New Video: Why Truth Is The Highest Value

[Hardkill]

2 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

EXACTLY! That is the key insight which nobody grasps!

You are incapable of understanding reality because nature is holding a gun to your head and you are too threatened and distracted.

It's not about luxury, it's about selfishness vs selflessness. You are too fucking selfish to understand reality.

I admit that I am selfish, but life is hard.

[diegogomez42]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Because it must lead to corruption.

To place anything in your mind above God is corruption.

You still haven't understood that. You still think this is some mind of debate about personal choices and opinions. No. This is ontological. Your opinions, your care for your family is irrelevant. If you put your family first you are immediately corrupt, regardless of what happens.

Everyone who places family as their #1 value is corrupt! Get that.

simply because other families exist

[UnbornTao]

41 minutes ago, Hardkill said:

I admit that I am selfish, but life is hard.

Don't take it too personally - even though it is hard not to! 

Also, it's useful for us to hear it as a fact or neutral observation, rather than as a form of condemnation or blame. It's deeper than the common use of the term - it points to the self as our operating system in life. We may feel tempted to hear that as a negative, but it's just what's already so. Nothing necessarily wrong with that. 

[lostingenosmaze]

 

44 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Don't take it too personally - even though it is hard not to! 

Also, it's useful for us to hear it as a fact or neutral observation, rather than as a form of condemnation or blame.

Really hard for me to do that with Leo's rhetoric being the latter rather than the former, with no care for disclaimers or clarifications to boot. You'd think it'd be selfless for him to do that. Oh but nope, don't worry! Leo will probably double-down calling me taking it personally survival and corruption from Truth as well! Of course! How foolish of me, he already did put those legal disclaimers under the guidelines anyways, I should definitely shut my low-consciouness mouth 🤐

Edited Monday at 11:09 PM by lostingenosmaze

[UnbornTao]

12 hours ago, lostingenosmaze said:

Really hard for me to do that with Leo's rhetoric being the latter rather than the former, with no care for disclaimers or clarifications to boot. You'd think it'd be selfless for him to do that. Oh but nope, don't worry! Leo will probably double-down calling me taking it personally survival and corruption from Truth as well! Of course! How foolish of me, he already did put those legal disclaimers under the guidelines anyways, I should definitely shut my low-consciouness mouth 🤐

We're all selfish. Embrace it. It's not a negative thing. Investigate the depths of your own selfishness. Since you seemed to react defensively to the suggestion, what was threatened? In essence, you: some aspect of experience you identify as yourself, or as part of you.

Edited Tuesday at 11:33 AM by UnbornTao

[ExploringReality]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Because it must lead to corruption.

To place anything in your mind above God is corruption.

You still haven't understood that. You still think this is some mind of debate about personal choices and opinions. No. This is ontological. Your opinions, your care for your family is irrelevant. If you put your family first you are immediately corrupt, regardless of what happens.

Everyone who places family as their #1 value is corrupt! Get that.

This shit will make one drop to their knees in prayer and tears. Thank you for laying it out so starkly, it hit me now.

[ExploringReality]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

EXACTLY! That is the key insight which nobody grasps!

You are incapable of understanding reality because nature is holding a gun to your head and you are too threatened and distracted.

It's not about luxury, it's about selfishness vs selflessness. You are too fucking selfish to understand reality. And from this one thing come ALL of your problems.

Again, so much gems and gold here. Is it possible to love the truth while surviving? Because I'm sure some will think that survival would be dropped and one wouldn't care about the body dying right now because they would bask in Truth and existence.

Also is self Actualization the Pinnacle of Truth?

Edited Tuesday at 02:02 AM by ExploringReality

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@lostingenosmaze

Do you know what the self is? It might be of assistance to define what you know/believe.

Sometimes information can be presented that banks on certain foundational knowledge.

[cjoseph90]

14 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

EXACTLY! That is the key insight which nobody grasps!

You are incapable of understanding reality because nature is holding a gun to your head and you are too threatened and distracted.

It's not about luxury, it's about selfishness vs selflessness. You are too fucking selfish to understand reality. And from this one thing come ALL of your problems.

This!!! Note to self

[Yimpa]

Note to my Actualized Family:

I Love Truth!

Edited Tuesday at 06:30 PM by Yimpa

[BlessedLion]

Leo I really loved this video- since watching I’ve been feeling a connection to Truth and just how different it is from self serving bias and agenda. Great work 🔥

[Leo Gura]

3 hours ago, BlessedLion said:

Leo I really loved this video- since watching I’ve been feeling a connection to Truth and just how different it is from self serving bias and agenda. Great work 🔥

Sweet!

[Leo Gura]

@Yimpa Welcome back.

[Daniel Balan]

@Yimpa Glad you are back! 🥳

[emil1234]

@Leo Gura

im on my second watch, and while i find it potentially one of your best videos to date, I'm still unclear on what being truthful in practice looks like? 

