All Personal Questions For Leo

[Dan Arnautu]

@Loreena He talked in Russian in one of his videos (can't remember which one though) in order to prove that language is entirely arbitrary and that without knowing a language, it's words will sound just like a bunch of gibberish to you, with no logical or any other kind of sense at all.

[Dan Arnautu]

@Leo Gura Thank you for your answers, Leo! I really do appreciate you answering my questions. 

[Raphael]

@Leo Gura Do you still sometimes eat junk food?

[Himanshu]

Leo, not a question, a request. Even after the full-blown Enlightenment experience, as much you'd gravitate towards silence; please stay active within the world. Your work is irreplaceable. 

[Loreena]

You have a tremendously high intellectual maturity as per your age when you started with PD. I would rate you 10 out of 10 on the scale of intellectual maturity, whereas most people cannot even make it to 5. Either you have to be a genius or it must be a lot of work you put in early on. So I was wondering maybe you started out with PD pretty early on, just speculating. Did you start reading PD books as early as 16 or 17. When did you actually start. 

And do you think it was reading PD books that boosted your intellectual  growth/maturity to a very high level. If not that, then it must be an in-born skill which obviously others cannot acquire very easily.

[Leo Gura]

On 7/16/2017 at 5:36 PM, Loreena said:

Do you speak Russian ?  Like do you know the language.

Which all languages do you speak ?

Yes I speak it. I don't know any other languages.

On 7/17/2017 at 5:23 AM, Raphael said:

@Leo Gura Do you still sometimes eat junk food?

Depends on how you define "junk food". Stuff like candy bars? Pizza? Burgers? Bread? Cakes? Soda? Fast food?

No.

6 hours ago, Loreena said:

You have a tremendously high intellectual maturity as per your age when you started with PD. I would rate you 10 out of 10 on the scale of intellectual maturity, whereas most people cannot even make it to 5. Either you have to be a genius or it must be a lot of work you put in early on. So I was wondering maybe you started out with PD pretty early on, just speculating. Did you start reading PD books as early as 16 or 17. When did you actually start. 

And do you think it was reading PD books that boosted your intellectual  growth/maturity to a very high level. If not that, then it must be an in-born skill which obviously others cannot acquire very easily.

I always had high maturity. It was there when I was 7 years old, etc. I always thought about adult topics, even at that age.

I started existential questioning very early on, since my early teens. It wasn't about reading books. I was about contemplating how life works and why it works the way it works. That's actually a lot more effective than reading a bunch of books. I would call it a deep curiosity about the structure of reality.

Genius? No. I don't think so. Some in-born intelligence and consciousness? Sure, probably. But it's still not easy for me to grow. Growth is always relative to your old self, so it's always a struggle no matter where you're at.

[Anirban657]

@Leo Gura Is it possible for some folks to be enlightened by birth like the son of god kind of such like Jesus?

[Leo Gura]

@Anirban657 No, I don't think so. The self hasn't been yet created at birth, so enlightenment is just not applicable. It takes a baby about 2.5 years to start recognizing itself in the mirror. Until then, it is effectively enlightened, but doesn't know it.

[TJ Reeves]

@Leo GuraThe "understanding absolute infinity" video was a masterpiece. The order of the presentation's deconstruction of logic was beautiful in the same way a fine-art painting's construction is beautiful. 

So here's are my questions:

• How do you write down and/or construct your presentations?
• Do you read off a teleprompter? Is it all in your head? 
• How often do you practice each specific presentation before-hand?
• Do you talk with others for feedback beforehand? Does someone literally go "But leo?" 

I'm sure the people at Toastmasters didn't have you practicing 2 hour speeches. 

So far, I have this as my guess for your general format:

• Heeeeeey this is Leo and today we're talking about X
• [logo]
• One sentence main idea
• Define Main idea further
• One analogy 
• Everyday Examples (or, if it's a list video, begin the list)
• But Leo! Nuance question #1 
• But Leo! Nuance question #2
• ...
• But Leo! Nuance question #ABSOLUTEINFINITY
• Practical Application exercise/meditation/homework
• Wrap up 

Edited July 20, 2017 by TJ Reeves

[Edvard]

@Leo Gura If there was a mandatory military service in your country and you were ordered to serve, and if you disobeyed you would go to jail, what would you do?

