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hey this is Leo for actualised org and in this episode I'm going to talk about how to become enlightened the exact step-by-step process this is a very advanced video which is something I have to say right off the bat if this is your first time hearing about enlightenment then this video is not for you go watch my introductory videos first there's a bunch of them that you should watch this is an advanced video which will guide you from going from the point of learning about what enlightenment is and kind of getting curious about it to actually getting down to the nuts and bolts of what do you do to become enlightened like practically speaking and I'm going to try to cut out as much [ __ ] and mysticism as I can from this process because there's tends to be a lot of it when you start reading and studying and researching this stuff so what are we really talking about here with enlightenment let's refresh our memory well there's an interesting and very peculiar fact about your awareness and this fact is that you are not an entity sitting inside your body that is not who you really are but it sure really seems like you are an entity that's sitting inside your body that's how you perceive the world it's been that way for you since the moment you can remember living life and your entire life is centered around this idea that you're an entity at the center of life who's experiencing it well this turns out to be false it's just factually false and what your true nature is your true existential absolute nature is something that's very fascinating and in fact cannot be communicated through language but we can try and many people have said many things on this topic but basically the consensus is that you are everything within the field of awareness you are the field of awareness itself and this entire field of awareness is couched in nothingness and so absolutely you are that nothing this is like an existential metaphysical nothing now immediately we have some traps here that we're already starting to get caught in and this is the trap of taking anything that I say here as a philosophy taking enlightenment as a philosophy it is not that this is not philosophy we are not interested about what you believe or what other people believe or what I believe or what some scriptures told you or what some expert told you or what science told you or what your religion told you none of that not interested in it here what we're after here is going underneath the beliefs which is something that you've never really done in your life before and yet your mind tells you that you have so you see immediately we have a very big problem because in just starting this process already there's many false assumptions within you so we have to navigate around this there are many traps here that we have to avoid and I'll be pointing them out as we go the objective here in this episode is to get you a process that will allow you to attain enlightenment fast as fast as humanly possible when you start studying and researching enlightenment one of the things that becomes apparent to you is that many people have been on this journey towards enlightenment for decades 20 40 years and they haven't become enlightened so when you read about this and you hear about this immediately you start to say to yourself well I don't want to be like that so what do I have to do to make it happen now in a year or two let's say rather than in 20 years or in 40 years well the last 12 months of my life I've really spent studying different schools of thinking on enlightenment different techniques and processes that are available I haven't studied them all but I've looked at a good number of them and there's a lot of consensus between them and what I've done is I try to find the methods that work the fastest and so the method I'm going to give you here is going to be a very very direct method extremely direct and it's very rare that you hear such direct method so if you want to do it fast and I'm talking about doing it within 3 to 24 months you can do that if you're really dedicated and you work hard and you follow the guidelines that I give you you can do it in 3 to 24 months which might sound like oh man that's that's still a lot of work yes it's a ton of work enlightenment is a ton of work but it's a lot less work than 20 years or 40 years also in case you're wondering question comes up about meditation people wonder well is meditation used to attain enlightenment shouldn't I just be meditating is that going to be sufficient and the answer is in a nutshell no that's not sufficient meditation is great for calming the monkey chatter in the mind it's also possible to use meditation to attain enlightenment but that process usually takes 20 to 40 years of everyday meditating for half an hour to an hour right so it's a process and it works but it's a very very long-term process which most of you don't have the patience for I recommend that you do keep meditating as you do what I call enlightenment work the process that I show you here but it's not sufficient it's not direct enough meditation is just the starting point really to attain enlightenment you need a very very focused inquiry into your own consciousness and that's what we're going to describe here I spent the last 12 months working with enlightened guide and studying lots of other enlightened people who have come up with different processes and I've been kind of putting and piecing all of them together to find the thing that is the quickest and has the least [ __ ] to it the process is simple which I'm going to show it's a very very simple process the difficulty is in the many many traps and ego deceptions that are going to be happening as you try to apply this process so I'm going to explain this process right now and then I'm going to spend some time talking about the different traps and making some key distinctions that you're going to need to apply this process successfully because don't get confused by the simplicity of it all right there's so much depth here this is the deepest topic that I've ever discovered in my entire life is is enlightenment it's the deepest and most challenging topic that there is I think for the human mind to grapple with so here's the process and actually there's some bad news the bad news