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[Music] in this episode I'm excited to be sharing with you some profound lessons about life from Aztec non-duality now you might wonder Leo Astec non-duality is such an obscure impractical topic what's the point of talking about this well actually you're going to find that it's very practical and it's also gonna interconnect things in your own mind because many people don't know that the Aztec people were non duelists and you'll be amazed to see all the interconnections between Aztec non-duality and Buddhism Hinduism Christianity Islam and everything that we've been talking about so this here I'm gonna be reading to you from a specific article a lengthy article from the internet encyclopedia of philosophy the articles entitled Astec philosophy written by James maffei of the University of Maryland and what's so remarkable about this article as I was reading it is that it struck me as the most elegant and most complete description of God and spirituality that I've ever read anywhere coming from this sort of obscure Aztec source and it blew my mind and so I want to share it with you this is a very big picture overarching view of what the spiritual path is all about and this is also another way that we can talk about God so we'll be describing explaining what God is from the Aztec perspective and of course it's going to be exactly what I've been telling you all along throughout all of my other videos so without further ado let's get right into it now I'm gonna be reading here and quoting extensively from this article of course I've cherry picked sections I'm not gonna be reading the whole thing if you want you can go online and find this article and read it all the way through yourself which I of course I highly recommend you do but I'll be reading it here for you the most juicy parts there will be some technical language and terminology that I will sometimes come across as I'm reading and I'll point that out to you and we'll discuss it I'll be giving a lot of commentary on and stuff that I'm reading based on my own direct experiences of non-duality and God and for now the one term that I want to point out to you so you understand is the word Nahua now who uh I'll be saying this word a lot as I'm reading and what that word refers to here is it refers to the Aztec people so technically in the academic literature they're referred to as the nahua their language is referred to as nahual or not wali and this is is a is a broad language group that encompasses the Aztecs and various other Mesoamerican peoples that lived in that area across many different eras so here is their spirituality here's what it looks like quote at the heart of Nahua philosophy stands the thesis that there exists a single dynamic vivifying eternally self-generating and self-regenerating sacred power energy or force what the Nahua is called Toyota or God so this is another technical term Toyota will be saying this one a lot so reverent Toyota Liz just the Aztec term for God moving on quote Elizabeth boon writes the real meaning of Toyota Liz spirit or a concentration of power as a sacred and impersonal force Toyota continually generates and regenerates as well as permeates encompasses and shapes the cosmos as part of its endless process of self generation and regeneration that which humans commonly understand as nature for example the heavens the earth reign humans trees rocks animals etc is generated by Toyota from Toyota as one aspect fasted or a moment of its endless process of self generation and regeneration yet Toyota is more than the unified totality of things Toyota is identical with everything and everything is identical with Toyota since identical with Toyota the cosmos and its contents ultimately transcends such dichotomies as personal versus impersonal animate versus inanimate etc as single all-encompassing life force of the universe Toyota vivifies the cosmos and its contents end quote so this is sounding a lot like Buddhism a lot like Taoism a lot like the yin and yang aspects of spirituality and that's exactly right so a theme that's going to be developing here within this Astec philosophy of God is that God is a shapeshifter and takes on many forms and that what the universe is and God is just synonymous with the universe is sort of a meta organism that is alive and sentient and what it's doing is it's moving through an endless cycle of generation and regeneration taking on an infinity of different kinds of forms from the earth to the rain to humans trees and rocks and animals and so forth and that this is what unifies everything so everything is one totality and this totality is called Toyota but also total separates itself and incarnate sit self into all the various forms that are a part of this infinite totality so moving on quote Toyota is both metaphysically immanent and transcendent it is imminent in that it penetrates deeply into every detail of the universe and exists within the myriad of creative things it is transcendent in that it is not exhausted by any single existing thing end quote so you see this issue comes up for example in Christian theology very commonly is is God imminent or transcendent and what that question means is is God in the universe or is God outside and beyond the universe and of course the answer is both simultaneously that's the paradox of God it's a superposition of both imminence and transcendence so everything that is happening right now as you're watching me everything in your room that's going on wherever you are that's the imminent that's the real tangible world that you know and then the transcendent is the formless beyond that formless consciousness so both are actually identical they're happening simultaneously you are both inside of God but you were also the overarching unification of the entire universe which is also God see the universe can be thought of as one large thing the entire universe but simultaneously the universe contains all the little tiny stuff in it ants and viruses atoms molecules and all of that and the Aztecs understood this going on quote now who a metaphysics is processive process movement becoming and transmutation are essential attributes of Toyota Toyota is properly understood as an ever flowing and ever-changing energy in motion not as a discrete static entity toi yodel that word refers to the eternal universal process of Toyota lysing end quote I love that so what we're saying here is that rather than thinking of the universe is a object like a chair think of it as a process like a waterfall it's just a never-ending stream of stuff pouring forth and it's ever flowing and ever changing energy in motion and so you can think of God traditionally as a noun as an object as a thing or you can think of God now as to utilizing or Godding what is God God is the process of God ding what is the process of God in or to utilizing its the ever it's the never ending process of things coming into being and out of being that is what the universe is moving on quote although essentially process of and devoid of any permanent order the ceaseless becoming of the cosmos is nevertheless characterized by an overarching balance rhythm and regularity one provided by and constituted by Toyota Toyota 'ls and hence the cosmoses ceaseless becoming is characterized about what I call dialectical polar monism dialectical polar monism holds that one the cosmos and his contents are substantively and formally identical with total and to that Toyota presents itself primarily as the ceaseless cyclical oscillation of polar yet complimentary opposites end quote so that is precisely what the yin-yang symbol from Taoism is supposed to represent so the universe is both non dual and dual at the same time what we mean when we say it's non dual is that it's all unified in its one entity to yodel and you can become conscious of that that is the monism term that is being used here and then that term polar dialectical polar dialectical polar what that means is that like beginning yang there's the black and the white the the light and the darkness the good and the evil and that they're always at interplay with each other and that's not a contradiction to monism or to non duality that's actually what non duality is is it includes within it all the duality it's the unification of all dualities and so the mistake that many scientifically finded people rashly minded people atheistic Lee minded materialistic invited people make is that we get caught up in the duality of everyday life but we don't see the overarching connection of everything and of course the materialist will respond by saying well but Leo I understand that the universe is one thing reality is one thing and yet even though you understand that perhaps intellectually you're not really grasping the significance of what it means to understand that everything is really one unit and that you aren't intimately connected to the entire universe you're missing the monism part and you're looking at the world dualistic aliy most of the time and that becomes a problem because you're overlooking the biggest picture possible and you're also not seeing that this cyclical oscillation of polar opposites is absolutely necessary and integral to how the universe is functioning so a lot of people they get wrapped up in in these various quixotic ideas of how they want to transform the world or how they want to change society and they get the silly idea that oh well we can just stop all the bad stuff and just maximize all the good stuff and then it'll be heaven on earth without realizing that you can't do that because the very nature of the whole universe is that it's an interplay between various oscillating and polar opposite forces that are complementary to each other and that this is fundamental to the whole thing and so you're not gonna change that dynamic moving on quote Toyota's process presents itself in multiple aspects preeminent among which is duality this duality takes the form of the endless opposition of contrary yet mutually interdependent and mutually complementary polarities which divide alternatively dominate and explain the diversity movement and momentary arrangement of the universe these include being and not-being order and disorder life and death light and darkness masculine and feminine dry and wet hot and cold active and passive life and death for example are mutually arising interdependent and complementary aspects of one in the same process life contains the seed of death death the Fertile energizing seed of life at court so you see this exactly what I was just describing and you know some people get it in their mind that death is a bad thing and that if all that humanity does is just find some way to keep ourselves immortal through genetic engineering or some technological singularity uploading your brain to a computer or something like that that's somehow you're gonna hear can escape this polarity between life and death without realizing that you can't have life without death and you can't have light without dark and you can't have masking without feminine and so a lot of the problems we have collectively in societies is work we're not striking that right balance and we're not understanding that the universe has to move dualistic Lee dialectic Lee through these different polar opposites and navigate through this sort of dynamic process maintaining this equilibrium sort of like balancing on a unicycle and that you can't ever stand still on a unicycle you always have to be moving but at the same time balancing and this is the dynamic balance of life which is so critical that so many people miss whether it's with your relationships or with your business or with your health or with how much television you watch or how much time you spend on video games or the internet it's not that these things are bad it's not that porn is bad it's not that sex is bad it's a question of are you able to strike the balance and we'll be returning to this topic of balance over and over again because it really is one of the central themes of spirituality and living the good life which is why we're talking about any of this in the first place moving on quote according to Nahua duality order and disorder life and death etc alternate endlessly without resolution it neither conceives death as inherently evil and life is inherently good nor advocates the conquest of death or the search for eternal life the created cosmos consists of the unending cyclical tug of war or dialectical oscillation of these polarities all of which are the manifold manifestations of Toyoda because of this the created cosmos is characterized as unstable transitory and devoid of any lasting being order or structure yet I O'Toole is nevertheless characterized by enduring pattern or regularity how can this be so Toyota is the dynamic sacred energy shaping as well as constituting these endless oscillations it is the imminent balance of the end dialectical alternation of the created universes interdependent polarities and quote one of the mistakes that materialists and scientists make is they tend to assume an objective external world out there somewhere behind the scenes which is totally static and unchanging and they conceive of the physical laws as static as unchanging and various kinds of physical constants the gravitational constant so forth as static and unchanging as absolutes and instead what we get with this aztec metaphysics is we get a different picture we get a picture of the universe as having no static point so there's no anchor that grounds it which means that literally there's no reality reality is simply the arising of whatever appearances are arising right now and those of course are forever changing and that's exactly what buddhism teaches buddhism teaches a very central principle of impermanence and it's very important to become conscious of the impermanence of reality otherwise what happens that we cling to people our pets our family our business our money our health our age our ideas our life our country some technology but all these things are constantly changing Theo de liz constantly renewing itself building on top of itself forever which means that it has to let go and shed off all things and of course many of the problems we have socially culturally is that a lot of people they cling to their guns they cling to their religion they cling to their way of doing business they cling to their philosophy their claim to their Bible they cling to their economic ideology whether it's capitalism or Marxism or whatever people cling to these things and then they used to let them go which is really sort of like they're trying to grab on to the waterfall and to kind of like hold it in place without realizing that this is delusion insanity because the waterfalls nature is to always be falling down and always to be renewing itself so even though you can try to cling to certain parts of reality and try to hold on to them eventually every human body dies every species goes extinct every planet gets destroyed every star is exhausted and burns and blows itself up every technology becomes obsolete every language changes in morphs every country and every government changes and gets destroyed and gets overthrown and goes through revolutions everybody loses their youth everybody loses their health you see so you can't you can't maintain yourself that way and even in your own personal life just your own body think about how much your own body has changed over the span of your whole life imagine what would happen if you were seven years old and you said you know damn it I just want to stay seven years old I'm gonna try to maintain my body the way it is at seven years old you can see how that leads to a lot of dysfunction right because you have to be open to it to the ever flowing nature of Toyota moving unquote because essentially process of and dynamic Toyota is properly characterized neither by being nor not being but by becoming being and not being are simply to dialectically interrelated presentations or facets of Toyota and as such in applicable to Toyota itself similarly Toyota is properly understood as neither ordered nor disordered but as unordered indeed this point is fully general life / death active / passive male / female etc are strictly speaking not predicable of Toyota Toyota captures a tertium quid or a third kind transcending these dichotomies by being simultaneously