In more than 40 years of a spiritual journey, I had not heard such a deep and clear explanation of non-duality. Grateful and humbled to learn from younger generations
whenever i feel like giving up on this journey of self-actualization, watching Leo's video put me back on track and motivation kicks in yet again. much gratitude !!!
you are still the best, i found your channel 4 years ago, you really changed my life, i hear most of the time, hey, you have changed so much, i let go of my past, the fraud, the lost money , i was afraid to fall asleep or to go out, was so frustraited, depressed and everyone used me in every way, i consumed your videos every day, every night, while sitting in my car, so many tears and so much pain , at the end, i went through a deep transformation, but , i am still not there where i want to be, oh no, but far not,
I have a very similar story to yours. I was only good as long as i was giving. Have problems till this day and im 42. Had 3 girlfriends and they all treated me poorly. Sold me for idiots and sex. I am still trying to let go of the past, the betrayal from friends. I am really trying to put my life together, but still hurting. I even have a disability that makes things even harder. Do you have any suggestios how to reconsile the past?
I too cant sleep, ruminating, talking to myself. I am afraid to go to sleep. Paranoid and my mind cant stop. Im on pills but they dont work. Not sleeping makes it worse. I would really appreciate some help.
It's very important for any seeker to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff, in regard to what is actually observable versus what is just believed in the mind. When you take away all memories, assumptions, and all other fodder of the mind, you're only left with the experience of the present moment. But when we try to hone in on the present moment which has no clear duration, we find that it's already slipped through our fingers. So, we don't even know that. We as human beings are forever in an epistemic blindspot and are thus forever as innocent as we were as newborn babies. And it is the realization of this innocence that is what allows us to truly experience what being is with a beginners mind. This is why self-inquiry is so important. Thank you for the video! :)
Also, really great point about the skill of focus being essential for remaining focused on the emptiness. The sense of emptiness is easily lost since it is nothing. So, as hard as it is to focus on something, it's even more difficult to focus on nothing.
I loved your comment, thanks for sharing. Have you read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle by any chance? This is probably the book which has had the biggest impact on me. I actually made an animated video about the book on my channel but I recommend giving it a read if you haven't. From reading your message I think you'd enjoy it :)
@Snorre Grimstad I like it too I think these connections/bridges dissolve the idea of youtube channels being separate competing entities, and build some kind of abstract infrastructure or catalyst that's serving some kind of greater process which I can barely begin to comprehend... Yet I think it's good :D
Realizing I am awareness observing itself is so liberating. In the Bible God is described simply as "Ἐγώ εἰμί" ("I am"). I always had a hunch there was something deeper about that
Being aware of being aware, you will find there's nothing there, but an eyeless stare, staring everywhere without a care. I wrote this a while back when I first figured this out. "You" the awareness is like the outer shell of an egg, and all of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations (including your body) is inside the egg. If you can observe the outer shell then the shell is observing itself and then you can know what you are. Its not your skin, it doesn't have a boundary because even the sun, stars, and sounds are all contained within the egg too.
@@DavidD-ev1ou Its more like you become the shell, you become the empty shell. The empty shell contains everything, its the infinite nonphysical container in which everything exists.
My brain was “rotting” from the content - in a good way thought. I practiced this awareness of awareness technique this morning for the first time. It didn’t work. So I went for a run. Came back home, sat back down to meditate. But this time added an Ooommmm to the technique when my ego rose up.....wow! I got deeper faster than I ever have. I can’t wait to practice!!!! Thank you
Thank you! Now I know, I'am doing my meditations right. For me it is possible to meditate 4 hours without any thoughts, just being aware of the aware. If Enlightment comes, I will tell it here, because you helped me so much in the last years .
I've been watching your videos since 2015. Thanks your channel I made some brave decisions and change and I got a really self fulfilling job after years of trash work. even though I don't practice many things as meditation where I start and stop, and couldn't get rid of some bad habits, but I will continue trying. this channel opened up my eyes on things l didn't know that it exists, triggers my sense of searching and investigation and I can say it helps to make me a better person. Much love Leo ❤️
I've only ever had a lucid dream once. I tried for months but couldn't get there. Then one night, in my dream... I looked up, realized and said "Oh my god I'm dreaming." Leo, I've probably watched over 100 hours of your videos in the last two weeks. I feel like I'm having a lucid dream while I'm awake... no, "asleep." I'm still asleep, but now I know I'm sleeping, it's a weird realization and I have really been pondering why it's taken this long to get to this point. You hear a lot of talk like this in the world, but it just "sounds nice." Now, I get it. I haven't seen the light but now I know there is a light and I'm really excited to know that where I've been going wrong is looking within. Looking into my mind and really understanding how out of control I am of this machine I am, and that I am not the machine, I just am. Thank you for your message and putting this information out there. Its safe to say you've saved my life. Still trying to swallow the pill of knowing what an undertaking this will be but I don't want to forget there is a light, I need to find it.
