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[Music] thank you [Music] Exquisite and Sublime balance we're going to be talking about balancing this episode from uh slightly more elevated and profound perspective than I've talked about it in the past I have an older episode called the role of balance in personal development which talks about this important topic of balance in a more practical way so if you're looking for that that's out there now we're going to take a more existential spiritual look at the role of balance in all of life and the whole universe so this word Exquisite or this word sublime comes to mind for me when I think about balance nowadays Sublime balance I'd like you to notice is a fundamental feature of reality I'm going to be using these words Exquisite and Sublime interchangeably you can think of reality as a knife balanced on its point and the more spiritual work you do the more conscious you become the more you'll start to notice this the more aware you will become of the genius of the balance that is struck all throughout the Universe and it will leave you in Wonder and in awe this Balancing Act it's a dynamic Balancing Act of infinite intelligence which is a property of Consciousness itself so Consciousness constantly doing this Balancing Act which is resulting in reality as you see it all around you now here's some definitions from the dictionary for the word exquisite quote marked by Flawless craftsmanship or by beautiful ingenious delicate or elaborate execution marked by nice discrimination deep sensitivity or subtle understanding and pleasing through Beauty Fitness and perfection end quote and here's a dictionary definition of the word sublime remember this word sublime quote lofty Grand or exalted in thought expression or manner and of outstanding spiritual intellectual or moral worth and tending to inspire awe usually because of elevated quality such as Beauty nobility or Grandeur or Transcendent excellence end quote so that's what we mean by Exquisite balance Sublime balance it's not just ordinary balance you know like for example if you talk to a molecular biologist or some scientists a physicist a astrophysicist you know they might say that you know isn't it amazing how fine-tuned nature is how fine-tune the cells that make up your body are or how fine-tuned the constants of physics are that enable this physical material material Universe to exist and to function as it does in physics there's this thing called uh the fine-tuning problem there's like five or six physical constants you know like the gravitational constant the speed of light and other ones that are less well known and these constants you know the physicists tell us that if these constants were off by even just you know a fraction of a decimal point then life in the universe would not be possible and so this is one of the Mysteries of the universe that sort of puzzles scientists it's like well is that an accident is it uh how did this come about did it evolve this way or is it just that there's like a million other universes out there and all of them are dead and lifeless and horrific and it's just we just happen to be in the in this perfect one this sort of Goldilocks universe that allows us to have the kind of amazing intelligent life that we have and all these other um you know harmonies that are found in nature um and so scientists do have some appreciation of the importance of balance in in nature in life in biology and chemistry and physics but they don't understand how profound this balance is and what it takes to really strike this balance they think that this balance can be struck by accident but this isn't just an accidental balance or it's just it's a it's a consequence of just some random mutations that's not what it is literally Sublime balance and that's what this episode is going to help you to start to recognize as you become more conscious more mature more wise more developed more spiritual you appreciate the balance more and more and you desire to align yourself with this balance the balance of the universe and to practice and to embody this Sublime balance you want to mirror the sublime balance that you see all around you and to become more conscious is to see more and more of the intelligence of this balance the Deep intelligence you as God become an instrument of balance in the world you're not just admiring the balance of God all around you you're participating in it as a Creator the choices you're making contribute to either maintaining the sublime balance of the universe or destabilizing it and that's a function of your consciousness and your awareness of the intelligence of the universe the refinement of your Consciousness will become a Force for rebalancing the world think about that that's powerful that also plays a lot of responsibility on you can you handle that much responsibility see wisdom and we've talked about this before the notion of wisdom wisdom is knowing the proper balance of things in life and in the world and really profound wisdom is to be able to strike the kind of balance that God would strike so you can take a look at the balance of let's say a monkey jumping from Branch to branch in the canopy of a rain forest and the incredible balance that it takes to do that without missing a branch without ever falling you can take a look at that or you could take a look at the balance of a hummingbird flapping its wings just right so that it can hover just at the right place to stick its nose into a flower and suck out the nectar and then do it again and again and again with laser-like precision you could take a look at the balance of the flow of nutrients through your body and the chemistry the molecular chemistry biochemistry within all the cells of your body you know working together all the organs working in harmony together making sure there's enough oxygen to every organ there's enough sugar to every organ there's enough you know taking out of of the the CO2 and the other kinds of chemicals that you know the the waste chemicals and making sure that all of that is functioning perfectly you could take a look at that you could be in awe of that balance see and from that if you think of that as like the balance of God's intelligence you know God's intelligence is balancing all the cells in your body because you're not doing it consciously your ego is not doing it its Universal intelligence that's doing it but then in your personal life you are making choices your ego is making choices you know who do you want to sleep with what kind of food do you want to eat what kind of job do you want to have when you want to go to sleep when do you want to wake up these are the balancing choices you're making in your life you know how much porn to watch how many video games to play how much to meditate how many videos to listen to and so forth all right so you have a little bit of control over over some of this stuff and most people screw this up most people's lives are very very out of balance you should notice including your own you struggle to balance your own life you struggle to balance your bank account you struggle to balance your love life your your porn addiction and all this other kind of stuff right so for you to be really wise what that means is to balance your own personal life with the same kind of exquisite and Sublime balance and intelligence that is balancing the cells in your body and the motion of a hummingbird and um all the other examples that you can find throughout nature so you can ask the question how would God balance the situation how would an infinite intelligence balance a situation whether it's your bank account or our political system or your dating life and so on how would a system be balanced if it was balanced by a force that was omniscient had infinite Consciousness infinite intelligence infinite selflessness infinite love Infinite goodness and infinite lack of bias what kind of balance would that kind of Consciousness or intelligence strike that's a very powerful way to to think about balancing systems in the world and in your own life you see the fool which is the opposite of a sage or a wise person the opposite of wisdom is foolishness the fool is unbalanced not only is he on balanced but also he lacks the vision to see the sublime balance all around him so he takes the sublime balance of the universe for granted he takes it as just accident and he ends up veering too far into one extreme or another and I've talked about the the difference between wisdom and foolishness in my episode what is wisdom so this dovetails with that part of what we said there is wisdom is about having Keen discernment and also wisdom is about knowing how to strike balance where does wisdom come from wisdom comes from intelligence wisdom comes from Consciousness God being infinite Consciousness and infant intelligence has the highest wisdom and of course the highest wisdom is selflessness and love so how would your life look how would the systems you're interacting with look if you balance them with the kind of intelligence that God would use to balance nature so for example the kind of extremes that the fool Will Veer into are the fool will want more money more power more sex more food more pleasure more drugs more Fame more cars more houses more boats and Yachts more parties more sexual partners a bigger business more work endless growth these are the kind of extremes that the fool tends to fall into the fool doesn't know moderation because the fool is driven by craving an attachment and the fool doesn't see far enough ahead to see the problems and limitations with these excess and extremes so the fool turns into a cancer this kind of attitude of more and more and more of everything becomes a Cancer and and ends up leading to the destruction of the fool because the fool doesn't know how to moderate himself doesn't know when to stop when too much of a good thing becomes too much of a good thing there's something beautiful that is found within balance When You See It acrobat balancing on a tightrope you know 100 feet in the air there's a beauty to that when you see a hummingbird balancing perfectly to suck on a flower there's a beauty to that when you look at the molecular biology that is responsible for all living organisms the way that DNA is replicating itself the way that oxygen and CO2 is permeating through various membranes in the cells and how hormones are regulated there's a profound Beauty to that kind of balance when it's working well it can strike awe in you that's not an accident there is a connection between balance and between Beauty and the more conscious you become the more you see the sublime balance of everything and also the more Beauty you recognize within the universe now here's something to note though is that when I say balance I don't mean that everything is equal or perfectly symmetrical see balance is a much more subtle notion than that because there's also Deep Beauty in asymmetry and the real trick of balancing the universe is that how do you balance asymmetries there are many asymmetries in life and in the universe so you can't just balance it simplistically by cutting everything down the middle some of the most beautiful things found in nature are balanced asymmetries for example the masculine and The Feminine they're asymmetrical but they are balanced see it's easy to balance something symmetrical like you can take a yardstick you know a long yardstick and just bounce it on your finger you just stick your finger right in the middle of it that's easy but what happens when you have an object that's not perfectly symmetrical and it's not easy to just Define its Middle Point all the time and yet you still need to be able to balance it somehow with everything else in the universe because you see you can think of it this way what God is is God is the intelligence the highest most intelligence in the universe that is looking out for how all the parts of the universe are going to cohere together and function together as a whole now you could take the position that such an intelligence doesn't exist and the universe