neither alive nor dead yet both alive and dead and simultaneously neither orderly notice orderly yet both orderly and disorderly etc and quote this is precisely the paradox of non-duality is that even though Toyota or God contains these various qualities like male and female active and passive life and death and big and small and so forth it also simultaneously transcends all these dualities and so it can't be pinned down to being any one particular thing and that's what makes Toyota so tricky to grasp and to understand for human beings because as human beings were part of the contents of reality and so we're used to looking at the contents or forms of reality and thinking that if something is real or something exists it must be a particular way it must be either a male or a female it must be big or must be small it must be rational it must be irrational but it can't be both and it can't be neither and it certainly can't be both and neither at the same time but yet that is precisely what the universe is looking at it from the biggest picture perspective possible and this is what we mean by saying that God is everything but God is also simultaneously nothing not those things so even though God is a man and a woman it is a tree in a car and a dog in a planet and a star and a galaxy it's all those things but simultaneously none of those things are the totality of God or Toyota moving on quote in the end Toyota is essentially an unstructured and unordered seamless totality in western philosophical terminology one perhaps best characterizes the radical ontological indeterminacy of nahua metaphysics as an extreme nominalist anti-realism and toyota as a Conti enlike noumenon end quote so here this passage has a lot of sort of fancy philosophical terms what it really means here is that reality is not how materialists and realists conceive of it to be Nahua metaphysics and non-dual metaphysics of any mystical tradition is fundamentally anti-realist which denies the existence of a static fixed external objective reality and Toyota is what caught called the noumenon so the noumenon is that which is beyond all phenomenon so phenomenon is all the shapes and colors that you see we might call that perceptions and the noumenon is some other invisible aspect or the nothingness the void which is holding all of that or you could call it consciousness or awareness pure consciousness is the noumenon of conte and it is total moving on quote now who a philosophers also conceived Toyota pantheistic Allah of course a everything that exists constitutes an all-inclusive and interrelated unity be this unity is sacred see everything that exists is substantively identical and hence one with the sacred D the sacred is total there is only one thing Toyota and all other forms and aspects of reality and existence are identical with Toyota and finally e Toyota is not a minded being or person and quote that's exactly right we're talking about pantheism or also pan and theism they're really the same thing yes we have this unity but also you have to realize that it's not enough to realize that the universe is one single entity or unity you also have to realize that it's sacred which is which is difficult for many atheists wrap their mind around and you have also have to realize that that that this unity is not a person in the way that Orthodox religions conceived of it to be so this is the critical mistake of classical Orthodox Christianity or other religious traditions even in Hinduism you know they have a lot of avatars which take on anthropomorphic human forms and all of this fundamentally misses the point that Toyota is formless God is formless but pantheism is precisely correct it is what mysticism is it is the core truth at the heart of every single major religion in the world pantheism but because pantheism is scary too many spa dynamic stage blue Orthodox people what they do is they deny and this is this is amazing the mental gymnastics that Orthodox religious people go through to deny the pantheistic nature of God so if you are religious and you're not conceiving of God pantheistic Allah you're you're getting your religion wrong whether you're a Christian a Hindu a Jew or a Muslim right and of course it's precisely because what pantheism says that God is identical with the entire universe and it's precisely because you are part of the universe that you literally are both a part of God but also all of God simultaneously which freaks so many Orthodox religious people out because they want to separate themselves from God which is why fundamentally they deny pantheism moving on quote - yodels ceaseless generating and regenerating of the cosmos is also one of ceaseless self transformation and cell-free transformation the cosmos is Toyota's self transformation and self transmutation not is creation x Nilo the new Whois understood this process to be in two closely interrelated ways toyota is a sacred artist who endlessly fashions andrey fashions itself into and as the cosmos the cosmos is Toyota's quote flower and song as Toyota's flower and song the cosmos is Toyota's grand ongoing artistic come metaphorical self presentation or Toyota's ongoing work of performance art or metaphor in motion and quote so it's a bunch of words there let me describe what this means so the universe is Toyota's work of art or as the Aztecs called it the flower and song so the entire universe is God's flowering or coming into being it's an artistic thing you got to see the beauty of the universe and that's the whole power of spirituality that's the whole appeal of being spiritual that you get to then by becoming conscious of total in everything you then get to see the beauty and genius of this artistic work of performance art that is the universe and it's an infinitely beautiful thing which people miss out on even many religious people miss out on this so you got a you got to see to really appreciate life at a deep level you have to see the artistry of life the artistry of what God is doing here and just how brilliant and amazing it is and this is precisely what many materialists and atheists completely miss because they're so stuck in their head they're so stuck in the left hemisphere of their brain that they only see the world as justice is this dumb mechanical system this clockwork of a random stuff happening with no meaning and no purpose and it's just sort of like this cold bleak universe and it's just like very mechanical and scientific and logical and mathematical without bringing in the heart component they're missing the heart because they're so stuck in their left hemisphere of the brain moving on quote secondly the nahua conceived total self transmutation in shamanic terms the cosmos is teo Dalls nahual or disguise or mask the word nahual derives from mahallae signifying a form change in shaman the continual becoming of the cosmos and its myriad aspects are teo Dalls shamanic self masking and self disguising end quote this is absolutely critical to understand notice that the word the houl means disguise or mask and then who'll people than a hua people they they call themselves than the hua which derives from the hawala which is a form changing shaman so literally they named themselves after shamans which is of course right because the shamans have the highest wisdom so it'd be right to name yourself at and it would be right to name your language that and of course a shaman is always going into disguises and wearing masks and this symbolizes the fact that that's what God is doing so the reason that the shaman is wearing masks and various disguises and is considered like a shapeshifter is because Toyota or God is a shapeshifter and that's such an important metaphor to understand why God is so difficult to understand because God is shifting its shape all the time and as a shapeshifter you might think well but what is God's real form when it's not shape-shifting when God isn't being a tree or a mountain or a cloud or a car or a woman or a man or a dog what is God's true shape and the mindfuck of it is is that God has no true shape at all God's true shape is no shape and when you think about it that's brilliant it's actually an ingenious design because look if you want it to really be the best shapeshifter you could be so to speak you would need to make yourself totally empty because if you weren't totally empty there would be some part of you which disrupts your ability to take on some shape totally right like you couldn't totally become a tree because there would be some part of you some essential nature or form that you had which is getting in the way for example you as a human being if you want to be an actor the problem with that is that you have a certain form that you have and so you can't really be the best actor you can be in a certain sentence because like you know a man can't really play an effective woman in a movie unless he's just doing like a parody and you know a white man can't really play an effective black man nor vice versa in a movie right because like you'd have to get rid of your whiteness to be able to fully embody blackness and you have to get rid of your blackness to fully embody whiteness and you have to get rid of your femaleness and your maleness and your whether you're a short actor or tall actor you know that limits what kind of roles you can play but the whole genius of God is that it's not limited to that so therefore it literally is completely empty and then it can take all forms in all shapes and that explains why God is so difficult for people to find and to for people to grasp with the mind is because the thing you're trying to grasp is the fact that God is the shapeshifter and then of course right now it's shape-shifting into you and shape-shifting into me and what's happening right here even though it looks like it's a man over here sitting talking to a camera and you over there either a man or a woman sitting there listening to me making sense of all this although it seems that that's what's happening actually this is God's mask this is God's disguised as God's performance art and you need to be able to be smart enough to see through that which requires consciousness and intelligence which few people have and so therefore when they're told about God they think all God just a belief just some fantasy but what you don't understand is that you got to be conscious what's going on here you know what it's sort of like pointing out God to an atheist or to materialist is so frustrating because they're so dense it's almost like we go to a rainforest and there's like a beautiful chameleon sitting on a branch or a beautiful owl sitting on a branch and I'm walking through with you and you're the atheist or the Mateus and you you've never seen one of these al-zor chameleons and I point to it and I said look look at it there's the owl there's the chameleon there's the butterfly but because your eyes are not accustomed to looking through the camouflage of the chameleon of the owl of the of the butterfly their camouflage is so perfect they completely blend in with the jungle and so you look at me and you say leo what are you stupid what are you crazy what are you insane you're hallucinating there's no owl there there's no chameleons there's no butterfly it's just the jungle it's just a tree it's just a branch is just a leaf but of course you would be able to see the butterfly or the chameleon or the owl if you spent a lot of time just observing them in this jungle but because you're here for the first time you can't even believe it's outside of your realm of belief and possibility that there could be this amazing owl sitting right a few feet away for you and you can't see it it's like Leo there's no such thing as owls well there's not for you because you haven't spent enough time observing these owls because they're so well camouflaged God is the perfect chameleon it's able to perfectly camouflage itself and so it's pointless in a sense to ask for evidence of God the way that materialists do in the same sense that you can ask for all the evidence in the world of owl that's camouflaged on a tree branch but unless you're able to grasp the outline of the owl you know I mean I'm pointing to what the evidence is there you're being pointed the evidence all the time the evidence for God is everywhere all the time you're so deeply immersed in it that's precisely why you can't see it you have to be able to to sort of grasp it or broke it at once you have to go aha oh that's what this is oh yeah that's the owl oh yeah that's the chameleon oh yeah that's the butterfly I see the butterfly see and the mistake that the materialists make is that he says all leo but you need to you need to provide proof prove to me that that's an owl it's like no I can't prove to you this oh now you got to be able to see it to see the owl so I love this metaphor this is for me this is my favorite metaphor for God is that God is a shapeshifter this explains why God is so deceptive why God is so tricky why it's so confusing why your own mind prevents you from being able to see it because that's the whole thing we're dealing with here and of course in Hinduism this notion is known as Maya we're talking about Maya here so notice all these interconnections between the Aztecs descriptions of God and also many of the eastern ones and of course in the West they have the notion of the devil you might think Oh Leo but the Christian God the Christian God isn't deceitful in a sense it is because in the in the Christian God there is the devil in the Christian conception of God and the devil of course is a trickster and a shapeshifter so that is sort of the devilish nature of God God has this devilish side to him which you could call Maya or the devil moving on quote Toyota artistically comes shamanic Lee presents and masks itself to humans in a variety of ways one the apparent thickness of existence for example the appearance of static entities such as humans mountains trees insects etc this is illusory since one and all are merely facets of total sacred motion and to the apparent multiplicity of existence for example the appearance of discrete independently existing entities as individual humans plants and mountains this is a losery since there is only one thing Toyota and three the apparent exclusivity independence and irreconcilable opposition allottee of dualities such as order and disorder life and death etc this is illusory since they are interrelated complementary facets of Toyota and quote so what we're talking about here is the illusory nature of Toyota the illusory nature of reality the deceptive nature of your own mind are you noticing these themes coming up over and over again as you're doing personal development as you're growing as you're learning about your own emotions as you're learning about the counterintuitive nature of life as you're learning about things going full circle I've talked about all these things in the past go check out all those episodes that I have about all those topics you need to start to see that your own mind is the thing that's getting in the way of you being fully conscious of everything in the universe and all of your problems fundamentally stem from this one problem of illusion and delusion and self-deception and that's what you need to put your attention and energy towards not that other people are deluding you with conspiracy theories knots that some religious fundamentalists and fanatics are trying to recruit you into their cult but that your own mind is tricking you constantly your own mind is shaping the way that you see everything because it's affecting how you interpret all of these perceptions and it's radically changing what's right before your eyes without you even being aware of it your mind is creating various kinds of conceptual contexts which are helping you to make sense of the world around you and that this is where the chief delusion is rooted in in that including your sense of self and your sense of evil and suffering in the world right it's all rooted in the various ways in which your mind tricks you and the way that it tricks you the reason it tricks you rather is because that's necessary for you to be able to survive as yourself it has the illusion that you are that's how Toyota created you God didn't just take some matter and assemble it together to create a human that's not how God created you God created you by tricking itself into believing