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You know, it's funny. It's funny that no one in your life has ever taught you what goodness is. Isn't that amazing? None of your teachers, none of your professors, all your fancy degrees and bachelor's degrees and master's degrees, and PhDs, and all these experts and all your physics and all the scientists, and still no one, no one can give you a simple explanation for what goodness is? Well, here it is, you've come to the right place. Even in many spiritual teachings, I noticed that they don't really talk about goodness, they don't explain what it is. And I think that's because many of these teachers simply aren't directly conscious of absolute good. They may be awakened in various kinds of ways, but they're not deeply conscious of the absolute good. That is a facet of the ultimate awakening. Which is why I think that a lot of times, it's not talked about in many spiritual traditions like in non duality teachings of certain kinds, in Neo Advaita teachings in Advaita teachings of certain kinds, it's not talked about, of course, in other teachings, it is talked about, so it varies. But good is not merely just a human thing. It's not just a human quality. And it's not just a human invention. And it's not purely a relative thing. Even though of course, mostly, when people talk about good and bad, they're talking about relative good and bad, they're talking about the duality of good and bad. This is not what I mean, when I say, goodness, when I say goodness, I'm talking about goodness with a capital G, absolute good. That exists. And you can become directly conscious of what that is. This is not a belief, this is not an ideology. This is not a speculation. This is not a philosophy, this is something you can become directly conscious of. And I'll just share the conclusions of my own conscious realizations with you, in the hope of inspiring you to pursue these realizations for yourself so that one day you can have these realizations of goodness for yourself. And then that could possibly improve your life. And you could use some of the things I talked about now already to start improving your life even prior to having had a direct realization of absolute goodness. You see, it's a little tricky, because most of us are operating under the materialistic paradigm, sort of the scientific paradigm. And under this paradigm, we just assume that reality is neutral. Right? Like atoms aren't good or bad. They're just neutral. Right? And good, is it's sort of like an unscientific concept. You might say, like, if I tried to tell a scientist that the ultimate nature of reality is absolute goodness, that scientists will say, now, that's just some hippie nonsense. That just sounds good to you, Leo. That's like some wishful thinking, bro. Like you've been smoking too much weed or something. But I mean, this is not some sort of tangible, quantifiable form a liable thing like some equation. So there's that kind of bias there. But notice, again, this is one of those metaphysical, tricky, sneaky, metaphysical assumptions, hidden assumptions of science, is that reality must be neutral. And that if you think that reality is good, somehow you must be crazy. And then, as the objection goes, you know, well, Leo, if if reality can be absolutely good, then what about absolute evil? Shouldn't it also be absolutely evil to balance it out? Well, it turns out not to be the case. And I'll explain why in a minute. And an even under some Buddhist conceptions of reality, and advice and conceptions of reality, there's also sort of this assumption that consciousness must just be neutral. Not good. Well, there is such thing as absolute goodness, I become directly conscious of it for myself. You can as well There's nothing particularly special about me in this regard. So what you can become directly conscious of is that physical reality is the material realization of absolute good. Physical reality all of it, the physical universe, as you know, it, is the very embodiment of absolute good, it's not neutral. It's absolute good. Why? You might wonder, how can this possibly be the case? Sounds kind of crazy. Sounds kind of loony? Why would reality be good? And not neutral? Well consider that all of the stuff that you consider bad is actually just a consequence of the way that you judge reality. I mean, that's literally what bad is, it's a judgment that you project onto reality. Can you see that a lot of people can't see this. They think that that bad is somehow baked into the physical structure of reality. As though like, theft is actually bad, or murder is actually bad, or genocide is actually bad. But if you're truly unbiased, in the way that you look at reality, you can see you can kind of step back from the situation, you can see that actually, it's not bad, the badness that is there is something I'm projecting into it because it's bad for me. It's bad. From my point of view, it's bad because I have various sorts of attachments to how life should unfold. I believe there shouldn't be theft, I believe there shouldn't be rape, I believe there shouldn't be murder. And of course, why do I believe these things? Not because they're absolutely bad. I believe these things, because all these things are threatening to my own survival. Pretty obvious, right? But then you might wonder, here's, here's where it gets kind of tricky, because you might then think, Okay, well, Leah, if that's true, then shouldn't goodness just also work in the same way? That goodness is just also a projection of the human mind? And it's also just, you know, from a certain point of