is just you know made up of different parts and that are randomly coming together and just somehow fitting together and somehow they all end up working without destroying each other and that it just you know just sort of happened by accident that all these different parts and atoms and molecules and things and planets and galaxies that they all just somehow they all just fit together and they they all just kind of cohere into a single thing we call the universe or reality and somehow it just all just works and this is just this is just by accident that no intelligence went into designing this thing you could hold that view that would be the materialist position or you could wise up a little bit and have a few Awakenings and realize that in order for all these diverse and asymmetrical parts and components to work together seamlessly without a hitch without the whole thing blowing up or turning into some kind of monstrosity or some sort of hellscape that um this this required quite a bit of intelligence in fact not just a bit of intelligence it was only possible through infinite intelligence and so you can have that Awakening for yourself and then you just become awed at how how intelligent this Consciousness was that it was able to look at all the parts and balance them perfectly even though the parts are so different you know how do you balance just think about the planet Earth how do you balance all the animals living on this planet there's like hundreds of thousands of different species there's trillions of ants and cockroaches and then there's millions of birds and there's millions of reptiles and then there's billions of humans on this planet how are they all balanced together because you see like really think about this from a sort of like a very nitty-gritty micro perspective like you got to make sure that the like that the oxygen that humans are inhaling and the CO2 that they're exhaling that that balances out with the exchange of gases between all the plants all the blades of grass on this planet all the trees all the flowers all the shrubs and bushes this has to be balanced out because otherwise it couldn't be sustainable otherwise all the plants would die because they wouldn't have enough of the gases they need otherwise all the humans would die because they don't have enough of the gases they need and then of course you have to balance all that out with all the nutrients like the plants need nutrients they can't just grow just purely from sunlight they also need nutrients but then the animals also need nutrients and the plants end up giving the nutrients to the animals then the animals when they die they become nutrients for the plants right so it's the cycle of Life thing and this has to be balanced across literally trillions and trillions of iterations across the whole planet and that's just one planet that needs to be balanced within our solar system now our solar system contains like 10 or so major planets but then each of these planets have moons we have one Moon but like a big planet like Jupiter or Saturn or Neptune they can have 20 or more moons they'll have to be balanced in order to keep going round and round and round right because if the planets were not perfectly balanced with the gravitation of the Sun and also their moons and all the other planets in our solar system then they would quickly deorbit and they would fly out of the solar system our whole solar system would fly apart and yet here it's been our solar system has been around for uh many billions of years going strong the orbits are very consistent how do you balance this I mean it's just it's [ __ ] mind-boggling when you start to think about it um and we haven't even gotten into the crazy balance that's going on within even just a single organism just within your body there are literally trillions of balancing chemical reactions that are happening right now in your body that are responsible for you just being able to decipher and decode the words that are coming out of my mouth these are just noises right noises within air you're deciphering all this and it's all perfectly balanced incredible incredible the feat of balance that is happening here that everybody is just taking for granted including scientists and so far all we've talked about is one single solar system one star you know how many stars there are in our galaxy Milky Way galaxy I think like over a hundred million or even billion I'm not even sure there's so many you start to get the M's and the B's confused and then you know how many galaxies there are in the universe there's like a hundred billion galaxies that we've so far discovered and that's just the visible universe that we know of there's there's probably way more beyond that that will be discovered you know not too distant future so this is what we're talking about here and notice that all these are asymmetrical it's not like all the you know all the animals are the same all humans are the same all the chemical reactions in your body are the same no there's like your body alone has asymmetrical organs the heart is very asymmetrical relative to the kidneys to the liver to the brain and so on how do you balance all those very difficult thing to do requires infinite intelligence a fool does not know how to balance asymmetrical things this episode is not about telling you how to balance your diet or your finances so much this episode is about helping you to reach a point in your Consciousness where you can look at a hummingbird sucking on a flower and appreciate a Sublime balance and intelligence in it to be able to zoom out and to see the intelligent balance in human conflict and War in human societies and ecosystems reality is a landscape in which asymmetrical forces are constantly balancing themselves themselves out which would not be possible without this profound intelligence and ultimately the point of this episode is to reach a point of Consciousness where you see the Perfection the absolute perfection in the balance of the whole universe you can actually have an Awakening to that to the Perfection of this balance it's not just a pretty good balance it's not just an amazing balance what will really blow your mind is when you realize it's an absolute Perfection of balance it's absolutely perfect and of course the only way this Perfection can be struck is with infinite intelligence can you see this most humans are blind to it because they're too self-absorbed and they take it all for granted they're just busy surviving they're not seeing the bigger picture of what's Happening Here so from now on you're going to train yourself to see this you're going to notice it and you're going to label it you're going to see that hummingbird flying past you sucking on a flower and you're going to say oh my God that right there is an example of sublime balance wow that's amazing look at the intelligence at work in this hummingbird but of course not just this hummingbird you're going to take this kind of perspective on everything you see in nature but also within mankind too and that's even more of a challenge because you can kind of intuitively get it when you're out in nature although most people still don't but those of you who are a little bit more sensitive can intuitively see the sublime balance found within nature within hummingbirds and so on but then where you don't see it is within the the realm of human Affairs within politics within government within war and conflict that is going on around you all the imperfection all the human [ __ ] this seems like a contradiction to the sublime balance of the universe and yet it isn't but it takes a really careful eye to be able to see that part of the problem is that you're so close to it you're so enmeshed in it that you don't have enough objectivity to see The Balancing Act that is going on and its perfection I have two older episodes called holism and holistic thinking part one and part two where we talk about holism and health and we connect those two together very important series episodes make sure you go watch that if you haven't yet but now I want to draw your attention to the fact that health and holism and balance are all deeply connected Health means to balance between all the parts of a system that's what health is when all the parts in your body are balanced you have health and when something is out of balance you have dysfunction you have sickness you have disorder you have cancer you have death the same thing in your car when all the parts in your car are functioning as they were engineered and designed with intelligence they aren't working against each other but with each other in harmony then you have a well-functioning car that can take you places but as soon as the parts start working against each other now you have dysfunction now your car breaks down now you need to go get it fixed and get stuff realigned you see how this works goodness Beauty and health is a certain kind of balance between all the parts in a system whereas ugliness evil disease and pathology is a certain imbalance where one part tries to dominate or monopolize all the other parts where it comes into friction with all the other parts and we can say that the system is self-interfering it's interfering with itself it's at odds with itself it's contradicting itself that's profound you can think of evil as simply being one finite part of infinity the universe trying to act as though it were all of infinity trying to monopolize it to dominate it to work at odds with all the other parts in the universe what was the fundamental problem with Hitler why is Nazism pathological why do people call it evil in the sort of colloquial sense of that term well fundamentally is because it was one country that got so out of hand relative to all the other you know countries around it all of its neighbors that had tried to dominate it and it tried to go at odds with the will and agenda of all the other countries in such a manner that it became completely pathological and it had to be destroyed either it was going to destroy all the other countries or the other countries were going to destroy it and so in a sense you could look at all of World War II as just a balancing out of various kinds of geopolitical forces ideological forces economic forces on the continent of Europe and then of course it spread to the rest of the globe as well because you can't just confine these kinds of things just to a single continent anymore the world is becoming globalized so it's humanity is way too globalized for these sorts of conflicts just to remain local conflicts it Cascades the effects Cascade through through the entire human Network to all the continents everybody was touched by World War II even people living in remote places in Africa were still touched in some way by World War II because everything in the universe is connected to everything else pretty profound huh so how is any of this useful well here are some of the Practical takeaways the action steps you can actually start doing to implement this in your life so it's not just philosophy start to actually look for balance and to appreciate balance everywhere your living your life whatever you're doing whoever you're interacting with the machines that you're using the computers you're using the the animals around you start to appreciate the balance start to appreciate the balance in your own body too or lack of balance Maybe develop a Keen Eye for balance and imbalance notice when things are in balance and notice when things are out of balance surround yourself with balanced people have you noticed one way to adjudicate between different qualities of people is how balanced is the person mentally physically emotionally spiritually financially and the people who give you the most problems in your life what are these people who they're imbalanced people mentally emotionally financially spiritually they have all sorts of addictions they're prone to violence and anger these are unbalanced people because they have unbalanced minds they subscribe to all kinds of Twisted pathological ideologies that corrupt their mind and then lead to