Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[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, 2025 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, 2025 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, 2025 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, 2025 by Eskilon

[Staples]

Luxury is relative.

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

[PenguinPablo]

Leo you should have bought an iPod Classic instead

They are beautiful and timeless. Well-made obviously. 

Install Rockbox on it and it's now drag and drop just like an ordinary MP3 player. 

And obviously sound quality is far superior. 

 

Edited May 29, 2025 by PenguinPablo
Nevermind wtf. They are even more expensive now. The hype is getting crazy for the nostalgia.

[PenguinPablo]

6 hours 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.

Luxury is kinda understated and simple. When you over do it and get weird with it, it's kinda try hard. But I guess its subjective like art. Everyone has different tastes, or more developed potentially hence my judgements become projections. But yeah you can get lost in luxury game and possibly understand jack shit about anything substantive beyond the need to appear a certain "rich and fancy". That is so utterly shallow and tbh sad and depressing that people don't realize it. The ones that live like that. Like not realising that there is more to life. 

But luxury ain't all bad. A certain elegant, understated, simplicity can be classy. 

Edited May 29, 2025 by PenguinPablo

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1 hour ago, PenguinPablo said:

Luxury is kinda understated and simple. When you over do it and get weird with it, it's kinda try hard. But I guess its subjective like art. Everyone has different tastes, or more developed potentially hence my judgements become projections. But yeah you can get lost in luxury game and possibly understand jack shit about anything substantive beyond the need to appear a certain "rich and fancy". That is so utterly shallow and tbh sad and depressing that people don't realize it. The ones that live like that. Like not realising that there is more to life. 

But luxury ain't all bad. A certain elegant, understated, simplicity can be classy. 

Do you mean stylish, instead of luxury?

I only point this out as I am familiar with luxury meaning 'something that is not essential but provides pleasure and comfort'. Expensive or hard to obtain. Which leads into the point of the post, that the irrational consumerism of society leads to striving for excess, at the expense of all sense.

[PenguinPablo]

I mean something with both qualities. Style and luxury.

If you over do it, it reeks of insecurity and overcompensating.

But a fine balance that is well thought out--comes across more sophisticated and elegant. 

I think if your whole life becomes about acquiring luxury, you've lost the plot.

But a few carefully selected quality pieces can be nice. 

Or you can dress like a homeless person if that's more enlightened. 

I changed my mind. Luxury is fucking retarded. It is anti truth.

Edited May 29, 2025 by PenguinPablo
I changed my mind

[LoneWonderer]

I want to thank you again Leo for all the content being posted on the blog. It's super interesting, intellectually stimulating and thought provoking.

Thank you!

[Nemra]

7 minutes ago, LoneWonderer said:

I want to thank you again Leo for all the content being posted on the blog. It's super interesting, intellectually stimulating and thought provoking.

Thank you!

It is the golden age.

[Leo Gura]

@LoneWonderer My pleasure

[koops]

For me aesthetics, beauty, art and stye is different from luxury.

 

[Leo Gura]

You can dress well without luxury. I am not against dressing well.

Luxury isn't about utility or even aesthetics, it's about status.

Must I post this?:

 

Edited May 29, 2025 by Leo Gura

[Guest Nilsi]

16 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

You can dress well without luxury. I am not against dressing well.

Luxury isn't about utility or even aesthetics, it's about status.

Must I post this?:

 

Have you ever watched an haute couture show?

It’s not about status, signaling, or sales. It’s about art. Pure excess. It’s the surplus of creativity that spills over once all the perfume and leather goods have paid the bills. A brand name so overfull with mythic intensity that it can’t help but stage its own mythology - live, on the runway.

There’s an excellent documentary on John Galliano, who was creative director at Dior during the ’90s and 2000s. In my humble opinion, the greatest fashion designer of all time.

You can literally watch this on mute and still be mesmerized. The dresses alone are among the most beautiful things you’ll ever see. This is pure luxury. Decadence. Excess - for its own sake.

And by the way, that Valentino suit Christian Bale wears in American Psycho? Pristine. I don’t know what you’re smoking if you think you could find anything that beautiful outside the world of luxury.