that it's a human and that it's not God tada you see and the reason that's possible is because everything all of this the entire universe is just the mind of God there is no physical substance to it so God could imagine anything including being a human which is precisely where you find yourself right now moving on quote as an epistemic consequence of Toyotas self disguising when humans customarily gaze upon the world what they see is Toyota as a human as a tree or as a female for example they see total self disguised rather than Toyota as Toyota as we shall see shortly below wisdom is what enables humans to discern the sacred presence of Toyota in its myriad disguises and quote this is critical for you to understand even though Toyota is everything including that tree that man that woman and so forth these are the disguises that Toyota is wearing which you are fooled by as an ordinary human being and the point of spiritual practice the point of consciousness is to be able to penetrate through the veil of the illusion and to realize what the illusion or the disguise is really hiding behind the scenes which is Toyota as Toyota so this is the emptiness the void the formlessness the Godhead that is total as total proper but Toyota as disguised is a human a tree a car and your body and your mind you see so the point of self inquiry is for you to realize Toyota in its pure form in its empty form to stop confusing it with its formed versions because you might wonder like what Lea what's the point of doing self inquiry if you say God is everywhere then why should I look inside of myself to ask myself Who I am or what I am when I can like look at a tree and just say that well the tree is God the car is God that woman is God why do self inquiry well you're doing self inquiry because you want to get to the root of of the fact that you yourself are God and you want to get to that pure realization of Toyota as total not as a disguise so you're using the neti neti method that we've talked about you're using the neti method to eliminate all the disguises of God in order to get to God in its most pure form which is just pure empty consciousness or awareness or nothingness you see and wisdom is your ability to do that and so the reason that many scientists and atheists and materialists are incapable of doing this of course via certainty are incapable of it as well in most cases is because they lack wisdom and this is why IQ is so irrelevant to living a good life it doesn't matter how high your IQ is because your IQ does not give you the wisdom that is required to see through the illusion or the self disguise of Toyota and that is fundamentally what allows you to be a good human being and to live life well and to be happy and to avoid delusion and falsehood and this explains why many very intelligent scientists and PhDs in Harvard and Stanford and Yale and other places all around the world who run fancy laboratories and have fancy experiments and fancy technology and all this they have billions of dollars of research funding and all that and they have a bunch of Nobel Prizes but they don't have enough wisdom to realize that all of the science and research that they're doing is happening within a dream that they're doing it within the matrix because for that what's required is not reason or logic or intelligence because those are aspects of the dream aspects of the delusion you need wisdom to be able to break through it to see through to disguise of Toyota and that's good news for you if you don't have a high IQ means you're not screwed next next section quote Toyota possesses metaphysical epidermal ah djegal moral and aesthetic facets in that it functions simultaneously as the source object and/or standard of reality knowledge value rightness and beauty although the priests nobility and sages embrace this monistic aspect the uneducated masses tended to embrace the polytheistic aspects of nahua metaphysics state-sanctioned Aztec religion construe Toyota as the Supreme God named AMA Toyota i'ma Toyota literally means to God our mother our Father or the old God as well as a host of lesser gods stars fire and water AMA Toyota was the god of duality a male/female unity who resided in AMA mayo con the place of duality which occupied the highest levels of the heavens Amata yodel father door mothered her himself as well as the universe on Matteo we'll provided the universal cosmic energy from which all things derive their original as well as their continued existence and sustenance she he provided and maintained the oscillating rhythm of the universe and she he gave all things their particular natures end quote so if you want to think of God you can think of God as literally this two-sided figure with one male half and one female half if you really want to anthropomorphize God properly or just as the yin and the yang the way the Dow's do quote in virtue of these attributes she/he was called the one through whom all live and the one who is the very being of all things preserving them and sustaining them because metaphysically imminent Almaty yodel was called quote the one who is near to everything into whom everything is near almaty Odle was called the one who is quote invisible like the knight and intangible like the wind and quote exactly they're describing the Godhead they're describing pure consciousness and that's very difficult to point to and that's what all non-dual teachers are trying to do they're trying to point to the unta ball how do you point someone who isn't conscious to what consciousness is that's the whole difficulty of teaching non duality because consciousness is invisible like the night and intangible like the wind so you can't prove it you can't give people evidence of it because evidence is a form proof is a form whereas consciousness is formless you see so if you're looking for proofs and evidence for consciousness you're never gonna grasp consciousness which is exactly the problem with science because science only admits of the existence of forms and it doesn't admit of the unformed because science is a formed activity which is where mrs. sim comes in which is why you need the field of missus ISM to be able to teach you other kinds of techniques which will allow you to grasp the ungraspable to find the gateless gate the groundless ground to find the invisible in the intangible that's right here right now but you're overlooking it because you're stuck in it like a fish and water quote because they saw everything earthly as total soft disguise nahua sages claimed everything earthly is dreamlike new who is sages conceived the dream likeness or loser eNOS of earthly existence in epistemic anat ontological terms illusion was not an ontological category as it was safer Plato Nahua sages employed the concepts of dream likeness and illusion as epistemic categories in order to make the Epis logical claim that the natural condition of humans is to be deceived by tayos disguise and to misunderstand to yodel not the metaphysical claim that has two handles disguise all earthly existence is ontologically substandard and not genuinely real earthly existence provides the occasion for human misperception misjudgment and misunderstanding the dreamlike character of earthly existence the mask of unknowing which beguile us as human beings is a function of our human perspective and toyota's artistic self disguise these being ultimately one in the same end quote so again you see every great mystical tradition and sages throughout history Buddhist ones Hindu ones and others talking about reality as though a dream as though it were a dream that it's an illusion it's a mirage it's not real you could also call it a hallucination that's what psychedelics reveal to you is that everything is a hallucination including this very moment right now that's what it means to say that the universe's giant mind and so the problem with being a human is that we miss perceive and we get wrapped up into this illusion and we deny the dreamlike qualities of reality because we need it to be real to believe in it you see when you're growing up you need to you need to feel like your mother and father are real things you don't want to feel like they're illusions likewise when you're being religious you need to feel that God is a real tangible thing a man or a woman in the clouds someone you can count on not some empty formless thing not some shapeshifter not some trickster you know when you're running a business and you're earning millions of dollars you need to feel that those millions of dollars are real in order for you to keep doing that you don't want to realize that millions of dollars are just an idea in your mind a concept of fantasy a pure illusion that money is just a pure human invention see when you're creating some court of moral legal system and you want to tell people to stop murdering and raping and going to war and thieving and all this sort of stuff you need to believe that you're grounding these rules into something real and tangible because how do you convince millions of people to all agree that murder is wrong only by getting them to believe that it's really wrong it's objectively truly really wrong now that's not true of course but that illusion is necessary in order to build up a civilization if that's what you want to do and so illusion is at the heart of all survival activities which is why humans don't want to give it up which is why we're filled with so much misunderstanding and why we miss God so easily because we've really traded God or truth for our illusions because our illusions help us to live and that's totally understandable but then it also explains why God is so difficult to understand and why there's so much confusion and controversy around it it's really a function of you being human that you miss Toyota's artistic self disguise because as a human you care about living not about art or truth moving on here in quote wen hua sages characterized earthly existence as ephemeral and evanescent they did so not because earthly existence lacks complete reality but because as fascist of tales disguise they are subject to the endless oscillations of dialectical polar monism illusion is a function of our mistaking the commonly perceived characteristics of the myriad shapes structures and entities of tayos disguise as characteristics of toyota itself in some the new who is AB stemologica conception of illusion does not commit them to an ontological dualism between two different kinds of existence illusion and reality and is therefore consistent with their ontological monism end quote see so materialists or duelists might object to non duality on the grounds that they say well Leo you talk about illusion and then you talk about the ultimate truth and it seems like these are two separate things you're talking about the ego as if it's an illusion you're talking about the earthly realm it's all illusions and all the survival and human stuff that we do that's all illusions and then you talk about some ultimate absolute truth the god had the infinity so isn't that duality and of course the answer is no because those two things are precisely identical but you need to become conscious of that you see so first in your awakening process what you need to do is you need to separate illusion from absolute truth and then it'll seem like the material physical world is just an illusion and the absolute truth that's the real truth the Godhead but you don't wanna get lost in that because if you do if all you do is you just say well the absolute void that's that's the only truth and reality orly existence it's all just delusion and delusion if you if you take on that as a worldview then you will be a duelist actually not a non duelist if you want a truly fully embodied on duality if to bring that absolute truth back and have to realize that oh the absolute even though I could distinguish it from the illusions at the same time I could collapse that that distinction and realize that they were one in the same the entire time which is precisely why it was so difficult to separate them in the first place because they're identical so what are you doing when you're trying to separate them you're trying to really do the impossible but really reality is relative so it's possible for you to separate them out by looking at it one way and then possible for you to integrate it back together by looking at another way right so really what it means to say that reality is relative is that depending on how you look at it you can see two different things in the same way that if you look at a half-filled glass of water one person can look at and say well it's half full not a person to look at and say it was half empty which is true both are true simultaneously and you need to be able to to to look at that glass in both ways and you need be able to jump back and forth but the monism or the unit of the unity or the non duality a part of this whole metaphysics is that there's only really one glass there the glass is not in one state of fullness and another state of of half emptiness it just is one thing but you can see it in two different ways depending on how you look at it moving on quote a further consequence of nahua monism is the metaphysical impossibility of human beings perceiving DeRay anything other than toyota l' Forte odel is the only thing to be perceived DeRay now just as an aside what DeRay means is to see something directly not through a veil of perceptions or through some process but to literally become the thing so for example rather than seeing a tree you become the tree going on now quote but then how can the huis ages claim that humans normally miss perceive and misunderstand total humans normally perceive and conceive Toyota laddie dick doe or under description that is as maleness as death as night etc when doing so they perceive and conceive totals self disguise and consequently perceive and conceive Toyota in a manner that is untrue unrooted inauthentic on concealing and non disclosing it is humans miss perceiving and misunderstanding Toyota as its disguise which prevents them from seeing total reality as it really is and quote this is super important did you get this so there's two ways that you can perceive reality or perceive God you can perceive God in its disguise which would be D dicto or D ray you can perceive it indirectly to perceive God directly is to be conscious of God to perceive God indirectly D dick toe through description as a particular form that is what's delusion illusion misunderstanding misperception and that's when you see physical reality so where's God God is right here all this is God but Leo it doesn't look like God right because you're looking at it the wrong way you're looking at it under description you're looking at it indirectly so what this is this is the whole trick of trying to perceive God you need to go beyond your descriptions beyond specific forms and you don't know how to do that you need to be trained in how to do that which is where meditation and yoga comes in and self inquiry in psychedelics moving on quote the only way humans experienced a Odle knowingly is to experience a Odle sans description which means - description without description humans experienced toyota knowingly via a process of mystical style union between their hearts and Toyota that enables them to experience a Odle directly that is without mediation by language concepts or categories one comes to know Toyota l' through toyota l' once perception and conception are no longer be fogged by the Cloud of Unknowing note however that although metaphysically imminent within human hearts Toyota is nevertheless epistemologically transcendent in the sense that humans are not guaranteed knowledge of Toyota and quote you get this so the way you access God is through mystical union and the only way you can know God is through God which is another way of saying that the only way you can discover what consciousness is is not through a scientific inquiry not through neuroscience not through equations not through models not through ideas of consciousness happening in some brain somewhere but directly you must become consciousness to know what consciousness is because consciousness is the only thing there is there's nothing else if you're not conscious of what consciousness is and you're lost and forms by definition you're not conscious and so of course you don't know what it is this