view, like maybe you think that I don't know what sex is good. Children are good, pleasure is good. Food is good, the kind that you like, I mean, whatever you think is good. being nice to people, you might say is good, charity is good. giving donations to the hungry is good. These sorts of things. And you might say, well, Leo, isn't that all a projection of, again, this sort of biased mind. And you're right, it is, those are projections. Because you're, you're selecting certain things to be good relative to other things, which are not good. So you know, giving donations to children you think is good, whereas abusing children you think is bad. So here, we're dealing with good as a lowercase g good, relative good. And this is a projection of the human mind. But then what people don't realize is that there is absolute good, absolute good transcends and includes both of the relative good and bad. So in a sense, what happens is that you your consciousness expands, and becomes so holistic and so integrated, that you gain enough meta awareness to realize that. Yes, the bad stuff is just a projection of a biased mind. For survival purposes. Yes, the lowercase g good stuff is also a projection of the selfish biased mind for survival purposes, because usually what the ego calls lowercase g good is simply that which serves the ego. So you're clear about that. But then what happens is that you break through to a meta consciousness of the entire dynamic as a whole. All of reality is hold. And you see that from that ultimate absolute point of view. It's all absolute good. Good with a uppercase G. And here, you realize that good is not just some human thing. Good is that deep existential facet of ultimate truth of what consciousness is consciousness This is goodness. And consciousness is all there is, as we've talked about many times before. We've talked about how reality is one, we've talked about how it's it's infinity, infinity can only be one. And the nature of consciousness is good. And everything else is just a subset of that. Everything else serves the ultimate good. So why would reality itself and consciousness itself be the ultimate good? Think about it. If you had unlimited power, to create any kind of reality that you could create, of all the possible ones that you could create, what kind would you create? That would be the highest good, out of all the possible ones? The answer is, you would give an infinite number of beings the opportunity to experience and discover the infinite goodness of consciousness for themselves. That would be the ultimate good if you created a reality like that. And here we are, we are in that reality. Now you say but Leo, that isn't that circular. So you're saying that the ultimate good is to create a reality for other beings, of which there's an infinite number of other ones, to realize the goodness of reality? That's very tautological. That's like a recursive definition of goodness, because you're using goodness within the definition of goodness. Yes, exactly. That's not a bug. That's a feature. You see, because since reality is a singularity, an infinite singularity, since it is one, there is only one reality, and can only ever be one reality. That one reality has to be at the ultimate absolute level, has to be its own source and its own end its own goal and its own point. So what is the point of reality? You might say? Well, the point of reality is, of course, just itself. And what is the point of goodness, the point of goodness is itself, goodness, is the one thing that is its own reward. See, you don't do good things. To get something else, you do other things to reach the good. Like money by itself is not good. Because you can use money for all sorts of bad stuff. But goodness, is good, in and of itself. That's a special property of goodness, that allows it to hold this absolute position amongst everything else. So imagine, if you will, an entire universe in which nothing but good existed? Why wouldn't God create such a universe if God had infinite power? Well, of course, that's exactly what God would do. Now, you wonder, Well, why didn't God do that? But of course God did. Here we are. This is it, you're sitting inside of it. You are it. This is absolute good. What this means is, it's not possible for there to be a universe that's any better than the one that exists. This is the ultimate one. The difficulty though here is that you do not have sufficient consciousness, to understand infinite goodness. Your definition of infinite goodness is corrupted by your lack of consciousness and by your selfishness, and all of your biases and judgments. You see, that's the problem. You think that God made a mistake in the design of the universe. Because here you are in the universe is finite creature, moving around, walking around doing stuff, and stuff doesn't go your way. But that's only because you're so self centered, and you're expecting a good universe to be that which satisfies all of your selfish needs. But of course, if the universe was structured like that, that wouldn't be a good universe that would be an evil universe. because it would suit you, but it wouldn't suit all the other infinite creatures and beings in the universe. See, that would be a selfish universe. Instead, what we actually have is we have a completely selfless universe. A selfless universe is one which is not biased towards any one individual being or creature. It's completely neutral, in that it treats all beings and creatures equally in a certain sense. It doesn't privilege anyone doesn't put anyone on a pedestal above any other one. Even though of