is that actually there cannot be a process for becoming enlightened the mind wants to look for a process but actually enlightenment itself is not a process it's a state of being it's not a state just so you understand it's not an emotional state that's not what I mean when I say a state of being I mean reality right we're living in reality there is a reality here are you aware of it right now so whatever you call reality that entire thing is you you are it you are reality you're not a piece of it you're not an observer of it you're not someone who's inside of it you are the whole of it so to become enlightened what you need to do is you need to become reality itself right now in the present moment as soon as that happens enlightenment happens but there cannot be a process to get there because it's already happening every second of your life you might say that you're being it the problem is that you're not aware of it so what we need to do is we need to raise your awareness to this to a sufficiently high level where you simply become what you already are but don't know that you are and how does this actually happen well a very tricky thing here and this is something that took me a long time many months to to accept is that enlightenment happens basically by spontaneous luck you cannot control it really why not because what is enlightenment enlightenment is the truth of no self meaning that there is no such thing as the entity that you personally think and believe that you are right now listening to me this thing I'm pointing out right here it's not a real entity that's a fiction so that being the case and you wanting to become enlightened can you see the problem here of you trying to become enlightened there's no one to become enlightened that is enlightenment is realizing that there's no one to become enlightened sometimes in the Eastern traditions they call this passing through the gateless gate very paradoxical the most paradoxical perhaps thing that you'll discover in life is this thing here but nevertheless even though there's not really a process for being you because you already are you you already are reality she's not aware it so there's no real process for it you just have to do it now right this second you have to become it but how do we actually get you there practically well there's a little bit of a process here it is first thing you do is you sit down sit down in a very quiet place with no distractions get a timer set the timer for 30 to 60 minutes that's what I recommend to start with sit upright in a meditative like posture you don't need to be overly formal about it but if your back is up right that's helpful so you don't fall asleep when you're doing this you want to be as mentally clear and alert as humanly possible so ideally don't do this before not before but after a meal for example or right before bed because you're gonna be sleepy or tired your mind's not going to be able to focus we need your mind to focus like it's never focused before in its life so here's what you do you're sitting right you're all prepared your timer is rolling now what you do is you can close your eyes if you'd like or you can keep them open if you like both methods work and then what you do is you go inside so to speak inside your awareness and you look and you try to get an accurate real-time present sense of what you believe you really are so one thing you notice if you start meditating is that there's like a sense inside of you of you like when I say hey you over there you I'm pointing at you you are registering that and you're saying in your mind something like oh he's talking to me oh that's right meaning me I that's what you is pointing to okay so that's we're talking about that sense now what you need to do is you need to get up real time in the present moment sense of that because that sense is shifting around this moving maybe it's an idea in your mind maybe it's an image maybe it's a sound maybe it's a label maybe it's the word eye maybe it's the word me maybe it's you or whatever maybe it's your name so you get an accurate sense of that right now in the present moment and this is very different than just a belief about you or something that you've been told like oh well you know my uh my science teacher in sixth grade told me that I'm the brain and that my consciousness is coming out of neurons firing in the brain no that's a story that someone told you forget about that you need to focus on what's going on right now in the present moment because reality is happening right now in the present moment reality is not back in sixth grade science class that happened 20 years ago forget about that right now who do you think you are who do you feel you are the most honestly like honestly who do you feel you are because you have a very firm sense of yourself because if I tell you that you aren't real what happens in your awareness is that immediately you jump to the fact that no wait a minute Leo I'm right here so we need to capture that you need to kind of like latch onto it with your awareness all right so you get that and then you start looking around in your awareness what's going on in there and you try to distill your sense of self to the most accurate thing you can pinpoint and you try to be specific about it because here's the problem is when I start talking about you and pointing to you and you close your eyes you go in there and you try to find where is me where's me where am I is that me is this me who's me when you start doing that you start to notice that a lot of the things that you think you are you actually aren't so the first thing you'll say is like well I'm the body but then you go in there and you look and you're like well wait a minute am I really do I really believe I'm the body I mean it seems like I believe on the body but then when I go and look a little deeper it's like well but you know like the sensations in my feet I don't really believe that that's me I mean there's certain stations in the feed and I believe the feet belong to me okay but it's like I'm the one who's perceiving the feet I'm the one that they belong to I'm not actually the feet I'm the owner of the feet interesting okay I didn't maybe realize that before okay so then I look deeper and deeper and deeper and eventually as you keep doing this and you'll do this over the