is the critical mistake that neuroscientists make or even philosophers many Western philosophers make when they try to resolve what's called the hard problem of Saia the hard problem of consciousness or it's also called the mind-body problem Western philosophers aren't able to resolve it because they're doing their philosophy using concepts language and categories which is an intermediary which is preventing them from realizing and grasping directly what taeil is of course Toyota is language and concepts and categories but Toyota is more than that and so long as you're lost in language concepts and categories you're lost within Toyotas disguise see that's why it's so tricky and you're not guaranteed knowledge of Toyota precisely because this trick is being played and you're playing this trick on yourself you might ask well beliya why why why would God be so cruel as to hide himself from me and let me live my whole life without discovering him well since you are God since you are Toyota you're doing it to yourself so stop doing it so the only beef you should have is with yourself your own mind is getting in the way it's not that guide is hiding from you it's that the very sense of you is separating you from God so surrender that separate sense of you otherwise known as the ego which you have and then you'll see Toyota everywhere it's really just that simple next quote a fundamental metaphysical difference thus divides the underlying problematic of Nahua and Cartesian style Western epistemology the latter the Cartesian conceives subject and object dualistic Allah and the relationship between subject and object as one mediated by a veil of perception that's the standard materialistic scientific paradigm the subject access to the object is indirect being mediated for example by appearance or representations of the object the know who is epistemic of problematic on the other hand conceives the subject and object monistic Allah and the relationship between subject and object in terms of a mask and quote so this is really the difference the key difference between what we might call Western philosophy and Eastern philosophy is that Western philosophy tends to be very dualistic and materialistic and it tends to divide the world into subjects and objects and as soon as you do that you create a big problem this is the problem how do you know anything because as the subject over here try to know some object like God how can you be sure leo how can you know that that you're not deluded when you're knowing God so which you have to understand though is that to really know God you have to collapse the subject-object duality to the point where you become God and so therefore it's not that you know God it's that you are God and so the question of possible delusion or misunderstanding or confusion is eradicated because you are God miss Nirmala ji and metaphysics the way that they're conceived of in Western philosophy has been two separate fields they're unified and it's never gonna be possible for Western philosophy to resolve the ultimate questions of life and reality and the hard problem of consciousness unless they realize that epistemology and metaphysics are actually one the same thing the only way you can know a thing is by being a thing you must get rid of this middleman of perception the veil of perception that you think exists between you and the real world the external physical world out there doesn't exist because there is no physical world that there's only appearances and appearances are immediately accessible to you all the time appearance just is what it is so you actually contrary to what you believe you actually have direct unmediated access to absolute truth or God right now all the time because there's nothing but God and there's nothing in the way between you and God other than your own mind and delusions which really isn't a thing at all since it's an illusion it doesn't actually exist so there actually is no veil that's how tricky this is that's how amazing this is you so discover that there never was a veil between you and God or you and the external objective physical world this is it right here all of it is open to you but you're just not conscious of the fact that it is wearing you need an Enlightenment experience to disabuse you of that notion next quote the Nahua regarded earthly life is filled with pain sorrow and suffering indeed the Earth's surface is a treacherous habitat for human beings it's named in the hua literally means on the point or the summit of the earth suggesting a narrow jagged point like place surrounded by constant dangers the nahua proverb quote it is slippery it is slick on the earth end quote was set to a person who had lived a morally upright life but then lost her balance and fell into moral wrongdoing as if slipping in slick mud humans lose their balance easily and so suffer misfortune frequently they therefore desperately need guidance end quote so this explains our predicament here on this earth we are trying to delicately balance ourselves on a very precarious position on jagged peak and if we lean too much to one side or the other then we're gonna fall into dysfunction and depravity of various kinds and so our job as sages as self actualize errs as spiritual aspirants is to maintain our balance on that jagged point and not to slip and you know I keep telling you all the time that there's all these traps you can fall into this trap or that trap or some other trap with this work well that's precisely why I'm telling you about all these traps these are all the ways in which you can lose your balance and slip because it's so easy to slip and this is what it means to be a sage is to learn how to balance yourself on this precarious perch that we call life next quote nahua sages conceived the raison d'être a philosophy in terms of this situation and turn to philosophy practicable answers to what they regarded as the defining question of human existence which was how can humans maintain their balance upon the slippery earth this situation questioned jointly constitute the problematic which functions as is defining framework for Nahua philosophy morally epistemic ly and aesthetically appropriate human activities are defined in terms of the goal of humans maintaining their balance upon the slippery earth all human activities are to be directed towards this aim at bottom nahua philosophy is essentially pragmatic and quote so this contrasts much of Eastern philosophy and spirituality against Western academic analytical philosophy the problem with the way that analytical philosophy is done these days in modern universities across US and Europe is that it's way too conceptual it's way too abstract way too theoretical and detached from the real word world problems of how do you you how do you live a good life how do you navigate all the craziness all the delusion that's actually happening every single day in the media in the news with politics at work in your family all this delusion all of these beliefs and ideologies how do you navigate all this and find the truth and maintain a sense of balance and find your place in life and live a happy fulfilling tranquil life and not be a devil and not contribute to evil and delusion and depravity see modern academic philosophy like is completely disconnected from these questions these questions were at the heart for example a philosophy for the ancient Greeks and Romans they practiced philosophy so that they could be better citizens better politicians better orators better speakers better human beings so that they can understand nature better so they could be better scientists but today science has split itself so far off from philosophy and everyday people have no connection to felt academic philosophy - it's taught such that the word philosophy has become a pejorative to mean something abstract and philosophical and something that is disconnected from from real life like business or family or success and so what actualize that org is about is about returning philosophies to its to its origin the function of philosophy and the way that I teach actualized org is in such a way that I take abstract esoteric philosophical things that maybe you would learn in some university and I show you how to bring it down to earth and how to use it to transform your own life practically how to transform your mood how to solve problems of depression addiction loneliness anger fear resistance not having a sense of purpose in life how to solve your career how to align your career with your heart how to get in touch with your heart how to be more authentic how to be better more honest within your relationships how to be a better leader how to be creatively independent as an artist how to connect with your creative source which is of course Toyota that's where all art comes from we'll get to that in a minute right so what we need is we need ordinary people who would otherwise never be interested in philosophy because they treat it as some abstraction or some theoretical thing to realize that they're actually missing out on the very heart and core of practical everyday life living and that's precisely why most people in the West live such miserable depressed mediocre depraved lives addicted deluded depressed with no sense of purpose alienated nihilistic and just like completely lost in life with no idea of what they should be doing working some dead-end job at McDonald's or Starbucks this is why this is happening precisely because nobody is really taught true philosophy and philosophy has turned into some mental masturbation exercise within academia it's a very problematic state of affairs this is directly responsible for very practical problems we have in life including war genocide criminality all the problems you see in politics all the diluted politics we have all the culture wars it's responsible for all of this it's responsible for climate change it's responsible for corruption within government corruption within business oligarchies and corporate rule like all of this stems from people fundamentally not being taught philosophy proper true philosophy which is what I'm reading to you right now this Nahua philosophy is the proper philosophy it's not just know who a philosophy this is a universal philosophy this is philosophy that works for all humans it's been tested across thousands of years across all continents and all cultures and it works next quote to the question how can humans maintain their balance upon the slippery earth the Nahua answered humans must conduct every aspect of their lives wisely to the question what is the best path for humans to follow on the narrow jagged surface of the earth then who answered the balanced middle path since it avoids excess and imbalance hence miss stepping and slipping hence misfortune and ill-being end quote so what modern human beings lack is not intelligence or technology what we lack is wisdom what we lack is a sense of balance what we lack is a sense of context and big-picture perspective we lack perspective on our own lives and also collectively as a society we lack perspective and because we lack perspective we are not able to balance ourselves properly and we swing our pendulum too far to one side or to another next quote wisdom aims and instructing humans how to maintain their balance like skilled Mountaineers as they walk upon the narrow twisting and jagged path of life upon the summit of the earth the new Whois conceived wisdom dynamically in terms of balancing a consumption rooted in indigenous shamanism and in their conception of Toyota wisdom is a characteristic of how one conducts oneself and one's affairs not as a thing or as a set of eternal truths one grasps apprehends or possesses by enabling them to walk in balance wisdom affords humans some measure of stability and well-being in an otherwise evanescent life filled with pain sorrow struggle and suffering here on an impermanent doomed earth end quote so wisdom is balance go check out my episode about balance the importance of balance and personal development search for balance and actualize that organ you'll find it or I talk about this dynamic notion of balance that balance on a static thing but it's like riding a unicycle that's a very important concept which we need to be returning to over and over and over again because in every aspect of your life it comes up and it's not enough just to understand balance and generically you need to really appreciate how to strike the right balance within business within finances in your life within your health with your diet with your exercise with your sexuality with the way you're raising your children how many children you have with your relationships with your boss with your work with your career with your spirituality even with your psychedelics with every that you do how do you strike the right balance everything I teach is in a sense designed to show you how to strike these right balances and oftentimes I tell you that well you shouldn't do this thing here because it's gonna be too much to this side and you shouldn't do that thing here because this will be another trap and so I'm pointing out various traps to you hoping that you stay in the middle and don't step on a landmine you see so wisdom is not so much a set of fixed truths like the ten commandments rather wisdom is the ability to actively balance yourself in life in various situations and the better you aren't balancing across more situations the more wise you are next quote how do humans become wise they must become well rooted authentic true and non referentially disclosing their intellectual emotional imagine of and physical dispositions and behavior must become deeply and firmly rooted in total end quote so that's what every religion across the world has taught you is that for you to become wise and for you to live a good life you must become deeply rooted in total in God which means you must become conscious of God now the problem with most religions is that they get it backwards they try to give you a set of rules and Commandments to live by and tell you how to be a moral human being without putting you in touch with God first and that's precisely putting the cart before the horse creating a lot of pathology and problems instead what needs to happen is that religion if done properly needs to give people access to God as quickly as possible through various techniques and then once the person is able to access God then the religion doesn't need to teach rules and Commandments for how they should live the religion doesn't need to moralize down to people rather people just by becoming conscious of God will automatically correct their behaviors and know exactly how to behave and and what to do and become quote unquote good decent human beings next quote wisdom involved four ultimately indistinguishable aspects for the Nahua number one the practical ability to conduct one's affairs in such a way as to maintain some measure of balance and purity and hence some measure of well-being in one's personal domestic social and natural surroundings to the practical ability to conduct one's life in such a way as to creatively participate in reinforce adapt and extend into the future the way of life inherited from one's ancestors three the practical ability to conduct one's life in such a way as to participate in the regeneration and renewal of the cosmos and for the practical know-how involved in performing ritual activities which genuinely present Toyoda authentically embody toyota l-- preserve existing balance and purity create new balance and purity and participate alongside toyota in the regeneration of the universe and quote that's it right there that's true religion for you see number one conducting your affairs with balance number two creatively participating in the unfolding of Toyotas plan and helping other people to be conscious see three participating in the renewal of the cosmos which means of course living in harmony with nature so this idea the way that that Christians for example in the United States many many evangelicals and Christians the way that they live where they don't worry about the climate for example they don't worry about global warming this is antithetical fundamentally to what religion should be about the religious people really if they were doing the religion properly should be the ones that are most concerned about their environment because they