would make sense to add a correction.

It was towards the forum and people on the thread in general, not just the OP.

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You feel resistance (depression and loneliness) because your thoughts aren't aligned with what's true. What feels resistance, other than ego? Put your feelings and emotions first, and just let go. Just like you would immediately let go of your hand when touching a hot stove since it feels painful. Your emotions and feelings have that type of intelligence to them. Right now, your ego is resisting and ignoring that intelligence. It doesn't want to let go because it wants to fulfill the guise of being "right" or "correct", even though it clearly isn't. If it were in a state of truthfulness, there wouldn't be so much resistance. Notice that you can put yourself in a more peaceful state of mind by imagining "others", and that this state is true for as long as you imagine it. And there's nothing inherently wrong with entering a certain state of consciousness which includes "others". Your ego pulls you away from this state because again, it's playing the game of being "right". If you want, you can contemplate why it feels better to have "others" vs not having "others", and then go from there. The big trap that the ego creates here is that it puts the phenomenon of "others" on a hierarchy, where it says that "others" are "untrue" or "invalid" or "wrong" compared to the rest of existence.

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You're doing it all the time, subconsciously or consciously. How do you know your house won't collapse tomorrow? How do you know you won't be affected by an earthquake? How do you know a robber wont break into your house? How do you know you won't get struck by lightning when you go outside while it's raining? How do you know you wont wake up tomorrow and suddenly find that you've transformed into a cockroach? You don't plan for these situations, even though you don't know about them. You don't know these things, but you trust or assume these things will not happen, because you intuitively understand that having to know everything first before trusting the universe is an unwinnable and unsustainable game. These are all probably subconscious trusts or assumptions you've made. Although, here is the key insight here. If you truly want to practice not-knowing, you should realize that you actually don't know if you should or shouldn't trust something. You don't know if you should or should not be scared of something. But, you default to being fearful and lacking trust, because your ego is exhibiting a bias towards survival, so those mechanisms are kicking in by default. You've already created an expectation when evaluating things you don't know, which is that you should not trust anything until you've fully understood it. Really, if you practice true not-knowing, you shouldn't even engage in this judgement of what to trust and not to trust, since you realize that you don't know if you should do that. You don't have any other choice. The trust comes when you realize you have no choice other than to ultimately just trust the universe. The trust doesn't come because you're expecting the universe to make things to go your way. The "trust" in this scenario is literally just surrendering and assimilating yourself with what is already true. What creates "resistance" or "lack of trust" is when you set an expectation which says "I need to know the future" or "I need to know exactly what will happen" or "I need to know exactly how things are". Obviously, these expectations don't coincide with the inherently infinite and mystical nature of the universe, and so you're stuck in resistance. It's an unwinnable game you create for yourself. And when you realize it's unwinnable, that's usually where the acceptance and trust kicks in, because you realize that you're just resisting to no avail.

How do you know that you should feel overwhelmed? How do you know you shouldn't feel overwhelmed? Maybe you don't need to know in order to decide what to do. Maybe you should build confidence in deciding without knowing. Maybe that's an actual skill that can be built. There's always an inescapable trust you have to put into the universe. Trying to forgo this trust creates a lot of resistance, as it isn't aligned with what is true, which is the fact that you don't know. Allowing yourself to trust creates peace, as it aligns you with what is true, which is the fact that you don't know.

I did wonder whether Leo's passion for video games still exists and to what degree

If you saw these coincidences during a dream, how would you interpret it? < This perspective cuts away at the hyper-logical interpretation and makes you see it more intuitively. I'm just used to it at this point. Sometimes I have phases where I get lots number synchronicities, like seeing the same numbers everywhere. These type of synchronicities come and go in phases, IME. Aside from that, I'm constantly bombarded with coincidences. For example, some person I was thinking of yesterday will show up tomorrow. Or, I'll be thinking of some scenario and it will exactly appear right in front of me the next moment, as if I just predicted the future. There's a channel on Youtube dedicated to machine elves that talks about how machine elves are related to number synchronicities, and that the "angels" in relation to "angel numbers" are probably just machine elves, which is interesting:

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Lol I know exactly which image this generation is based on

Sadghuru claims he does it and has his own lifestyle and foods that he recommends for it