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hey this is Leo for actualised org and in this video I want to talk about the most advanced the most profound the most important and the most challenging concept that I've discovered in all of my personal development research and that is spiritual enlightenment warning this video will cause you emotional distress including anger depression and confusion there is a profound truth that virtually no human beings on the planet understand and this includes you and this includes humanity at large and society at large and science at large this truth is so rarely known that just to give you an idea out of the seven billion people that live on earth on this planet and we don't know for certain but we can estimate perhaps ten thousand of these seven billion understand this truth and the rest do not they're clueless to it completely clueless to it and what's worse of all is that this truth is fundamental to your happiness and emotional well-being in life so this is not some abstract philosophical truth but this is a very practical very important the most important and the most profound truth that you can understand as a human being the problem though is that this truth is also extremely nuanced and delicate and to understand this truth takes something really extraordinary of yourself it takes extraordinary open-mindedness extraordinary self honesty and extraordinary commitment to the path to discover this truth because this truth is not discovered through a simple video or reading a book it takes a lot more than that but in this video what I'm going to do is I'm going to put you on track towards this truth this idiot will not give you this truth this video will tell you about the truth and tell you how you can undertake a journey to discover this truth for yourself if you should choose to do it I want to start off by giving you a sense of what I mean by the need for open-mindedness in this investigation and what also I mean by nuanced truths because as we go through society as we're raised and we go to through school and go to College and we're off in the business world all these different places they don't really teach us to deal with new Oz with nuanced truths very well and even if you are an intellectually rigorous person you went to a university and you did a research there still that's not going to be sufficient to do this investigation so what we're going to show you here I want to show you a an experiment right now that's going to help to open your mind to the possibility that there could be something that's true right before your eyes right under your nose but yet you're not seeing it so this truth we're talking about it's not going to be some hidden dragon or mystical unicorn or some deity out there somewhere that you're never going to get to see it's right before your eyes you can see it right now except you're not aware of it because you haven't developed your psyche far enough along so that you can see it now it's not immediately clear that this is even possible that something could be so obviously there but then you're not able to register it so to give you a taste of that I want to show you an optical illusion to start to open up your mind so in a second here this screen is going to change and what I want you to do is when the screen changes you're going to press the pause button and then you're going to look at this optical illusion now here's the instructions for what you're going to do you're going to put your face up towards the screen not too close maybe a foot or two away from the screen and you're going to focus your eyes hold your head steady focus your eyes on the little dot right at the center of the screen there's going to be a little dot I'm going to focus on it you're going to keep looking at it and just look at it and look at it and look at it hold your head straight and see what happens what's going to happen is an interesting phenomenon with your visual awareness I'm not going to spoil the surprise so go ahead and do that right now then we'll talk about it when you come back this is not what spiritual alignment is but it's a little bit of like an analogy of what it might feel like to experience spiritual enlightenment in the sense that there could be something right there that appears one way to you under certain circumstances in a totally different way under slightly different circumstances in fact though the facts of the situation haven't really changed and that's what this truth is it's a truth that's kind of hidden out in the open it's hidden in the open so much that when you find out and discover the truth for yourself is going to shock you just how obvious it was the whole time and how obvious it should be to everybody else and yet nobody knows about it I want you to consider as a possibility that a truth can exist that cannot be communicated can you open your mind to this possibility this is very important for you to be able to understand what are we talking about in this video that a truth can exist that cannot be communicated now think about that why would that be the case if that could be possible how could that be the case well our communication is a system after all and this system has to function in certain ways so could it be that this system functions in certain ways that produce blind spots so that as we're communicating and by the way communication also involves thinking right so sometimes people think that thinking is separate from communication but actually these two things are very closely related because in your own mind you communicate with yourself all the time and the way in which you think is basically a form of self communication so we're including communication of thinking together here so now imagine that this communication plus your thinking in just the way that it's built and designed can produce blind spots and if you're not aware that these blind spots can exist within the way that you communicate within language and within the system of thinking even logic itself then you might not see things that are right there and really really obvious could that be possible just in theory can you allow that to be a possibility also consider additionally what if your psyche your very psyche and how you rationalize and think about the world what if this system also was designed in such a way that just to get it running up and running it had to be based on certain assumptions and certain mechanisms and that these mechanisms and assumptions also produce blind spots and that in fact for your psyche to exist at all in the first place for there to even be a psyche because what is a psyche a psyche is not a simple thing we might look out into the world we might say a tree is a is a simple thing a rock is a simple thing but I psyche what is a psyche we don't even know if this is a physical object so consider that this thing we call a psyche that for it to even exist that it might have to be founded on something that's fictional that's not true can you open your mind to that possibility good and we're going to continue building on this but before I get into the actual meat and I'm going to tell you in this video exactly what spiritual diamond is in a very clear-cut way so I'm not going to beat around the bush but I want to before I tell you I want to setup your mind so you can understand this truth because this truths like I said it's so delicate and so subtle that it's very very easy to misunderstand it so the first thing I want to say is that this video is designed for rational people if you consider yourself a rational scientifically minded serious intellectually rigorous person that's perfect that's how I was before I discovered this truth and I spent a lot of my time early in my adulthood in my early adulthood discovering and researching what is actual truth how do I get to the bottom of things not just believing what people tell me thinking independently for myself and really doing serious research to discover this not taking it for granted that we already know what the truth is so that's good this video is not for New Age hippie dogmatic people there's not going to be any New Age stuff in this video there's not gonna be any hippie notions or not going to any Dogma there's not going to be mysticism we're not going to be talking about gods or philosophy or conspiracy theories or deities or mythology or religion so all of that is going out the window here so if you don't like that stuff great in this video what I'm going to help you to do is I want to help you to start an empirical investigation into this truth yourself because this truth can only be discovered through a personal empirical investigation you have to start doing the research and start doing the looking and finding the evidence in the facts for yourself