understand or they should rather that the human being is connected with the cosmos and working together in tandem and now we need to work alongside Toyota rather than against Toyota raping and pillaging the earth and then number four is it's it's the practical know-how of performing these various ritual activities that help to authentically Express Toyota preserving balance and purity moving on quote the nahua universe is a participatory universe characterized by a relationship of compelling mutuality or interdependence between humans and the universe this is simply a consequence of the interconnectedness and oneness of all things not only does the universe causally affect humans but humans causally affect the universe human actions promote cosmic harmony balance and purity on the one hand and cosmic disharmony balance and impurity on the other hand and quote so you see this is all about having an ecological sense an ecological perspective seeing how you and your community of humans your tribe fits in with the larger whole how all of us can live on this globe in peace and in harmony with nature and with each other and with animals and with the whole cosmos see this is what most religions are are missing because most religions are so tribal that they only care about their tribe their people their community their country and their religion and to hell with everybody else but this overlooks the bigger perspective that the entire universe is one whole and all of us are interconnected this is central to what religion should be about what spirituality is about but what of course most religion isn't which is what's causing all the the evil and suffering a lot of the evil and suffering that we see around in the world today is because people don't take this holistic perspective and they just think of themselves as independent agents just doing their own stuff this sort of libertarian ideology this toxic libertarian ideology which is so short-sighted that hey you know it's all about by individual freedoms as long as I can maximize my individual proof freedoms and profit nothing else matters this is devilry this is antithetical to how you're supposed to live life which is why people these days are so depressed and so lost and so materialistic because they're disconnected from Toyota land from the wisdom that AOL offers when you become conscious of Toyota next quote the new who has conceived moral psychological and physical health well-being righteousness and purity in terms of keeping one's balance on the Earth's slippery surface and so regarded the Earth's surface as a psychologically physically and morally dangerous place in the hue wisdom urged humans to act with extreme care and to follow the guidelines of the ancestors as any other path would inevitably lead one to stumble down the Earth's slopes into psychological physical and moral imbalance perverseness instability and disease end quote that's exactly right except there's a very common pathology and mistake that happens here with this a lot of spiral dynamics stage blue people would agree with this entire passage and they would say yes Leo that's right and that's why I need to preserve my tribes rituals and that's why Christianity is the best or that's why everyone needs to believe in Allah that's why the Quran is the best or this is why Buddhism is the best you see we got to preserve the traditions of our ancient Buddhist ancestors but that's not right that's to ethnocentric about you you can't just blindly preserve ancient traditions you also need to take account of the shifting nature of Toyota Land the fact that technology and society is changing rapidly at an ever-accelerating rate and the reason that our society is so trouble today the reason so many people are sick depressed getting cancer getting heart disease obesity the reason there are so many people in poverty and many many other social problems that we have is precisely because as a society we haven't developed a modern philosophy non-dogmatic non ethnocentric philosophy that all of us can agree on a common set of values grounded in a yodel and we can all agree upon of course to do that we would need to become all conscious of to yodel first which is why it hasn't happened we don't have this and so what we have is we have different tribes and factions thinking that their value system is the only right one trying to dominate every other one and so we just have this free-for-all system where everybody's just fighting for themselves and then even we've got atheists who are all now fighting against the religious people because they think that atheism is the solution to everything right yeah and they're just as deluded as the religious people and so just it it's a it's all happening fundamentally because none of these people are directly conscious that they are total and what it means to be total so they don't have that wisdom that they would have if they became conscious of peyote and so that's why our earth right now is on the break at a tipping point ecologically politically geopolitically socially culturally and so forth is because we're screwing up our balance economically we're out of balance as well with rampant capitalism and people are taking sides and just becoming more and more polarized and more and more ideological and dogmatic about it next yet the dire situation of humans on earth did not prompt the Nahua to reject earthly life in favor of some otherworldly life the Earth's surface is the only realm wherein humans enjoy the full potential for well-being since only here are their various vital forces fully integrated the new who is resolved to live as best they could and indeed earthly life does allow some measure of well-being like sleep laughter food sexual pleasure conjugal union and procreation yet these were scarce momentary and needed to be taken in moderation as any excess resulted in imbalance end quote that's exactly right the trick with balance which spiral dynamic stage blue people religious people don't understand is that they think they can codify balance into a set of Commandments or rigid rules that can be followed mechanistically this isn't true balance it doesn't work so again the fundamentalist religious people will agree that yeah Leah we need to take sex and food and other things in moderation but the problem is is that these people are not thinking for themselves they have like a set of Commandments that they need to follow that they need to not do and they think that if they ters stick to those Commandments that that's gonna that's gonna allow them to navigate and to balance properly it doesn't because the environment is changing all the time so the Ten Commandments maybe they were great 2000 years ago they might have worked even back then it certainly wasn't enough to balance properly but it might have been a good foundation but today if you're still sitting to the ten commandments and you think the Ten Commandments of 2,000 years ago are gonna work for today or you think some Sharia law from thousands of years ago of Muslim interpretations of the Quran is gonna apply to today and work in today's world with today's ever globalizing culture and economy and and all this it doesn't work it creates tension and creates chaos it creates evil so you need to learn how to balance without moral without Commandments next quote now who a philosopher saw humans as creatures yearning for rootedness that is for a deep firm and lasting anchoring in their lives and who restlessly searched for it obtaining well rootedness enables one to become an upright man to live a balanced pure and genuinely human life without roots one finds neither balance purity nor humaneness obtaining well rootedness is difficult and in their search many humans give their hearts to what appears to be well rooted and authentic but it's not since this cannot provide grounding and stability humans inevitably become dissatisfied with it and abandon it only to begin their search anew oftentimes repeating the process over and over and over again end quote is this ringing any bells are you seeing how you're doing this what are the ways in which you're trying to root yourself but it's not working you might try to root yourself in religion it doesn't work you might try to root yourself and pick up and chasing girls it doesn't work you might try to root yourself in business and chasing money it doesn't work you might try to root yourself in video games chasing after the new latest greatest video game that's released and every single one of them ends up disappointing you and leaving you feel worse you might root yourself in pornography and that doesn't work you might ruin yourself in some drugs and that doesn't work you might root yourself in a relationship and starting a family and that also doesn't work none of this can work because that's not well what rel rootedness is you can't root yourself in material forms which are impermanent the only proper route is total God you must become conscious of God that is the proper route and of course that is the ruthless route the groundless ground there's no real route there and that's precisely what routes you that's the paradox of it you might wonder Leo how can I route myself in nothingness but that is the only true route is nothingness the better question is how can you route yourself in something this how can you route your self in the ten commandments when the commandments change how can you route yourself in a language when the language evolved and changes how can you route yourself in your country or in your national identity whether you're a German or an American or Japanese when national identities change boundaries change cultures change what are you trying to route yourself in are you trying to route yourself in your body your physical body well how can that work when your physical body is gonna deteriorate age and die there's only one true route which routes you absolutely which is the absolute absolute truth absolute truth is the only unchanging thing but that also means that it's nothingness moving on quote their hearts inevitably becomes scattered unbalanced and lost such humans become vagabonds wandering about aimlessly from one illusion to the next they become beastly unstable unbalanced impure perverse dull-witted intemperate and vicious they fail to realize they're humanists and merely appear to be human they become deceivers robes and de simulators they quote act on things with their humanity dead end quote they are quote lumps of flesh with two eyes and quote and quote they are defective human weights and quote so take a look isn't this perfectly describing the state of the world today depraved Faga bonds wandering around from one illusion to the next doesn't this perfectly describe our politics our business environment our economy everything within the church religions geopolitics in your own life all your friends everybody you know your family aren't they just deceivers rogues into simulators isn't that what you are aren't you a rogue at a simulator a deceiver of course starting with the deception of yourself that explains the state of the world if you wonder why there's so much suffering in the world here's your answer nobody is routed in Toyota hardly anybody is so the ultimate root solution to all of humanity's problems is to ensure that people get rooted in total that everybody gets rooted in total this is the ultimate solution the problem though is that you can't force people to do it because if you force people by trying to religiously indoctrinate them the way they do in the Middle East or the way Christians do or the way Buddhists do it's actually gonna backfire and actually make the problem even worse because you can't substitute for a direct consciousness of Toyota with mere ideas and dogma and ideology about Toyota because that Dogman ideology doesn't have the same effect it doesn't come with that higher state of consciousness which is then what leads to proper decent life and proper decent interactions between human beings and other human beings and human beings in their environment next quote humans are born quote faceless with undeveloped powers of judgment and they need other humans for the education and discipline needed for acquiring a quote face for becoming balanced and becoming fully human developing a proper quote face and heart is only possible through the opportunities provided by well-ordered social living unstable foolish and diseased the loner slips constantly upon the path of life one's home neighborhood polity and environment are healthy or diseased depending upon whether they are balanced or not personal domestic and social balance nasaw imbalance impurity and ill-being are contagious encode and so again we're continuing to describe all the ills of society and culture today is this right here see we don't have a proper education system that is our biggest deficiency right now is the state of our education system we're teaching children the wrong things we're not preparing them for being decent human beings and by this I don't mean we need to religiously indoctrinate them I mean we need to teach them philosophy metaphysics epistemology spirituality meditation self-actualization self-improvement nutrition fitness health proper scientific thinking within certain bounds not in the materialistic unlimited sense that it's taught today see we need to teach for wisdom not teach children how to memorize answers for tests and so because of this our neighborhoods our polity our environment our health is all polluted and diseased and this pollution this disease spreads across everywhere like a cancer through the internet across Facebook across YouTube across newspapers across the television screen into neighborhoods through medicines into the business sectors into various industries whether it's pharmaceuticals or the military-industrial complex or Big Oil it spreads into the government its tentacles go everywhere it's a contagion it's a mind virus that infects everyone's mind and it makes everyone materialistic and disconnected from Toyoda behaving like animals rather than the spiritual beings that we could be this is the state of modern society and it's our job to cure the contagion but you have to be careful with curing the contagion because a lot of times what happens is that naive people ignorant people try to cure the contagion thinking that they know the cure and their cure actually ends up being part of the contagion which just spreads the contagion even further and that's what a lot of religions do because like I said before the devil co-op's religion to guide people away from total moving on quote the aim of cognition from the epitome illogical point of view is walking in balance upon the slippery earth and epistemologically appropriate inquiry is that which promotes this aim to say a person cognizes truly is therefore to say that she cognizes with well-grounded stability or well-rooted ly Nahua philosopher's thus process possessed a concept of truth but they conceived truth in terms of well groundedness and stability and well-founded nystagmus not in terms of Correspondence aboutness representation reference fit or successful description in short they understood truth non semantically end quote a big problem with the Western intellectual tradition as a whole Western philosophy in Western science is that we treat truth as a set of propositions or statements such as snow is white grass is green the Sun shines in the morning the Earth revolves around the Sun and so forth but this is a really an improper conception of truth truth is a non semantic notion truth is a non linguistic notion truth sits deeper than language or concepts or ideas or our models of the universe so that's what is so difficult about truth is that language doesn't allow you to route yourself in the truth and so then how do you spread truth on a massive scale that's the whole challenge of philosophy and religion and science and epistemology is that you really can't you need people to actually have direct insight which nobody does the work to have and so everybody is fundamentally disconnected from truth and that means that nobody is really well rooted and because you're not well rooted you're a devil and you run around looking for pleasure and solutions to a never-ending stream of problems have you noticed that you have problems in your life to infinity they never end every problem is followed