course of weeks and months and perhaps years depending on how astute you are with your awareness you'll start to see that actually what you really believe that you are is not a body or a brain or any other kind of stuff like that but what you most believe you are is a perceiver you believe that you are like this point behind the eyes between the ears back there somewhere on which all of these sensations here are converging that's what you really believe but it's not enough that you just hear me and take me at my word you've to actually go inside yourself and actually find that but if you do the work you'll start to see that what I'm saying is true for you once you get that sense of oh I'm that spot back there somewhere try to pinpoint it can see this is where people start to get very vague and they start to wave their hands and say oh Willy oh yeah I mean I'm I'm somewhere back there or you know whatever maybe I'm this may be I'm not no you have to be very accurate what actually are you in your present experience as it's happening right now what are you and you ask yourself a couple of key questions first question is who is aware so you're doing this process and then you ask you have who's aware I'm aware who's aware that I'm aware who's aware of the eye who's aware of these words who's aware of these images who's aware really good question second question is who is perceiving so you'll notice if you close your eyes and you sit there that you believe that you're perceiving stuff sound sensations feelings in the body and so forth well when you're doing that ask yourself who is perceiving is there actually an entity in my experience who is perceiving experience and you sit and you wonder and you look for an answer and the third question you can ask yourself is Who am I this is a classic question the problem with this question is that you know for the first six months of this work or so this question didn't make any sense to me I didn't know what the question was really asking so it takes work for you to even get to the point where you understand what the question is really asking so you might want to start with the other two questions but eventually you get to the question of Who am I and again you close your eyes or maybe keep them open and you just look who am I really like really Who am I and that's the whole process basically and what you're doing is you're looking for an answer except you're not looking for a logical answer so the answer to these questions is not going to be something like oh well I'm a spot behind the eyes somewhere or I'm the body you're looking for an experience of your true existential being what are you metaphysically as an entity right now you most likely believe that metaphysically what you are is you're composed of atoms and that you're a body and that you're a brain and that's what you are maybe you also believe that you're a spirit or soul of some kind doesn't matter which both of those things are stories and just beliefs and both of those are false - so those are not what your true nature actually is but it's very difficult for your mind to even open to the possibility that that could be false so what's going to happen is that you're looking for the answer you're trying to become the thing that you actually are you're trying to become aware of it and becoming aware of it is not the same thing as thinking or philosophizing about it that's not what you're supposed to be doing here if you're philosophizing you've lost it you're off track what's going to happen is that the voice will come up for you I call it the voice the voice is that internal dialogue in your mind that you identify yourself with so one of the other beliefs you have is that you are the voice all the thoughts you think and have you think that those thoughts are you what's going to happen when you ask yourself Who am I or who's perceiving or who's aware immediately the voice will kick in and it'll supply a ready-made logical answer and it'll say something like well I mean leo don't be stupid Here I am I'm the body it's stupid to even think otherwise or a million other variations on that theme here's the problem is that the voice is not actually you you're falsely identified with it so what we need you to do is to actually become aware of that fact so when the voice kicks in what I want you to do is I want you to go meta on the voice so the voice will kick in they'll say something léa léa on me or something like hey this is it this is here this is me right here what are you stupid Here I am the most obvious thing ever I'm me right here when you get that answer I want you to recognize that that's an answer of the voice and you need to ask yourself who is perceiving that answer and what this does is this takes you up one level this is called going meta so the voice says I'm the body you say who's aware of the body the voice says I am the body and I'm self-aware and you ask yourself again who's aware of that answer and the voiceless runnable I of course I am and you'll say well who's aware of that whose proceeding that and you're going to play this game what it is actually is that it's the voice talking to itself it's AB it's absurd what you're doing really because there's not a you and a voice you are the voice but that's all false that's all the illusion but you need to get a direct experience of this right so you're going to be sitting down on a daily basis and you're gonna be practicing this what I'm telling you ask yourself these questions and you're going to be carefully looking and you're not going to be thinking or philosophizing but you're going to be very carefully observing just objectively observing what's going on in there and what you need to do as you're doing this you need to keep a very open mind the problem here is that you need to open your mind to the fact that you actually don't know who you are and this is very hard to do because you believe so firmly that you do know who you are your entire life is predicated on the fact that you know exactly who you are but actually the fact is that you have no idea who you really are and it's not going to be possible for you to even practice this work towards moving towards enlightenment until you open your mind to the possibility that you don't know and this is very hard to do you have to do it right now in