generating your own proof because remember if this truth is actually in communicable it can't be communicated that means that I can't give it to you nor can a teacher or a professor or a spiritual guru you have to find it for yourself so this empirical investigations can be very important and what I mean by empirical is that you're going to be using your own faculties the things that you know the best your own sight and sound and feelings and emotions and your own consciousness and your own thoughts you're going to using all of this to discover the truth for yourself you're not gonna have to rely on other people telling you things you're not going to believe people another thing you should understand is that this investigation that you'll be doing is going to be very different radically different than anything you've done in your life even if you've done scientific research before even if you come from a university background or whatever your background might be this is a very different investigation that you're used to and if you're a spiritual person this is different than any kind of investigation you've done in your spiritual work as well so be open-minded that you can be using a process here that's different something that you're not comfortable with using and that's okay you have to learn along the way here's a couple of things you're going to need to make this journey successfully even to begin the journey just to understand what I'm tell you in this video you're going to need these things open-mindedness to the ultimate degree complete open-mindedness ability to embrace paradox that means that if something is paradoxical or contradictory to you after I say it you need to be comfortable with holding that paradox and embracing it for potentially a long period of time not just hours and days but potentially months and years can you embrace a paradox for years before you're able to get it to resolve it will resolve in the end but it's going to take patience with you from you and it's going to take a willingness to want it to resolve you have to work for it the third thing you're going to need is you need to desire for truth truth with a capital T you can have to really want to know what the truth is not because it serves you or because it's pleasant or because it's interesting or because you can come up with some theory and you can now justify certain actions that you do in your life with this truth but simply for the sake of knowing the truth itself and the four thing you're going to need is you're going to need to be completely objective as you do this investigation and also as you listen to me and also a healthy dose of skepticism here to be skeptical about the things I'm telling you but also be skeptical about the things your mind is telling you because while I'm talking your mind is talking and you have a tendency to be biased towards what your mind is telling you and that's the whole danger of discovering this truth it's very very tricky because your mind is going to play games with you to prevent you from seeing it and I'll talk more about that a little bit later this truth is going to scare the [ __ ] out of you and that's not an exaggeration it's also going to confuse you it's going to confuse you especially if you've been following some of my other videos the more normal videos that I do on personal development topics it's going to confuse you it's going to confuse you if you're a religious person it's gonna confuse you if you're a scientific person it doesn't matter who you are it's going to confuse you and doesn't matter who you are but it's going to scare the [ __ ] out of you and it's going to emotionally disturb you why is this the case it's necessarily the case because this is how the the psyche remember we're talking about the psyche well this is how the psyche protects itself and protects its own structure and to discover the truth we really need to break down the structure of the psyche which is not a comfortable thing for most people in fact if you're a Christian if you're a Muslim if you're a Buddhist if you're a spiritual person the things I'm telling you in this video if you actually take them seriously they will crush your models of reality they will crush you if you're an atheist if you're a scientist if you're an academic if you're an agnostic you will also be crushed by the things I'm telling you why is this so because the models you've built up over your entire lifetime no matter how true you feel that they are well these models we're going to be challenging them here these models are built on some of these assumptions that we're going to be questioning and you do not like questioning these assumptions and the end result of this journey will be the dissolution of your models of reality if that doesn't sound scary trust me it will be when you start doing it and you start feeling it in practice but also realize that when you are feeling this fear you have to be very self honest and ask yourself why is there a fear here why do I fear going in this direction why do I fear doing this investigation after all I'm doing it very objectively and honestly and yet there's so much fear there what is the psyche hiding you see you have tons in it you have a very firm mental model of who you think you are you as an entity in this life you have assumptions that you've made about yourself that you've never really questioned and what we're doing in this video is we want to challenge some of those assumptions and start to question some of those so you need to be open to questioning this stuff if you're close to that then you might as well turn off the video the problem is that even if you say to yourself and you say to me yes leo I want to do this investigation it sounds interesting let me do it the problem is that you don't appreciate just how psychologically tricky your psyche is going to be here you're going to be psychologically manipulated and sabotage by your psyche to prevent you from seeing this truth now you might wonder well why is that the case it sounds very nefarious call most like a conspiracy theory and we'll talk more about that as we continue for now though what I want you to do as I'm about to tell you this truth I'm getting to the truth I'm going to tell you right now point-blank I want you to watch extremely carefully for an emotional reaction in you your psyche will produce an emotional reaction right now so I want you to watch for it and I want you to just observe it don't react just observe your emotional reactions okay so here's the truth and to get you to really understand it we need to get your mind around what we mean by the concept of you so when I talk about you in this video I want you to be very clear about what we mean by you so right now I want you to stop everything that you're doing focus right now on what I'm saying I want you get really comfortable in your seat relax get your back up straight I want you to close your eyes right now as I'm speaking and follow along now what I want you to do is I want you to get in touch as your eyes are closed I'd like you to get in touch with the present moment feel yourself breathing gently in and out feel the sensations in your body that you weren't really aware of before the pressure of your butt on the seat the pressure on your feet feel your hands get in touch with the present moment also notice that there's their thoughts there's like an inner dialogue that's happening inside your mind it might be saying any kind of random thing notice that there's a thinking going on inside and notice that there's an awareness inside of you an awareness of life an awareness of being of existing of living of all these feelings even the colors that you see through your closed eyelids notice that now what I'd like you to do is I want you to get in touch with you who you know that you are the most true thing that you know about yourself which is that you exist get in touch with the evidence of your existence so maybe you think it's your thoughts the foster that are being thought or the feelings in your body or maybe you say your name whatever your name is you can say it and that that's me or maybe you can think of some memories from your past which are you but most fundamentally who you believe that you are is this thing that's experiencing life right you're like at this at the center of life life is happening to you it's your life you own this life get in touch with that right now get in touch with it you got it you got that sense okay now the truth keep your eyes closed focus on that focus on that feeling the truth that I'm going to tell you here the truth is that there is no such thing as you in reality what you're feeling right now is an illusion and that does not exist in physical reality so that thing that you think you are