up by another problem every problem you solve just creates more problems that's because you're not rooted and you're not addressing the root problem that is sourcing all of these amount more minor problems next quote the new who has characterized persons things activities and utterances equally and without equivocation in terms of truth and they understood truth in terms of well rootedness in total that which is well rooted in total is genuine true authentic and well balanced as well as non referentially disclosing and I'm concealing of total creative things exist along a continuum ranging from those that are well rooted in total and hence authentically represent and embody Toyota as well as disclosed and unconcealed Toyota at the one end to those things which are poorly rooted in total and hence neither authentically embody and represent Toyota nor disclosed and unconcealed Toyota at the other end then code see see this is describing a sort of higher transcendental good or transcendental beauty that comes with spiritual awakening is that you can categorize human actions and hammers and creations in terms of sort of a spectrum of those things which are reflecting the truth of total and those which are not those things which are unconcealed Toyota helping to raise the consciousness of mankind and ourselves and those things which are not see so let's give an example of what's being meant here so we're talking about truth but don't think of true there's just some abstraction think of it this way like if we take a can of coca-cola and we say is this a truthful object is this in alignment with Toyota we would say of course not it's on this end of the spectrum because what is this coca-cola doing it's filling children with sugar which is destroying their health making them obese making them hyperactive and ADHD such that they can't learn properly we're putting this coca-cola in vending machines in schools we're advertising it all over the TV on the Super Bowl in other places all around the world we're not regulating this product we're not putting limits on the corporation of coca-cola in the way that it advertises this all around the world coca-cola is Raheem billions of dollars selling this coca-cola do they care about the health that they have on the human population of course not do they care about eliminating sugar from their dreams of course not do they care about making a healthy drink of course not in fact what they do is they Lobby the government to make sure that the government doesn't regulate this stuff and to make sure that they can export this stuff all around the world very cheaply with no tariffs no taxes no regulations whatsoever and that this stuff is actually not treated as junk food literally American junk food manufacturers have to lobby government in order to prevent the government from placing labels on junk food telling the populace that it's junk food and that it's damaging to your health and they actually get this this legislation passed such that in various free-trade agreements between America and Canada and Mexico and all this they've banned the placing of junk food labels on junk food you see so it is deviled this this whole coca-cola dynamic is pure devilry you see it's pure deception it's untruth and fundamentally all this contributes to people not being able to access to yodel because when children are are so ADHD that they can't even focus and meditate for 20 minutes and they're so obese that they get various kinds of diseases and then they become so addicted to video games and other things all of this comes together in such a way that then the connection from ever accessing T odel is completely lost you see and then even if somebody comes along like myself who wants to maybe deliver a little bit of truth by teaching total can I actually do it on a mate on a broad scale no because the entire advertising and marketing ecosystem in the world is completely dominated by players like coca-cola and giant banks and giant oil companies and giant pharmaceutical companies and so forth that someone who's actually teaching Toyota and can't compete with that can't compete with the millions of advertising dollars that are necessary to actually spread this message in the proper way see because they take up all the oxygen in the room and I'm not I'm not I'm not really whining about that I'm just giving you an example here of how how this really works so as a society what needs to happen in the future is that we need more institutions corporations and entities organizations that are helping to create products and services and systems which are more revealing of total revealing of the truth so that more people have access to that and then through that process Toyota will become more apparent to everybody showering everybody with wisdom allowing us to live better together both individually and collectively that's the ultimate solution and hope you can see how practical that is truth is not just some abstraction truth permeates every single aspect of your life and when you're not connected to truth by definition you're living in falsehood and delusion which leads to depravity which leads to all the problems that you have in your life individually and collectively next quote humans come to note a yodel using their heart not head or brain the harp serves as a Center for T alia that vital force which induces humans towards that which alone fills their emptiness and gives them roots total knowing requires that one possesses a quote Toyota lized heart that is a heart charged with Toyota's sacred energy and enjoying sacred presence the quote totalized heart possesses an extraordinary amount of Telia one possessing a Toyota lized heart has Toyota in his heart and his quote wise in the things of Toyota end quote so this is the difference between being focused and based from your left hemisphere to your right hemisphere the right hemisphere is more holistic more integrated you could also call it your heart it is connected with your heart it's holistic whereas the left hemisphere is very rational logical demanding proven evidence for things and so when you try to live your life and you try to do philosophy from the LES hemisphere from your brain from your head and not enough from your heart what you is you get the common problem that you find today in modern academic philosophy within academia in general the way that science is done you get the materialistic paradigm that we talk about you get rationalism reductionism scientism you get denial of spirituality you get a ignorant about psychology ignorance about self-deception ignorance about states of consciousness denial of states of consciousness believing the states of consciousness are just byproducts of the brain believing that God is just a byproduct of the brain all of this is part of the spiral dynamic stage orange phase of cognitive development where people are really stuck in their heads and by going beyond that and by experiencing toil directly you realize that there is an awakening of the heart which happens and then you start to live your life from your heart rather than your head and the more you do that the more you connect with Toyota the more wisdom you have the better things go in your life the more satisfied you are less disease you have the less despicable of a person you are the less selfish you are and the more you fulfill your mission in life which is to love if you want to know more about that go check out my episode called what is love where I talk about that next quote the Nahua word for heart and Robin who it just means Aztec so the Aztec word for heart derives from the Aztec word for movement this indicates yet another way in which the heart is the organ best suited for knowing Toyota's way Toyota is essentially movement a Toyota lized heart moves in bounds with the movement of Toyota and as a result moves knowingly as one's heart comes to move knowingly one becomes quote wise in the things of Toyota one comes to have a Odle in his heart Toyota presents and discloses itself to and through one's heart end quote and this is why many spiritual traditions talk about love and talk about compassion and talk about the heart it's big within the Christian tradition but it's also big for example within Buddhism they teach compassion they teach something called love and kindness meditation many religions teach prayer of various kinds the Sufis talk about the love of God that's from Islam because the more conscious you become that you are Toyota the the more your heart opens because you realize that you are intimately connected with the entire universe you are the entire universe and then comes the letting go of judgment the letting go of tribalism and demonization and ultimately what you can experience is you can experience platonic existential metaphysical love as one facet of Toyota because Toyota loves everything God is all loving and you can then realize that since you are God you also can love everything next quote Toyota is ultimately ineffable since it is undifferentiated and unordered a seamless totality consequently humans only experience Toyota knowingly in a manner unmediated unspecified and undefined by language concepts and categories along with their divisions classifications and distinctions these are facets of Toyotas disguise or mask and thus contribute to humans d-dick Domus perceiving and misunderstanding of Toyota to the degree that language concepts and categories are essential to human reasoning humans thus understand Toyota non rationally alternatively expressed Toyota only genuinely discloses itself non linguistically non-discursive Lee none rationally and quote so we already touched on this but it's such an important point that it bears repeating again you can't get to total linguistically discursive ly semantically rationally through proofs and models and equations you cannot quantify total because total is infinite and all your models and quantifications are finite so you're not gonna succeed in that stage orange spar lemak stage Orange people cannot cope with this truth because they want to be able to quantify all of reality and they want to be able to model all of reality but they're forgetting that they themselves are total how do you quantify yourself so you need some sort of practice which goes beyond language and symbols and so one way to talk about enlightenment is we can talk about it and term it non symbolic consciousness ordinary human consciousness is symbolic conceptual consciousness even when you're thinking about the future and what you're going to do tomorrow and you know what you're going to do at work tomorrow that is symbolic consciousness you're stuck in symbolic consciousness without even knowing that you are and so you might not be a mathematician or a scientist or an academic or a philosopher and so you might say well Leo I don't I don't really make models of the universe or a reality or I don't use equations I'm not trying to quantify reality but in a sense you are you're stuck in in a in in symbolic relationship with reality because you're thinking of the future you're living in the future you're thinking about the past or living in the past and all the meanings that you assign to the world and so forth all of this you do linguistically rationally and symbolically and so it's very counterintuitive to try to move beyond that into the trans rational realms the non linguistic non symbolic realms that's difficult to do because we as humans as a culture we have enormous addiction to symbols and to models to concepts and we just have this unspoken assumption within science and within our culture that everything that is true that is valuable can be grappled with symbolically and it just turns out that that's not the case in fact the truth is non symbolic by definition if you have a symbol of God it's not God it's not the truth it is a O'Toole's disguise and so you're lost in the disguise rather than seeing Toyoda osteotome next quote composing and performing song poems in particular are the highest form of human artistry and the finest way for humans to present Toyota since this activity most closely imitates and participates in Toyota's own cosmic creative artistry now let me pause and us inside here and explain what is meant by song poems don't take this too literally so of course the ancient Aztecs and their shamans they would literally perform songs and dance and sing lyrics and so forth that was their way of doing art and communing with Toyota and expressing the artistry and beauty of Toyota but if we bring this term more into modern times you can think of any human art whether it's speaking film videogames painting poetry writing books and novels whatever kind of art you do this is what the Aztecs refer to a song and poem so quote hence song poems rather than discursive arguments are the appropriate medium of sagely expression and sages are perforce singer song writer poets flower and song comes from a ritually prepared heart which embodies and presents a proper balance of reason and passion male and female active and passive etc end quote so art plays a very important role in human life because the whole purpose of art is to display and glorify the virtues of Toyota and the only way you can be a great artist is by having a strong Toyota lized heart and a connection a direct connection to truth which is Toyota the less connected you are the truth the more your art comes from egotism and artifice and deception and illusion the less beautiful the art is so I'm telling you all this for the for all you artists out there who really want to nail your art you need spirituality even more so than you need your technical skills for your art because all of your creative ideas that comes from the Godhead comes from Toyota Toyota is the creative source of all of existence and since you are Toyota and you want to create you need to be connected with yourself as long as you're an artist who's disconnected from Toyota yourself then your art will not be authentic and true and therefore it will not be beautiful and all the most beautiful art is that art which helps to display and reveal Toyota in some way whether it's through a song through a book you write we could be fiction it could be nonfiction it could even be your art can be science you know the greatest scientists like Albert Einstein for example or Nikola Tesla what were they doing they were connected to Toyota they were conscious of themselves as Toyota land then they were expressing that through their scientific work same thing with like Isaac Newton for example or Kurt gödel or Gare Cantor many brilliant mathematicians and scientists and logicians of past times they were geniuses precisely because they were pursuing Toyota and connected to Toyota lat least in some fashion now I'm not saying all of them were enlightened I'm just saying that they had an unusually strong connection to Toyota in some sense it doesn't mean this they were fully enlightened and that's why you know most artists of course in society most of our greatest artists they're not enlightened but they have some sort of intuitive connection to spirit or to the creative source from which they draw their inspiration whether they're a rapper or a film director or just a traditional artist painting on a canvas like Picasso so the more you connect with a odel the better your art becomes next quote acquiring a Toyota lized heart and becoming knowledgeable of Toyota also requires that one engage in Flour and song artistic activity epistemic ly improves one's heart causing it to move in balance with Toyota and hence move knowingly by engaging creative artistry humans imitate and participate in albeit imperfectly the self transforming cosmic creativity of Toyota in so doing they fashion their hearts after Toyota end quote see it goes both ways it's a two-way street by doing good art you come to better understand Toyota and by better understanding to yodel you come to do better art mm-hmm and so this also ties in now with life purpose so one of the reasons most people are so dissatisfied with their life because they work lame nine-to-five jobs which are not their art and so they spend half of their life working on stuff they have no heartfelt connection to and in fact he's usually the opposite they're working to to peddle illusion and to peddle falsehood to others and so this becomes very depressing and soul draining and so