unbalanced lives of course practice becoming more balanced yourself that's ultimately what this is about you're going to be seeing the balance out there in the world but then also you're going to be learning the lesson learning the lessons from nature and elsewhere of great examples of balance and then you're going to be adjusting your life and your body in your mind and your emotions to also be in Harmony and in balance and then you're going to be adjusting not just to be in balance with your own self and your values and so on but then you're going to be adjusting to balance yourself and the organizations that you're a part of to the larger Collective whole that you're a part of which is the society your company your country and ultimately the globe and start catching yourself when you get out of balance so this is a distinction you can make like you can ask yourself right now am I in balance or am I out of balance it's a very simplistic distinction of course balance is much more than just a binary of yes or no are you balanced are you unbalanced there's many degradations and degrees of balance a lot of different distinctions you can make there but just like to get you going just a very simple one is like am I in Balance right now or am I out of balance and if you notice yourself being out of balance then maybe you set some rules for yourself like don't make important decisions don't make an important for phone calls don't post on social media don't uh maybe don't don't talk to your spouse when you're out of balance or if you do tell that person you know right now I'm out of balance so I'm not going to be having this important conversation with you I'm not going to be communicating right now I need some time to put myself Back in Balance then from that place of balance then once my mind is in Balance then we can have a conversation I can post on social media and do other things like that this will save you a lot of trouble in the end what you want is you want to create the most beautiful life possible Right what does that mean that means a balanced life but of course when I say Balanced Life that doesn't necessarily mean what you think it means a balanced life can be balanced in a very asymmetrical way that doesn't mean that you know a balanced life means that you have to like wake up on time every morning and go put in your eight hours of work and then you know eat your bagel every morning at the same time and have your cup of coffee and then you know go spend time with your children for a couple hours and then do it all over again the next day they're like that's not necessarily what a balanced life means uh there's a lot of different ways that you can balance your life so there's a couple of traps here when we're talking about balance trap number one is balance does not mean that you simplistically split everything down the middle track number two is that balance does not mean that you follow the status quo and conform to what everybody else is doing just to try to be like normal right because there's a lot of like what Society consider considers like a stable balanced person which is really just a cog in the machine that serves the The Matrix so to speak uh and they would call this a sort of a a decent balanced individual um you should distinguish that kind of Conformity from True Balance balance doesn't mean just being normal and fitting in because you know what a lot of times the system you're fitting into is already itself out of balance and is dysfunctional and it's sick and it's cancerous so by you fitting into that system and being a good well-willed clog in the cancer machine of your corporation that might seem like that's balanced but that's not actually balance you see that's just you fitting in that's conformity so beware of that trap and beware the following trap is that balance does not mean that you are meek indecisive milk toast in different and neutral in various kinds of situations right like for example on the issue of Nazis taking over Europe to be balanced does not mean that it's like well on the one hand Nazis are bad and uh they should be stopped on the other hand you know what's wrong with Nazis you know maybe Nazis actually have some good points and then you say well I'm just gonna be neutral about it because Leo told me to be balanced and Leo said that God is all about balance and you know in this situation God would just sort of like split the the the difference down the middle between uh anti-nazis and pro-nazis in Europe but that's not that's not what God would do and that's not what I'm telling you to do uh we'll talk a little bit more about this as we keep going um and then another note to make here is that remember that balance is not a static situation ballast is not something that you achieve and then you're stuck on that and you just maintain that that's not true balance true balance is dynamic the universe is always evolving new things are always happening you might think that well but but what about like the planets they're they're in this sort of static static balance you know they have the same orbits they just keep going over and over and over again for for millions of years that's actually not true the planets are not statically balanced or dynamically balanced their orbits are always oscillating a little bit and in fact at any moment the orbits of the planets could break and the planet could fly off into outer space or come crashing into the Sun or into the earth that is technically possible not likely but it is possible because the balance is dynamic things are always changing and eventually all the orbits of the planets they will all break down and collapse because eventually you know the sun will turn into a red giant that will change the gravitational fields that will probably alter the various kinds of orbits eventually the sun will probably explode or implode you know depending on its mass and so forth and the particulars of all that eventually there will be a black hole or there will be a white dwarf or some other sorts of thing will happen with the sun and as that happens the gravity of the whole solar system will will shift around moons will fly off crash into each other plants will fly off planets will get absorbed into the sun all this sorts of stuff would happen and eventually all of it will will collapse but until that happens there's a dynamic balancing act that is going on with these planets the same thing is true of your body even though there's incredible laser-like precision within the chemical molecular balancing act that your body is doing every moment and it's going to be doing that for about 80 years eventually corruption will creep in there and the whole thing will break down and something eventually will become so out of balance that you'll die in fact that's what death is what humans call death is really just something goes out of balance enough in your body that it becomes um critical it becomes lethal either your heart gives out your kidney gives out your liver gives out your brain gives out usually one of these major organs gives out and then you're done so God is the intelligence that balances between all the finite parts of itself because reality the universe has to be a unity all these parts have to be working together all these parts what unites them all is that they all have to exist existence is the unifying force of everything so how do you get all these asymmetrical finite parts to coexist together in a way that is not monstrous in a way that is beautiful that is harmonious how do you do that well that's the only job of God you might say is to sort out that problem that's a very big problem requires a very big intellect to solve that problem notice you have Parts within your psyche that are out of balance with themselves you have Parts in your business which are out of balance with themselves notice you have Parts within your society that are out of balance with themselves notice you have people in your life that are out of balance with your values and your goals and your life purpose that you've set for yourself these are just a few examples of the way that things get out of balance for you personally and notice that all these situations when they're out of balance they lead to Great suffering in you great misery and dissatisfaction with life on the other hand when all these things are in balance and in harmony that's what you call happiness profound huh wisdom and intelligence is a Keen Eye for when a thing is out of balance and how to best put it back into balance and this is a tricky thing because it's non-algorithmic there is not a simple formula for how to balance everything in the universe or even just your own psyche or your circle of friends or your business or your Society how do you balance these things that's the real question there can be no rule book there can be no simple Ten Commandments that can tell you how to balance Society you can have principles and rules of thumb but in the end the problem is so fine-grained it goes down to all the way to the atomic level you see The Balancing Act has to happen at all orders and levels of the hierarchy of the actually better to call it hierarchy we've talked about haul our keys in my episode called what is a hold on go check out that one so how do you balance all the whole lawns in the infinite chain of being that is the universe well you gotta like start at the very subatomic level that [ __ ] has to be balanced because if you don't balance it there you know the Corruptions and imbalances will Cascade up the entire haul our key so you got to balance it at the atomic level subatomic level then the atomic level then the molecular level then the biological level then at the sort of macrobiological level at The evolutionary level at the species level at the level of cities and societies and families and countries right and then the entire planet and then solar systems and galaxies and then the whole universe it has to be simultaneously balanced at all scales do you see how monstrous of a challenge this is what kind of intelligence this requires you can barely balance your [ __ ] bank account it's hard for you you can barely balance your diet you can barely balance your media intake given your human level of intelligency the human brain is the most intelligent thing that we know of on this planet we think we're so intelligent and yet you can't use these like hundreds of billions of calculations and neuron neural connections that is happening in your just in your head in one single human head that is not enough to balance even the food you put in your body you struggle with that every day think about the kind of intelligence that is required to balance every single scale and Order of the hall our key down to infinity and up to Infinity and have it all perfectly balanced so it doesn't fly apart it's insane it's an insane level of intelligence now you might say but Leo in the past you've said reality is perfect absolutely perfect so if it's absolutely perfect isn't that a contradiction because supposedly if reality was absolutely perfect then how can anything be out of balance and why would there be anything to balance in the first place and obviously Leo you know in the human realm we have all sorts of things that are out of balance we have people with diseases with Cancers we have wars and we have genocide and all these sorts of things which seem to be like examples of stuff that's out of balance in the universe these would be like imperfections which contradicts the idea of perfection but this point is actually way more subtle and tricky than you think from the absolute perspective the way it works is is that reality is absolute perfection is perfectly balanced however you have to realize that the human distinction between balance and imbalance is itself a duality and that eventually this itself must collapse and you must incorporate imbalance into the overall meta balance of the whole universe so all those imbalances you see within human Affairs those are like micro level imbalances within the absolute meta balance that is going to happen long