that feels most true about life that in fact that's false or I go ahead and open your eyes so that's the truth it's a very very simple truth but the problem is a that you can't believe this truth it doesn't sound plausible to you and be even if you do believe it the problem is that you don't actually have an experience of it you would just have a belief even if you took what I just said it on my word let's continue working with this truth because there's some more stuff I need to tell you about it so let me give you another taste of what we mean by you so when we mean you I'm pointing at you right now in your mind you're registering this that I'm pointing at you I'm talking to you I've been talking to you this whole video so that you that I'm talking to that I've been talking to that you we're saying that that that you doesn't exist not theoretically not philosophically not poetically or figuratively but literally physically physically and literally everything I'm saying here is literal all right I want you to register this what I'm telling you what I'm telling you I want you to open your mind and register as a truth and remember also watch for that emotional reaction keep watching for that emotional reaction I'll talk about it a bit a bit later here so now let's continue I want you to take your hand put your hand in front of you like this so that you're looking at your hand right I want you to look at your hand and I want you to notice and register in your mind and ask yourself who is looking at this hand and get in touch with the feeling that you some sort of entity which we call you is looking at this hand and seeing this hand right this this hand is being seen by someone right okay you've got that feeling that you're seeing this hand good now the truth is that you're not seeing this hand there is no entity looking at this hand or seeing this hand now this is a pretty freaky and mind-melting notion it's hard to even understand how this could be possible but let me start elaborating a little bit what we mean here is that who you think you are this entity experiencing life also the body and the mind and thoughts you think of all this as you that that sense of this is my self this is a personal self that's owning life that's a that's an illusion now this doesn't mean that the body doesn't exist the body clearly exists and reality clearly exists but your notion of ownership over this reality over this body and over your thoughts don't exist that's a fiction also you believe that you're a perceiver that you are something perceiving objects so we have this kind of model that we use the way we basically we assume about life is that well there's agents in life and then there's objects and so agents can perceive objects so conscious beings like animals and humans supposedly we can look at the world and see things and then other things can't see can't see anything and we think that we are these entities that are seeing stuff and so we call ourselves perceivers and then we we call our perceptions perceptions well what we're saying here is that there is no perceiver and then you might wonder well then what is there what there is is simply perception itself without a perceiver so the hand that you're looking at here look at your hand again this hand is real it's a hand what we're saying is that it's not your hand it's just a hand no different than any other hand is just a hand not yours and moreover no one is seeing this hand the hand simply exists as a perception what you would call a perception it just exists a perception without a perceiver of it and the feeling that you have that you are perceiving it that that's an illusory feeling and that you can come into a realization that that in fact is not the case you can come into a realization that you are not a perceiver so what you currently believe that you are what you think you are right now you what you think you are right now is you think that you're a body and this physical entity but actually what you really are without knowing it is that you're a thought not a physical entity that's who you currently believe you are see there's kind of like a false self and a true self the false self is who you currently believe you are so if you think that you're the body or the one perceiving things then that is actually not a physical entity but that's a thought which is telling you who you are this physical body but this thought is false so this is the very very core of spiritual alignment is this truth there's also though a few other corollaries to this that i want to mention in some details i want to fill in so want to tell you exactly what spiritual alignment is the term what it means when people say spiritual enlightenment a lot of them are confused but the ones that actually know the one that's actually experienced it this is what they mean firstly they mean that who you think you are right now is a thought not a physical entity secondly what they mean is that you are not the body or the mind of course immediately the question comes up but then if that's the case what actually am i and that's the truth that can't be communicated you have to actually experience it for yourself to know but we can say some things about it to give you a little bit of a sense like a story about it so I'll talk about a little bit the truth is that there is no you perceiving anything reality simply exists and that's the end of it there's no need for a perceiver of reality which we assume that we need actually that that's not necessary also the notion that we have about matter we think about well there's perceptions and like colors and tastes and stuff but there's also like hard physical matter well this distinction is a false distinction too because what we call matter doesn't actually exist in reality what we call matter is a conceptualization by us what exists in reality actually is a field of awareness a field of awareness so what you call matter is actually a field of awareness and this field of awareness you might say okay well I can kind of by that notion maybe but then isn't this field and where it's localized within me so isn't it me who's aware of the world and what we're saying here is know that that's an allusion to the field awareness that reality is this is a non localized field awareness think of reality being self-aware like every bit and pixel of reality we can say that reality is composed of bits and pixels that every bit and pixel is self-aware whatever that might mean so that's a that's very core to spiritual Lineman another thing about spiritual alignment is that it means that life is totally impersonal there's nothing personal about life which means that everything that you take personally about your life is an illusion and an in fact life is completely neutral completely impersonal even your very body is impersonal even your thoughts your very thoughts about you are impersonal the other thing that spiritual I'm it means is that all thoughts and all beliefs no matter are the whether they're religious spiritual scientific or everyday beliefs all of them are just stories they're not reality and they're not truth-telling they're just stories they're stories about reality but not reality itself and they don't carry truth about reality even though we believe that they do another aspect of spiritual I mean that's really cool is that because the U is an illusion it doesn't actually exist then mortality becomes irrelevant because you are not the body now sure the body is going to decay and die you can't really prevent that at least at this point our technological advancement we can't prevent that but the body's not you so when you dis identify with the body you're not going to really be too attached to what happens to it in the end another important facet here of spirit alignment is that there is no free will and by free will we're not talking about philosophical concepts of free will we mean very practically so the control that you believe you have over your life all the decisions you think you make even the motions you make with your body and your hands even the blinking of your eyes and the thinking of your thoughts and the talking of your mouth all of this is done without any input from you even though it feels like there is input from you and that you have control over these things and that you consciously dictate and direct this stuff actually that's part of the illusion as well so when the self and the Hugo the free will goes also this means that all the fear all the suffering all the emotional distress that you've had in your life all the prom you have in your life all these problems are fake your entire life is a pathetic excuse basically a pathetic escape from your true nature from ever discovering true nature because this is how your psyche is inherently