directives you know experience it's not enough for you just to agree with me and say yeah Leo uh maybe I don't know not enough you have to actually not know and there's different techniques we can use to open up your mind so one that I really like is this one notice right now in your direct awareness your conscious right stuff is happening around you they're sensations you're seeing me you're hearing me and other things around you you're feeling sensations in your body right notice that everything that you're perceiving is arriving at nowhere right now notice this everything that is being perceived by quote-unquote you think is you you think you is the point to which this stuff is arriving to like you think that these sights and sounds are converging on a point which is you but can you notice right now that there actually is no point to which these things arrive at right now do it in your awareness kind of freaky huh where are these perceptions coming from and where are they going to who are they going to you might say well they're going to the body or the thing inside the body like the soul but notice that whatever you perceive as the perceptions going to that that's just another perception can you see this so whatever you answer as the thing that all these perceptions are converging towards that's another perception that's not the perceiver can you see that can you see that in your awareness there is no perception of the perceiver if you believe that what you are is a perceiver which is what you believe then what do you really know about yourself because everything you perceive is not the perceiver and is not actually you so then who are you what are you are you saying that your a perception no you probably don't want to say that you probably want insist that you're the perceiver but all you have are options do you see this do you see that there is no perception of a perceiver any perception of a perceiver is a perception not the perceiver good if you need time pause and actually do do this in real time for yourself right now it doesn't help to believe me it doesn't help to agree with me in fact it hurts you're not going to become enlightened that way so this process this little technique here is designed to create genuine wonder within you like oh maybe there's something awry here like I've been walking around and living and breathing and thinking that I got this [ __ ] handled but maybe there's like a glitch in the matrix and I just saw it and now my mind is open just a little crack is open in the mind now you can actually run the process and now you have a chance of actually progressing in this work see how tricky this is if you just sit there with a closed mind and you ask yourself these questions you could sit for 50 years and you'll get nowhere so you got to open your mind and as you do that your mind opens and then you look inside and try to be aware of okay Who am I who's perceiving and you look for evidence of the perceiver you need to find that evidence in your direct experience what do the raw facts of the situation show right now forget about what people have told you doesn't matter forget everything about everything that I told you forget about that too you have to ground this in your direct experience and as you're doing all this a very important point is that you have to intend to become your true self there needs to be an intention here to actually make a quantum leap because right now you think you're a perceiver which is actually not what you are you are being itself you are reality being itself but it doesn't help for you to to know that or to believe it that doesn't help in fact it hurts so the reason I tell you this is that I want you to understand that you need to make a quantum leap between where you are now and where you're going to be to become enlightened so this is the leap from thinking that you're a perceiver of reality to becoming all of reality itself can you see the quantum leap there this is like two whole [ __ ] worlds apart so to do this basically have to sit there you have it you have to have it up like a steel determination to make the quantum leap happen like you have to like you have to want really [ __ ] bad like you have to really want with every fiber of your being to make that jump if you lose that intent you're not doing the process and you'll get nowhere and it's very easy to lose intent because what'll happen is that your mind will wander so in this process basically you're focusing in on the most real sense of you and then you're really opening up and you're wandering and you're asking yourself this question let's say you know who's perceiving or who's aware and you're kind of intending to make that quantum leap and what will happen is that your mind will wander off your sense of you and they'll start thinking about lunch it'll start thinking about how stupid this whole thing is you'll start thinking about your car and your email and tomorrow night and your girlfriend and your boyfriend all this stuff your mind will wander around and the hardest part of this entire process I found for me is refocusing your mind always back to the subject and the subject is always you so what is your most real sense of you you have to refocus on that over and over and over again every second of your sitting if you're sitting there for 30 to 60 minutes you have to keep refocusing and you have to notice when you've won it off and then bring yourself back this is the hardest thing you're going to fail thousands of times at this you're going to get lost in stories and ideas and fantasies and you're gonna fall asleep and this and this and that and every time you do that you're getting nowhere you need to have a direct experience of who you really think you are and then you need to ask questions of that to become aware of who you really are and every time your mind supplies a ready-made logical answer you need to remind yourself that this is the voice and that the voice is simply sounds and images and that sounds and images are not actually you you don't believe that now anyways you believe that you're the perceiver of sounds and images so again who are you if you're not a sound or an image that's the process there's a lot of subtlety and nuance in this process and there's a lot of places you can go wrong which I've already underlined