5:44 at first Instinct my mind said “my soul” when I finally got it. But the irony is when you first described this exercise my mind went straight to: “guitar player, accountant; health nut..” as if those worldly things & the things I take pride in are what I am as a human being.
If I could give more than one like I would do it ;) This is what is needed in these times- hands on spirituality. Thanks Leo, I am so grateful, you are such a wonderful blessing in my life!!
That opening quote hit me hard because it's what I've been feeling lately. Thanks for helping kill me, Leo ;) About a year ago I hadn't even considered enlightenment or anything within experience now to even be possible. for the longest time I had just been fascinated by the concept of infinity and stuff relating to it, by chance one of my friends linked me your Absolute Infinity video and it blew my mind because I had never heard any explanation of that in the way you had done it. over the week after I had been thinking and focusing on it while at work and everything just melted away for a moment, I came back and started watching your other videos, helping me work though all my past traumas and latching onto the idea to see just how far I could take this. I started questioning everything, started meditation (and "fake" yoga for a while too for physical strength). half of my ego was screaming to live and the other half singing to let it die. yet no matter how bad my ego backlash got, I just couldn't stop myself from thinking about reality and actuality it was too fascinating. I eventually hit a tipping point, I started to enjoy even the worst of days, started seeing the beauty, intricacy, and magic in the world again. I keep taking it deeper and deeper, finding that at work stocking shelves is a very good time for me to introspect and work through my deep issues and ruminate about life and mind and whatever else is here. Thanks again for helping start me down this journey, but we're all this together and not at all and it's amazing and impossible to put down into words of how I really feel because there's no I to feel but the feels are here and it's everything and isnt
Sensor metaphor, the best one I've ever heard! Amazing! I literally felt a shift in perception as you were saying that. I can also see a change in you, you seem more peaceful, compassionate, humble. Thank you Leo.
This is so important. I wish I had kept doing this. I used to question everything when I was younger but people always got so mad at me for doing that to them so I thought I was doing something wrong and stopped from like mid 20s to almost 30. Then I had the rug ripped out from under me with my identity when it came out that my dad had concealed a lot from me during my childhood. It was so traumatic for my ego to have my entire childhood biography deleted, but I am thankful it happened cuz it set me back on the path I need to be on. Thank you leo for being such a straightforward no BS teacher. 🙏🏻
Since you have already covered this concept before, I thought this episode would be redundant, yet you somehow took it to a new level, quite the masterpiece. Thanks again Leo
I've been practicing meditation for at least 60 minutes per day and for about 16 months. Just now have I begun to control the "monkey mind" and find the silence of observation of "self". I could have saved 8 months had I seen this video first. But here I am. Leo...you're awesome man!
Excellent video and now I know I am not strange. What I have been experiencing all these years is real and I am on the right path. I can't wait to learn not to be so often dominated by my strong emotions and to detach myself so the unnecessary suffering or worries can stop. Thanks Leo for this excellent analysis 🙏🙏
Hello Tom! Im happy to see you here so often. I've recently found your channel and I'm in love with your videos, especially shrooms trip reports and the "you are not God" documentary. Best of wishes and merry Christmas!
Very good "kickstart" guided meditation by Leo: Enlightenment - Part 3 - Creating An Experience Of No-Self (Mar 30, 2015) Also this other one (although less effective in my case): Enlightenment Guided Inquiry - The Neti Neti Method (May 1, 2016) Happy new year!
I think I am a breathing machine with endless options that I can control throughout my thoughts. This answer comes from the question I asked myself yesterday: How to think the right thoughts I have to think by myself? That's what I think I am a "thought controller" to direct to the right reality. By listening carefully to the universe around me. And acting on the things that will help me further. Thanks for tha video Leo 😁
Hi Leo, I hope your back gets better soon 🙏. Thank you for this video. Untill now I have mostly done meditation and yoga. So the timing is perfect to start this self inquire "game". Have a great Christmas 🙏
Just want to say I love you Leo for what you are doing (and of course everyone else reading this, alive or dead ;) And I want to add that you can have been fully enlightened and then come back to low awareness... and.. yes, it's painful. And a very, very weird experience..
i love the example with observing the way your child behaves, instead of asking or reading books, it really made me better understand what is self-inquiry itself, and noticed that just now when watching it 3rd time haha :D thank you Leo!
As my awareness increases, it's shedding light on my limited awareness and how far away I really am, and how many little things still need attention in my life, and it's overwhelming, and a quick fix is enlightenment, but that path again sheds more light on my lack of awareness. Trap. Leo?
Merry Christmas to you Leo. Thank you for this wonderful episode, you answered many questions I had about the process of self inquiry. Now I have an idea of how its done and how it should go. Much Love! Happy New Year! Take care of yourself.