term over the Arc of the entire universe so it might seem that the rise of Hitler this imbalance in Europe that this is an example of the lack of perfection of the universe actually it's not if you develop enough Consciousness and vision and a long enough time Horizon you'll see that it's not because in the end Hitler was just a rebalancing of forces on the continent and of course after his demise you know Germany experienced a long period of of balance and still maintaining that balance to this point um but you have to understand that what humans consider imbalance that humans are looking at very short time scales usually of a year or two or maybe a decade or maybe at most 50 years that's the judgment that human the kind of judgments that humans are making you know 50 years at most sort of time Horizons and so from this perspective you can see that a lot of stuff is out of bounds but if you take an infinitely long time Horizon you'll see that all those imbalances actually add up to a larger meta balance and that's part of what I'm trying to get you to see with this episode remember also that you are part of God it's not like you're just an observer sitting outside the universe observing all this balance slash imbalance stuff like uh impartial Observer no you're entangled with the Affairs that are happening on this planet and with the whole universe for that matter you're entangled with God at a fundamental level so the decisions you're making or not making the decisions you're stalling on go see my episode how to become more decisive for more on that most people are just stalling on making decisions but when you're not making a decision you're still making a decision you're making a decision not to act and so that is a part of the entire meta balance that is happening in the universe and also your mind's ability to recognize imbalance is part of the meta process that God is using to balance and create absolute perfection you see so for example when you see the Holocaust happening in Europe your mind sees that and you have various ways you can react you could get horrified you could become moralistic about it and condemn Hitler and all that you could go fight a war over it or you could choose to do nothing you could turn your eye to something else you could say oh well that's not my responsibility you see and when you're doing that you're participating in The Balancing Act and you become a pawn for God so to speak you become a pawn and a probe for God to rebalance the universe your mind is the interface that is allowing that so you may shirk your responsibility for example in the case of the Holocaust you might say well why should I act you know I don't want to put my ass on the line I'm not going to go to war I'm just going to I'm going to retire on a tropical island in the Caribbean and I'm gonna forget all about World War II and the Holocaust you could take that attitude you see but somebody else will act in your stead and go restore the balance of the world and the universe now you might say well Leo but if that's going to happen if somebody else is going to go do it for me instead then it's like what's the point of me even going doing it myself if God is going to balance the universe no matter what then why should I even play a role why don't I just sit back and let God do it all for me why should I stress over it well you see the thing is is that when God is balancing the whole universe it's doing it out of complete selflessness and love it's not doing it for any other reason but just because it appreciates the beauty of the order and Harmony that it's going to create now you as a selfish finite you know creature on planet Earth you might say I don't give a [ __ ] about that all I care about is just like having sex on my tropical island and you know um why should I care about the order and the beauty of the whole you know universe that doesn't interest me okay fine it doesn't interest you but then that's a choice you've made you see and then notice though something is that for you acting that way and taking that attitude other people will counterbalance that you know other people for example might denounce you they might call you a devil they might even come and kill you on your tropical island because let's say you were a draft Dodger and so you didn't want to go to World War II to fight Hitler and so you just fled your tropical island and you might think well all's well and good but see there's there's consequences for shirking responsibility in the world of human affairs and they're suffering that could come with that I mean you could start to feel guilty about what you've done for example um or what might happen is let's say you don't go fight Hitler and because of that Hitler defeats the allies conquers all of Europe and then eventually you know he you know he's nuts he wants to dominate the whole world eventually Hitler comes and you know conquers the United States and then eventually he takes over your Caribbean island too and then when he gets to you he sends you to the gas chamber see and that is a consequence of the decision you made now you might say well Leo but but if God allows that didn't God allow for some sort of like imperfection in the whole scheme isn't now everything out of balance so Leo the ultimate question I guess would be this like if I just choose not to take any responsibility and not to play this game God's game of balancing the universe then doesn't that mean that the universe will ultimately be out of balance because I refuse to balance it and the answer is very interesting and paradoxical the answer is no the universe will always be in perfect balance but that doesn't mean that it's going to be in Balance according to your little egos needs wants and expectations so it is possible for example Hitler to take over the whole world if nobody opposes him and everybody shirks their responsibility for fighting him it is possible that he'll take over the whole world and you know kill half the population including you who was shirking your responsibility that is possible and from your point of view it'll seem like oh well Leo this is an injustice you know God is being so unjust for allowing Hitler to to take over the whole world and to kill all the good guys well but you allowed that you see you participated in that shrinking of responsibility um but even if that happens and let's say he kills your family and you and all that in the end what I'm telling you is that eventually the imbalance of Hitler will be balanced out by other means so if humans don't do it it'll happen some other way he'll die of natural causes or um you know the Nazi regime will just crumble under its own incompetence and Corruption or eventually people will just get sick you know after 100 Years of Nazi Rule people just get sick of it and there will be a revolution or a revolt uh uh or eventually aliens will fly uh you know fly over Earth and they will you know they will nuke the whole planet because it's just like a toxic [ __ ] hellhole of Nazism let's say right so there's nothing let's say there's no more redeeming qualities about planet Earth so they're just they'll just you know glass it from the atmosphere and in that way they'll restore order and you might say well Leo that kind of like that's kind of far-fetched like how can you be so certain that the universe will always balance itself out couldn't it be the case that you know something can get so out of hand that eventually the whole thing just like implodes and gets sort of like catastrophically out of balance and so um my answer to you is no that's not possible and the reason that that's not possible is because the universe is absolutely perfect and it's balanced by the highest intelligence there cannot be a higher level of balance than that which is governing this universe now that might seem like that's just sort of like wishful thinking or some sort of naivete on my part you could hold this idea from a position of naivete like maybe you're some sort of new Ager and you just say oh well you know everything's going to work out just because you know God is good that's not what I'm telling you um what I'm telling you is you can become so conscious of the intelligence governing this universe that you will realize that this universe is absolutely perfectly balanced that's not an opinion that's absolutely the case but again remember you're in the very Nexus point of this balancing act so it's not like the universe is balanced some sort of static way it's like whatever actions you take are going to be contributing to the Perfection and the balance of the universe so whether you decide to go fight Hitler or not that's going to contribute to the absolute perfection of the universe either way it's going to be absolutely perfect now you might say well Leo but if it's going to be perfect no matter what then like doesn't that mean that the Perfection is meaningless because if the universe is perfect whether there's Hitler in it or not then what is the what is the point of even calling it perfect at that point or balanced it seems like it's just kind of like a word game you're just describing Perfection to anything at this point which defeats the point of calling something perfect well here's the trick though is that your notion of perfection is relative Perfection Perfection with the lowercase p whereas the Perfection I'm talking about is I'm talking about the Awakening to absolute perfection Perfection with the uppercase P that literally means that no matter what happens it's perfect nothing happens but absolute perfection you could also talk about balance with a capital B absolute balance that means no matter what happens that's what absolute balance is this is not something you believe this is something you awaken to this requires Awakening now you might say well Leo if it's going to be balanced out no matter what why should I even act or take responsibility for anything because it seems like God will handle it and the answer is this that goodness and love which is really the source of all balance in the universe goodness and love these have no reasons behind them essentially you're asking me Leo why should I be good if I can just be evil like it's sort of like the same problem that happens when I tell people that you know God will forgive you for no matter what no matter what you do in life God will forgive you no matter how you act God will forgive you because God is all loving God will love you no matter what you do and then you know if you're a devil you can say like ah okay well if God will love me whatever I do then I'll become a rapist Leah why should I become a rapist then and the answer is if you want go be a rapist now there will be consequences to that that you yourself will not enjoy but uh go do it God's love for you will not be diminished by you becoming a rapist it won't change God's love at all it won't change the goodness or Perfection of the universe at all not even one bit um and you might say that this is a flaw in the design of the universe no it's actually not a flaw this is a feature not a bug because you see goodness and love have to have no reason to them you're asking me Leo why should I be good and the answer is no reason at all you see that's what Gooden says go see my episode what is goodness where I explain this in more detail I'm just kind of glossing over it here but um goodness has to be done without reason without compulsion if you're compelled to do reason uh to do good for some kind of logical reason then you're actually doing it out of selfishness which is not good that's evil goodness has to be Selfless Love has to be selfless they're synonymous with each other goodness love selflessness these are all synonymous so there's absolutely no reason why you should seek to balance the universe as God would try to balance it but in not doing so you actually end up hurting yourself because you're acting out of selfishness and the only reason to balance the universe sublimely exquisitely is simply because you recognize that your God and that you want to be good that you want to be loved and that