unnecessarily constructed your psyche cannot be constructed otherwise it has to be constructed this way to currently sustain the way that you live also this means that all religions all philosophies all schools of thought whatever they are whether you think they're scientific and rational or irrational all of those are just stories they're not true they're just stories another important facet of spiritual alignment is that this thing that we're talking about spiritual limit itself what is it it's an insight that you have it's an insight into the truth of reality that's what it is this insight happens in the split second it happens in a split second when you have it technically it's not even are you having it because there's no you to have the insight the insight simply happens it's important to not mistake this with an emotional state or a high of some sort so this is not so sort of drug-induced high nor is it an emotional state that you pop into and then pop out of it's not a meditation high or whatever else you might think about it it's the truth the truth exists always so this is a permanent permanent state of realization if you can attain it and the real trick of it all is that it's actually impossible it's impossible for you you who you think you are right now it's impossible for you to understand any of this not really you can get a taste of it through metaphor I'm giving you kind of metaphors here but you don't actually understand it because your psyche to understand it has to break down and dissolve only when the psyche dissolves and what's left is the truth itself then you understand it so it's not really even understanding it's just a being of the truth itself because when you get rid of your you what does that leave that only leaves reality raw reality no more separation no more thoughts no more theories no more models none of that stuff just raw reality and you are it you are the raw reality see the true you we were talking about the false you the true you is actually very paradoxically is nothing you are nothing and also simultaneously you are everything nothing and everything and this is hard to understand and it's impossible to understand without experiencing it but nevertheless this is what is a fact everything I'm telling you here is not a theory it's an observable fact you don't have to have faith in it you have to believe in it in fact you can't believe in it you want to believe in it but that's going to prevent you from seeing it you have to actually see it for yourself so it's an observable fact which means it can be discovered through this empirical investigation that we talked about and another interesting wrinkle is that all spiritual these word spiritual in course I don't really like that word but it's all spiritual stories from the Bible from various religious texts from the east and the West for mystics all spiritual stories point to this fact right here except what they do is they cover it up with a bunch of nonsense bunch of stories and a bunch of metaphor which makes it very confusing but what I really try to do here is I try to lay it out very very starkly for you because this is what actually helps you to see it it's a very dry fact about reality there's no gods unicorns deities heaven and hell reality is exactly what it appears to be without any additions of you to it which means that we have to subtract you from it for you to see it okay now at this point what I want to do is I want to pause I want to pause I wanna have you actually soak in and take in everything I said drink it all in and notice your emotional reactions right now as I've been laying all this on you what are your emotional reactions what's your mind doing it's getting upset it's getting frustrated getting angry is it getting stubborn it's getting confused is it getting excited is it having an aha moment is it getting sad is getting depressed what's going on in there notice it and notice that it might be something very subtle and not as obvious as a major depression or a fit of anger might be something very subtle like a subtle resistance a subtle not wanting to listen anymore a subtle shifting away of attention and focus towards something else in your awareness notice that just watch that reaction also take in what I'm saying here take it in the problem is that people hear this truth this truth is talked about in spiritual books the problem is that they just gloss over they run through it they don't actually understand what's being told to them so I want you to understand it and the way you know that you understand is that you have an emotional reaction to it so make sure you have this emotional reaction I hope you can sense that this truth is outrageous it's out rate what I told you is just outrageous because I didn't say figuratively like other spiritual texts tell you I said it literally and now you're forced to confront it in other spiritual texts what you do is you read it and then you all it's just a story it's just it's just a parable it's just it's just something from 3,000 years ago when people are stupid don't confront the truth right now it's outrageous right outrageous and it is outrageous what I said is outrageous just notice that notice it just because it's outrageous doesn't particularly mean that it's false also notice right now if you have a lot of objections counter-arguments happening your head notice that that's happening a voice inside your head is saying stuff about me about these ideas notice that also notice what is that is that part of the communication system that we were talking about remember I said that what if your communication system was flawed was designed in a particular way that creates blind spots could it be that this communication system which is functioning right now on overdrive in your mind that this is it doing its usual thing creating more blind spots because right now a blind spot was exposed to you but the communication system and your psyche doesn't like seeing these things so this point you might be saying okay Lea this is very very outrageous let's say give you the benefit of the doubt for a few seconds how can how can I be so deceived how come I'm so deceive then if this is in fact true well what we're saying here is that this is not the matrix we're not talking about the matrix some people confuse this and say leo so are you saying that nothing is true I'm living in a dream is that what you're saying no that's not what I'm saying everything is real the world is real reality is real your hands are real they're just not your hands it's not your reality and it's not your life so the only thing that we're questioning here is the you at the center of it that's what we're question kind of like 500 years ago before we understood astronomy people believed that the earth was the center of the whole universe and we thought that we were the center at all well we still believe that we personally are at the center of the universe right science long ago has found out that the earth is on center of the universe but we still personally believe that each one of us is at the center of the universe this life that we have which turns out to be an illusion so that's what we're questioning how can you be so deceived I'll tell you remember that voice inside your head spinning objections talking to me right now well the key assumption you make that everybody makes every human being makes on the whole planet is that the inner voice that's talking is truthful now consider what if the inner voice that was talking and labeling reality what if it wasn't truthful what if it was just arbitrary it was just saying step and slapping slapping labels on reality oh well we'll call that thing a tree we'll call this thing a person we'll call this thing up a building we'll call that thing a planet we'll call that thing the Sun random labels just slaps labels on and also use a random form of logic to connect all these things together into some sort of conceptual framework and then it says look we got reality this is what reality is let's see no that's not what reality is that's a conceptual very heavy conceptualization of reality so you've got reality itself then you've got the voice spinning stories about reality constructing a web of concepts then this one if concept gets layered on top of reality this happens so quickly and fluidly outside of your awareness that then you get this hybrid this augmented reality and then we look at and say oh this is reality no that's not reality reality is this thing that it was before you spun all this nonsense about all these stories these stories that are spun their stories that are spun from our intuition from our naivete from science from religion from philosophy from every corner of life stories are being spun all the time you might wonder but Leo aren't