Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Extreme Z7]

@Leo Gura Ah I see now. You were talking of their major criminal activity from the past. I was talking their more recent activity.

In Afghanistan, the Tates should run rape competitions. Rape or be raped. Wonder who'd win a rape duel between the two of them.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Holy fucken shitballs at the nuclear testing post. Makes me SICK regarding the animals. I didn't know about the animals... just the testing.

No wonder the aliens are not coming to say hello to us

Reminds me of Laika the first dog in space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika

She cooked alive on the 4th day in space, I believe. I just think of her alone. Dying... 

Man I CANT EVEN. RAGE INDUCING. 

[aurum]

Why does testing nukes require melting animal eyeballs?

 

[Leo Gura]

53 minutes ago, aurum said:

Why does testing nukes require melting animal eyeballs?

They need to know how far away humans can safely look at the blast.

[JosephKnecht]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

They need to know how far away humans can safely look at the blast.

It's an ongoing experiment.

Is he too close or too far? 

Edited May 28 by JosephKnecht

[RickyFitts]

4 hours ago, JosephKnecht said:

It's an ongoing experiment.

Is he too close or too far? 

Way too far, I'd have him about 93 million miles closer.

[Adrian colby]

I can’t get this through to people…..

the spiritual work caused an expansion of the heart and this one couldn’t contain that love. It wasn’t projected outward. It was sent back in on itself which healed it and opened it to generate and overflow. 
 

in the little human form, that mind wanted to expand that love to encompass everything and express in its own limited way. 
 

it wasn’t projected outward called everything from :cheat, pervert, greedy, sick

it wasn’t romantic, it was about healing. Loving genuinely enough to care, to step that little bit closer to unconditionality. 
 

not to possess or need or want but to just be there to love. 
 

the pain of the resistance and rejection everywhere is almost too much. Almost convincing to shut the heart down again. But beauty is everywhere and expressing joy in its presence is what the universe is doing through me, to know itself. 
I guess it doesn’t matter how blind its other eyes are. It doesn’t just love itself, it is love itself anyway. 
🥲

[Jayson G]

@Leo Gura Regarding your post on luxury, is that a generalization that luxury is a trap? 

For ex., I'm not in pursuit of "endless luxury" in the way some rich person is constantly after stuff, etc. I value more higher conscious things above that. I envision living in a normal cabin type house, by the beach, nothing fancy really, but Im sort of applying that practice you mentioned in a video about investing deeply in your space and house, and the joy you get from that, and like setting up an archery space, your own library room, getting into the fine details of building your house the way you'd like, etc. In a sense the pursuit is for creating a space optimal for inner growth, but also for living a good life. Is that so bad if its in pursuit of higher ideals but that incorporates some degree of luxury? 

Or does any bit of luxury deeply delude you, or any partial pursuit to create an aesthetically pleasing environment for oneself, and that you should aim to remove all luxury from your life lol .. Im mainly just trying to understand your thoughts better. 

Edited May 28 by Jayson G

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Jayson G said:

Is that so bad if its in pursuit of higher ideals but that incorporates some degree of luxury? 

That is fine.

That is not what I mean by luxury.

Building up your nest is good.

There are objects of convenience like an MP3 player, which is fine. Then there are objects of luxury, like some fancy diamond watch or a $3000 bottle of wine.

I know a lady who installed glass toilets in her fancy house. Shit like that is what I mean.

Edited May 29 by Leo Gura

[Jayson G]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

That is fine.

That is not what I mean by luxury.

Building up your nest is good.

There are objects of convience like an MP3 player, which is fine. Then there are objects of luxury, like some fancy diamond watch or a $3000 bottle of wine.

I know a lady who installed glass toilets in her fancy house. Shit like that is what I mean.

@Leo Gura Well if we take that lady for example, what that says to me about her psychology is that shes highly emotionalized by that lifestyle. 

But also you mention objects of luxury, like does having any object of luxury create some sort of deep delusion in your mind? For ex. say you're mostly living a normal life, but you have an Audi S5 sports car. 

If most of your life is grounded in high conscious principles but you still own such a car does that fall into the category of what you're saying? 

I guess Im wonder is if any objects of luxury at all create some form of deep delusion or is it the overall emotionalized pursuit of objects of luxury in general. 

Edited May 29 by Jayson G

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

I know a lady who installed glass toilets in her fancy house. Shit like that is what I mean.

My god it better be frosted glass, who would want to see their turds from all angles?

[Jayson G]

1 minute ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

My god it better be frosted glass, who would want to see their turds from all angles?

@Natasha Tori Maru its probably like a fish aquarium in her mind .. her very own turd aquarium.

Why even flush the toilet at that point?

[Leo Gura]

5 minutes ago, Jayson G said:

having any object of luxury create some sort of deep delusion in your mind?

One object is not the issue.

The issue is people who make their life about pursuit of luxury.

This does not apply to you, so don't worry about it.

Edited May 29 by Leo Gura

[Jayson G]

@Leo Gura Gotchya .. I guess I asked all that because I know you're able to access certain insights with the mind and tools you have that many of us don't have access to, that could flip my entire way of living inside out lol 

I'll try my best not to project my fears. I tried to frame it in a way where I'm focusing on the philosophical aspect, and which I am, but the fears do come through sometimes. I'll work on that. 

[Extreme Z7]

23 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

One object is not the issue.

The issue is people who make their life about pursuit of luxury.

This does not apply to you, so don't worry about it.

I've actually become close online friends with one of those kinds of people. Don't ask me how.
Yeah, centi-millionaire, 100 million plus net worth. . . they're not even in their 30s yet.
(Again, don't ask me how I'm friends with them. That's classified.)

But anyway, they told me earlier this year they were going to make it their life's goal to create as much Generational Wealth as they could.
I didn't say anything at first but eventually I "scolded" them for being a blatantly-extreme Nepotist.
They were resistant for a while, but they actually took the time to think about it more and seems to have made an effort to change their ways.

They're a good person, they're kind and well-meaning, but DAMN. . . that incident showed me just how immense wealth can make any person incredibly delusional. I'm sure a lot of ultra-rich people are cruel scumbags, but some of them might just be woe-fully naive and ignorant despite their good intentions.
 

Edited May 29 by Extreme Z7

[Leo Gura]

27 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

My god it better be frosted glass, who would want to see their turds from all angles?

Luxury is often impractical.

Case in point.

When you are installing glass toilets, that's when you know your life is hollow.

Edited May 29 by Leo Gura

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Just now, Leo Gura said:

Luxury is often impractical.

Case in point.

* nodding*

I think a process of appreciation & gratitude is an asset for cases such as glass toilet bowl lady. 

If she appreciated what she has, she may not be locked in wonton & ostentatious consumerism!

[Extreme Z7]

26 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Luxury is often impractical.

Case in point.

When you are installing glass toilets, that's when you know your life is hollow.

Eh, I think it's most people's lives that are hollow. Luxury just makes it more obvious.

[Eskilon]

The biggest realization of Luxury as a self-deception was Buddha's luxury life .

One important aspect of luxury, is that it often comes with socialization and involvement with a collective. People want to show to others that they have luxury. They are needy as fuck, desperate for attention.

If we evolve enough as a species, we will laugh as how could someone care so much about luxury and such things, when the real pleasure is within.

Edited May 29 by Eskilon

[Staples]

Luxury is relative.

From a Tiger's POV, buying meat at a supermarket is the ultimate laziness.