Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Jannes]

13 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Speaking and reading are different things. I am not good at reading long text smoothly. But maybe I will learn.

Professional readers are exceptionally good at it.

I got an Audio Book from Peter Ralston and I could not listen to more then 30 minutes of it as I know Ralstons original voice and that just didnt seem right. 

Same with Alan Watts. 

It would be the same for your book I think. 

Edited 6 hours ago by Jannes

[Rafael Thundercat]

Answer to Leo IQ test with a wild animal a chair and a rope.

Play Death and Hopefully the animal will lost interest in Killing you, and in case he kills you,well,Now you are Infinity.

[Leo Gura]

28 minutes ago, ChadT said:

@Leo Gura I guess what I struggle with is, if I ( Chad ) die, merge with everything and cease to be,  It seems like that is basically the same thing as just disappering.  As Chad. Nothingness.  Or no thing.   Now, if I merge with everything and have some degree of awarenes of the process, than that would be different.  I guess I am not sure which you are saying.  Perhaps I am misunderstanding, or just not at a point where I can see it. 

Your entire line of reasoning assumes a self.

There just isn't one.

Edited 5 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Leo Gura]

22 minutes ago, Jannes said:

I got an Audio Book from Peter Ralston and I could not listen to more then 30 minutes of it as I know Ralstons original voice and that just didnt seem right. 

Same with Alan Watts. 

It would be the same for your book I think. 

Okay, good to know.

For people who know me it would feel weird. But for people who never watched my videos it would be fine.

Edited 5 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Natasha Tori Maru]

20 minutes ago, Jannes said:

I got an Audio Book from Peter Ralston and I could not listen to more then 30 minutes of it as I know Ralstons original voice and that just didnt seem right. 

Same with Alan Watts. 

It would be the same for your book I think. 

Really? His off-the-cuff speaking voice is whack as shit in terms of modulation. Sometimes he has a bit of word salad and lots of odd repeated phrasing. In addition, his general speaking tone can be VERY emotive. Aggressive, assertive, incredulous. I am all good with that tbh, doesn't stop me, as it reads like passion and conviction.

In contrast, his audiobooks (I have listened to them many times) are a lot calmer. Thoughts, word pacing and phrasing is a lot more coherent. I am able to focus on the book in a leaner way that enhances digestion. Often I will return and relisten many times. I really enjoy that the audiobook is narrated by Ralston himself. I do not mind the tonal/pace change at all. If it were narrated by anyone else I would not be so captured.

Different strokes ay? 

[ChadT]

But there is a self.  I think therefore I am.  Even if the self is an illusion, it's still an illusion then.  It seems to reason it has a purpose.  Even if it is god fooling itself into experiencing reality as the self.  I like the self.    

I'm really not trying to be argumentative.  I just struggle with this.  Sometimes I feel like I almost see it, but never can quite fully buy into it. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Just now, ChadT said:

Sometimes I feel like I almost see it, but never can quite fully buy into it. 

Maybe it is to see through it, rather than see it

[Leo Gura]

20 minutes ago, ChadT said:

But there is a self.  I think therefore I am. 

There is Consciousness, but there is no self.

Without a self you would just be Consciousness.

As a self you imagine that Consciousness belongs to you, is something you have which you can lose. Rather it is Consciousness that will lose you.

Without a self Consciousness is no longer yours, it just is.

Edited 5 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Joshe]

4 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Add to that the cosmology it is coming from.

Are you agreeing with me or suggesting the cosmology could justify it?

[Terell Kirby]

13 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Without a self Consciousness is no longer yours, it just is.

The illusion of my, me & mine.

What stands in its place is Nothing proper. 

[Loveeee]

Loving all the blog posts 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Beg for the gruel

[Joshe]

14 minutes ago, Loveeee said:

Loving all the blog posts 

😂 Textbook

[UnbornTao]

2 hours ago, Joshe said:

Are you agreeing with me or suggesting the cosmology could justify it?

Agreeing.