being selfless is the ultimate Joy of existence and that you want to align yourself with selflessness and if you align yourself with selflessness the more you align yourself with selflessness the more you will naturally want to act in a way that balances out and harmonizes all the parts of the universe so you're not doing this balancing act out of a sense of selfish need you're doing it out of no need whatsoever simply because you enjoy the beauty of the harmony that your actions will create in the world which is in other words to say that now you're fully aligned with the motivation that God has behind balancing the entire universe see you might ask Leo why is God balancing all these things in the universe you know why it seems like a lot of work why doesn't God just relax and let the whole universe go to hell and the reason is is because it doesn't cost God anything because God is selfless God has no needs so when you have when you're selfless you have no needs and you're all loving and you're infinitely intelligent what are you gonna do you're going to balance it out for the benefit of everybody else so God is balancing out the whole universe for the benefit of everybody in the universe and that is God's love for you that is God's gift to you now if you want to be an ingrate you can take all that for granted and you could behave like a devil and you could trick your responsibility and be a selfish [ __ ] you can totally do that and that's fine and it won't affect God in the slightest it will affect you though there will be consequences for you and for those around you there will be consequences which probably you won't find very pleasant um but you can do that or you can choose to align yourself with love and goodness and intelligence and wisdom and act responsibly as a instrument of God within the universe to help balance it out simply because you love the harmony that it creates these are your choices you act as a vehicle to restore balance in the universe not because you need to not because someone is forcing you to not because the Bible tells you to but because it simply pleases you to do so and there's nothing more worthwhile for you to do in the world got it but be careful because there's a trap here here's the Trap this notion of being a vehicle for the restoration of balance in the world can be very dangerous in the wrong hands because the you the ego can take hold of this idea and then use it to justify all sorts of Crusades and that's exactly what low Consciousness egotistical and quote-unquote evil people do is for example you know Hitler Justified the Holocaust as a restoration of balance in the world you see how twisted this gets here we are talking about Hitler as being an imbalance but Hitler saw himself as being a restorer of balance in the world because he thought that there are too many Jews and the Jews were and imbalance in the universe so by killing them he thought he was restoring balance you see how twisted this is when Bin Laden orchestrated 911 and set you know a dozen hijackers to crash Jets into the uh World Trade Center you might say well we see that as imbalance and a cancer on society terrorism is a cancer on society but a terrorist sees terrorist actions as a restoration of balance in the world do you see that the 911 hijackers when they were crashing those Jets into into the World Trade Center they were completely convinced right up to the last second of their of their lives that this was the greatest act of restoration of balance in the world and in a certain sense they weren't wrong that's what's so Twisted about this you see because balance with the capital be absolute balance The Meta balance of the entire universe includes this action of 9 11. it includes that it includes the Holocaust so this this requires a lot of maturity to accept because most people don't want to think of the Holocaust or 911 as a restoration of balance in the universe and yet they are not of a local balance of a meta infinite balance right because if you look at it from a local perspective then the Holocaust in 911 these were imbalances and again the notion of what is balanced or imbalanced these are relativistic Notions right go see my episode understanding relativity understanding relativism so this is a very relativistic idea and when humans talk about balance and imbalance this is a duality and this is a relativistic notion of balance and imbalance right it's relative what's a balance to me might be seem like an imbalance to you so that's the the challenge here the trick but from God's point of view which is the absolute point of view there's no such thing as imbalance there's only balance what that means is that everything a humans consider imbalanced actually balance just seen from a higher perspective nevertheless the Trap here is that it is possible for you to convince yourself that you are creating balance in the world by actually doing devilish things by killing people by raping people by doing genocide by doing terrorism by stealing elections by bombing abortion clinics it's very easy for the human mind to convince itself that these are acts of balance and they are from the absolute perspective but that's not how the human mind is thinking of it right so when Bin Laden or Hitler did their evil stuff in their mind they convince themselves that they're restoring balance to the universe but they weren't looking at it from the absolute perspective they were looking at it from the relative perspective and in the relative perspective they were wrong see so if you're some incel who decides to go rape some some girl thinking that you're restoring balance in the universe you see that's a very dangerous thing at the relative human level at the god level it doesn't matter at the relative level though there's going to be serious consequences for that there's going to be a lot of karma for that and that can be very dysfunctional pathological and unhealthy for you and for society so you have to be careful with these kinds of justifications you know the French Revolution the Communist revolutions that took place in the last century um you know trumpism the whole Maga phenomena that's happening right now in the U.S a lot of these were Justified as the restoration of the Lost balance of the universe people who think this way can get very delusional and in fact they turn into the greatest devils every devil thinks he is restoring balance to the world when he's actually doing the opposite the fool thinks he's restoring balance to the world when actually he's being a selfish cancer so be careful about that this is a huge trap I don't want you to use the things I said here to justify whatever selfish Acts that are going to hurt others but you're gonna justify it to yourself anyways it's like well you know Leo said it's all in the name of balance in the end and God loves me anyway so I'll just do whatever I want if you do that then you misunderstood this teaching and you're being a devil but The Twist is that even when you're being a devil at The Meta level everything is still perfectly balanced see you can't escape Perfection because perfection's absolute you can't escape goodness you can't escape love these are all absolutes so you can't escape them no matter what you do you can blow up the whole world and you're not gonna shake the Perfection of the universe that's the structure of the universe that's how good the universe is it allows for that but if you use that as a license to do it then you're a devil but you're free to do that so it's up to you see it's a very radical freedom that God has given you and there's absolutely no reason why you can't be a devil be a devil if you want just realize there will be consequences for you and the more of a devil you are the more suffering you're gonna create for others but for yourself too here's the thing you have to remember that you know devil just means you're acting out of selfishness but remember from the absolute perspective selfishness is self-balancing too because selfishness is self-defeating the way God balanced devilry and selfishness is by making it self-defeating the reason why you shouldn't be selfish is simply because if you're gonna be very selfish you're going to defeat your own self you yourself will regret it it's going to be a contradiction within you you yourself won't like yourself selfishness is its own punishment and selflessness is its own reward by being selfish you cut yourself off from the love of God not because God is withholding love from you but because love is selflessness it's tautological it's not that God is withholding itself from you it's that by being selfish you are cutting yourself off from God himself cannot help you when you decide to be selfish because God is selflessness God's help is selflessness itself it's not that God is going to help you by giving you a bunch of money that's not how God helps you God helps you by making you selfless you think the help you need is you need more sex and money that's not the help you need the only help you need is selflessness notice that cancer eventually balances itself out by killing itself that's the genius of God's design that's the intelligence that really infinite intelligence that where is that work here this structure that I'm explaining to you is itself infinitely intelligent this is the intelligence of the design just that nobody around you understands this design I'm like one of the first people ever who's articulated this design to you you could think of it this way what is God God is a perfectly self-balancing system it's absolutely self-balancing that means no matter what in the infinite long run it's always going to be perfectly balanced no matter how bad it gets it will always balance itself out automatically that's what God is ta-da how could such a system exist How could a perfectly self-balancing system exist well that's the Miracle of Life that's the miracle of existence it shouldn't exist and yet here it is and the reason that is is because God is just perfection you just gotta at some point you gotta bite the bullet and just realize God is perfection and everything is God therefore everything is perfection this is not something to believe this is something to become directly conscious of by Awakening to it so anyways to make this level more practical for you start to study and appreciate balance in the following areas of life within nature and ecosystems within organisms animals biology and evolution within the homeostasis of your body and your psyche within markets economies and globalism within governance in policing and in law in cooking in great art in great films in great games with an exceptional human beings notice that exceptional human beings have a certain balance to them and within conflict and War I have an episode called understanding conflict and War part one and there's gonna be a part two coming in the future part of the point of that episode is to show you how conflict is a set of balancing forces that are happening in the universe you have to start to see war and Conflict for a much higher elevation perspective start to see it from God's point of view rather than the little petty human point of view the question of how to achieve balance in your body and in your mind is one of the highest Pursuits that man can undertake and the question of how to achieve balance in society is the highest Pursuit that mankind as a whole can undertake these are enormous challenges both individually and collectively to figure this out and it has to be figured out both at the individual and the collective level simultaneously because the individual we can't have balanced individuals when our society is very out of balance and cancerous and we can't have a healthy balanced Society what our individuals are out of balance and mentally unhinged and cancerous subscribe to all sorts of cancerous ideologies you see so it's a bi-directional flow it's a cycle that goes both ways we got to fix this problem at the same time at both levels we can use fixes at one level to increase fixes at the at the next level and vice versa by helping individuals