one of the most important pillars of your life is to find a sense of life purpose to find a way in which you want to artistically express yourself this is important because you as a human being you are Toyota and Toyota is getting his kicks out of life from creating so you as a human if you're not really connected with the whole process of creating something beautiful whether it's in science or in the domain of business or in the domain of traditional art or music or whatever then you're really missing out on a huge pillar of life you are god you're like a little mini god that gets to create in human form of course as a human you're limited there's only certain things you can create you can't create as powerfully as title itself can but you'd be amazed at the kind of amazing stuff you could create once you connect yourself deeper into Toyota and then also how that makes you feel how good that feels and also how that helps you to connect with Toyota C so it's sort of like a a positive vicious cycle that and that goes upwards or conversely it goes downward if you're if you're not doing that so a lot of people are depressed simply because they don't have something like this in their life they don't have a sense of life purpose and they're just kind of wasting it away by the way Oh what is what is this that's happening right now I'm here talking what is this talking this is my flower and song this is what I do to get my kicks this is what I do as god I found this thing for me and the way I found it is I explained in my life purpose course I go through the steps and the principles that I went through to create actualized org and solidify it for myself as my vehicle actualize already is my vehicle for doing my song and dance and expressing my totalized heart and as I do it more and more my heart becomes more mortised and the better and better and the deeper I can go with my work the more of my work can help to reveal Toyota to you the more that inspires me as I get feedback from that and it creates this positive vicious cycle for me that's quite rewarding and that's that's how I enjoy my life is doing this work tah-dah that's what's going on here this is my art now of course your art has nothing to do with my art per se I'm not saying you need to become like me I'm saying you need to become like me in the general sense that you need to develop a Thao to last heart and you need to connect deeper with total and you need to find your artistic outlet whatever that is and ideally make that your career so that your work is doing something that you're proud of and you know you find meaningful and then this actually becomes a spiritual pursuit in Hinduism they have something called karma yoga or bhakti yoga where your spiritual path isn't to sit in to meditate or to do self inquiry but rather it's to participate actively in the world and by doing something good for mankind and doing it suffice ly with your entire heart that this in and of itself is supposed to produce a sort of enlightenment now I'm personally not that big of a fan of the of the idea that you can use karma yoga or bhakti yoga to become enlightened per se I think that's a very indirect method and many people who try to do it that way will fail but I think that there's something very important too to the idea of bhakti-yoga and karma yoga and really what that is is life purpose what the Hindus call bhakti yoga and Karma Yoga Yoga I call life purpose really that's your career that's what your career should be as a human being and then of course I think you still also need some more direct forms of yoga like self inquiry or meditation in order to fully realize total because you're probably not going to realize total as the Godhead just through your career next quote acquiring a totalized heart and becoming knowledgeable of toyoda also requires that one be well rooted well balanced pure authentic and morally righteous and that one possesses strength self-control moderation and modesty humans must show humility and respect towards total before Toyota discloses itself end quote so you see a lot of you who are trying to pursue enlightenment are doing it from a place of inauthenticity egotism and therefore it's quite difficult now I'm not saying you should stop trying you should probably try but in many spiritual traditions for example what they tell you is that before you even begin to meditate you already need to start clearing out your head and clearing out your mind and following certain rules that they give you for living a pure life why is that because only by purifying yourself of various kinds of egotism that you have in selfishness and materialism do you open yourself up to the possibility of total disclosing itself to you which is why many people who are deeply sucking atheism and rationalism and materialism and money and greed and sex and all of this you know it's impossible to talk with them about God they're at a certain level of consciousness and development where they're not at the point where they can even entertain a serious conversation or teaching about how to reach God they can't sit down and meditate they don't see any point in it because it's in their mind is taking away time from having sex or watching porn or doing drugs or drinking alcohol or partying with their friends right so you got to do this more basic simple self-improvement type of work before you can really start to listen to these higher teachings that I'm teaching now with actualised org and so those of you who haven't done that work yet this toyoda stuff is going to be all over way over your head you've got to go back and do some really simple kind of stuff like clean up your diet stop certain addictions that you have stopped watching television you know stop being a jerk to your friends and your family it's very basic stuff you got to start to do clean yourself up in other words next quote the foregoing characteristics are not only Epis Tamala djegal but moral and aesthetic as well they not only help humans become knowledgeable and live wisely they help them to live morally authentically purely well balanced ly and beautifully humans cannot become knowledgeable of total without becoming genuine pure morally righteous and beautiful and vice versa in short the process of epistemological self-improvement is also one of moral and aesthetic self-improvement and quote so that's everything that I just said underscored next quote humans and Toyota coexist in a moral interrelationship of reciprocity and becoming knowledgeable involves a morally regulated exchange with Toyota when humans behave in richly prescribed ways they may expect to attain those things which they come to merit wisdom emerges as a consequence of moral come epistemological come aesthetic interaction and participation with Toyota end quote so the better human being that you become the easier it is for you to access to yodel but many Orthodox stage Bleu religious people take this too far and they spend all of their time and attention trying to be a good person which comes with lots of guilt and shame and various mechanical rules that you must follow doing various mindless rituals without raising their consciousness and so they try to be a good person through mechanical means rather than by becoming more conscious as you become more conscious you will automatically want to become a better person and that's what many Orthodox religious people miss so be careful not to fall into that trap but it is true as all religions tell you that you should be a decent person and the reason that they tell you that and they stress it so much is that if you are living a chaotic life in a chaotic family in a chaotic community where all sorts of egotism and mischief and devilry runs amuck various kinds of sinfulness then your chances of ever really being able to actualize these higher teachings are going to be very very low and so in a sense the purpose of old-school religion is to create an environment within a social community and environment where accessing total becomes possible for the average person and not just for the super hardcore yogi because the super hardcore yo you can just let go off and live in a cave and realize God not really a problem there will always be people like that the the really challenging problem societally speaking culturally speaking is how do we how do we get the rest of mankind who isn't that hardcore and isn't willing to sacrifice all the material luxuries of life like family and sex and food and business and so forth how do we get those people to realize total that's what's really hard next quote to the degree humans approximate balance and purity in their lives they perfect their humaneness and flourish to the degree that they do not they destroy their humaneness and suffer beastly miserable lives toyota functions as the ultimate source and standard of intrinsic value since beauty and purity are properties of Toyota Toyota's own balance and purity are genuinely embodied and presented in well-formed quatl tail feathers Jade and turquoise one obtains this balance in purity by routing oneself firmly and deeply in total and quote I love this so gods and allegiance comes with this extraordinary beauty and the best way to see it is go look at some high-resolution photographs of animals look at the beauty with which animals are designed you can take a peacock tail feather and just look at it you can even buy one and just look at it and see that the the beauty of the design of it see the truth in the in the peacock tail feather or a butterfly or some bird outside your house or in iguana or a tiger or uh-hmm even even a cat if you have a cat or a dog just try to see the beauty of their design they were designed by total sea and so you can you can look everywhere throughout society and throughout life and you can look at man-made things and you can ask yourself how well does it mirror the genius of the designs of Toyota and you can see that certain objects certain electronics certain computer certain phones are really you might say truthful or accurate to Toyota and that's what makes them beautiful and functional at the same time and then there are other objects that are designed by by hacks who are just trying to earn money and who have no artistic sense no no proper sense of design or sense of beauty or symmetry or or balance or order these people are disconnected from themselves and from Toyota and therefore the designs are ugly they don't function very well they glitch there's a bunch of problems and it they have bugs and you don't want to use them and you don't appreciate that they're beautiful because they're they're hideous Frankenstein monstrosity and these of course quickly get replaced and cold by natural selection and they get replaced by by the beautiful stuff out competed by the beautiful stuff by the truthful stuff at least in the long run in the short term of course there's a lot of ugly stuff out there a lot of ugly designs that don't work very well but you can see that what evolution is doing is evolution is total moving towards greater truth consciousness beauty purity and balance next quote morally appropriate conduct helps humans assume a face and develop a heart and enrich their lives it helps them become authentically human morally inappropriate conduct on the other hand causes humans to leave their heart undeveloped lose their face and impoverish their lives the soundest wisest course is moderation one should neither do too much nor too little of anything for example eating sleeping or bathing acting wisely consists of walking a middle path between these two extremes end quote this is sound familiar does this sound like maybe the Buddhist middle way that's exactly right Aristotle also talked about the the golden mean he talked about how to be a good human person human being you need to find the balance between being too kind or too too mean-spirited you got to find the middle point between those two or you got to be um find them at the balance point between being too rash or being too fearful if you're too fearful then you're a coward if you if you're too brave to the point of being rash and and just like jumping into dangerous situations that's also problem so you got to find the middle point between that and so on across the line with all human qualities next quote immoral conduct causes an entity to suffer a loss of balance which in turn causes it to suffer decay disorder randomness and spoilage spoilage and humans for example typically result in physical or psychological disease end quote today in America and in Europe and all around the world materialistic people are suffering from all sorts of diseases autoimmune conditions dozens of different versions of them exists thyroid problems fibromyalgia chronic fatigue cancers of various kinds all throughout the body mental illnesses and dysfunctions from bipolar to depression to ADHD to schizophrenia anxiety and panic attacks heart attacks heart disease various kinds of MS and the list goes on and on and on and on and on what is this this is not just an accident this is a byproduct of how you live your life and right now we're living a very diseased time where there's a lot of spoilage within humans it of course starts with the things you put in your mouth but it doesn't end there it's also about how you use your body how you use your mind what kind of information you put in through your eyes and through your ears into your skull what kind of people you surround yourself with what kind of community that you're a part of what kind of activities you engage in and devote a lot of your focus and attention to what kind of sauce you have on a habitual regular basis are they negative toxic thoughts are the thoughts about hurting others are they thoughts about enemies and people that you demonize judgments that you make and so forth or are they positive thoughts loving thoughts so right now we have a lot of spoilage within our society both individually and collectively because we're out of touch or how to balance with our ecology and with ourselves and with Toyota next quote the new who has characterized education as the art of strengthening or bringing up of men and the act of giving wisdom to the face humans are born incomplete and faceless meaning without character yet they are perfectible through proper education education aims at perfecting children by developing in them a wise face and strong humanized heart and fashioning their character into a well smoked and precious turquoise this equips them with the means for keeping their balance on the slippery earth end quote you see this is what true education is about and I already talked about the problems in our education system but here's keeping some more criticism on top of that the point of school and university should not be to pass tests or to learn mathematics or English or science but it should be to give children a face to teach them how to live life to teach them a proper sense of priority and perspective to make them wise and strong and give them a totalized heart and to show them a pathway to Toyota to teach them how to be decent human beings not through indoctrination or through dogma not through testing not through memorization not through mechanical rules but through raising of their consciousness teaching them how to think for themselves teaching them how to do metaphysical and epistemic inquiry teaching them how to connect with their artistic talents and how to express those teach them how to be authentic how to be truthful teach them psychology teach them how their mind works teach them about self-deception teach them about the dangers of belief systems and ideologies in effect very self-serving Lee everything I talked about through actualize that art but why do I talk about these topics and other topics precisely because the whole foundation of actualized org was me saying to myself okay what are the most important things in life that I need to know let me make a catalog of all of those things which are not being talked about anywhere else not in school not in most books not in most magazines not on most TV shows not on most YouTube channels let me make a catalog of those the highest human wisdom and let me make it practical and let me embody it and actually find techniques actually do the techniques and actually do this stuff because I can't teach it without doing it and that's what actualize that already