Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[JTL]

okey, thank you. Does free will still exist, regardless of this or just another part of the hallucination?

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, JTL said:

okey, thank you. Does free will still exist, regardless of this or just another part of the hallucination?

Explained in my video: Does Free Will Exist?

[vibv]

4 hours ago, JTL said:

okey, thank you. Does free will still exist, regardless of this or just another part of the hallucination?

The Divine Will is all that exists. Your will is not different from it.

[ZenSwift]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-importance-of-recognition

This is a great pointer, Thankyou. 

[Rafael Thundercat]

@Leo Gura concerning the topic of the train in India where unconscious people brush the trash out of the train. May we remember as well the historical sytemic reasons why this happens. Is not like a whole bunch of people just woke up and decided they would not give a fuck for environment. Even the Train didnt got there by accident. If we forget the force of colonialism into these countries we are forgeting a lot. 

[Leo Gura]

@Rafael Thundercat It has nothing to do with colonialism.

[Lyubov]

@Leo Gura

I read your blog on recognition. I like this one because it seems to share a lot of similarities with a deep insight I had the other day.

Basically I looked at my life, there are some areas I still see as not in Wu Wei flow and oneness, inauthentic, me choosing the carousel, relationship needing work and communication issues. 

Why? I have had many awakenings. Why does that not make everything just flow?  

I have been told the entire teaching. I essentially have the entire teaching that I need for this stage in my life, I know it by heart. If there is nothing wrong with the teaching what does that mean? Where am I going wrong? I’m circle around the same beliefs, the same self inquiry questions. 

I watched a video by a Taoist monk. His answer somewhat touched on the recognition blog. Basically we need to so deeply deeply deeply understand until all fear giveaways to this intuitive knowing and clear sense of being and flow. 

The monk illustrated this using a sailor who rowed perfectly as if he was unbothered. Someone on his boat asked him how and he answered “first you need to learn to swim, then you can learn to row as if you are standing on dry land.” 

Basically the understanding has to be so deep that you continually recognize truth. You become so comfortable living in the unknown. 

Maybe I went in a different direction than the original blog post but something about it clicked with my insight the other day. 
 

 

Edited yesterday at 07:05 PM by Lyubov

[Joshe]

16 minutes ago, Lyubov said:

Basically I looked at my life, there are some areas I still see as not in Wu Wei flow and oneness, inauthentic, me choosing the carousel, relationship needing work and communication issues. 

Why? I have had many awakenings. Why does that not make everything just flow?  

“Awakenings” or insights don’t magically reprogram the brain’s behavioral patterns. For that, you’d need to start a much more difficult project than spirituality. Maybe this new project is enabled by your spiritual accomplishments. What if the point of spirituality is to gain access to the depths of your mind such that you actually can, with intense effort, become whatever you desire. Maybe this is the point of spirituality. 

Edited yesterday at 07:19 PM by Joshe

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Lyubov said:

If there is nothing wrong with the teaching what does that mean? Where am I going wrong?

You're not going wrong per se. You just lack state of consciousness. So then the work becomes about just raising your state of consciousness through hardcore practice.

What gurus don't explain well enough is just how hardcore the practice needs to be for state of consciousness to change significantly.

Your practice is too weak, too distracted.

[gengar]

11 hours ago, Rafael Thundercat said:

@Leo Gura concerning the topic of the train in India where unconscious people brush the trash out of the train. May we remember as well the historical sytemic reasons why this happens. Is not like a whole bunch of people just woke up and decided they would not give a fuck for environment. Even the Train didnt got there by accident. If we forget the force of colonialism into these countries we are forgeting a lot. 

Almost everything you say is always through the lens of neo-marxist thought, causing a very narrow view of the world where the white man is always to blame. Free yourself of theses shackles and let truth be the arbiter. Not that there isn't a lot of truth in the framework, and white supremacy is one of the biggest societal forces of today. but it is surely not everything.

[Lyubov]

10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

You're not going wrong per se. You just lack state of consciousness. So then the work becomes about just raising your state of consciousness through hardcore practice.

What gurus don't explain well enough is just how hardcore the practice needs to be for state of consciousness to change significantly.

Your practice is too weak, too distracted.

Yeah I think this is why I’m going to formally take up a daily Qi Gong practice for 20-30 minutes daily. As of now I just do journaling and self reflection when necessary which works out to every other day to every third day. I think I can sit and observe and see that this is how it works so I therefore would benefit from more time put into a practice. Obviously I don’t have time nor the life to go monk mode nor do I want that. I’d just like to live more authentically and in Wu Wei. I live maybe only 10% of my waking hours in a state of oneness and flow, god consciousness state. Another 50% in slight effort and the last 40% is effort, worry and arguments. I’d like to get at least Wu Wei up to 50% of all my waking hours. 

[Joseph Maynor]

On 7/31/2026 at 0:37 AM, Leo Gura said:

That's too long to list.

It is easier to list the stupid things I say.

Interesting.  I appreciate the broad range of insights you share.

[Joseph Maynor]

If conflation of survival with spirituality is wrong, and you are surviving, how are you breaking free from this yourself?