to balance themselves we can create a more balanced Society by helping Society to balance itself at the policy level we can help to create more balanced individuals we can create either a vicious cycle here or a virtuous cycle as they're called you are not just balancing yourself you're also balancing yourself in relation to your environment and to all the other actors in the world that are also trying to balance themselves so this balancing problem is highly recursive recursion is sort of an aspect of fractals and chaos theory that I'm going to cover in a separate episode at some point I want to shoot an episode on fractals um but um since reality is an infinite fractal God is an infinite fractal um you notice fractal-like elements and you notice recursion you also notice strange loops so this is the art of good living the art of good living is balancing yourself out in relation to your environment and then helping others to balance themselves out together the whole thing balances out or it fails to do so so you might wonder well you know how do I develop balance here are some tips first by removing biases from your own mind because an imbalanced mind creates an imbalanced world pretty obvious that's why I stress bias a lot this topic I've talked about it go check out my episodes understanding bias go check out my episode Self Bias where I've talked about that a lot the next point is a commitment to truth into love and start to experience Truth and Love awaken to what is truth and what is love that's gonna help to develop balance the next point is experimentation trial and error and massive experience I've talked about this in my episode exposing yourself to more experience go check that episode out the more you fail and the the more intention you put on learning the lessons from your failures and you put yourself through a process of massive experience this allows you to fall out of balance then find your balance again fall out of balance bind your balance again it's sort of like practicing surfing or practicing on a unicycle how do you get good at surfing or unicycling by practicing it a lot failing a lot and allowing yourself to fall out of balance by falling out of balance in a conscious way and observing it you learn how to be in balance you learn the things that are causing you to fall out of balance you learn how to correct for them you learn how to anticipate them and preempt them so that you don't have to actually fall over to know that you're about to fall over right like if you're on a unicycle you've if you're good at it you've fallen over so many times that you're so sensitive your mind is so sensitive your Consciousness is so sensitive to any force that is pulling you to fall over that you counteract that force and you maintain balance that's literally what you're doing on a unicycle or a surfboard or anything else that requires a similar I mean you're doing the same thing when you're walking even when you're standing that's what your subconscious mind is doing when you're standing which a baby cannot do the next point for developing one's balance is develop an eye for beauty Harmony peace fairness health and holism really what we're talking about here is Aesthetics balance has an aesthetic quality to it it has the Ring of Harmony when you're listening to a balanced perfectly balanced song It's a Harmony it's very harmonious when you're looking at a beautiful perfectly composed painting by some great master it's got a Harmony to it it's got a certain aesthetic to it you can hone your intuition you can hone your eye for for these Aesthetics and you can use that to create balance it's hard to kind of articulate exactly how to not how to develop it but like what it means to have an eye for beauty to have great taste God has great taste if you want to become more Godlike develop great taste in art learn to see beauty recognize Beauty you can do that you can train yourself artists do this I've been doing this my whole life I've been doing graphic design other sorts of things I've been I've been training my eye for for seeing Beauty and having taste for a for for several decades and as a result I have pretty good taste most people have horrible taste now artists artists are sort of connoisseurs of developing taste so any great artist has to have great taste whether in music and film and art or in nature or in even in people you know what kind of women are you sleeping with friends they sleep with some horrible looking women anyways uh next point study and develop wisdom this is what philosophy is about philosophy literally means the love of wisdom philosophia the love of wisdom wisdom is what you need to be able to balance you can make a study of wisdom you can read wise sages that's what I did that's how I basically started this whole journey is I just had a an intuitive attraction towards wisdom so I read wisdom books I read the classics I read Greek and Roman philosophers I read Marcus Aurelius a lot of wisdom in that book that book basically teaches you how to maintain balance you know Marcus surrealist's meditation so I'm talking about but basically this is this is the function of philosophy and it's sort of highest level sense the the other way to develop balance is to study imbalance study error study blunder study catastrophe for example study the errors of science study the errors of religion study the errors of politics read history and look at all the imbalances throughout history whether it was war or geopolitical conflicts or genocide or the Spanish Inquisition The Witch Trials McCarthyism Nazism communism we have a rich history to mine for imbalance there have been so many minor imbalances without within history human history that you can you can study from that and learn those lessons so you don't have to make the same mistakes the next way to develop balance is think independently think through things by yourself rather than just following groupthink a lot of the worst Horrors throughout human history were imbalances that happened due to imbalances in culture and the way that human beings fought in herds this leads to Market crashes these lead this leads to speculative bubbles this leads to toxic ideologies like communism and Nazism uh this leads to all sorts of wrong Wars like the Iraq War for example this is largely the consequence of groupthink because people were not thinking independently for themselves human collectives tend to be pretty bad at balancing themselves they balance for a while but then they Veer off a cliff that's what tends to happen you're like you have some Corporation and the corporation is doing great and it's balancing itself and it's creating new products and it's Innovative and all this kind of stuff and then something happens in the corporation it kind of ossifies it starts to just go it kind of phones it in it kind of just starts to go use an algorithm to do its business and as soon as it starts using an algorithm to do its business it can't innovate anymore it can't retain its best clients and employees and eventually the thing falls off a cliff and goes bankrupt for example it dies and a lot of times that happens just through groupthink because people are no longer thinking innovatively and creatively for themselves the way that the founders of the corporation did they start taking that for granted they think they can just use an algorithm and they can stop thinking if you stop thinking you die the next way to develop balance is uh develop your intuition I have an episode called how to harness your intuition go check that out and I'll probably have some more episodes in the future about developing intuition because it's such an important topic um but basically you can hone your intuition you can learn to trust your intuition to act from your intuition intuition is actually a deep source of intelligence it's a non-algorithmic implicit source of intelligence it is basically your ability to tap into the intelligence of the universe and to act from that uh in a sense this is the secret of how God does it God does it through a sort of an infinite intuition so when a human is tapping into intuition you're getting a little bit of a tip of the iceberg of God's infinite intuition and you can expand your the bandwidth of your channel and connection to that intuition the more you awake and the more conscious you become the more intuitive you become the greatest Masters and Geniuses were extremely intuitive very implicit go check out my episode explicit versus implicit understanding this connects with that the next Point here for becoming more balanced is um handle your basic survival cravings and needs it's hard to be balanced and wise when you are lacking shelter food sex basic human intimacy and what other things you feel like you you need you know basic amount of money go check out my episode called burning through Karma basically you want to burn through as much Karma as quickly as possible by satisfying your cravings and needs and then transcending them so you can go beyond the survival needs into the being needs where you can even start to care about things like balance and beauty and creativity and intuition and intelligence and Awakening and Consciousness in God and love you don't even care about these things when you don't have your basic Cravings somewhat satisfied so handle that don't get too obsessed with metaphysics and spirituality if you can't pay your electric bill figure that out first figure out your health problems if you've got serious health problems fix those first before you go about worrying about spirituality in God fix your diet fix your drug addictions figure that out first there's a sort of order of operations here which is called otherwise uh Maslow's hierarchy of needs go check out my old old episode called um something like how to develop yourself using Maslow's hierarchies of needs where I talk about this point another way to develop balance is through Awakenings have Awakenings experience higher States Of Consciousness where you completely transcend survival and you come into contact with infinite intelligence directly that's hugely important for everything we're talking about in this episode without without these Awakenings basically to you this is going to sound like some new age philosophy here and nothing more it's not going to be real for you accessing infant intelligence is crucial and you can access it the other way to develop balance is balancing your mind and your emotions via meditation this is one of the core functions of meditation is that it can help you to balance out your mind okay and the storm of emotions that usually is puppet mastering the majority of mankind you know tame all those emotions become mindful of when you're have experiencing cravings and when you're driven by your emotions that you're not at the effect of them that's what meditation will get you now imbalance leads to pathology dysfunction ugliness suffering unsustainability and death unbalanced Things Fall Apart and self-destruct just notice the as an example the imbalance is happening in today's political system in America but also around much of the world there's a lot of political imbalances what's interesting is that the devil has a backwards view of balance to a devil imbalance seems like balance and balance seems like imbalance because see the devil is interested in Balance the devil is interested in imbalance towards his own agenda the devil wants to skew the political situation or whatever the situation might be wants to skewed the situation in his favor because he's selfish just to care about balance already requires that you have a lot of selflessness because if you're just maximally selfish why would you care about balance you don't want fairness you just want goodies for yourself that's selfishness 101. to even care about balance requires a clear and unbiased mind it's like Leo why should I even care about balance I want I want sex and I want money and I want a big house and I want my political party to win at whatever cost that's going to create a much better life for me than trying to balance some sort