Point Out My Bias

[questionreality]

People that have revealed you your true biases have all been banned by you or your mods.

[trenton]

On 10/26/2026 at 6:43 AM, Leo Gura said:

I will seriously consider any thoughtful, serious submission.

The problem I have with this position is that you are asking us to point out your biases, but it sounds like you are the one evaluating what counts as a serious submission. It makes me think that you would be unable to remain receptive to people pointing out your biases if there isn't some other way to determine which submissions should be considered and why you should be the judge and not somebody else.

Is the selection of which submissions as to what your biases are itself informed by your biases? If it is, then that would be a limitation of the medium. I consider this a serious submission, but do you? If you don't then why isn't that a consequence of your biases?

You appear to be biased toward your own standards as to what counts as bias. There is no agreed upon standard as to what counts as bias.

For example, are you biased toward Truth or God? Or are you less biased as a consequence of prioritizing Truth or God? Some standards define bias as a deviation from facts, but if you are factually correct that you are God, then that would make you unbiased by this standard.

If bias is relative, then this creates a problem for how we are supposed to answer this question. Whose standards of bias are we supposed to be using? It looks like we are supposed to be using yours based your standards of what counts as a thoughtful, serious submission.

[Thought Art]

1 hour ago, questionreality said:

People that have revealed you your true biases have all been banned by you or your mods.

So, are you saying he has a bias toward people pleasing his ego? 
 

Can you give an example of someone pointing out a bias and getting banned?

Edited 13 hours ago by Thought Art

[InfinitePotential]

I’m hard-pressed to identify obvious biases from your videos. A huge part of your work is devoted to identifying and overcoming bias in the first place.

But one possibility occurs to me: a bias toward comprehensiveness over concision, or perhaps an attachment to length as a marker of depth.

One constructive criticism I’ve had of your videos is that the long lists of examples are often excessive, at least for me. Drilling a point is helpful. Exploring it from multiple angles is helpful. But it’s often the case that you’ve made a point, I’ve understood and appreciated it — about as well as I’m going to on one of my walks — and then you proceed through another long list of examples when a small handful would have been just as effective, for me.

I wonder whether the length of your videos has become part of your identity as a teacher. Perhaps there’s some attachment to the idea that really serious, profound teachings require exhaustive explanations, and that shorter presentations would cheapen the material.

But being concise isn’t necessarily being superficial. Distilling a profound insight into a clear, efficient explanation can itself be an impressive intellectual achievement — not that that’s the point. 

Of course, I’m aware that I may have my own bias toward concision. I mean — I’d like to wrap the video up and go play some rocket league or something. Or to just download the insights into my brain NOW. And, I’m aware that some people probably benefit from the additional examples, and different people respond to different angles. But I do wonder whether your preference for comprehensiveness sometimes comes at the expense of effective communication. I suspect it comes at the expense of reach. I’d love to see more of the “Actualized Clips” — that one channel. (I think you were a part of that? Or maybe someone else was just pulling that together.)

Doesn’t mean I want to see TikTok shorts of you dancing and pointing at self-help slogans. (Actually, scratch that — that would be great.)

In all seriousness, though, actualized.org is probably the single best collection of material I’ve ever encountered. And I’ve consumed a lot. Still no goth girlfriend, but overall, you’ve produced work that I expect to return to for the rest of my life. (/compliment sandwich)

And yes, it’s not escaped me that I’m critiquing your lack of concision in an overly elaborate way. Takes one to know one I guess. 

[Carl-Richard]

6 hours ago, Thought Art said:

 Can you give an example of someone pointing out a bias and getting banned?

Hahahah

[oOo]

Can't accept the truth when its quite literally, staring, right at yo. Represent!

 

[Leo Gura]

11 hours ago, trenton said:

The problem I have with this position is that you are asking us to point out your biases, but it sounds like you are the one evaluating what counts as a serious submission.

It could not be otherwise.

There is no way around evaluating the validity of feedback and criticism. When anyone criticizes you, you have to decide if the criticism is warranted or not.

If I call you a racist, you have to decide if that's valid or not.

This is what Sovereignty of Mind means.

Someone in my position receives a lot of invalid criticism from biased, deluded, and ignorant people. Quality criticism is actually hard to come by.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Someone here]

 I don’t know if this fits as bias but it’s a point of criticism that there is this huge gap between your teachings and your conduct.

You teach truth, consciousness, love and advanced things and early on the transcendence of ego. Yet sometimes the way you communicate with people seems inconsistent with those very ideals.  A lot of times You can be very dismissive to people because they seem silly to you or use rude vulgar language toward people who disagree with you.  Like how on earth could you ignore answering my thread on suggesting a way of deeper communication between yourself and us as fans of the work . Even if it was locked , you could post and say what you think . Another thing you mislead a lot of people by teaching falsehood like solipsism and radical ideas without fully explaining all the nuances about it ,then complain that you should not be taken out of context . To name a few .

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Someone here

[Jirh]

I like how bias reads somewhat like BS 

[Someone here]

And this whole over-investment in the field of politics. Some people have suggested this point . It’s not because I don’t like politics, but because it seems naturally disconnected from  teaching advanced spirituality . Other fields like Art seem more connected. I don’t imagine a person who studies let’s say Ramana Maharshi and then Studies Carl Marx . There is a disjoint when a blog post is about metaphysics and then the next blog post is about politics.

Edited 1 hour ago by Someone here