for you a little bit but it's going to be worth it for you to go back to this part of the video and rewatch it dozens of times as you're practicing this on a daily basis because there's a lot that I said that you're going to miss on first or second or even third hearings you're going to need to build up awareness before you really understand what I'm talking about here okay so how do you practice this you go and you do this on a daily basis I recommend doing 30 or 60 minutes of this every single day like clockwork like a meditation habit except this is much more focused than meditation I like to call this process looking which actually brings me to two very important distinctions that you need to make in your awareness if you're going to use this process successfully and the first distinction is the distinction between thinking versus looking the thing that you're very familiar with is thinking you're real good at that in fact you're so good at it that you think that thinking is all that there is well there's also perceptions for you so you think that what the world consists in is perceptions and then thoughts and you think that your way of interacting with the world is basically by thinking about it and seeing it and perceiving it but there's also another thing which is awareness and the distinction between thinking versus looking is the distinction between thinking and applying awareness pure awareness to a situation which is observation and when I say looking I'm not saying with your eyes although you could look with your eyes but I'm saying like with your awareness with your consciousness have you ever wondered what thoughts actually are I mean you think them non-stop thousands of them in a day maybe ten or more thousand a day but have you ever stopped and wondered like wait a minute what the [ __ ] is a thought existentially what is it I mean is it made of matter out of energy is it a spiritual thing what is a thought don't be so quick to think you know it's a very tricky question you could spend months practicing looking to find what the answer is and you'll still fail thoughts are very tricky things here's what you got to know about thoughts a thought is a sensation so to speak and it also contains content or what I call a story how do we best explain this I like using the movie analogy imagine that you're watching a movie you're in the theater you're watching a movie and let's say you see Tom Cruise getting punched in the face okay so you're watching that now what are you actually watching are you actually watching Tom Cruise get punched in the face or are you watching light projected onto a flat white surface like a wall what is a movie actually is a movie actually Tom Cruise getting punched in the face we would say no maybe that happened and that was filmed but that's not what I'm watching what I'm watching is light flickering on a wall okay so if that's true also notice that when you're sitting there and watching the movie you're completely engrossed in the movie so much so that you have no idea at all no consciousness in the moment that this is light flickering on a screen in fact when Tom Cruise gets punched in the face what do you do you kinda like you flinch or you reactor like you gasp or you laugh or whatever the intended you no emotion is that the movie wanted you to feel but basically you're totally absorbed in what I call the content or the story of the movie and you're not aware of what the movie actually is and so what happens is that you literally get sucked in and lost in the fiction very curious a thought is analogous to this a thought has both a reality to it and then also it has the content or the story that sucks you in and the whole problem with life is that everyone is walking around in living life completely sucked in to their fictitious thought stories rather than seeing what's actually going on existentially inside their mind so I want to demonstrate this for you right now and I want you to make this distinction in your direct experience right now so go ahead and close your eyes and now with your eyes closed just relax and what I'd like you to do is keep them closed until I tell you to open them so they're closed now I'd like you to think of one million dollars in your bank account you got that a thought of 1 million dollars in your bank account now you've got a picture of it or a word or mental label something like that that's a thought so keep that thought in your mind keep it alive now here's question is that reality is there actually a million dollars in your bank account and of course the answer is no that's a thought which says there's a million dollars but there's not really so it's a fiction ok good so that's you know obvious keep your eyes still closed keep thinking of that million dollars now the question that's even more interesting is does the experience of 1 million dollars in your bank account does that have a reality to it of its own like what is that it's not actually a million dollars in your bank account but it is something right you are aware of something a thought does have substance it has a certain feel to it a certain sensation certain color a certain sound or whatever right that's the actual reality of the thought that's kind of what the thought existentially is so draw the distinction right now between what a thought actually is and what is pretending to be with its content you see how that works this is a very critical distinction if you're going to try to become enlightened this is the whole problem of why you're not in line already do you realize how significant this is this one distinction this is huge because if you don't make this distinction very clearly with every one of your thoughts then you're always lost in fantasies you're always caught it up in the movie in the drama of the movie you don't see that the movies just light on a screen what if who you believe you are this perceiver that we think you are what if that was a thought and not reality now what does that mean remember we made a distinction here so when we say that yes there's a certain feeling to the thought of you but what you believe you are is not that feeling what you believe you are is you believe you're the story that that feeling portrays so to speak which is a fiction could that be possible could you as an entity actually be a