Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[CARDOZZO]

20 hours ago, LoneWonderer said:

 

Conformity of the Thinkpad cult! Btw love them old Thinkpads used to rock the t440p during my study days.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Carbon X1 reporting in (the conformity shame)

Tax write-off and got it on an end-of-life discount due to next gen lineup coming out  

Gotta admit, I am a grubby bitch. The black matt really leaves evidence of my greasy little digits... 

Edited Tuesday at 01:11 AM by Natasha Tori Maru

[Leo Gura]

7 hours ago, lostingenosmaze said:

And it got taken down before I was able to watch it, OF COURSE 😩

Early bird gets the worm.

Haha!

But it is proper that Feynman's estate had that video taken down. It is an abuse of his voice. But the content was gold. Oddly conflicting.

1 hour ago, Rafael Thundercat said:

@Leo Gura in a nutshell what would be the main goal or purpouse your book aim to achieve to the ones who read it?

To explain how your mind constructed all of Reality.

Edited Tuesday at 02:03 AM by Leo Gura

[Butters]

6 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

To explain how your mind constructed all of Reality.

Can you explain frequencies? To what extend can reality be bent to our will through beliefs? If there is a limit, why? 

[Leo Gura]

3 hours ago, Butters said:

Can you explain frequencies?

I don't think in those terms.

3 hours ago, Butters said:

To what extend can reality be bent to our will through beliefs? If there is a limit, why? 

Reality does not bend to beliefs, you'd need to turn those beliefs into actions and those actions can bend reality. How far it will bend is never known ahead of time because it all depends on the actions you take and how much and in which ways you want to bend it. But you are always limited by others who can bend reality in opposite directions.

You can try to start WW3 but others will stop you.

[Butters]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

I don't think in those terms.

Just to clarify what I mean by 'frequencies'. For example: when I am in a state of gratitude (open heart) I attract such beautiful things to me effortlessly, it feels magical. You've talked about how diet influences how you do science for example. That's kind of what I meant. 

Awareness would be another word. 

Will the book touch on that? 

You can entirely reshape your reality when at a sufficient level of awareness? 

Or is a better term not bending reality but re-contextualization? 

Edited Tuesday at 01:02 PM by Butters

[Leo Gura]

45 minutes ago, Butters said:

Will the book touch on that? 

No

45 minutes ago, Butters said:

You can entirely reshape your reality when at a sufficient level of awareness? 

No

[Rafael Thundercat]

10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I don't think in those terms.

Reality does not bend to beliefs, you'd need to turn those beliefs into actions and those actions can bend reality. How far it will bend is never known ahead of time because it all depends on the actions you take and how much and in which ways you want to bend it. But you are always limited by others who can bend reality in opposite directions.

You can try to start WW3 but others will stop you.

Sometimes is Reality that will bend us in ways that we could not expect. I just think about the Absurd that we are going through in the world now. 

[How to be wise]

I'm surprised that Leo thinks he's still a public figure. He went down a long time ago.

[Leo Gura]

@How to be wise If I see you trolling me again with your negativity, you will be banned.

[CARDOZZO]

1 hour ago, How to be wise said:

I'm surprised that Leo thinks he's still a public figure. He went down a long time ago.

This guy, I can't 😭😂

[Eskilon]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/it-was-all-just-a-dream

This is so true. Humans cling to stakes and meaning so fucking much. They want a narrative, legacy, position. They can`t live without it. People want stuff to matter like crazy, cant handle things being a dream. 

Edited 13 hours ago by Eskilon

[Butters]

I have several more questions. 

First of all, where did the cosmic horror post go? Because there you said something like humans being less important than certain bacteria, but earlier you made humans feel special by saying we are more conscious than animals, aka closer to God. 

I forgot my other questions now. 

[Yimpa]

6 minutes ago, Butters said:

First of all, where did the cosmic horror post go?

https://www.actualized.org/insights/cosmic-horror

https://www.actualized.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/cosmic-horror-01-1.png

[Joseph Maynor]

Regarding the reactivity blog post.  I feel like nonreactivity is a great ideal, but we all react.  Pay attention and honor your reactivity.  But yes, reactivity allows others to get under your skin and a have a certain power over you.  This is a nuanced topic that I've never seen anyone really deal with adequately.  

[Butters]

1 hour ago, Yimpa said:

https://www.actualized.org/insights/cosmic-horror

https://www.actualized.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/cosmic-horror-01-1.png

The website is soooo slow these days this doesn't even load for me 🤦

[Yimpa]

16 minutes ago, Butters said:

The website is soooo slow these days this doesn't even load for me 🤦

I have a reference for you about this as well:

 

[Nick_98]

Regarding the post about reactivity.

Some days ago someone treated me with a really disrespectful way. I sat with myself I observed my mind getting really in a hurdle. I was emotionally damaged I felt it got under my skin. Then I realised something.

i had the choice to react to that person, but i chose not to. I could have told them “ what you did was really disrespectful” wouldn’t I have been in a better state ? Rather than staying silence and eating my reactivity up. 
 

i realised something, your reaction determines your trip !! If you react to that person immediately you become cursed with a snow ball of more reactions and proving yourself that you are more right than them. That in some cases like we see in crimes ends with Violence. 
 