certain stories more true than other stories well what's telling you that your stories are true see to believe that your stories are true you have to tell yourself my stories are true and then lie to yourself about it that you tell yourself that so what a true story is isn't actually a true story a true what you call a true story is actually a story that has another story behind it that tells it that it's true and sometimes we take this to two very crazy degrees so you might have layer and layer and layer and layer a dozen layers deep of story telling you that this story is true story backing up story backing up story backing up story if you dig all the way down the chain and you get to the very bottom of it what you discover is that there's no truth there at all what you are creating in your mind is you're creating self-fulfilling prophecies or basically a better way to put it more more technical term would be up your question begging all the time you're creating vicious circles vicious logical circles inside your mind but then you cleverly hide this under the rug and then you probably or stories as though they're true so this is what you're doing now if what you can do if you can manage to do this as part of the Imperial investigation is you strip away you take reality that you've hybridized augmented you strip away all the thoughts stripping all the way keep stripping away keep stripping away keep stripping away until there's just nothing left just the raw reality then you get to the truth and if you do that then you discover that there's no you at the center of it pretty cool that's pretty cool that's the fundamental explanation of how this stuff works what I want to do is I want to get you another taste of what a spiritual enlightenment experience can can feel like just an analogy of it I think that this this is going to work pretty well so another optical illusion is coming up here you're gonna do the same thing as last time you're going to pause the video when the optical lusion comes up and you're going to look at it and what I want you to do is you're going to see a three-dimensional cube represented and this cube can be looked at and seen from two different perspectives the first time you look at it you can see it from one perspective automatically and then if you keep looking at it you might stare at it for 30 seconds maybe a couple of minutes if it takes you that long good just look at it and then you'll see what's going to happen is it's going to flip try to see it as you look at the cube try to see from the opposite perspective and what you'll see is that it'll flip in a second it'll flip and then you'll see it from the other orientation so this will be a cool phenomenon you've probably seen this before it's called the Necker cube but indulge me here and take a look at it again go what's interesting about that example which is what I really love about it is that it shows you that the facts of the matter in that picture they stay the same nothing changes but what changes you is your shift in perspective right and that turns out to be a pretty significant difference so the picture didn't move at all but in your mind the picture moved and that makes all the difference in the world you might wonder well Leo if what you're talking about is that the body is still here in the world is pretty much exactly as as I see it he says that there's no me is that then just like a semantic argument or are we just splitting hairs here and quibbling about words and actually no we're not quibbling about words not at all because based on this one falsehood in your in your consciousness in your awareness this creates a lot of your suffering and trauma in life in fact all of your suffering and all of your trauma which I'm gonna get to in a minute is created by this so this makes a very important practical difference in your life it makes all the difference in the world but just like in this cube example you notice that it's subtle right it's not like we're saying that everything is going to change we're just saying that your perspective on things is going to change in fact I want to twist your mind a little bit more what I want you to do I want you to skip back rewind to the cube again and I want you to look at the cube again and I want you to notice this time I want you to notice that in fact we were talking about cubes but if you look at the picture there's actually no cube represented in the picture at all can you remember that you remember what the picture actually was you can't remember go back and look what it was it was just a couple of circles with some stuff carved out of them you were seeing the cube as a wireframe negative that your mind was projecting onto the image because your mind is is really good at you know filling in blanks and stuff like that but if you look at that picture very strictly very dryly very objectively you'll notice that there's no cube at all represented in that picture it's a projection of your mind so I hope then you get a taste in a sense from this example that you're you yourself the ego your name say your name right now nod your head right now who's not gonna nod your head right now who's not in your head no one's nodding your head the head is nodding itself but it sure feels like someone's nodding your head doesn't it yeah it does in the same sense that the cube really feels like it's there when in fact it's not and if you live your whole life believing the cube is real when in fact it's not real and then you base your entire set of actions and your entire decisions through life based on the fact that the cube is real in fact it's not you can imagine that that might create some problems right might create some problems for you at this point you might be wondering leo it's sounding a little plausible kind of crazy but okay you know let's say I buy into it for a little bit but I just can't understand how comes society isn't buzzing about this if this truth is so outrageous and revolutionary how come more people aren't talking about it so let's address this question because it's important because otherwise you're not even going to trust me here - that this that this is worth pursuing for you as a investigation so why isn't Society buzzing about this well first of all most people don't know second of all society is rampant with groupthink and conditioning and cultures and all sorts of you know delusions of the masses so we know that for a fact just based on other theories and studies of social dynamics so groupthink is very rampant in society third is that you understand that your society we call society this great thing called society is actually a playground of distractions for your psyche do you understand this what society actually is what it's designed for you're saying that in the entire society inside our social system just like your psyche is designed so that the psyche is distracted from looking at what the psyche is not seeing understand that this is not obvious but when you start to to see the true this we started to do the investigation you start to see like oh my god all of society without even knowing not know this isn't done in this little evil in the various way without even knowing it because people are unconscious they behaved on conscious ways and they suck you into it to everything buying houses and going partying and having drugs and drinks and in the political system and the educational system and the the corporate system all of this religions religions brings us to the fourth point why is society not buzzing about this well actually society is buzzing about this it's just that a the people who are buzzing about it who actually know nobody listens to them because they sound crazy like I am right now or religions religions were originally supposed to be communicating this truth religions are ubiquitous around the world the problems that religions distort this truth so much because they don't recognize that the truth is impossible to communicate and yet they try to communicate it anyways and over time over thousands of years the distortion just becomes enormous so enormous that it loses all touch with reality so in a sense you could say the society is buzzing around it that's why people are religious but they're just extremely confused about it this truth is very difficult to communicate it needs this point needs to be appreciated see it's hard to understand that there can be a truth that can't be communicated it doesn't seem like that could be possible but actually it's very easy for this to be possible because communication is part of your language system part of your thinking system part of your psyche communication is part of the psyche understand this and it assumes that the stories that are told are true the stories in your mind sure we allow for lying