It's very important in my opinion and it's a way to know yourself in a deeper level do shadow work. Teal Swan have alot of videos about that and The Diamond Net too
My family members thought I am mentally sick when I unpacked a few books which I wished to get for Christmas - about Holotropic breathwork and LSD both from Mr.Grof, because when I read such books I probably tend to look for this kind of "therapy". This strange sort of loneliness saddens me, I am overflowing with energy and motivation and I have very little people around me to share this with. So we stick to usual shallow conventional conversations... I have improved my physical health and energy level rapidly in past few months, feeling better than ever but I don't wear a white cloak or prescribe pills so I won't be taken seriously. Never. Sick world, so twisted. Thank u, Leo. And merry Christmas to u too. Take things easy, your back pain can be caused also by "having too much loaded on yourself", my back is a brilliant "overload indicator". Hugs, Katie.
paused at minute 7, i think that i identify with a 'unique' collection of past and present centralized(or maybe 'collapsing') perspectives(awarenesses), including sensations/perceptions, meaning/concepts derived from those sensations and language/ego 'dialogue',and memories.
Finger watching exercise was a shift for me ... I was able to lose myself into thoughtless observation or rather "concentration" ... very weird but really really helpful. I'd been stuck in thought about how each moment brings fluid constant changes in thought feeling or state ... what exactly is not different moment to moment? This video has been brilliant ... ego is smart in keeping me in thought ... cheers Leo
André Adónis Há 1 segundo It's wonderful to watch your struggle to explain this into words, Leo. The point of trying to explain something like "the feeling of diving into to sea" to someone that, for some impossible physical reason, never seen water before. Thank you
Hi Leo, "I" stuck somewhere :) i was doing the observation of observation and what come to me is the insight which say the following: We are reality, we are every sound, taste, sight, emotion, feelings and thought. And i can not see how we will be without our body, i think this awareness is here because of our being, i can't believe a rock have consciousness, i think is only for beings with life inside them. If somebody was there and want to help me HOW I GO FURTHER? thank you
Leo, try to stretch ass muscles if it's lower back pain You're talking about. There was some nerve that gets pinched under muscles and radiates to the back. Same muscles also create tension in sacroiliac joints if not streched. Lay on Your back, knees up, soles of feet on floor, lift right leg up and place the heel on left knee(somewhat empty spot between muscles) and gently pull the left knee towards Your chest while breathing deeply! Keep head on the floor. Repeat with left. I usually do 2-3 x 2 min per side. Have found this to be best pain relief. Happy holidays!
Hey Leo! Thanks for this video! Very well explained, with enough variations/angles to help people grasp this important concept. Looking forward to your future content!
It is actually funny. I had a dream where Leo uploaded a video and right in the middle of talking about existential matter he goes "oh yeah, and a few of you have wanted to see this" *shows picture* Was this dream of the future? haha
“There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I'd like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.” ~Watts
Thank you for giving us the tools and showing us your way, I , like many others, have reoriented my life thanks to the insights and advices that you shared with us. I am grateful for your inspiring dedication 🙏🏻
Heyy I was just thinking about this! I’m an artist and I was going to illustrate what self-identifying may look like and this helped me better understand it perrrfectly. Actually, this year, I quit my job and was able to be in my own solitude for 6 months. I found myself writing in a journal everyday, questioning things I’ve never thought of before in my life. I wrote my answers down as if I was having a conversation with myself. I did this all while staring out of my window at nature. I created an art piece called “Dance of Balance” where it spoke to being both grounded and spiritual, both analytical and intuitive and how the universe assists us in reaching balance within. That strange duality that you mentioned. One other artwork worth noting was my “Divinity Incarnate” piece where it spoke to being that true self right here, right now. That “later part” of awakening that you spoke about. I’m glad I came across your video today. It helped me realize that I’m not as far off to awakening as I thought. I will be creating more soul provoking artwork 😋✨ @Khaliartt is my instagram If anyone’s wondering.
Leo you are a gift from divine for true seeker's of Truth, The amount of hard work you do in explaining the concepts is outstanding, keep up your mission, a heart felt thank you . Merry Christmas to you and happy New year 2019.
It's a bit far out but what I think consciousness is. Is a completely universal experience meaning that everyone will have every experience possible. Just being a matter of "time". So insignificant but yet everything. Just switching of the tables, I and Leo will be switching spots at some point. You'll never know but only to live it. Not trying to be far out just thinking out loud.