My own stance and interpretation of your video as well, is that truthfulness is investigating what is the case, and then embracing and not rejecting what is the case. I think this is best demonstrated on the emotional scale; if I feel sadness, being truthful means experiencing, embracing and even expressing the sadness. Not rejecting or fighting it, not putting on a fake smile when talking to people.

However I think the question of truthfulness in practice is very nuanced especially in different contexts. One could say that rejecting sadness even through im feeling it, is still truthfulness, because truth is just what is

Could you elaborate on this? 

[Davino]

3 hours ago, emil1234 said:

I'm still unclear on what being truthful in practice looks like? 

Prioritizing truth over personal benefit. Here are three examples:

You deliver some work to your boss, but you find there's a mistake in it. Do you commit to truth and disclose the embarrassing mistake? Or you just say, whatever.

You get a job offer from a great company, but you believe the work will compromise your integrity to Truth, they are involved in army contracts, oil companies and alcohol drinks. However, you would earn a lot of money, thrice your current salary. Would you take tha offer and say, whatever, somebody has to do that job. Or you stay committed to truth and say: No thank you.

Let's say you go to a wedding, you are well dressed in a suit and quite attractive. The party ends and you go to the club with some friends. A girl looks at you and connection happens. You start talking, there's attraction, and something among these lines happens: you must have a very nice job and life, how well you look. You feel flattered by such compliment from such a hot women, but should you break that magical moment and just be truthful and say you have a mediocre job and a bellow average lifestyle. Or will you just shrug your shoulders and say whatever, I'm just gonna be skilfull, crack a joke and let her assume that to my benefit. 

These three hypothetical situations test your commitment to truth and make the difference between lofty ideals and a grounded embodiment of Truth into everyday life.

[emil1234]

1 hour ago, Davino said:

 

You get a job offer from a great company, but you believe the work will compromise your integrity to Truth, they are involved in army contracts, oil companies and alcohol drinks. However, you would earn a lot of money, thrice your current salary. Would you take tha offer and say, whatever, somebody has to do that job. Or you stay committed to truth and say: No thank you.

Let's say you go to a wedding, you are well dressed in a suit and quite attractive. The party ends and you go to the club with some friends. A girl looks at you and connection happens. You start talking, there's attraction, and something among these lines happens: you must have a very nice job and life, how well you look. You feel flattered by such compliment from such a hot women, but should you break that magical moment and just be truthful and say you have a mediocre job and a bellow average lifestyle. Or will you just shrug your shoulders and say whatever, I'm just gonna be skilfull, crack a joke and let her assume that to my benefit. 

 

Well Leo speaks of truth as something much more radical than just honesty. he describes it, if i recall correctly, as "the pursuit of understanding of reality". Seeing things AS THEY ARE. This transcends honesty radically (while it may still include it). 

This is why im a bit unclear as to how we are to view truthfulness in practice. Is truthfulnes just the dropping away of EVERYTHING in order to understand reality? And if so, how do we translate this into a daily practice? Is truthfulness just locking myself in my room contemplating reality?

Or is truthfulness perhaps alligning my life so that I am, to the best degree possible, able to pursue understanding of reality? Even so, I still see a radical disconnect between the practial expression of "truthfulness", and "understanding of reality"

 

Edited 14 hours ago by emil1234

[BlessedLion]

On 9/16/2025 at 0:16 PM, Yimpa said:

Note to my Actualized Family:

I Love Truth!

@Yimpa you heard this one? Made me think of you

 

[Davino]

@emil1234 The value of Truth has many ramifications and manifests quite different in the metaphysical, epistemological and human domain. I feel you understand how at each level truth works but you haven't discovered yet the nuanced connections between each layer. Some questions for you to contemplate: what happens if I'm truthful with my metaphysics but not my epistemology? What happens if I'm truthful in my metaphysics but not in my humanity? What happens if I'm truthful in my humanity and epistemology but not in my metaphysics? And so go on iterating all 8 possibilities.

 

The power of making your highest value Truth is that your metaphysics, epistemology and human life will all synergize into a higher holism of Understanding and Consciousness.

Scientists and academics may be truthful in their epistemology but not in their metaphysics or human life. Maybe someone is a nice dude and is truthful in his human life but just doesn't care in the way he uses his mind or metaphysics. You may be super truthful in your metaphysics but not in your humanity, becoming a zen devil. And so on so forth. Contemplate these 8 interactions, if you value more Truth and understanding than comfort and pleasure, you'll have the insight you're searching for.

If you get stuck or want to share results after your contemplation, please answer back and we'll go back and forth to reach Truth.

Edited 3 hours ago by Davino

[Yimpa]

5 hours ago, BlessedLion said:

@Yimpa you heard this one? Made me think of you

Nice