and deception but we never even never even occurs to us to question the assumption wait a minute all the communication that's happening in the world that's ever happened all the thinking that's been done could these have just been empty shells just stories and labels that were completely arbitrary could that possibly be true we never think about that we never seriously consider that also you got to ask yourself you know some people might say at this point well Leo where's the proof I need proof of this you're making a really bold claim outrageous claims so we need some scientific proof people get hung up on this they can use science as a ego defense I have a video about that how not to use science as an ego defense where I talk about this at length but you also have to ask yourself what proof exactly are you looking for what kind of proof are you expecting because some people expect like what like a study you expect a study to prove this to you that you don't exist you expect a scientific consensus what exactly do you expect expect like a microscope picture because you got an agenda we're talking about something internal you understand science science is proper domain is external science doesn't really deal with internal subjective matters or what you call subjective matters right sighs concerned about looking for molecules and calculating distances and and calculating quantities and this kind of stuff which is not what we're talking about here we're talking about here a certain perspective that you have on life so even if their words were scientific proof you'd have to wonder what kind of proof would it be because this is a very different animal that we're talking about and in fact science right now you know there's a lot of research being done on neuroscience and on the brain we don't really understand the brain very well at all we're pretty much in the dark ages as far as that goes we just don't have the tools and technology to understand the brain brains very complex and science has theories about consciousness and reality but one of the currently open questions in all of science that we haven't really even scratched for the last 3,000 years ever since it was discussed back in the Greek in Roman days is how does matter what science calls matter and energy how does that connect and relate to to consciousness because I'll only think that matter and energy exists but then we also tell ourselves that while consciousness consciousness is the most real thing we know we know there's consciousness we know there's colors we can't deny that colors exist but then on the other hand what our colors are colors matter or are they something else in philosophy of mind actually colors and sensations are called qualia this is the qualitative aspect of reality which science really doesn't do a good job of explaining the only proof you can get for this is by doing the empirical investigation yourself because you're investigating yourself right no scientist can go inside mine and investigate you for you only you can do that so the looking for external proof is not going to help you here another difficult part of this communication is that literally you cannot understand what I'm telling you why can't you understand it because there's a you that believes it's there if you understood it that you would still be there which would be the thing we're trying to get rid of so for you to understand it the only way this can happen if the you dies if it gets its dissolved if we get rid of it this is why this this is called ego death in certain spiritual circles they call enlightenment ego death because your ego ISA die and one thing I see people mistaking and getting wrong about ego death is that they assume that the ego is like some aspect of them so it's like there's me and there's an ego like the arrogant side of me and so yeah let me kill off the arrogant side of me and then all be left you know the wholesome me will be left no we're not saying that there's a wholesome you and then some sort of nefarious ego who are saying is that all of it is one thing the ego refers to everything so your sense of you right so remember I'm pointing my finger at you right now nod your head that's you that's the you it doesn't have to be something arrogant or nefarious the other thing is that this this idea to understand it requires deep deep deep self honesty why because the self is inherently dishonest the way that self perpetuates itself is through lying or just unconscious behaviors lack of awareness what is required to do this of your investigation is simply to raise your awareness higher and higher and higher until you see that the self doesn't exist anywhere but this requires self honesty because you tell yourself firstly that you're already conscious you're already fully conscious that's what you believe you believe that you're real you believe in your beliefs you believe in so many things about life that you're not ready to go in there and question them very objectively and honestly you just give lip service to self honesty you don't actually practice self on in your life so that's why it's very difficult it's also very difficult to communicate this because you don't like it this is not a pleasant truth when I go around people keep talking talking about this to other people I don't really talk about it other people but if I chose to what happens what he think happens first of all this is difficult communication is very nuanced communication so most people don't even listen to you the next thing is that that if they hear it and they actually register it then they get upset they get angry they get depressed and they blame you for it or they can they get confused or whatever and so their ego defense just kind of keeps them away from this truth entirely and so they basically spend their entire lives not looking at this truth not even knowing it's there and everyone does this everyone in society does this all your friends your family your professors your business partners your wife your husband everybody this is not a pleasant truth so you gotta also appreciate and this will make sense to you if you if you study how society works you understand that the stuff that spreads through society is the stuff that people like right the stuff that's Pleasant that's why society is all built upon the most low consciousness entertainment and other things that you could possibly come up with so what's the most popular food the most low consciousness and unhealthy food the food that tastes the best but it's the most unhealthy right McDonald's what's the most popular movies and videogames also the most lowbrow low consciousness movies and video games that you could possibly construct so they appeal to everybody and they're satisfying and they have no intellectual value really because you have if you use your brain and if that's a struggle most people they want to use your brain they just want to unplug what about music same for music what about politics politics is that way too who are the political leaders that win in the most elections the ones that are the most lowbrow dumbed down black and white candidates the ones that are the least qualified to run the country what about governments governments work this way to find any system in in society that's widespread like this religions same thing right it's all about making something as low conscious as possible that's that's what makes it spread through society so if some if there's a truth that people really really hate it's not going to spread very well and the last difficult part of this communication is that to really do this empirical investigation to understand this communication fully you need to spend and I'm not exaggerating at least a thousand hours doing this investigation yourself so I'm talking about hard work hard emotionally distressing work that takes a thousand hours to do if you really want understand what I'm saying here you think this video is long this video is not long a thousand hours and that's at least a thousand hours that's in the best of circumstances that's if you cut out all the religious dogma all the spiritual nonsense and you go straight to the to the core then you just sit down and just drill down and do the Imperial investigation day after day after day a thousand hours at best many people not in your entire lifetime more realistically ten thousand hours versus a thousand hours so now try to understand this there's a truth that needs to be communicated that nobody likes requires incredible self honesty threatens the [ __ ] out of your your current life and worldview literally cannot be communicated and it takes a thousand to ten thousand hours of sitting down doing hard work to understand it who's going to know this truth about ten thousand people in the whole world