fiction interesting very significant very significant distinction so keep that one in mind because we're going to go on to the second one second distinction is also extremely important and this is that reality is only what is happening right now in the present moment this is a very powerful distinction what I'm saying here is that if you don't see it hear it smell it taste it think it right now like right [ __ ] now not a minute ago or not what you think is going to happen tomorrow but like right [ __ ] now then it's not real it's what it's a story it's a movie that you've been sucked into that's what it actually is now this is a bold claim that I'm making and perhaps you're going to want proof of this which I'll address here in a second but um do you realize how significant this is what I'm stating I mean literally that right now if you're looking at me and you're watching this and you're listening if your parents are not in front of you then they are literally not real if right now you cannot hear feel smell taste your parents they're not real I'm also saying that your car unless you're sitting in it or you're looking at it is not real it does not exist in consciousness which means it is not a part of reality it also means that yesterday all the stuff that happened you yesterday that feels so real that that's not real either that's a movie that you believe is real but you're not seeing it for what it really is which is just some light projected on a screen and very curiously your brain isn't real can you see your brain right now can you hear it can you feel it can you taste it can you smell it what do you actually have of your brain you have a movie of it you have a thought of it but that's it in fact notice that you've never in your entire life unless you've had open brain surgery with a mirror looking at your brain you've never seen your brain so as far as you're concerned the brain is a fiction these are just some of the ramifications of what I'm saying so you sort of see how significant this statement is that only what's happening right now and what is happening in your senses is real now what's going to happen is that your voice is going to object to this the voice it'll come in there and say well leo hold on hold on a second hold on a second but you know it's the scientist tells us this and and science tells us that and then we got other ideas here and regarde religious ideas here and I mean what about you are you saying like when I'm looking out looking at the Sun the Sun doesn't exist when I turn my head away the things behind me don't exist anymore what are you saying exactly the voice will say all this stuff again what's actually happening there when the voice is talking remember we've already made this distinction what is real about the voice and what is the fiction what is the content so notice that when you start getting sucked into those different what's happening that you actually you're getting sucked into the content of thought again so what happens that basically thoughts come up and then you start to open your mind to some new possibility and what happens immediately a new thought comes up and covers that opening and just pummels you as more content and you just keep getting pummeled with more and more content as though imagine you're sitting at the movie and you've been at the movies your entire life so you can't distinguish between reality and movie so you've been watching movies chained to your to your chair or your entire life you grew up that way and then when someone tells you that wait a minute you're just watching a movie it's just light on a screen it's not real and then you start to say oh well maybe that's possible and your mind opens up a little bit right and then what happens immediately you get pummeled with more content right it's not like your mind just opens now you can see the illusion no the movie keeps playing and you see some you know scary monster jump up and run [ __ ] it's a scary monster it's so real and you forget about the fact that your mind was just starting to open in your mind closes back up and that's exactly what's happening all the time in this enlightenment work is your mind opens up and then it gets just bombarded with content and you forget that the content is not real to fiction so it's an extremely self-propagating illusion here and you need to have enough awareness to start to see what's going on so you need to be able to go meta so when these objections of your voice pop up as another pointed towards me you know questioning my theory or whatever you want to call my philosophy then you need to see what that is you need to apply the things you learned here otherwise you're going to fall back asleep and no one can help you with that by yourself I can't help you with that no I'm not going to go in here and say that this is the absolute truth that reality is only what you hear right now I'm just saying that that's a that's a principle general guideline that I want you to follow in this work because if you don't follow this principle you're going to waste literally hundreds if not thousands of your hours precious hours running in circles in your mind getting absolutely nowhere this is how people can take four years to become enlightened is because they've been running in circles getting pummeled with content buying into the content not going meta not seeing what the content actually is in reality getting sucked in and tricked by their voice that's how it happens so I really encourage you to take this distinction of realities only what's happening right now in my senses and run with it you use that principle until it breaks it'll break your mind it'll break your sense of self you can use this one principle to get to full enlightenment if you just sit there and you you actually start to sort out what's real from what's not real by applying this principle you can get to full enlightenment but that will take a very special dedication on your part to do that not easy so those are two distinctions now what I want to do is I want to wrap up with some tips I want to give you some tips for avoiding some of the most common traps that people fall into in this work and the reason that I know these is probably because I've fallen into most of them myself many many times all right so here we go do not take any idea or