is tada so if you're some future educator if you really want to change our education system if you want to be a good teacher a good professor good guru and this is what you got to understand this is what you got to work on help our children to really be educated properly now how do you do that with essa that's it's a big problem there's a lot of systemic obstacles in the way that I can't talk about here but at least now you're starting to get the idea and if you're one of those kids who never really liked school found that it was boring or too technical or that you were never motivated to learn it's just because the school schooling was done in the wrong way when you are doing education properly as we're describing it here you're gonna be excited about it you're gonna be passionate about you're gonna want to buy books and go to course and listen to seminars and and actually try techniques and do this this is exciting and fascinating stuff this is what it means to be human this is why you were born is to be constantly learning every single day the most important aspects of reality and how to live a good life but uh I can certainly understand why why many many kids these days feel very alienated and disillusioned with our education system because it hardly teaches any of this stuff but you know what the good news is that you can teach it to yourself the resources are all here the books the courses the audios the podcast it's all there but you have to take responsibility for it right now our society is not as a stage of development where it's just spoon fed to you and delivered to you on a silver platter you have to create this high-quality education for yourself and that's actually very exciting so I highly recommend that you commit to educating yourself whether you're young whether you're still in high school or whether you're older and you're past your college years and you think that you're done with education no education has barely begun for you next quote in his or her capacity as educator moralist and role model that is as the teacher of people's faces the sage is akin to an artist who skillfully shapes a formless block of stone into a beautiful statue the sage shapes a child's faceless lump of human flesh into a genuinely human face at heart end quote so that's what we're doing here every time you're listening to me that's what I'm trying to do to you and how good I am at doing that directly depends on how closely I am connected to Toyota the closer I develop my connections they yodel the better I get at shaping you into somebody who is closer to yodel and the more you do the practices the closer you get to Toyota the better this whole process works tah-dah next quote to possess a perfected wise face and good heart is to exhibit sound judgment and sentiment one psychological intellectual and physical behavior promotes balance and purity and averts imbalance and impurity the person with a good heart humane and stout is wise in the ways of total the person lacking such heart has an enshrouded heart he is mad foolish and dull-witted end quote I think that's self-explanatory next quote living wisely also requires performing ritual activities devoted to restoring lost balance and purity or to averting future imbalance and impurity such activities include penitence mortification end quote strengthening one's heart and quote and there is a large roster of various kinds of spiritual techniques that have been invented by all the various traditions for how to restore balance and purity into your life so if you're addicted to drugs or you're stuck in a rut you're lazy you're addicted to pornography you're depressed you're miserable so if you're stuck like this in life what you need is you need to straighten out your heart you need to find some kind of process for doing that whether it's going to rehab center or doing some five Meo DMT - rudely awakened you or going and living in the forest you know in a cabin all by yourself for a month or doing a long meditation retreat or taking it upon a retreat or changing where you live moving to a different City moving to a different country you know whatever it is cultures all across time have had ritual techniques for how to straighten out one's heart and get back on the straight and narrow path towards Toyota and of course in modern times we have gotten disconnected from many of these ritualized techniques we don't really have them in in many modern cultures they're considered antiquated but also of course many of them are antiquated you know like sacrificing a chicken or a pig the way they used to do thousands of years ago may not be appropriate today so we need to develop new rituals and new techniques for how to straighten one's heart and of course different problems of the heart require different straightening methods so if you're addicted to drugs you might need one method if you're addicted to porn you might need another method if you're addicted to TV you might need another method next quote that which is aesthetically valuable or beautiful is also a morally valuable and epistemologically valuable and conversely it is the well-rooted well-balanced true disclosing and pure that which is aesthetically valueless or ugly is disordered duplicitous perverse unbalanced impure and deceptive since unrooted on disclosing inauthentic and false encode so I already mentioned this with regards to art how important this is to art your art can't be duplicitous and perverse and unbalanced or impure otherwise it's not going to be considered good art and you're not going to be proud of it when you create art that you're proud of it's well rooted well balanced true disclosing and pure please notice that it's also loving and it elevates the consciousness of mankind please notice that but I want to extend this a little bit further than just art those of you who are into business I want you to think of your business on these terms ask yourself is your business or if you don't run a business is the business you participate in as part of your job or your career so for example if you work at McDonald's or Starbucks I want you to ask yourself is the work that you're doing for this company is the work that your business doing is it well rooted well balanced true and disclosing of total or is it disorder disordered duplicitous perverse unbalanced impure deceptive and unrooted inauthentic and false does it spread illusion or does it spread truth it's not easy to create a job or a career or a business that is aligned with Toyota it's hard enough to start a business as it is but to start one that is aligned with Toyota that's a tall order to fill that takes a lot of work took me a lot of thinking and strategizing to figure out how to do that I talked about that in my life purpose course if you own a business or whatever job or career you have you need to figure out a way to align it with Toyota next quote the who is esthetic views creative activity and its products in the following terms first creative activity and its products are aesthetically valuable if and only if they genuinely present and truly disclosed Toyota secondly creative activity in its products are aesthetically valuable if and only if they contribute positively to the existing store of balance and purity in the cosmos works of art accomplished this by faithfully presenting and hence actually embodying balance and purity that is by literally being well balanced and pure third aesthetically valuable creative activity in products must spring forth from a morally and epistemologically qualified Toyota lized heart and hence Bergeon from and be well rooted in Toyota end quote so this is exactly what I was just talking about but see the problem with most modern art and business is that the people who are creating this business do not have a t own alized heart they're disconnected from Toyota land so the business that they do is illusion untruth and devilry and same for their art and it's harmful its of balance and out of harmony with the environment and with humanity and that's why we see a lot of ecological collapse we see the coral reefs collapsing we see insect populations collapsing we see rainforests being stripped and mined and logged and on and on and on it goes we see fracking we see wars fought over oil around the world leading to deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians displacing millions of people creating refugee crises immigration problems you see how it's all interconnected and where does it all come from because the people in charge do not have a tea or alized heart and that's why spiral dynamics stage Orange is so dangerous that's why secularism and atheism and materialism and scientism and Technology ISM is so dangerous when you think that you can just build a great society purely through technology and rationality that's extremely dangerous actually that will lead to the deaths of millions of people because the people who are doing that are obviously disconnected from total because they denied a yodel it's a serious pathology moving on quote the accomplished artist is necessarily morally upright and knowledgeable of total fools and rogues are incapable of creating beautiful works of art end quote and finally quote a life wisely lived offers humans of fleeting momentary repose from the inevitable sorrow suffering and transience of earthly existence it enabled humans if only momentarily to flower and sing end quote does this strike you as a parallel with for example Buddhism where Buddhism teaches that life is suffering material existence is suffering that's because it is and this has been recognized by spiritual traditions since the dawn of time on every continent around the world and so the solution to this suffering and sorrow and to the impermanence of material existence is to connect yourself with the one permanent true thing that there is which is total or your own true self and if you are able to do that then you can live the rest of your life beautifully nobly flower and song see and so you don't want to put off discovering Toyota for late and too late into your life you want to discover to yodel now so that your life can flower and sing and so that you can minimize your own suffering and of course the suffering that you inflict on others because the suffering you inflict on others is roughly proportional to how much you suffer and how disconnected you are from Toyota so there you go I've read to you everything that I want to read in conclusion a few points first of all go check out the whole article I recommend reading it over a couple of times there's so much there when I was reading it I was highlighting and underlining pretty much all of it I'll post a link down below or you can go check it out it's really worthwhile to read it for yourself it's sort of like a grounding spiritual texts and it gives you a very nice overarching encapsulation of everything we're doing here it gives you the really big picture of what you're supposed to be doing in life this is it just follow this blueprint it's very general it's very abstract but just follow this blueprint and you'll have an amazing life this is it don't try to reinvent the wheel humans have tried sex and marriage and families and and money and business we've tried all this stuff and we know it doesn't work this is the only thing that really works because you need to connect yourself with your own true nature and your own true nature is Toyota you are Toyota how can you be satisfied in life even if you have lots of money and sex and everything else how can you ever be satisfied when you are fundamentally disconnected from your own true source and nature it's not possible which is why everything you tried doesn't really work and doesn't alleviate your suffering you've just been given here in this episode the keys to life this is the master blueprint I don't know what more you could want this is the blueprint for how to become a sage for how to become a visionary leader and incredible human being now it's up to you to actually go and to actualize it and to find the concrete steps that need to be taken the techniques and so forth to make it happen which of course I share with you through all the other videos that I had released also I want you to appreciate what True Religion is I want you to really understand what religion is here I've basically been describing Aztec religion but it's no different than Christianity or Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism or Judaism or Jainism or anything else the principles are all fundamentally the same as long as you don't get caught up on the technicalities of bickering back and forth about who's right or what commandment to follow you have to you have to you have to be able to see the essence extract the essence out of the religion whatever it is Christianity or Islam or Buddhism extract the essence from it and ditch the the rest ditch the Bible ditch the Quran ditch the books ditch the scriptures you don't need that what you need is you need the high level ideas and then you need two techniques to embody that and if you're a materialist or an atheist then I want you to really think hard and really contemplate this question of what is religion and why does it exist it's very important that you have a proper understanding of what religion is and why it exists and this silly answer that many materialists are atheist give that religion is just some childish superstition mumbo-jumbo of the ancient past which is no longer relevant today that's not gonna fly that's complete horseshit you're not appreciating what religion is offering you're not seeing the commonalities between all the religions and you're not really appreciating how significant it is that billions of people in the world across all of human eras and across all continents have had spirituality and religion as a central pillar in their lives now granted a lot of it was dogmatic Orthodox tribalistic ethnocentric religion and I'm no fan of that but there's something there that you're missing some kernel of truth that you're missing what is that find that and then pursue that and that will lead you to the best life that you can live all right that's it I'm done here please click that like button for me and come check out actualize that work that's my website right there you will find resources to help you on your journey like my blog where i share exclusive insights and even sometimes exclusive videos I also have the book list with resources there for you to read I have the life purpose course which helps you to get your career aligned with Toyota a career based on your heart and then the the forum check out the actualized forum where you can talk about this stuff in conclusion I'll just say that I want you to appreciate that there's value to reading what we call scriptures what I was reading here for you today we might call one of these scriptures it could be written by a Buddhist or by Muslim or by a Christian or by just some academic some philosopher but these are like grounding texts which gives you insights and wisdom into how to live your life and what you're supposed to be doing don't take those granted the more of these scriptures you read the more you will be able to triangulate what wisdom is and what the truth is they will all kind of converge and start to point you towards something which of course will be total but also all the ancillary stuff that comes along with total various techniques and practices and minor truths so reading these scriptures is important cuz otherwise what you might become as the Zen devil there is valuable wisdom contained within ancient traditions and this valuable wisdom was hard-won lots of blood was spilt hmm lots of people became deluded and fell into various kinds of traps in order for us to learn this wisdom so do learn from the Scriptures but also at the same time don't don't become too exclusive about them don't start to get all favorite play favorites with various scriptures that there are just like be willing to study various scriptures and connect things and be integral in how you study the scriptures don't just stick to your own school or tradition and what you'll find is you'll find a that it's much much more rewarding and that it reveals many more traps to you than you would have discovered if you only stayed within your little narrow school or tradition and that will help you to avoid becoming a Zen devil you