that's about it you have to appreciate this you have to appreciate this why do you have to appreciate this because right now your mind is coming up with excuses for why not to listen to me at this point why you're saying Leo this is very heavy you're talking heavy stuff some of the stuff sounds really dark depressing nihilistic where you going with this I mean all I want is I want a good life why would I undertake this journey a thousand out ten thousand you want me to invest that much time studying this stuff you crazy actually there's some awesome rewards which we haven't talked about yet the rewards of doing this work so why would you want to do this work it's difficult work is long work so there needs to be a a worthwhile reward for this and here they are I want to enumerate some of them number one is that you get access to the truth the truth with a capital T if you value truth which you should this is one of the highest values for human being is to value truth then this should deeply interest you if you're a scientific person if you're a philosophical person or even a religious person that's been looking for the truth for your whole life and you think you've found it or maybe what you found you're not satisfied with well this is the ultimate truth what we're saying here is the ultimate truth now if you're scientifically minded this sounds ludicrous to you if you study philosophy like I have for six years this is a ludicrous notion but actually this is one of the rewards truth ultimate truth with a capital T how I'll talk about that in other videos the other reward you get is lasting happiness and peace of mind true happiness true happiness what you have now is not true happiness you're living in a living hell with this truth you can actually have true peace of mind regardless of circumstance this is a very cool thing because you've been living your life from the moment you were born up to today and you've been looking and chasing for happiness and you keep telling yourself if you watch enough of my videos or you do enough of personal development work you'll find happiness well I hate to break it to you but you never will you never will and you can already sense it because you've been trying your whole life and it hasn't been working has it don't lie it hasn't been working no matter how many houses you get or girlfriends you get or marriages you get you're not going to be truly happy why it's not possible because the U is an illusion the solution needs to be perpetuated by constant motion constant motion creates suffering so if you want to fix this happiness thing and you want to be peaceful and if you want to be peaceful independent of what's happening in life no matter if you're rich or you're poor or you've got a girlfriend or you don't or you're married or you're not or your kids are doing good in school or they're not or you're healthy or you're sick if you want to be happy no matter what you need to be spiritually aligned it sounds too good to be true but again this is one of the awesome rewards of doing this work the other cool thing you get is you get an instant elimination of self-image problems all your self-image problems don't discount how powerful this is your entire life in my life I don't know about you but for me it's very vivid my entire life is a drama of self-image problems what do I mean by that Carey what people think about me people-pleasing worrying how I look learning about your hair worrying about this worrying about that worrying in relationships worrying if someone's going to abandon you or love you and all this all this stuff all this is self-image problems so that can all be eliminated in one swoop because when you get rid of the self there's no more self-image problems it doesn't make sense the other thing you get with enlightenment is you get emotional mastery emotional mastery is a theme of actualize that our own thoughts we're trying to develop here but it's not possible to actually develop true emotional mastery through traditional self-help techniques why because there's actually no you at the center of it controlling emotions or thoughts so your delusion is try to control your thoughts and emotions which is not possible so how do you get emotional mastery you get emotional mastery by discovering that there's no me at all in the first place when there's no you you know what that does that makes you calm and peaceful why does it make you calm peaceful because there's no longer any control and now you realize it you finally realize there's no control right now you're struggling for control that doesn't exist and so because of this counter intuitively what happens that you develop emotional mastery because there's no longer any emotions of frustration of trying to seize control when you let go that whole game you've got your emotional mastery but it doesn't happen all in the line that you were expecting huh another thing that will happen is that you can eliminate all your suffering in life why is this the case well because right now you think your suffering is created by things outside of you actually your suffering is all internally created completely 100% internally created this is hard to believe because you're so enmeshed with yourself but when the self is gone that becomes true you can get rid of emptiness feelings of uncertainty feelings of depression loneliness anger jealousy purposelessness lack of motivation whatever emotional suffering you experience in life you can get rid of that the other cool reward is that you actually get to understand you get a true understanding of what religions actually are very few people understand what religion actually is and what it talks about which is God the word God I'm putting that in quotes it's a very misunderstood word very misused word you can get a true understanding of that in a way that you can't get whether you're scientifically minded and you do a lot of anthropology or you do social science or whatever kind of signs you do to understand religions well that's not getting a real understanding of religions nor is being religious getting you a real understanding of religion so both of these camps to understand religion or God at all you're very confused about it but if you attain spiritual I'm you can understand it really easy it's a no brainer the other cool reward that you get is no more fear of death the more fear of death this is why the the Easterner is talking about immortality I don't know how to immortality the body certainly going to die it depends on what you mean by immortality but the the fear of death will will not be an issue anymore why is it not an issue because like we said if there's no self there's no one to protect anymore there's no one that's going to die anymore the body is gonna die but you're not going to identify with your body or your thoughts anymore so it really becomes irrelevant so those are some of the rewards pretty cool rewards huh I don't know about you but these rewards make the process of spending a thousand hours doing this hard emotional work worth it for me even the first reward just knowing the truth alone is worth it for me just knowing the truth alone is worth it even if it wasn't good for my life see the problem is it that you look at this and you say well even if it's truly a let's say even if everything you're saying is true which is probably not but let's say it's true just for sake of argument why the hell would I want to know it it seems like my lives can become miserable see you're so concerned about you you're so concerned about you feeling good right what is that that's the ego that's the ego and also what you fail to understand in your closed mindedness is that actually the greatest pleasure in life lies on the other end of enlightenment because once you get rid of yourself there's no more worry no more frustration no more stupid rat race no more chasing your tail all the time you literally get these rewards now these rewards sound pretty are out there they seem a little too good to be true but make no mistake about it you're going to you're going to kill yourself understand this you're gonna kill yourself getting these rewards literally you're going to kill yourself to get these rewards how many people going to kill themselves an infinitesimally small number I'm talking to you right now you're not going to do it so don't worry you're not going to get these rewards you're too afraid to do it so if you're extremely committed one out of a million of you who watch this video if I get lucky enough and in my entire life to have a million people watch this video maybe one of you will get this and one of you got these rewards the rest of you will never get them not only will you not get them through spiritual enlightenment but if you don't get them through spiritual