Leo's Role As A Teacher

[ExploringReality]

This may be subjective, but all I have is my experience so I understand the paradox of speaking generally. I realized that what Leo is doing within the content of his episodes, even the beginning of actualized.org, all your old videos up till your new videos, you play the role as the shocker. I call you the shocker, like when someone is asleep and you jolt them awake. I'm not saying you're forcing people to wake up, but people are asleep. And the reason why I'm attracted to you is because I have awoken, and naturally I tend to look to see who's awake, even though I'm still fairly asleep even after I woken up. When you're talking to us, you're being filtered through the egoic mind, and I recognize that your wisdom is being distorted by ego, and the point of meditation and mindfulness in this work is to shed light on our asleepness. I got a hit on this last night, because I was listening to your episode on why truth is the highest value, and the first 12 minutes scared my ego and I wanted to fall asleep to avoid hearing it. It's like I'm a spiritual masochist and sometimes truth can be overwhelming to the ego. 

That's all I wanted to say. That you Leo are a shocker and I'm sure many people have felt hurt not by your words but because they have so many defenses and your wisdom can sometimes leak in or bust through those defense doors and when Consciousness shines through a dark cave, the bats and the ghosts and vampires do not like it.

[Leo Gura]

"The hard core of egotism is difficult to dislodge, except rudely." -- Yogananda

[ExploringReality]

People are sleep walking through life. thinking they are awake, the eyes are open but the mind is blind. Awakening is realizing that you are dreaming. You awaken from one dream into another, awakening is infinitely self awakening. 

Edited 4 hours ago by ExploringReality

[Ramasta9]

A master knows that everyone is their teacher. The challenge is to see beyond the plays of teachers / tricksters / characters in the game, realizing the true meaning behind it and what is it trying to teach you.

Every little minion in life is a character in your dream, no one else's.

Each is the center of their own universe. Each universe is uniquely dressed-up for your unique experience.

If we can remain in Awareness of this, life becomes more and more effortless.

 

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Ramasta9

[Malkom]

What I noticed in Leo (after watching some videos) is a high level of abstract thinking. He could have become a good mathematician, I think, or a philosopher, or even an epistemiologist. Mathematics is related to epistemology, just like logic. Mathematics isn't just numbers—numbers are preschool, or rather, their primitive representation. But despite its "detachment from reality," this knowledge, this vision, truly helps in understanding Reality (which means it's not detached from reality, a play on words). And in fact, areas that are close to reality, to relevance, and have pragmatic and practical applications, require the development of abstract areas that help work with less abstract ones.
Mathematicians are interested in Truth, and mathematics has a principle of uniqueness. Furthermore, mathematics values beauty more than crude physicists like me (but that's only at first glance).
Leo knows something, right...

Edited 3 hours ago by Malkom

[ExploringReality]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

"The hard core of egotism is difficult to dislodge, except rudely." -- Yogananda

Right! 

Even your earlier self-help videos would attract what the ego is searching for and your titles have gnarly hooks that are appeasing to sleepwalkers and once they got deep in the video, you basically disarm the ego, like the cleverness of the fox when it pretends to be playful to the cat only to snap its neck metaphorically. You jump up and down and smile to attract ego and once it's in there you spook the shit out of it into seeing it's absurdity and lack of consciousness helping to jolt one out it's dream of hell. What I love the most about you is you give super advanced wisdom and you also remind us to not depend on you and to transcend the training wheels and take risks of self actualizing. 

Edited 3 hours ago by ExploringReality