course, certain creatures have more abilities and other creatures that of course, that's obvious. But that doesn't mean that like, for example, a human is better than a donkey. Just because the human can do calculus. And a donkey can't know under they're both equally good as far as the universe is concerned, that the universe is is, is treating everyone like a perfect judge would in a courtroom, you had the perfect judge in the perfect courtroom, he would treat both defendant and plaintiff equally without any kind of bias or prejudice. And that's exactly what God does with all of its creatures. But in so doing, you see the problem from the creature from an individual creatures point of view, which is where you're sitting there looking at this thing from, from an individual creatures point of view, from an individual human point of view. A lot of times, it doesn't seem fair, what the judge is doing. And the problem is that because you're so selfish, you will project your own selfishness and bias and judgments onto the judge. And you will think that the judge is making some sort of error in his judgments, because he's not siding with you, because you want the judge to side with you, because you're selfish. And of course, if the judge did side with you, for some sort of biased, partial reason, that wasn't part of the truth, then that would be a bad judge, that would be an evil judge, that would be a corrupt judge. But that's precisely what she wants he, you don't really want a good judge, when you go into a courtroom, what you really want is you want a judge who's corrupt in your favor, who will favor you who's partial towards your side. Because you don't care about the truth, you care about winning. And you care about winning, because you care about survival. So from your point of view, it seems like the universe has a lot of bad stuff in it. Actually, it doesn't. The universe is absolutely good. But you need to have enough perspective, and meta awareness and distance in order to be able to see that you can't see that from your little egoic. self centered perspective. See, one of the most profound realizations you can have in your life in this work that we're doing is to realize that only good can exist, nothing else can exist. In fact, existence is goodness, they're synonymous, they're identical. There's nothing bad that's ever happened in the entire universe. It's all only good. If you have infinite consciousness to see all the goodness, if your consciousness is less than infinite, you won't be able to see and appreciate all of the goodness, because infinite goodness requires infinite consciousness, because actually, they're the same thing. They're identical. Any consciousness which is less than infinite, is going to be partial, and is not going to be infinitely good. Non goodness is literally impossible for the universe. Other than that, as a illusion, or as a misperception of the universe. So anytime you look into the universe, and you see something that you don't like, and you think it isn't good, really, you think that that's because God made a mistake in the construction of the universe? Actually, it's us making the mistake in perceiving that part of the universe. You don't see how that part fits into all the other parts and adds up to absolute goodness. See, because your perspective is, is always finite. It's missing how all the finite pieces interconnect into infinite goodness. So to see the apps Good requires infinite perception, you need to literally be able to see how every piece fits together and serves the larger hole. If you're looking at individual local areas of the universe, then yeah, it'll seem like you're seeing bad stuff. But really all that bad stuff. If you zoom out far enough, you will see how it plays into the ultimate goodness of everything. Now, you might wonder, well, Leo, what about evil? Well, there is no evil, of course. That's the beauty of this. When you realize absolute goodness, you automatically solve the problem of evil, evil is just a problem of perception. So this age old Phil Scott's philosophical problem that, that philosophers and theologians and even scientists have, you know, debated and wonder about for 1000s of years? Like how could How could God allow for evil to exist? Or alive? Why does the universe contain so much evil within it? And the answer is just so simple. Stop projecting the evil onto the universe, and you will stop seeing it. It says though, you're looking at the universe through a through a cracked set of glasses. And you're wondering, why, why is why they mean, everything looks so cracked. It's your glasses. It's not the universe itself, it's cracked. So here's God's existential dilemma. You see, God itself is infinite goodness, that's literally what God is. God's greatest wish for you because it's infinitely good is for you to realize that you are infinitely good, and that everything is you and that everything is infinitely good. But here's the problem. If God forces upon you, goodness, then you actually won't be able to realize goodness, you're going to recoil in horror. See, you might wonder like, well, Leo, why didn't God just create a universe in which every human was just automatically? Perfectly good? Why would God create imperfect humans? And the reason is precisely because God is good. Because God is good. God must allow you the freedom to choose whether you want to be good or not. Because goodness cannot be coerced. Goodness has to be chosen, consciously chosen. If it wasn't that it wouldn't be good. You see. That's the trick with goodness. You might think you can force goodness onto