What Leo teaches is what sages can do, not a chimp! Not a mediocre human. 
 

I as well have eaten a lot of bad reactions up and didn’t react to them, not because I can’t but because I didn’t want to feed into the snowball effect.

i’m still thinking critically and haven’t decided entirely. Should one react ? Or not? 
reaction sometimes show that you self respect yourself which guides your trip into a better realm than if you stayed silent . Staying silent and eating negativity up can damage your psychological well being.

i came to a conclusion , it’s a lose lose situation. But sometimes non reactivity wins. “Sometimes”

you either feed yourself into the snowball of reactivity and react or stay silent and eat shit up but that will damage your psychological well being.

think with me , is it better to react or not ?

Also one thing more for you Leo, a lot of reason you’re getting a lot of crap is because you are an online figure. Most of the people that tempt you on this forum do so because they can get away with it without having to face your face. And because online figures are not respected the same way a human you see in real life. You respect people a lot more when you see them in person, not through a screen. 
 

try to organise a meeting with someone on the forum that has criticised you dreadfully. You will see immediately that in real life they are way more tolerable, and after they see you they will immediately have more respect to you. At least this was my experience. Social media and Internet is a crap place and it ‘s very hard to find a decent human. 
 

i have been into discord and after I got into the channel someone immediately said “ get the fuck off” , the funny part is I don’t remember anything to instigate them to react that way. But it hurted me , be aware of internet Leo. It’s a crap place.

Edited 7 hours ago by Nick_98

[Natasha Tori Maru]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/lessons-from-being-a-public-figure

I think my own insights around reactivity do not nullify our internal reactions (ie thoughts/feelings). 

I react to criticism 'That is a nasty thing to say' 'This contains a provocatory attack on character, rather than addressing the point' 'This is a highly negative person'. I react with a thought assessment; I do not have a great emotional reaction unless I have some personal connection to the individual. Without a strong emotional reaction, I have space between my own thought and action because there is no judging response; merely a discernment 'This person is not for me' 'That is nasty'. I still feel emotions; but they do not grip me and have me by the throat. I am not compelled to act from this emotional space. Having this space between the thought and the action not being occupied with highly charged emotion/feeling is the key. 

It is possible to cultivate this sort of stoicism. Some people have this innately; for others it can be a learned trait when we stop tying our sense of identity to our thoughts, physicality or externality. 

I used to be highly reactive. Physically and emotionally. 

I worked on my identity attachments to bring out more authentic emotional and feeling expression without being so swept up in the experience. Prior to this I had less feeling/emotional discernment; I would become so charged up my emotions felt like a big soup. I wasn't able to bring nuance to a particular feeling. I would simply have a huge reaction 'charge' with little clarity. Anger was my most commonly felt emotion/feeling - but it was mostly a mask for other, more nuanced internal reactions, which were far more subtle. You want to reach a state where you can feel these subtle shifts.

Everyone's experience with their emotions/feelings and reactivity will be different. Nature / nurture have their own parts to play.

In the end, it is about changing our relationship to emotion/feeling. Spirituality did this for me, as a by-product.

Edited 7 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Nick_98]

52 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

I worked on my identity attachments to bring out more authentic emotional and feeling expression without being so swept up in the experience. Prior to this I had less feeling/emotional discernment; I would become so charged up my emotions felt like a big soup. I wasn't able to bring nuance to a particular feeling. I would simply have a huge reaction 'charge' with little clarity. Anger was my most commonly felt emotion/feeling - but it was mostly a mask for other, more nuanced internal reactions, which were far more subtle. You want to reach a state where you can feel these subtle shifts.

 

Hello Natasha, 

Thanks for your insights, this has brought some clarity to my own experience as well. Before when I was really young I used to be really reactive but then I grew up and brought distance between my emotions and my actions. 

When I was a child I used to fight with my brother a lot , like we were in a wrestling match, Because we were angry at each other. But the more I grow the less reactive i become. 

I want to invite you to think with me about something I want to develop in myself. I still feel I can't properly label my emotions with word. i struggle to find the labels for what i'm feeling , do you face that issue ? 

For example I ask myself , what am I feeling right now? I look and there is just this dispositions of thoughts/feelings but I can't find any words for them, I can't properly find a word to describe what this emotion is. 

About months/year ago Leo posted on their blog about Identifying your own emotions, and a list of emotions you can read through wikipedia. I still don't know what was their intention back then, because I read all of them and still I struggled to identify what I'm feeling. or I can't find words for what I'm feeling. It's probably that I'm not feeling the same range of emotions that every person on earth experience , because we are all different right? 

So My question for you is how did you develop this feeling/emotional discernment, what kind of nuances did you find ? Can you Label them ? And how did you reach a state where you have felt these subtle shifts? 

Also I want to say , like their are some emotions that I experience very rarely. For example being sad. In my adulthood I do not remember one moment where I teared up! in contrast, I sometimes for example feel angry, sometimes joy sometimes jealousy. But it oscillates between these feelings , it doesn't go further than that. Even tho the realm of emotions is huge , i don't get to experience all of it in my life. Like I said , I get sad very very rarely I don't get to eat from the cake of sadness the same way I eat from the cake of jealousy and anger. 

Edited 7 hours ago by Nick_98