framework or belief as the truth and when I'm talking about truth in this context of enlightenment I mean like the truth with a capital T I mean like existential metaphysical truth now science tells us that such truth is not possible to come by this work is telling you that it is is it really be open to the possibility because if you're not open then you are not doing the process any idea or framework or belief at all is not absolute truth why not because it's that movie it's not the reality light shining on the screen also don't take any instruction as the truth including my instruction so when I'm here telling you stuff this is just to make you aware that you're in the matrix that's all it is it's like me handing you a little secret note that says hey buddy you're in the [ __ ] matrix wake the [ __ ] up that little note is still in the [ __ ] matrix the note is not you getting outside the matrix don't make that mistake very deadly mistake everything I tell you here is not the truth with capital T it's only value to you is if it helps you to discover that truth for yourself that truth can only be discovered by you by no one else also forget about all scientific explanations they will not help you here they will hurt you it will slow you down forget about the Big Bang Theory forget about string theory forget about quarks and atoms and molecules and chemistry and evolutionary theory and all this stuff that you've learned forget about all that doesn't matter I don't care what quantum mechanics says irrelevant you have no understanding quantum mechanics anyways also forget about all religious explanations if you're the religious or spiritual sort drop all that [ __ ] forget about God forget about the soul forget about spirits forget about heaven and hell forget about energy forget about love forget about all that nonsense those are more ideas more beliefs which are slowing you down also very importantly if you're like a more advanced student of this work and you kind of know what enlightenment is and you're like oh well enlightenment is nothingness and it's everything and I'm this and I'm that now I've studied so much of this in lime and stuff I know you're talking about Leo no you don't unless you're enlightened you really don't know what you're talking about so forget about nothingness you think you know what nothingness is you have no [ __ ] idea what it is if you did you would be in line we wouldn't be having this conversation by the way I apply all this to myself you understand this so I'm not here like preaching this at you as oh like haha I'm better than you no these are all traps that I fall into every single day that I struggle with right so I get caught by all these traps don't think I'm like above you somewhere I'm not I especially get caught with the trap of nothingness because I spent so much time learning and studying enlightenment that now I think I know everything about enlightenment and I know that actually I don't know anything about Lineman how's that for some paradox so whatever idea you have of nothing that you're trying to get yourself towards stop that that's not nothing else that's slowing you down that's illusion you need to see that as more stories more movies the biggest trap here is that people try to conceptualize enlightenment they try to conceptualize themselves this is not possible every and any belief or idea that you have is not the truth with capital T will not work you cannot think your way into enlightenment nor can you think your way out of enlightenment but that's the only way you know how to do enlightenment work that's the only thing you really recognize as as real that's the only way you solve problems is trying to think your way out of them or thinking your way into something else can't do that here here's an analogy that I like you're basically like a dog trying to learn calculus a dog to not learn calculus why not because it doesn't have the conceptual high conceptual abilities to conceptualize the different ideas that are necessary to do calculus it doesn't have that abstract thinking faculty so try as it might if the dog just keeps doing its dog stuff like wagging its tail and chasing around and eating food and scratching its nuts if it keeps doing all that will it ever learn calculus no it won't analogously you're like that dog scratching its nuts that's what you're doing when you're thinking about stuff that's the only thing you know you can do you don't even know that there's anything else outside of that you don't even have a [ __ ] clue that there's some calculus out there that could be learned so then how do you advance past this well you have to not think your way out you can't get yourself to calculus by scratching more of your nuts that's not going to work you have to raise awareness you raise awareness mmm by looking and observing not by thinking that's why we made that critical distinction between looking and thinking you got to really hold yourself to that otherwise you're just going to be scratching your nuts remember that this work takes massive persistence so when you sit down you're doing this process you're going to very likely get disheartened many many times and quit many many times that quit and come back and this and that is give me a lot of drama and problems and emotions will come up and you'll have existential crises and you'll get depressed and angry and pissed off and jealous and you'll say that a Leo is stupid and [ __ ] all this enlightenment [ __ ] and you'll come up with every scenario in the book this work takes massive persistence like on a scale that you have not thought you are capable of as a human being what's required here of your mind is extraordinary right you need to sit down and look at who you really are thousands of times and you will fail thousands of times guaranteed and you need to be able to fail thousands of time and still persevere and every time refine your approach and do it better and better and better and better and even if you're doing all perfectly you're still going to fail many many times and in the end what will happen is that you will get rewarded with your persistence and if you're doing everything right then what will happen is at some point and you can't predict win or why or how what will happen is there will be a spontaneous awakening this is enlightenment