somebody else, but actually you can't. Because the very essence the very heart of being good is that it's uncoerced. It's unmanned, dated. You shouldn't be good. See, a lot of times, religious people and moralistic people, they have this, this huge mental hang up, in that they say Leo, but what's stopping me from being evil? What's stopping me from raping people and killing people and, and thieving and pillaging and genocide and doing all this sort of stuff? What's stopping me from doing that? If there are no rules, no objective rules in the universe? If God is not going to punish me, for thieving and killing, then why shouldn't I do it? And of course, the answer is so obvious. The answer is that nothing is stopping you. If you are at the level of consciousness, such that you desire to rape and kill and thieve and do violence onto others, and to harm others. If that's your level of consciousness. Then you see, if God was to force you to be good, if God created rules and punishments that required you to be good, then you wouldn't really be good. You would just be pretend pretending to be good under threat of punishment in the same way that like in a dictatorship if You know, a journalist is told that he must write some sort of puff piece about the dictator, praising the dictator in, in the newspaper under threat of, of his family being tortured, of course he's gonna write that puff piece. Now does that then does that make it true? Is this puff piece about the dictator? True? No, of course not. He's just writing it because he has to, because he's coerced into it. Because of course, he wants his family to not get tortured. So obviously, he's going to do that it doesn't make any make it true. Well, likewise, if imagine, see what you want, as you, you sort of want God to do the same thing to you. It's like you want God to be this dictator, and to dictate goodness to you. But if God did that, then it wouldn't be really true, true goodness, you would be acting out of fear. And you wouldn't be consciously selecting goodness, you would only be selecting it because you want to avoid some punishment. But that's not goodness. You see, that's evil. That's selfishness. When you're acting out of fear, and you're acting out of self preservation, you're being selfish. You're not being good. To be good. You have to be selfless. And so the very odd and mysterious thing about goodness, is that it turns out that actually you can't truly be good, unless you choose to be good without any coercion. For no reason whatsoever. Yeah, for no other reason than simply because you like being good. See, it's only when the joy of being good, overpowers every other drive and desire and craving and priority that you have, only then will you truly be good. If there's any higher priority in your life, then pure goodness for its own sake, then you're not good. You're actually evil. See, what you truly have to realize here is that goodness is its own end. And this is absolutely crucial, because God has to be its own end, because God is one there's nothing outside of God. See, it can't have some sort of other purpose. It can't have an ulterior motive, its motive has to be itself and what it is, is pure goodness or just the pure joy of existence itself, the pure joy of consciousness itself on clouded and uncorrupted by any kind of self biases, any kind of needs for anything else. Just purely directly existence, purely directly consciousness, purely directly truth, purely directly goodness. And so of course, it must be self justifying, self reinforcing and completely tautological. This is such a profound tautology, that literally, if you become conscious of this, you realize that nothing but goodness can ever exist. And that is the very structure of reality and the very structure of God. And precisely because that is its structure. That is what goodness is, goodness is such a structure that nothing other than it can exist. That's what it means to say that it's absolute, is completely all encompassing. And that's just the nature of infinity. There can't be an infinity without goodness, because they're identical. And of course, there can't be anything outside of our of infinity. And there can't be anything prior to infinity because infinity occupies every possible domain and every possible dimension, every possible possibility, every possible space and place that anything could be. So here's sort of the genius of God is that God's consciousness is so pure and so uncorrupted by any kind of biases. It's so perfectly neutral, that it it sees the beauty of every possible form that could exist. And it welcomes all of it. It accepts all of it. embraces all of bid and loves all of it, because it sees that all of that is itself. That's what it is. It's everything. It's everything that could possibly be. It's the sum total of everything that could possibly be. So the mistake the ego mind makes here just says, like this, it thinks like this. Well, it sort of imagines that God is this being sitting up in the cloud. And then when God is creating the universe, God is thinking to itself, Well, should we have monkeys or rhinoceroses, it's like, well, the monkeys, they're kind of smelly and ugly. So we won't have too many of them. Instead, we'll have rhinoceroses. And then it says, Well, should we have humans or not? It's like, well, yeah, humans, okay, we'll have humans, but we'll only have these kinds of humans, but not those kinds of humans. And then so you think that God is is created as sitting there. And he's very picky and choosey about, about how it's creating stuff. But of course, this is this is a