Oh guys I'm so excited to that question 'what is true you?' I paused a video and thought for a while and than came up with the same simple answer. I'm consciousness! I can't believe Leo told the same it's amazing! 😄😱😊 BTW sending hugs and love from Slovakia! 🤗😃
Woow just cleared up a looot!!! This episode is so necessairy and THANK YOU :) I thought meditation (labeling and just watching your thoughts), concentration meditation, self inquiry (look if I am the brain, or any other point or what I think I am). But all that is necessairy (if you are ready, witch I might be) in the beginning to then „only“ do these one or to simple things: - just observing emptiness (which I can feel at times already, as far as I can tell) - fokus meditation (like 5mins?) after the main meditation, to be able to be less unfokused during the meditation (like ending different processes on a computer leaves more rescources for the main, important one > multiplies growth) I‘ll change my schedual immidiately and try it out :) Greetings
Jaypee Lituañas how do we know that though? If we remove someone’s brain completely, that person would die and we would not be able to know whether or not he is still himself.
Augustine in the confessions, talked of a light prior to the mind. So awareness is metaphysically prior to that of which I am aware. Like in Vispassana which is actually *clear sight" not "insight" ( which suggests intellect)
Hey Leo this is Paris from Iran, I've just stepped through the path of self inquiry.. there's a funny story behind this; couple of days ago I was trying to choose a font for my new tattoo actually it's the name I've recently picked for myself "Pneuma" so it has nothing to do with the word self-inquiry but just as I wanted to type the word Pneuma, the term Self-inquiry popped up! Wish I could show you the screenshot for you to see. I knew that I had to read about the issue but guess the world was telling me to go for it asap cuz I didn't google it in that website or anywhere! It's been a while since I feel so close to the world because big changes have happened in my life I've quit drugs lost weight n I'm playing my guitar and violin again and so many other things on the schedule. Definitely it's the time for more spiritual work and why not Self-inquiry.. I do find it a bit confusing but as you said it needs so much practice so.. from today 7th of November 2019 my journey begins. Wish me luck 🌠
In more than 40 years of a spiritual journey, I had not heard such a deep and clear explanation of non-duality. Grateful and humbled to learn from younger generations
whenever i feel like giving up on this journey of self-actualization, watching Leo's video put me back on track and motivation kicks in yet again. much gratitude !!!
This is the most significant and important channel on UA-cam in my experience.
100% agree
you are still the best, i found your channel 4 years ago, you really changed my life, i hear most of the time, hey, you have changed so much, i let go of my past, the fraud, the lost money , i was afraid to fall asleep or to go out, was so frustraited, depressed and everyone used me in every way, i consumed your videos every day, every night, while sitting in my car, so many tears and so much pain , at the end, i went through a deep transformation, but , i am still not there where i want to be, oh no, but far not,
Glad to help :)
I have a very similar story to yours. I was only good as long as i was giving. Have problems till this day and im 42. Had 3 girlfriends and they all treated me poorly. Sold me for idiots and sex. I am still trying to let go of the past, the betrayal from friends. I am really trying to put my life together, but still hurting. I even have a disability that makes things even harder. Do you have any suggestios how to reconsile the past?
I too cant sleep, ruminating, talking to myself. I am afraid to go to sleep. Paranoid and my mind cant stop. Im on pills but they dont work. Not sleeping makes it worse. I would really appreciate some help.
I love the direction you're going with your channel Leo.
We all do.
It's very important for any seeker to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff, in regard to what is actually observable versus what is just believed in the mind. When you take away all memories, assumptions, and all other fodder of the mind, you're only left with the experience of the present moment. But when we try to hone in on the present moment which has no clear duration, we find that it's already slipped through our fingers. So, we don't even know that. We as human beings are forever in an epistemic blindspot and are thus forever as innocent as we were as newborn babies. And it is the realization of this innocence that is what allows us to truly experience what being is with a beginners mind. This is why self-inquiry is so important. Thank you for the video! :)
Also, really great point about the skill of focus being essential for remaining focused on the emptiness. The sense of emptiness is easily lost since it is nothing. So, as hard as it is to focus on something, it's even more difficult to focus on nothing.
I loved your comment, thanks for sharing. Have you read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle by any chance? This is probably the book which has had the biggest impact on me. I actually made an animated video about the book on my channel but I recommend giving it a read if you haven't. From reading your message I think you'd enjoy it :)
It is too rare that we/I see people 'crossing over' to another channel, giving their take and support. I love it.
@Snorre Grimstad I like it too I think these connections/bridges dissolve the idea of youtube channels being separate competing entities, and build some kind of abstract infrastructure or catalyst that's serving some kind of greater process which I can barely begin to comprehend... Yet I think it's good :D
Don't try and locate the present moment with your mind, because you wont find it as the mind is too slow, rather just be it.
Realizing I am awareness observing itself is so liberating. In the Bible God is described simply as "Ἐγώ εἰμί" ("I am"). I always had a hunch there was something deeper about that
Your way of explaining concepts is utterly mind blowing.