of abstract you know global system that's how a selfish mind thinks notice how bias creates imbalance so notice the Deep connection between imbalance and bias which we've pointed to a lot in the past to care about balance within a system requires caring about more than just yourself this is like systems thinking versus systems exploitation again a lot of people get this wrong people like to claim for example sometimes that Leo Trump is a very systems thinker because he's good at exploiting the system look at how good he is at manipulating the system and owning the libs this makes him a systems thinker no it doesn't make him a systems thinker it makes him a systems exploiter which is not the same thing as a systems thinker go watch my episode called intro to systems thinking for that distinction Trump is too selfish to do systems thinking he's thinking about how to exploit the system towards his own benefit true systems thinking is about how to balance the whole system regardless of what it costs me or what it does to me or my agenda maybe balancing the whole system will hurt my agenda and that's good because my agenda should not be the thing that runs the system or the universe selfishness is believing that your agenda should govern the whole universe and if Trump was given his way his ego will try to rule the whole universe this is the definition of devilry so being a high quality leader requires that you be able to set your own agenda aside and to impartially ask the question you know what kind of changes should we make to the system that will benefit the system for the greatest number of people or conscious agents not even just people but really for Consciousness itself what is in the highest interest of Consciousness that's the question God is asking that is precisely not the question that Trump is asking again people say Leah why do you mention Trump so many times in all your videos simply because not because it's not because I'm attacking him it's simply because it's such a good Stark object lesson it's a case study of selfishness again all of this work can be boiled down to Simply becoming more selfless and all of that can simply become uh be boiled down to do the exact opposite of everything Trump does and you will become highly actualized and Godlike you see if you are too selfish and too biased your actions will create imbalance in the universe as you try to gain Advantage for yourself at the cost of others see that here are some examples of the ugliness and the out of balance that can happen commonly in your life all the times you'll see this in your life with your diet for example with the information ecology and with what's going on right now with media with social media look at social media companies chasing to try to maximize clicks and view time and profits the sort of The Tick Tock the tick tock effication of the internet YouTube right now is in a process of getting Tick Tock if I'd Instagram is getting tick-tockified and look at how ugly and out of balance this is becoming kids minds are being corrupted and poisoned by this tick tockification of our social media system our information ecology is being poisoned with all sorts of conspiracy theories and ideologies and anti-mainstream narratives and other kinds of nonsense take a look at drug addiction or really any addiction as an example of the ugliness of being out of balance drug addiction is your perfect example but there are so many other kinds of addictions if you're jerking off 10 times a day look at how ugly and out of balanced your life is the Health Care system the American Health Care System especially look how ugly and out of balance it is and therefore it's not able to create deep Health in people because remember health equals holism and balance so if the Health Care System itself is out of balance because it's corrupted and skewed by corporate interests and big Pharma lobbying trying to sell you drug drugs and opioids and try to maximize profits this this all corrupts the ultimate objective of Health because what's being cared about is not health or the the health of mankind what's being cared about is profit margin mostly how about the example of capitalism corporate lobbying and how resources and money are distributed throughout our societies this is the epitome of ugliness and being out of balance look at the income inequality look at the disparity between what CEOs are being paid and what their employees are being paid this sort of late stage capitalism that we're seeing everywhere around the world in all the developed Nations this is the epitome of imbalance and then look at the kind of imbalance that causes in our environment environmental destruction pollution global warming heavy metals in our drinking water in our fish uh the overfishing of the oceans and how out of balance this is becoming and how ugly it is the way we do factory farming the kind of nasty pesticides that are put into fruits and vegetables how ugly and out of balance this is and then when you ingest those heavy metals and toxins and Plastics and pollutants and antibiotics and stuff into your body this causes your whole body to get out of balance which causes a host of autoimmune disorders which are very common now thyroid disorders and all sorts of there's there's like at least a couple dozen different kinds of autoimmune disorders maybe even up to 100 different kinds of autoimmune disorders that are very common these days where is that coming from well it starts with industry and pollution which comes from late stage capitalism which then goes through our food supply and drinking Supply and then eventually gets into your body and then corrupts your brain your body and your mind of course look at the ugliness of American politics right now the ugliness of Maga and trumpism also look at the ugliness of the Socialists left there's ugliness there too it's also out of balance look at various sorts of transgender ideologies non-binary ideologies um I'm not saying there's some validity to it there is but also it's again it's gotten taken way too far it's gotten very out of balance you know when people are creating dozens and dozens of custom gender pronouns and all those kinds of um you know nonsense this is this is creating imbalances in our society and conservatives are correct to be worried about this now does that mean that the conservatives are right in you know they're transphobia no I'm not I'm not giving license to transphobia here but you should notice that the kind of gender problems that Society has been having over the last like let's say 10 years um you should see ugliness and imbalance in that and I don't just mean transphobia obviously transphobia is ugly and imbalanced but I also mean just people going overboard with defining their own genders and expecting others to to play ball and to just think that it's all just kind of arbitrary it's not so arbitrary it's also creating imbalances um within that masculine feminine polarity dynamic that otherwise is beautifully balanced it's creating a balances there um look at the rise of movements like you know the incels and the black pill and red pill stuff like that um some of the extreme forms of feminism again these are happening because there's imbalances between people are really not being taught very well how to embody the masculine and how to embody the feminine and from this there's gender confusion going on and there's a people who can't get laid who are you know becoming in cells who are getting frustrated over that um yeah because men are not being taught how to be men and women are also not being taught very well how to become women by which I just mean masculine feminine take a look at the economy and the bad financial management that's going on the imbalances in the economic system take a look at as an example bad business management you know businesses that are mismanaged by corporate Raiders and and so on that are trying to you know extract maximum value take a look at the kind of imbalances that are happening within business take a look at the imbalances that are happening within your specific industry like maybe you're you're working in the healthcare industry or you're working in the food industry or you're working in the pharmaceutical industry or the computer Silicon Valley industry the internet industry the social media industry you know whatever industry you're in take a look at imbalances within your industry as a whole that's a good lens to look at it from every industry has its own kinds of imbalances take a look at our education system and universities how badly out of balance and ugly they are becoming now also in a sense corrupted by late stage capitalism and when I say late stage capitalism that does not mean that socialism is the solution necessarily I'm rather agnostic about that and like I said just earlier is that socialism itself has many imbalances and ugliness in it too so the solution is not so simple take a look at the ugliness and imbalances within relationships and sexuality that you have or others around you have take a look at the imbalances in the consumption of entertainment and media for example video games and Mindless forms of entertainment take a look at the imbalances with a lack of socialization being shy and socially awkward not being able to talk to girls inability to get laid those are some ugly imbalances and all the ideologies that arise because of that the mgtow movement the incels the black pill the red pill all that kind of garbage take a look at the imbalances that we have with mental disorders right now we have a wider spread of mental disorders than ever before people with add with OCD with depression with bipolar disorder with schizophrenia what are these mental disorders these are imbalances ugly imbalances in the mind and a lot of these are fed by ugly imbalances in our culture and also ugly imbalances and pollutants in our food supply you see it's like a perfect storm of all these coming together these mental disorders aren't just coming from one place you know like autism as well is on the rise various kinds of cancers and so forth you know diseases of the body um and also honestly a lot of Mind cancers diseases of the Mind in terms of ideology we have a lot of toxic ideologies out there right now various kinds of Cults what is a cult a cult is an ugly imbalance what is a conspiracy theory it's an ugly imbalance take a loot look at your mood swings your emotional mood swings see your emotions are out of balance if you have a messy sloppy life you have a sloppy living condition you don't clean your room as Jordan Peterson tells you what is where is this coming from this is coming from imbalance as well and it looks ugly literally your house and your room looks ugly because your mind is so imbalanced that you can't even balance the physical objects in your living space so those are some of the examples of uh what imbalance looks like see not so pretty contrast that with for example you walk into a Zen monastery what does the sun Monastery look like if you've seen some pictures it's this pristine ordered simple minimalist clean environment with you know simple trees and some flowers and some rocks and they have those sand Gardens you know that's the sort of stereotype of Zen that we have what is that the aesthetic of Zen is an aesthetic of Harmony and balance you're not going to find a heroin addict shooting up in a Zen Monastery in the corner and in a Zen monitor you're not going to find you know like objects just thrown around the the monastery kind of willy-nilly you know just like piles of of burger wrappers and and like and ketchup stains on the on the walls and just pizza slices in the corner foreign you're not going to find that because in Zen they can appreciate this Sublime balance and they try to actually embody it and actualize it in the way they run their monasteries in the way they arrange their Gardens and their flowers and um the way they even build those Zen classic you know Monastery buildings they're built in a sort of like orderly minimalist way that's not an accident that's because some of