silly, childish, egotistical notion of God. Actually, God is not a person, God is completely impersonal. It's the universe. It's the field of infinite consciousness that gives rise to everything that we're sitting in right now, communicating through, so. But see, in a sense, God is so neutral, and so unbiased, that it allows everything within it to arise, without any kind of judgment or rejection of it, it embraces all of that, and that is the ultimate good, such that whatever arises is the good. So really, the problem of evil here is overcome, not in the way that people conventionally think of, of removing all the evil stuff from existence, but rather by embracing all the, quote unquote, evil stuff, embracing it with such depth and metaphysical profundity, you embrace it so totally, that literally, it ceases to be evil anymore. Because what you realize is that anything that was evil was not actually objectively evil. It was only evil in your inability and lack of consciousness to comprehend its role in the larger totality. And when you comprehend its role, you understand it, and also you fully embrace it with consciousness and love. It literally ceases to be evil, and then you realize it never was evil. It was simply your own biases and selfishness, which prevented you from realizing that that evil was actually good. That's the ultimate mindfuck that people don't appreciate about good versus evil. Evil is not an objective problem. Evil is a problem of perception. It's a problem of consciousness. And since reality is nothing but consciousness that's it that solves the whole problem. Now, here, people make the mistake of thinking like, well, Leo, so So does that mean that when I become very, very conscious than raping, it will no longer happen, and robbery will no longer happen, war will no longer happen and in genocide will no longer happen. No, I'm not saying that. All of those things will happen. war will continue to happen for 1000s more years, the thing that will change is not the war, what will change is your understanding and perception of the war, the war will get so recontextualized that you will see and understand and accept the war as being part of the larger whole of which is just a part of you, yourself. Because war is just a part of what you are because you are the whole universe. So anything in the universe is just a party view. So you see that and you recognize it and you embrace it, and you accept it. And then even though people could still be killing each other with rockets and guns, and so on, you're gonna you're gonna see the larger context. So war will get recontextualized for you. Likewise with rape, theft and murder and any other evil that you can imagine. Now, of course, understandably, a lot of people don't like this idea. This is very threatening to them. And that's because they lack the consciousness. They lack the development. They lack the open mindedness, they lack the non judgement, and they don't, they literally do not have the ability. They're not strong enough. Their mind is not strong enough to accept All of themselves, their mind is busy rejecting certain aspects of unreality. And that's because they're not concerned about truth, they're concerned about their own personal survival, they've confused their own self preservation. For the ultimate good. You see, so to realize the ultimate good, this requires that you sacrifice yourself a little bit. And most people aren't interested in sacrificing themselves. They don't like that. They have a lot of preconceived ideas. They've developed enemies, they've made enemies out of people out of different ethnic groups out of different cultures, out of different organizations after after, of different political parties, they've made enemies out of these different things, different facets of reality. And so now Good luck trying to get them to admit that actually all those enemies and all that bad stuff that you were fighting against your whole life, that all that stuff was actually absolute good. How do you convince a person of that, especially when they've been personally deeply wounded or injured by some group of people or some individual or some ideology? Like, for example, if you're, if your parents were killed in Vietnam, by the communist regime there today you might be living in, in America as a sort of a Vietnamese American, but you know, you know, your family history, and you know, how, like, someone in your family was killed by these horrible communists. And so now, you, you feel that these communists are evil? And that communism as a whole is an evil ideology. And of course, why do you feel that way? Because it personally hurt you. And the deeper it hurt you, the harder it will be for me to try to convince you that actually, communism is part of absolute good. Now it doesn't. Communism here, I'm not, I'm not picking on communism, per se. I'm not trying to convince you of the validity of communism here. I'm just, you know, could I could use an example, with capitalism the same way. I mean, a lot of people these days hold capitalism as evil. Many progressives and socialists and liberals and spile, dynamics stage green folks, you know, they see capitalism as the greatest evil. And why do they see it that way? Well, because they were hurt by it in some way. Ultimately, that's ultimately what it all goes back to. The stuff that you consider evil is simply that stuff, which hurt you, in some way, hurt your ego, hurt your survival. So maybe you're a progressive today, but you went to school, and you got a bunch of student loan debt. And now you're stuck in wage slavery, and this