Being aware of being aware, you will find there's nothing there, but an eyeless stare, staring everywhere without a care. I wrote this a while back when I first figured this out.
"You" the awareness is like the outer shell of an egg, and all of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations (including your body) is inside the egg. If you can observe the outer shell then the shell is observing itself and then you can know what you are. Its not your skin, it doesn't have a boundary because even the sun, stars, and sounds are all contained within the egg too.
but observing the outer shell is also from inside shell so its also not the Truth.. No?
Can I say I am not the charector inside the movie, but I am the entire movie itself that include every pixel, sound, sensation
@@DavidD-ev1ou Its more like you become the shell, you become the empty shell. The empty shell contains everything, its the infinite nonphysical container in which everything exists.
But I feel like an egg, within an egg, within an egg, and in looking back at myself from within an egg.
@@christopherjones4789 Yes, its fractal in nature. You're also like a lattice.
My brain was “rotting” from the content - in a good way thought. I practiced this awareness of awareness technique this morning for the first time. It didn’t work. So I went for a run. Came back home, sat back down to meditate. But this time added an Ooommmm to the technique when my ego rose up.....wow! I got deeper faster than I ever have. I can’t wait to practice!!!! Thank you
The greatest Christmas present you'll ever receive
Couldn't ask for anything better than that
Until you get the dark night of the soul.
@@danielnelson3136 Yes. That's truly hell.
I love my wife
And the last you'll recieve
Thank you! Now I know, I'am doing my meditations right. For me it is possible to meditate 4 hours without any thoughts, just being aware of the aware. If Enlightment comes, I will tell it here, because you helped me so much in the last years .
how is it going
any updates?
Alan Watts said: "your soul is not inside your body; your body's inside your soul."
how come leo never mentioned alan?
C vrai
@@americanspirit2566 he actually did
Thank you for supplying me with the necessary tools for destroying myself
Girl what
LOL
Haha.. clever
👌🏼
Awesome 💪
He always answering all the defense of the ego.😊😊
But cocooo..
I've been watching your videos since 2015.
Thanks your channel I made some brave decisions and change and I got a really self fulfilling job after years of trash work. even though I don't practice many things as meditation where I start and stop, and couldn't get rid of some bad habits, but I will continue trying.
this channel opened up my eyes on things l didn't know that it exists, triggers my sense of searching and investigation and I can say it helps to make me a better person.
Much love Leo ❤️
I've only ever had a lucid dream once. I tried for months but couldn't get there. Then one night, in my dream... I looked up, realized and said "Oh my god I'm dreaming." Leo, I've probably watched over 100 hours of your videos in the last two weeks. I feel like I'm having a lucid dream while I'm awake... no, "asleep." I'm still asleep, but now I know I'm sleeping, it's a weird realization and I have really been pondering why it's taken this long to get to this point. You hear a lot of talk like this in the world, but it just "sounds nice." Now, I get it. I haven't seen the light but now I know there is a light and I'm really excited to know that where I've been going wrong is looking within. Looking into my mind and really understanding how out of control I am of this machine I am, and that I am not the machine, I just am. Thank you for your message and putting this information out there. Its safe to say you've saved my life. Still trying to swallow the pill of knowing what an undertaking this will be but I don't want to forget there is a light, I need to find it.
5:44 at first Instinct my mind said “my soul” when I finally got it. But the irony is when you first described this exercise my mind went straight to: “guitar player, accountant; health nut..” as if those worldly things & the things I take pride in are what I am as a human being.
If I could give more than one like I would do it ;) This is what is needed in these times- hands on spirituality. Thanks Leo, I am so grateful, you are such a wonderful blessing in my life!!
That opening quote hit me hard because it's what I've been feeling lately.
Thanks for helping kill me, Leo ;)
About a year ago I hadn't even considered enlightenment or anything within experience now to even be possible. for the longest time I had just been fascinated by the concept of infinity and stuff relating to it, by chance one of my friends linked me your Absolute Infinity video and it blew my mind because I had never heard any explanation of that in the way you had done it. over the week after I had been thinking and focusing on it while at work and everything just melted away for a moment, I came back and started watching your other videos, helping me work though all my past traumas and latching onto the idea to see just how far I could take this. I started questioning everything, started meditation (and "fake" yoga for a while too for physical strength). half of my ego was screaming to live and the other half singing to let it die. yet no matter how bad my ego backlash got, I just couldn't stop myself from thinking about reality and actuality it was too fascinating.
I eventually hit a tipping point, I started to enjoy even the worst of days, started seeing the beauty, intricacy, and magic in the world again. I keep taking it deeper and deeper, finding that at work stocking shelves is a very good time for me to introspect and work through my deep issues and ruminate about life and mind and whatever else is here. Thanks again for helping start me down this journey, but we're all this together and not at all and it's amazing and impossible to put down into words of how I really feel because there's no I to feel but the feels are here and it's everything and isnt
Sensor metaphor, the best one I've ever heard! Amazing! I literally felt a shift in perception as you were saying that.