those guys are actually woke and they know what they're doing now uh here's another trap is that when I say balanced you have to be careful that what your ego mind considers fair and balanced isn't the balance that I'm talking about right they're sort of like the true balance God's balance and then there's what your ego and all your biases consider fair and balanced the kind of [ __ ] that Fox News calls fair and balanced is exactly not fair and balanced do you see that so just because you think something is fair and balanced or you call it fair and balanced be very suspicious of that that doesn't mean it is it could be exactly the opposite of that and in fact people who Proclaim to themselves to be very fair and balanced these are usually the least balanced and fair people obviously calling something fair and balanced this is not an honest signal because words are cheap it's easy to call yourself fair and balanced when you aren't Here's a thought experiment for you that might shock you consider the possibility that whatever the current state of the world is consider the world as it is right now with all the political Shenanigans and upheaval and War and craziness that's going on right now so you got all that in your mind right now consider that that is actually what absolute balance looks like ta-da what no that's not possible you know we got the we got the war in Ukraine and we got Donald Trump doing crazy [ __ ] and after all Leo you say Donald Trump is a devil and all this so how could how could that be balanced that's not balance we can only have balance after Trump is dead or something like that no the shocking point is that Trump with all of his shenanigans and all the wars in the world that that is what balance looks like that's absolute balance that's meta balance that's infinite balance meta balance means that even losing balance is part of the balance that's infinite balance that's Sublime balance that's Exquisite balance when you can see the balance in the universe within all of Trump's [ __ ] con Artistry and shenanigans and Putin's stupid War when you can see that that's when you understand what I'm teaching you with Sublime balance be careful here because the fool easily tricks himself into thinking that he can rebalance a complex system with his favorite intervention and a lot of times that ends up backfiring you know in systems thinking what one of the first things they teach you in systems thinking is that systems are very complex and counter-intuitive and they behave in tricky ways and that a lot of times the intervention you think that's going to improve the system actually makes the system worse makes the problem worse so the fool rushes in to modify a system whereas the sage the Wise One carefully sits back and just observes the system and questions whether an intervention is necessary at all Sometimes the best way to manage a complex system is not to intervene that requires wisdom that's counterintuitive usually wise interventions and complex systems they are subtle that are gentle whereas foolish interventions are gross and rash they lack the necessary nuance and that also is something we're seeing in our political system right now is we're seeing a lot of gross and rash solutions to very complex and nuanced problems which doesn't tend to solve the problems which just multiplies them here are some practical applications from this episode areas where this idea of balance applies so well look at this balance between saving and spending money now these these applications this is like this is where all the abstract stuff becomes very practical look at how practical this gets saving versus spending money that requires balance working hard versus enjoying your life that requires balance working versus resting that requires striking a sort of dynamic balance Theory versus practice that requires Exquisite balance education versus doing business that requires balance you can have too much of one or the other pursuing survival needs versus spirituality that needs to be balanced I know a lot of you guys are struggling with that who follow my work or how about Solitude versus community that requires balance being alone versus socializing we've talked about that recently in my episode called how social socialization makes you stupid how about balancing between being selfish and being selfless that requires balance because if you just go out into the world and you just try to be selfless all the time that's not going to work that's foolish selflessness doesn't work how about balancing between the Practical being practical and being idealistic that requires a careful balance between progressives and conservatives that requires a balance how about emotions and reason that requires the balance left brain versus right brain requires a balance being open-minded versus closed-minded that requires a balance being serious versus being playful requires a balance chasing after success versus doing good for mankind that requires balance realism versus idealism requires balance the masculine versus the feminine in you requires balance masculine compassion versus feminine compassion requires balance I have a very old episode about the difference between those two how about balancing between telling the truth versus holding back the truth out of compassion that requires balance balancing between material and spiritual Pursuits balancing between chasing sex versus pursuing work or career balance when doing critique very few people are able to do a high quality balanced critique of anything the critiques you see on YouTube they're all highly imbalanced and biased if you want an example of a balanced critique go check out my episode called understanding Jordan Peterson where I try to do my best balanced critique of Jordan Peterson notice how different it is from most of the critiques you see on YouTube of Jordan Peterson which are very imbalanced and I'm a big critic of Jordan Peterson um it took me a lot of awareness and self-reflection and care and wisdom to do that episode in a balanced way how about balance in thinking about a thing a lot of people simply can't think about anything without being imbalance in their thought process how about balance when making your art knowing when to add more to your art or versus taking away from your art you know minimalism that can be a tough balance to strike how about the balance between individual versus Collective action a lot of people struggle with that one including Jordan Peterson uh balance between the outer exploration of reality versus the inner exploration of Reality by which I mean you can go out and travel the whole world Adventure to all the countries in the world that would be outer exploration of reality you can go skydiving and dirt biking and skiing that's outer exploration of reality but what about inner exploration of reality exploring your mind through psychedelics meditation and spiritual work how do you balance those two how about balance between the spiral stages check out my series on spiral Dynamics to learn more about that but those of you who are aware of those stages I see a lot of people struggle with with balancing those stages they end up demonizing one stage or another stage or they just think that the the best Stage is the turquoise stage and all the other stages are bad stages very common trap but in reality you have to balance all the stages up and down your spiral that's challenging to do I have myself sometimes lapse and striking the right balance there so easy to demonize one stage or another how about balancing between saying too much versus saying too little that's one that I personally struggle with a lot a lot of times I say more than I should how about balancing between caution and boldness should you be bold in life but if you're bold you take risks and those can bite you in the ass or should you be cautious but if you're cautious you don't take risks you don't take action and then you're kind of stuck how do you balance between those two I can't give you an algorithm to do it I can't give you a script you have to use your creative intelligence to do it that's why you're here that's why you're intelligent in the first place that's what will allow you to solve these problems notice that good design of any kind is all about balancing trade-offs whether you're designing a car a skyscraper an airplane a video game it's all about balancing the trade-offs of finite things I'll actually talk about this topic of trade-offs in a separate episode coming up soon but for now just notice that a good video game requires Exquisite balance and how do you balance a video game you have to be very unbiased towards all the players in the game because if you have a favorite class or a favorite character or a favorite player in the game as the designer and then you're gonna create the game design the game based on your sort of you know pet favorite let's say you're designing an RPG and you like the wizard class so you make an overpowered wizard class is that good for the whole game is that good for the whole player base no that's a selfish game designer who's going to create a badly balanced game and then people aren't going to like that game see so if you think of Life as a giant massively multiplayer RPG God is the designer of this massively multiplayer RPG its job is to design it for the good of all players without any partiality without playing any favorites and that's exactly what God has done it's the perfect game perfect with a capital p and look at government governance good governance spoils down to balance it's all about balance balancing the people versus the corporations balancing different interest groups balancing between different religions balancing between religious people and secular people all of this has to be balanced that's why government is so difficult and so contentious and so uh polarized balance cannot be an algorithm because reality is infinite and Consciousness is fluid we're not dealing with the static thing here we're not dealing with a finite thing here notice that too much of anything turns into evil if this is true then good absolute good is the balance of all things with respect to all things this is the divine order also notice that balance equals peace there's a connection between balance and peace if you want peace in the world you need balance because War conflict and struggle these things are a lack of balance these only happen when there's imbalances in society without this War doesn't happen there's a quote from Thomas Paine that I want to read to you which goes like this quote the balance of power is the scale of peace end quote in the end from the biggest possible picture everything in the universe has to balance out and equal to zero and that's exactly the case and I want to end this episode with the following quote by Allison Lurie which says quote nature can seem cruel but she balances her books end quote all right that's it I'm done here please come check out my website down below you'll find links to actualize.org there you can find my book reviews you can find the life purpose course you can find my blog where I'm posting a lot of stuff I've posted a lot of stuff on my blog you can also find me on Instagram I have an account on Instagram find links down below um I share 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and you have to develop the capacity to be able to break yourself out of mental masturbation mode Theory mode with taking action use action to break yourself out of being stuck in theory but paradoxically stay tuned and keep watching because there's still more important theory that I have yet to teach you that will be coming in the next few years I have over a hundred new episodes planned some of these topics are going to be very profound and uh covering new material that I haven't talked about before so the trick here is that you want to keep staying abreast of the theory but don't get stuck in that make sure you're taking action on this theory in your life so that you're starting to see the fruits and the benefits stay tuned and I'll see in the next one