naturally upsets you. And there are these elite people, these capitalists who have a lot of money, you know, these billionaires, whereas you, you know, you're, you're working some dead end job for years and years just to pay off your student loan debts, and you don't have a lot of prospects in your life, and you feel that the system is rigged against you. And in a sense, you're right. I mean, structurally speaking, the system is rigged against you. But nevertheless, I mean, it's still all absolute good. But you can't see it that way. Because you're not careful enough about yourself biases. See, when I talk about self biases, you don't take that whole notion seriously enough, you think I'm just toying around. But I'm not toying around. Because self bias is at the very heart of the whole problem of trying to understand reality, and straightening yourself out about the nature of reality. See, as long as you don't take self bias seriously, you're going to be deeply self biased, and you're gonna be projecting yourself biases all over the place, and you're not going to be able to see reality. Clearly. The reason I obsess about self bias so much, is because my top concern is to see reality clearly. And obviously, the only way you can see reality clearly is if you eliminate every single self bias you have, including your preference for being alive. See, that's your biggest self bias right there. If I put a gun to your head, and threaten to pull the trigger, you're gonna have a very strong self bias for that trigger not to be pulled. And you might say, well, what's the problem with that? Well, the problem with that is that that that, that dynamic, that self bias runs your entire life and distorts your entire perception of reality, and from that all your other problems materialize So the reason that so few people understand absolute good, the reason your teachers and professors and parents and your clergy and whatever, your preacher and your Imam, the reason the reason they didn't teach you about absolute good, is because how could they, they were too self biased to ever realize absolute good. So they can't teach it to you. And of course, they're all going to deny that what I'm saying here is true. Because their self biases require them to deny it. Even to just admit that what I'm saying here is true, is already deeply, deeply threatening to any self biased person, because they don't have to admit how selfish they are, how selfish they've been. So it's your very selfishness, which prohibits you from seeing this. So God is infinite good, because God is infinitely selfless. So in a sense, we could say that the universe is totally neutral in the way that science and materialism tend to hold it. The universe is totally neutral. But what you have to what the scientists materialist don't fully realize is that it's not enough just to say that you have to actually realize what ultimate neutrality means. Ultimate neutrality is just not it's not just like, oh, well, yeah, it's just neutral. Mineral ultimate neutrality leads to absolute good. So the two are not really in, in conflict with each other. It's just that for the scientist, the idea of neutrality, especially an idea for the mystic, for the awakened one for the sage, the idea of neutrality is actually absolute good. And it's utterly mind blowing, profound and amazing. When you have this realization of good, it really feels like good, it doesn't feel neutral. It feels really good. It feels like infinite good. It feels so good. It's like grounding and goodness. It feels like you're dying in the goodness, that's how good it is. It's scary, good. It's infinitely good. It's absolutely good. Now, you might wonder, have you ever thought about this? If God exists, what stops God from being evil? Think about it. What stops God from being evil? Those of you who think that there needs to be fixed objective moral rules or shoulds. Like you shouldn't murder, you shouldn't steal, you shouldn't pillage whatever. For those of you who believe in these sorts of rules, well, but so are you saying that God is bound by these rules to? Is there a rule that says that God should be good? But if there is, where did this rule come from? Because God is the Creator of everything. So if God created everything, then God must have created this rule. So God created this rule for himself. So why didn't God create some other rule? I mean, if he said, If he created this really could create a different rule. So you see the problem here. Since God is the highest authority, there can't be a higher authority above God, because any higher authority about God would itself be God. So God can't have any rules placed upon it. God has to be infinite and unlimited. But that being the case, you wonder, why can't God be evil? And the reason God isn't evil, is not because it has to not be evil, but simply because it's totally selfless. And so it chooses good. Why? For no reason whatsoever. There's not a reason for God to choose to be good other than goodness itself. God is good because if you were infinitely conscious and utterly intelligent, you would choose to be good there'd there will be absolutely nothing for you to gain in being evil. You see, the only reason anyone has ever in the history of mankind ever committed a single evil action. A single selfish action is because there was something that they We're going to gain from it. Whether it was some money, or some sex, or some power, or some prestige, or some celebrity, some fame, some big house, a fancy car, whatever. All of this is done. Because you think you're going to gain something by getting some material