I can also see a change in you, you seem more peaceful, compassionate, humble.
Thank you Leo.
This is the only thing that matters in life
This is so important. I wish I had kept doing this. I used to question everything when I was younger but people always got so mad at me for doing that to them so I thought I was doing something wrong and stopped from like mid 20s to almost 30. Then I had the rug ripped out from under me with my identity when it came out that my dad had concealed a lot from me during my childhood. It was so traumatic for my ego to have my entire childhood biography deleted, but I am thankful it happened cuz it set me back on the path I need to be on. Thank you leo for being such a straightforward no BS teacher. 🙏🏻
Start back up
@@ActualizedOrg I am! I'm actually making a lot of progress now. Thank you so much. 🙏🏻
@@thewanderingwitch88 keep going
Hey, this is a fan... Of Actualized.org. And in this comment thread, we're going to be talking about WHERE'S TODAY'S EPISODE LEO I NEED MY FIX!?
Yeah c'mon leo I'm dying here!
Came for this😂
BUT LEO!
Its heeeyyyyy...😂 u r not a true fan
He's in silence. 😊
Since you have already covered this concept before, I thought this episode would be redundant, yet you somehow took it to a new level, quite the masterpiece. Thanks again Leo
You can testify the quality of a channel by the quality of the comment section. You guys are great
Very well articulated and presented brother. I will be watching this and really taking this seriously thanks to you. See you at the top 😎
36:54 30 Sec Tutorial to enlightenment
....Watching the progression of your hotness in these videos is super intense Leo!
11 minutes in, I completely get it. This is the simplest thing to do, but one of the rarest things done.
this channel is so fkn unique that it has Santa explaining non duality and how your actually God
I love you man, with a capital L...
Lot’s of words for simple concepts. This is good for those who need a thorough introduction to the concepts.
This has been the hardest thing i have ever tried in my entire life
Same.
SAME
This was the easiest I've ever done.
I'm that which has never not been
I've been practicing meditation for at least 60 minutes per day and for about 16 months. Just now have I begun to control the "monkey mind" and find the silence of observation of "self". I could have saved 8 months had I seen this video first. But here I am. Leo...you're awesome man!
I'm so tired of going in and out of self awareness throughout the day. It's exhausting. Come on all ready, beam me up scotty
Excellent video and now I know I am not strange. What I have been experiencing all these years is real and I am on the right path. I can't wait to learn not to be so often dominated by my strong emotions and to detach myself so the unnecessary suffering or worries can stop. Thanks Leo for this excellent analysis 🙏🙏
“It’s so empty that you can’t even tell if it exist or if it doesn’t exist.” That one got me one step closer to this emptiness
Looking forward to this :)
Hello Tom!
Im happy to see you here so often. I've recently found your channel and I'm in love with your videos, especially shrooms trip reports and the "you are not God" documentary.
Best of wishes and merry Christmas!
Hey mate, im watching your video too. 😀
Very good "kickstart" guided meditation by Leo:
Enlightenment - Part 3 - Creating An Experience Of No-Self
(Mar 30, 2015)
Also this other one (although less effective in my case):
Enlightenment Guided Inquiry - The Neti Neti Method
(May 1, 2016)
Happy new year!
I think I am a breathing machine with endless options that I can control throughout my thoughts. This answer comes from the question I asked myself yesterday: How to think the right thoughts I have to think by myself? That's what I think I am a "thought controller" to direct to the right reality. By listening carefully to the universe around me. And acting on the things that will help me further. Thanks for tha video Leo 😁
Did you have control over thinking the thought that you had to think about how to think the thoughts that you had to think for yourself? 😉
Hi Leo, I hope your back gets better soon 🙏. Thank you for this video. Untill now I have mostly done meditation and yoga. So the timing is perfect to start this self inquire "game". Have a great Christmas 🙏
Finally!!! Another stimulating video by Leo. This one really hits you in real time if you've done the work for a couple years or so.
Just want to say I love you Leo for what you are doing (and of course everyone else reading this, alive or dead ;)
And I want to add that you can have been fully enlightened and then come back to low awareness... and.. yes, it's painful. And a very, very weird experience..
I love that I started this video on December 22nd and Leo is wearing a Santa hat! Lol I love the way life works.
Leo, you're the smartest man I know dude, your work is awesome 😀
Merry Christmas Leo! Thank you for teaching me things to save me from myself. ❤️
I just wanna say thank you, feeling it so deeply cuz I know...
i love the example with observing the way your child behaves, instead of asking or reading books, it really made me better understand what is self-inquiry itself, and noticed that just now when watching it 3rd time haha :D thank you Leo!