And if you did the service, and later your country was attacked, meaning you would be ordered to fight. What would you then do?

Edited July 20, 2017 by Edvard

[Samuel Garcia]

@Leo Gura How do you act in public?  Do you often make a conversation with the cashier? Do you smile to people a lot? Are you exactly like  other people or could one tell that you are involved personal development and enlightenment? What do you do when your waiting, like in a line for something?

How was personal development and consciousness work affected the way you interact with strangers and with close ones like family and friends? Do have different feelings towards certain people then to strangers?

[art]

On 17.7.2017 at 2:14 AM, Leo Gura said:

I basically don't. I'm not really a fan of Russian culture. Nor any culture for that matter. Even though I can appreciate cultures around the world, Russian culture -- to me -- is one of the lamest cultures around. Their cuisine, media, philosophy, religion, and literature sucks for the most part. At least it's not my cup of tea.

BUT LEOOO Seriosly? Their literature is viewed as the finest. "Greatest writers" of all time such as Tolstoy, Dostojevskij are Russian, also you have the finest people in every chain of the theatre world from writers such as Chekhov, and the best theatre instructors in the world! Sergej Bondartsjuk made the best master piece of film ever that will get LOTR and Star Wars to look like ants next to giants with his War And Peace version.. And music! Oh god, you have the best classical musicians, and loads of giants of composers, I could talk for hours about this, but I would recommend you check out this for yourself  ... And Russian male choir is a divine beauty itself

Also you have the world finest ballerinas, and beautiful architecture! Either you have a shitty esthetic taste, or you´re just unaware of all the epochal art Russian people has created. COMMON MAN!  (A rant against Leo's comment on Russian culture) 

You talk a lot about "doing your Art" in The Life Purpose course, and as you mentioned in the last video, that "this is poetry" (similar to Oshos explanation of his teachings. 

My question is: What are your thoughts about the purpose of art?

[Wouter]

How did you come in contact with your "enlightened buddy"  that you once talked about in a forum post?

[Chrissy j]

@Leo Gura Are all your insights of your own mind or are they found by you learning from other teachers? Or do you learn things and make your own insights about everything you learn? And how often do you cross reference on the insights? What is the process for your insights that you share?

[The White Belt]

How do you plan what activities/research you will do for your days/months/years?

What is your system for this?

Do you have a tight to-do list to avoid procrastination/weak intentions, or a loose sort of list in order to go with the 'flow' of things?

[Edvard]

@Leo Gura Is there any chance that you, given the opportunity, would show up on a world famous talk show and talk about absolute infinity, or any other concept within self-actualization, for that matter?

[The White Belt]

Do you still talk to or hang out with any friends that you met pre-actualized.org?

[DoctorDx]

Couple of questions:

1. At what age did you start doing pickup and at what age did you start doing enlightenment work?

2. What do you think about Salvia Divinorum? I heard of people experiencing alternate existences/lives for months with this (when the actual experience lasted only 10 min) 

[alyra]

leo you're obsessed! this passion of yours is your dedication and you're adamant that it is true. 

 

but it is true for you. We can only speculate that the others around us have similar existence to our own. we in the limits of our consciousness can't share that experience - unless there's some secret you aren't sharing lol ;P you've said before that you can be a bird. but i doubt that that is so true. a bird does not know what it is like to be you being a bird. the bird only knows what it is like to be the bird being the bird. see? 

 

so anyway. dedicating my life to your obsessions aren't going to cut it for me. maybe given enough time of growth, I could find myself following your path as much as you dream of sharing it. but, I should not feel as if your reality must be mine too. 

 

would you agree with that? I am asking out of curiosity. you have so much efficiency to your speaking. 

 

I want to meditate more than I do. but my priorities are on other things for the time being. 

[Wyatt]

@TJ Reeves Hey man, from what I've seen, Leo says he's not going to give away his "secret sauce" on how he constructs his videos. It seems like you have a pretty good guess as to how he does it, but I think the bottom line is, he lives and breathes his teachings. So contemplating about them and creating hours worth of speaking material is just natural. He's also been creating videos for years, so I'm sure it's been a HUGE learning process for him. Anything great takes lots of time!

@Leo Gura Have you considered doing more interviews with podcasts or other well-respected youtube channels? I'm certain it's been suggested, but you and Joe Rogan would probably have the greatest conversation in human history