enlightenment that means you will never get them through any other means that you might imagine you get them through so if you want any of this stuff this is the only way to do it so this point you may be wondering all right leo so then what's the point of this video you said that the stuff you're talking about here is just a store and you spend a thousand hours what do you want me to do the point of this video is to share this truth with you in a very stark way so that it disturbs you so that it's on your radar screen in life because you've been running around life chasing your tail this whole time and it's not been on your radar screen many of you have already heard this truth in various disguises in spiritual literature that you've read and your religions even with science we know whatever but you haven't actually pursued it in the way you have to you need to make a commitment to do a very very serious self-honest investigation empirical investigation without any nonsense and beliefs into the reality of who you are so the purpose of this video is to introduce you to this now I want you to stop and consider everything after this video is over very very seriously don't let your mind just jump onto the next thing don't distract yourself the biggest way that people don't achieve spiritual alignments that they simply distract themselves with other stuff and they forget about it very conveniently so you're going to stop and consider very carefully you're going to also take a look at your emotional reactions the emotional reaction that you have whether you become depressed sad angry offended at by what I'm saying if you become critical of what I'm saying if you leave a nasty comment or you have an inclination to or whatever or you have some objections and you want to dispute this and you have some brilliant arguments for how to argue with me there's no arguments here all of that those are emotional reactions that you have to be conscious of and all of those equal the proof that you've been looking for so the proof that you want right now which you're not getting for me because I'm you're saying that I'm being evasive or whatever that proof is in your emotional reactions you have to start seeing at how your ego is deceiving you your ego your psyche that's what we're talking about here right so just be very very mindful of that I'm going to be very much less you're leaving comments down below I'm gonna be very mindful at pointing out to you at how you're reacting emotionally there's three dangers with this video as I'm wrapping up here one is that you reject it you reject it out of hand because you say this is a cockamamie idea is silly of sound rageous there's no way it can be true and so you just reject it out of hand let me remind you especially for those scientifically minded people out there who want proof that when a scientist does research when a proper scientist does proper science what he does he has a hypothesis he holds his hypothesis in his mind he could hold his hypothesis in mind for 10 years for 20 years for 44 entire lifetime and maybe even not prove it or he might do that and then at the end he might disprove it so if you really want to do a serious investigation you have to actually do proper scientific method just because you watch this video and you can't with some some clever little arguments some little ways to critique what I'm saying does not mean you did any kind of investigation know what that just means that you've been clever and you've been tricked by your own cleverness in refusing to do the actual research you have to do the reaction research yourself so what I want you to do with what I'm saying here is just take it as a tentative hypothesis you don't have to have faith in it you don't have to believe it in fact you can't you can't believe it we're not talking about beliefs here we're talking about an insight you have to have an actual insight into the truth of the matter not a belief don't confuse this with other beliefs that you have this insight we're talking about you've never had one of these in your entire life it's not a belief so just watch out and don't reject us out of hand the other problem that can happen you're the other danger is that you can believe it if you believe what I'm telling you and you say to yourself oh this is just like Buddhism I'm a Buddhist yes I win I win the I win the religion game or you're say yourself oh I was spiritual yeah spirit I have a meditator I win this is right this is what I believed all along no that's not what we're talking about here no you can't believe this beliefs count for nothing beliefs are a story they count for nothing nothing nothing just a story they don't help you at all if you believed every last word I said in this video doesn't help you at all doesn't make you any closer to the truth the only way in which it might help you is it might um motivate you inspire you to go out there and do the work to find it and the last danger is that you just you listen to this you might think it's cool you might even say yes I'm on board for the journey let's let's do this journey tell me how to do a journey and then you do is a month later you forget all about it you just forget all about it because life and distractions come in and swoop you away Society swoop too away like it does with everybody else and so you become lost again you have this brief window of clarity and then you're lost again so those are the three dangers watch out for them at this point you might be wondering are Leo how do I do this work so let's say I'm on board with you let's say I'm willing to give you the benefit out I'm willing to hold this attentive hypothesis I'll do the empirical work I even will lay down the thousand hours that you want me to lay down what do I got to do next how does this work even done that's going to be the topic of a bunch of fitting new videos on every shooting because it's a process it's a process it'll cry many videos for you to understand how to do this work and it's tricky work full of many traps that you're going to fall into but fundamentally to give you an idea what we're going to do if you're on board with this is we're going to rip the [ __ ] out of your ego we're going to rip the [ __ ] out of your ego I'm going to destroy all your beliefs all your most cherished beliefs all those beliefs you love so much about yourself about life about everybody all those beliefs are going to destroy we're gonna destroy all that and at the very end when you can't take it anymore when we twist your arm so bad that you're screaming and aching and your ego can't take it anymore what's going to happen is finally your ego is going to surrender you were going to surrender and it's going to dissolve and you're going to see the truth that is going to require some real work but you know what I'm excited by this I don't about you but I love this stuff I love urban the [ __ ] out of my ego I love it it's great is it's kind of a bittersweet thing like sometimes I don't like it you know I experienced all these emotional reactions but fundamentally I want it because I want to know the truth to me it's worth it just to know the truth of the things and right now I'm I spent about a year and a half on this journey studying and doing a lot of a lot of this work I fall into a lot of traps already myself I'm not spiritually enlightened yet but I can feel myself getting pretty close so as I'm working really actively right now on my own in alignment I want to help show you some of you know pitfalls that I've experienced um of the stuff that I learned over last year and a half so I think that there's um a lot of really practical things that I can show you techniques that you can use to do this very simple techniques that you can use to do this that would take you perhaps a lifetime to find otherwise because there's so much confusion about the subject so much nonsense out there I want to talk about this subject in a very no [ __ ] no-nonsense hard-nosed kind of way so if you really want to get down to the nitty gritty you're not afraid to get your hands dirty then sign up to my newsletter sign up to the channel stick around more videos on this coming soon I'm really excited of that to me that's the whole point of actual I side work is to talk about this more advanced deep deep deep stuff alright that's a long video I'm done I'm wrapping up it says Leo for spiritual enlightenment go ahead post me your comments down below I'd love to hear what you think about this click the like button like this video right now so that more people can see it and finally share the video share the video on Facebook or wherever you want to share share stuff and then sign up to my newsletter too it's a free newsletter I release new 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