As my awareness increases, it's shedding light on my limited awareness and how far away I really am, and how many little things still need attention in my life, and it's overwhelming, and a quick fix is enlightenment, but that path again sheds more light on my lack of awareness. Trap. Leo?
Own your body and mind: feel it through awareness, find your essence and find that emptiness within you.
Merry Christmas to you Leo. Thank you for this wonderful episode, you answered many questions I had about the process of self inquiry. Now I have an idea of how its done and how it should go. Much Love! Happy New Year! Take care of yourself.
It's very important in my opinion and it's a way to know yourself in a deeper level do shadow work. Teal Swan have alot of videos about that and The Diamond Net too
My family members thought I am mentally sick when I unpacked a few books which I wished to get for Christmas - about Holotropic breathwork and LSD both from Mr.Grof, because when I read such books I probably tend to look for this kind of "therapy". This strange sort of loneliness saddens me, I am overflowing with energy and motivation and I have very little people around me to share this with. So we stick to usual shallow conventional conversations... I have improved my physical health and energy level rapidly in past few months, feeling better than ever but I don't wear a white cloak or prescribe pills so I won't be taken seriously. Never. Sick world, so twisted. Thank u, Leo. And merry Christmas to u too. Take things easy, your back pain can be caused also by "having too much loaded on yourself", my back is a brilliant "overload indicator". Hugs, Katie.
Thank you Leo. This topic is very well explained, understood and taken as real truth in "Non dual direct path" in Vedanta philosophy.
Last 5minutes of advice is the best
Thank you so much Leo, so grateful for your wisdom and generosity
Thanks for the remainder at least more people know about the word self-inquiry and what it means.
paused at minute 7, i think that i identify with a 'unique' collection of past and present centralized(or maybe 'collapsing') perspectives(awarenesses), including sensations/perceptions, meaning/concepts derived from those sensations and language/ego 'dialogue',and memories.
The last thing that Leo says is the most important to me, and he answer my last comment. We need to do the practice.
Finger watching exercise was a shift for me ... I was able to lose myself into thoughtless observation or rather "concentration" ... very weird but really really helpful. I'd been stuck in thought about how each moment brings fluid constant changes in thought feeling or state ... what exactly is not different moment to moment? This video has been brilliant ... ego is smart in keeping me in thought ... cheers Leo
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It's wonderful to watch your struggle to explain this into words, Leo. The point of trying to explain something like "the feeling of diving into to sea" to someone that, for some impossible physical reason, never seen water before. Thank you
Merry Christman Leo. Appreciate the love.
Happy Holidays Leo! You are more and more thought-provoking....Lucky Us!!!
it's 2am now in my city and Santa came.i realized this after sec 1:20:52 .We thank you, Leo!
Hi Leo, "I" stuck somewhere :) i was doing the observation of observation and what come to me is the insight which say the following: We are reality, we are every sound, taste, sight, emotion, feelings and thought. And i can not see how we will be without our body, i think this awareness is here because of our being, i can't believe a rock have consciousness, i think is only for beings with life inside them. If somebody was there and want to help me HOW I GO FURTHER? thank you
Going further... perhaps psychedelics?
Your views are so interesting. Really makes me think differently and I’m changing because of them. Thanks Leo.
Leo, try to stretch ass muscles if it's lower back pain You're talking about. There was some nerve that gets pinched under muscles and radiates to the back. Same muscles also create tension in sacroiliac joints if not streched. Lay on Your back, knees up, soles of feet on floor, lift right leg up and place the heel on left knee(somewhat empty spot between muscles) and gently pull the left knee towards Your chest while breathing deeply! Keep head on the floor. Repeat with left. I usually do 2-3 x 2 min per side. Have found this to be best pain relief. Happy holidays!
Hey Leo!
Thanks for this video!
Very well explained, with enough variations/angles to help people grasp this important concept. Looking forward to your future content!
Love you Leo your changing my life!!
Leo, I'm still waiting for that picture of you being overweight.
It is actually funny. I had a dream where Leo uploaded a video and right in the middle of talking about existential matter he goes "oh yeah, and a few of you have wanted to see this" *shows picture*
Was this dream of the future? haha
@@ziquaftynny9285 haha
watch his oldest videos
@@superiorunderdog6277 Have you watched them?
Idk if you have been on the forum but its there.
“There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I'd like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.”
~Watts
Thank you for giving us the tools and showing us your way, I , like many others, have reoriented my life thanks to the insights and advices that you shared with us. I am grateful for your inspiring dedication 🙏🏻
I really appreciate your work.
And your thumbnails are a fucking piece of art for itself.