the spontaneous awakening happens it happens by fluke luck you break through really you did not use any process to get there although if you use this process that I told you your results will be you know the probability of your results will be greatly increased so you have this spontaneous awakening and then what happens that you become actually what you are you're not thinking about who you are you're not philosophizing you're not theorizing or believing some theory or whatever you actually are it absolutely you're not even a perceiver of it because actually there are no perceivers there just is reality as it exists there's only being so what happens is that you become being and this being is not limited or located in any particular coordinate in space so it's not like you're sitting behind the brain somewhere actually what happens that the you that you think is behind the brain there it expands to everywhere it has no location it can be anywhere also have you noticed by the way that uh slots have no location check it out in your awareness one one time when you sit down thoughts are not located anywhere so yeah so what will happen is that you will just become reality and that will be the alignment and you'll have some good times and will happen is then you'll fall back asleep and then you'll go pursue some more enlightenment then you fall back asleep and then you'll pursue some more enlivens and you'll fall back asleep but uh you know even if you can crack that first nut that'll be very very eye-opening for you it will be life-changing for you it'll be something that you never imagined it was possible it'll be something that you literally cannot conceive with your imagination and it'll be extremely powerful in the ramifications it has on your life but also at the same time subtle subtle and when you look back on it you'll um you'll be very grateful that you did this work because once you break out of the matrix you never want to go back in and you're always very grateful for all the work you did even though as hell all the work you did to break out it'll be very very worth it but it's hard for you to conceive right now what I'm talking about so that's it you will get lost a lot on this journey so what I recommend is that you stick around for more of the videos that I'm going to have coming really this video if you think this video is long I could keep talking for another 3 or 4 hours just to help you to make some more distinctions just right here just with this little piece of it right here and help you to understand how to do it right but I want you to go get some practical experience go apply this right now in your life do it consistently try to get consistent habit of it going and then stick around for future videos because I'm going to be breaking down other facets of this work different traps are going to be falling into there's a lot to talk about so a lot of good stuff coming that I'm really excited about very advanced topics right even more advanced than this remember that this is not philosophy this is not philosophy so stop [ __ ] around stop your objection stop your excuses you know if you want you can do all that but that's going to cost you thousands of hours of time so if you want to play devil's advocate and you know funny remarks and all this and ha ha ha um yeah I could go do that but you're not making any progress if you want to make real quick progress here and this is something even do is stop raising all the objections in your mind stop clinging to all the different beliefs that you have because every belief you cling to that's not the truth so in practice what this work really becomes it becomes a work a process of dismissing a bunch of your beliefs first before you can actually sit down and do real enlightenment work I mean I probably spent six if not ten months just clearing out the [ __ ] in my mind before I could really get some just five minutes here or 10 minutes here of like really laser focused looking awareness of what I could be and I still haven't cracked it yet right but I've made a lot of progress what you're going to notice in this work is that you know when you first start it's gonna seem like it's so vague and what the [ __ ] is Leo talking about like this is so stupid it makes no sense what am i doing but something in you knows that there's nugget of truth here so you pursue it um and then what happens you start to have these aha moments where you realize that oh [ __ ] I've been I've been going down this trap for a week and I've been going down that trap for three months and it's like oh [ __ ] um and then you put yourself back on track and sometimes they'll get disgusted and you'll get depressed and whatever you'll quit then you'll come back a couple months later you'll lose a couple months that way but um you know better than never coming back and so what happens though also is that you have all these objections about well but reality should be this way and you know religion told me that and what about God and what about the soul you know but science says this and the Big Bang Theory said that that's that's dozens of hours right there for each one of those running around licking your nuts in your mind that's what you're doing so I encourage you to cut that [ __ ] out if you can and if you can't then [ __ ] go work through it work through it it'll take a thousands of hours work through it it'll be worth it even then even then even if you're the slowest worst person at this it'll be worth it very worth it as hard as this is the value of it is greater to you than the difficulty and lastly just remember that everything that you have been told here is not the truth all right I'm done posting your comments down below click the like button please share this video with a friend who is very open-minded don't share this with close-minded people and then come sign up to my newsletter right here to actualize that org is a free newsletter I release new videos every single week on self-actualization topics but also some enlightenment topics as I continue forward with actualize that org we're going to be covering more and more very nuanced very deep very advanced topics so in order for you even to start to understand those you need to start to do some of this in light network 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