Recent Leo's video

[Vilius]

Hi,

I just wanted to share a couple of my own self-growth experiences after listening to Leo’s new video about truth as the highest value.

I don’t want to write a full essay, so I’ll try to keep it brief.

I started listening to Leo when I was 17. Through what I like to call a journey of self-discovery and self-mastery, I’ve noticed the difference between being self-absorbed and becoming a less self-absorbed person. I’m still quite self-absorbed in some ways, but that’s not my main point.

What struck me while listening to his newest video about truth is that, as someone who places LOVE as one of my highest values, I’ve noticed how my understanding of love has evolved. My love never attached itself to a single person or to my own identity; instead, it began to encompass everything. Over time, my whole being started to become more loving toward all existence. I began to understand people I would normally dislike or dismiss as “evil,” and I started to comprehend the twisted and corrupt ways people can exist and ofcourse my little sneaky ways of corruption. Instead of feeling passionate hate, I began to understand.

In short, my love gradually expanded toward everything. Although this process was often painful and difficult almost like shattering illusions it has sometimes come at the cost of my own mental stability, because my entire sense-making system has had to adapt to new ways of understanding reality.

I would like to more people to share their own experiences, and I thank Leo for pointing me towards this direction in life. 

[Salvijus]

Can relate

Labas 

[Leo Gura]

If your practice true love then it will push you towards truth. But it's easy to get tricked into false forms of love.

[Vilius]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

If your practice true love then it will push you towards truth. But it's easy to get tricked into false forms of love.

I used to think the love is the things that satisfy my sense of self, like sex with my girlfriend, validation from other people the way I look, all the things thay feel "good" but I realised it's not that lol I was so wrong.

Edited Wednesday at 09:26 PM by Vilius

[Adrian colby]

@Vilius thanks for sharing. My journey was certainly about love but it started as the discernment of ‘truth’ ( a kind of attitude towards seeking). If you talk about synchronicities or coincidental scenarios, they all played into the theme of love and going through the often very painful experiences of false love to find true love. Thus being learns by contrast and it’s now apparent that means experiencing both the pleasure and the pain till both can be held and then collapse. The depth of it just keeps going. Describing it as opening the heart and allowing everything back in after being suppressed for decades and with it came all the pain and self deceptions ( most of which were conditioned behaviours or survival adaptations to parents, peers, upbringing, culture etc). The heart in pain and the heart in peace showed a spectrum from seperation to unity. The peaceful love was always in the complete and self fulfilled or self love state which I describe as profoundly beyond acknowledging, accepting and allowing which is essentially being or existence as it is. Is’ness or am’ness. 
I started holding space in therapy with this as I got better results from completely accepting the client as they presented. Loving them essentially and not teaching but guiding them to develop their own curiosity and realisations about themselves ( it was all centred on liberation from mental anguish but I did have a few with spiritual issues beyond the trauma trap).

I had my own mystical experience that happened unexpectedly and everything dissolved right back beyond god to the source or the mystery. That which cannot grasp itself but knows itself by contrasting against everything in its imagined boundary. It was very destabilising but I had done a fair bit of psychological strengthening before hand so I didn’t loose the plot. 
 

Understanding how everything unfolds from the direction of the source into the perceived external has helped with the ‘love’ acceptance and understanding of even the ‘evil’ which I don’t see as inherently bad, sometimes lost or sometimes neccessary. It’s better to understand and learn then condemn. If you wipe someone out for doing bad, another just takes their place but if you learn from one you can see the factors that created them in the first place that are not isolated to the individual alone. 
 

it also puts me in the position of ‘choice’ to experience things as a preference and not just some survival fancy. 
 

that is where the opportunities for new experiences and raw lessons come from because I’ll come across an issue, explain the financial to the person involved and then become it myself ( mostly a whole other dimension of pain as I live through what I just explained but in the other side of it I have a greater understanding of the dynamic).

 

it is as you say, when that type of love is held as the self being open, certainly it expands to hold everything. But it doesn’t stay there. It fluctuates depending on what takes my focus next. While the heart stays open ( figuratively speaking) the spectrum of emotion and pain take place within it. It took a few years to get used to the pain but now it acts as a compass feeding information but never a state that’s held onto. 
 

the main thing I struggle with is meaning and purpose as the choice is so vast and often times what one is truly interested in and part of one’s own authenticity and chosen preferences clash with those around me making it hard to be harmonious. I tend to stray into taboo interest and it rubs my community the wrong way.