Happy Holidays Leo!!! Love your work, thank you for fearlessly uplifting humanity :)
Heyy I was just thinking about this! I’m an artist and I was going to illustrate what self-identifying may look like and this helped me better understand it perrrfectly. Actually, this year, I quit my job and was able to be in my own solitude for 6 months. I found myself writing in a journal everyday, questioning things I’ve never thought of before in my life. I wrote my answers down as if I was having a conversation with myself. I did this all while staring out of my window at nature. I created an art piece called “Dance of Balance” where it spoke to being both grounded and spiritual, both analytical and intuitive and how the universe assists us in reaching balance within. That strange duality that you mentioned. One other artwork worth noting was my “Divinity Incarnate” piece where it spoke to being that true self right here, right now. That “later part” of awakening that you spoke about. I’m glad I came across your video today. It helped me realize that I’m not as far off to awakening as I thought. I will be creating more soul provoking artwork 😋✨ @Khaliartt is my instagram If anyone’s wondering.
Leo you are a gift from divine for true seeker's of Truth, The amount of hard work you do in explaining the concepts is outstanding, keep up your mission, a heart felt thank you . Merry Christmas to you and happy New year 2019.
Beautiful and understandable approach to THAT! Thanks so much.
I do it very sloppily and have lots of benefits though. Thank you for doing your soul work💓so good & direct & clear for the emo peeps.
Leo could you do a video on conscious self-discipline? And making routines. Basically the psychology behind it
It's a bit far out but what I think consciousness is. Is a completely universal experience meaning that everyone will have every experience possible. Just being a matter of "time". So insignificant but yet everything. Just switching of the tables, I and Leo will be switching spots at some point. You'll never know but only to live it. Not trying to be far out just thinking out loud.
There's only one consciousness
Excellent work. Thank you Leo.
energy being ,love and light
Abide in the mystery. Awareness is for now just a concept, hearsay I can't thank you enough for this video, Leo.
Best ever! Timing Perfect!
Oh guys I'm so excited to that question 'what is true you?' I paused a video and thought for a while and than came up with the same simple answer. I'm consciousness! I can't believe Leo told the same it's amazing! 😄😱😊 BTW sending hugs and love from Slovakia! 🤗😃
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Woow just cleared up a looot!!! This episode is so necessairy and THANK YOU :)
I thought meditation (labeling and just watching your thoughts), concentration meditation, self inquiry (look if I am the brain, or any other point or what I think I am).
But all that is necessairy (if you are ready, witch I might be) in the beginning to then „only“ do these one or to simple things:
- just observing emptiness (which I can feel at times already, as far as I can tell)
- fokus meditation (like 5mins?) after the main meditation, to be able to be less unfokused during the meditation (like ending different processes on a computer leaves more rescources for the main, important one > multiplies growth)
I‘ll change my schedual immidiately and try it out :)
Greetings
The SantataGamana series of 5 books are absolutely invaluable here. The Yoga of Consciousness has very helpful exercises.
Its hard to self inquire, when you still believe that your physical brain is the responsible of consciousness, when in fact its opposite.
Jaypee Lituañas how do we know that though? If we remove someone’s brain completely, that person would die and we would not be able to know whether or not he is still himself.
In other words, we would not be able to know whether or not that person is aware of himself
big love my man. thank you.
gonna try this have done psychedelics on the double digits so its gonna be fun.
Augustine in the confessions, talked of a light prior to the mind. So awareness is metaphysically prior to that of which I am aware. Like in Vispassana which is actually *clear sight" not "insight" ( which suggests intellect)
Thanks for another year of your great work Leo. Happy Holidays
Thank you Leo! Perfect timing for me with this video.
Thank you so much, Leo.
I really do wonder if teaching "emptiness" is the effective teaching, but maybe I'm just nitpicking, the whole speech was excellently written
Second stage of enlightenment happens after full kundalini awakening, and transcending illusory nature of ego itself. Merry Christmas ;)
Hey Leo this is Paris from Iran, I've just stepped through the path of self inquiry.. there's a funny story behind this; couple of days ago I was trying to choose a font for my new tattoo actually it's the name I've recently picked for myself "Pneuma" so it has nothing to do with the word self-inquiry but just as I wanted to type the word Pneuma, the term Self-inquiry popped up! Wish I could show you the screenshot for you to see. I knew that I had to read about the issue but guess the world was telling me to go for it asap cuz I didn't google it in that website or anywhere! It's been a while since I feel so close to the world because big changes have happened in my life I've quit drugs lost weight n I'm playing my guitar and violin again and so many other things on the schedule. Definitely it's the time for more spiritual work and why not Self-inquiry.. I do find it a bit confusing but as you said it needs so much practice so.. from today 7th of November 2019 my journey begins. Wish me luck 🌠
It's interesting to find another Iranian here. Good luck on your journey 🤘.
Perfect timing as always
I just had a breakthrough as I was watching and listening. I can’t describe it tho
Well said Leo. Thank you for another great video, they are valued.