thing. But since God is infinite, and God is the entire universe, God has literally nothing to gain from being selfish, because it already owns the entire universe. So there's nothing for it to gain, therefore, it can't be evil. It has no motivation to be evil. Pretty cool. The logic of this is very interesting. There's a very delicious, exquisite divine logic to God. You can spend a lot of time running through the sort of logical loops in your mind thinking about love and goodness and infinity and oneness and consciousness and how it all interconnects in a very perfectly logical way. It's very satisfying to to contemplate that. Now, what about morality? Let's talk about morality for a little bit. A lot of people are confused about morality, what is morality? And why do people get morality so wrong? So actually, the human mind and ego has different stages of moral development that it goes through from very low levels, crude levels, unconscious levels, to the highest levels, which is basically what I've been talking about here. So at the lower levels of morality, morality is basically based on punishment and reward, for example, little children, to behave in moral ways to follow rules. And to, you know, to be nice to others not to bite their friends and their siblings. This is sort of the early origins of morality and children. How do you get children to obey these rules, it's simply through brute physical reward and punishment. If, if a child is biting his sister, you know, you maybe smack them over the head, if he's biting her, to get them to stop. And you smack him hard enough, he'll stop. Why, because the pain and suffering of the smack on his head is going to be worse than the joy he gets from biting her. And then over time, he'll learn to stop biting her. And then, you know, as he matures and grows up and develops a little bit more, then he internalizes those rules, and he develops a little bit more autonomy. Now, he doesn't need to be literally physically punished, he can just be kind of threatened. And he can be threatened with not even physical violence or pain, but oftentimes just with a sort of a, a look of disapproval. Or just because he knows that, you know, his friends will see him in a bad light. Like, you know, you're in school, why don't you just take a dump in the middle of the classroom, even though you might want to, because you know, it takes more energy to go to the bathroom, it will be easier to just take a dump on the desk, on the teacher's desk, why don't you do that? Well, because there's gonna be so much disapproval, peer to peer pressure comes in here, there's gonna be so much disapproval and humiliation and embarrassment from all your friends and colleagues and teachers who will look at you and think of you as a monster, basically. And you don't want to be thought of as a monster that doesn't, that doesn't sit well with you. So you learn not to do that. And so that's sort of the next stage of morality is where your morality is not based on physical punishments and rewards, but it's based more on how well you're going to fit in with your peer group. And this is a lot of what morality is for, for many people who are at spile dynamics stage blueish. In a lot of religious fundamentalist type people, for them, morality boils down to basically just being good conformists to their society or community and not sticking their neck out of the herd too far for fear of it being chopped off. So it's that kind of conformist morality, then. And this morality is usually based on rigid a black and white rules of do this, don't do that. This is the 10 commandments idea. And these sorts of people tend to really believe in this idea that there's an objective, absolute right and wrong in the universe. And of course, for these people, it's very sad because these are the most religious people. And you know, they're they're so passionate about God and so forth. But actually, they're completely incapable of understanding what true goodness is. They're completely incapable of understanding God. Precisely because they're not actually contemplating the nature of existence for themselves. They're just following rules. And following rules, doesn't lead you to absolute good, it actually has the opposite effect, which is why these religious people, religious fundamentalists, are some of the most violent and evil people that have ever existed. They love to do genocide, and they love to subscribe to nationalism, they love to have a superiority complex about their culture, their religion, their worldview, their ethnicity. They love to judge even though the Bible tells them not to judge, but they do it anyways, because they can't help themselves. Because true morality is a function of consciousness. You can't really fake true morality. Your consciousness determines it. Your level of moral and cognitive development determines it. If you're not able to grasp the relativity, of reality, there's no way that you can truly be moral. Because you're gonna be stuck in your own perspective, in your own biased worldview, in your own selfishness. And you're not going to acknowledge the validity of all the other worldviews and perspectives that are out there, all the other religions, all the other political parties, all the other ideologies, all that stuff, right, you're gonna think that yours is the best. So the next level of morality comes when your morality is based on principles, more so than hard and fast rules that you read in a book that you take literally. So here, the principles become more like, you know, treat others the way you want to be treated. That might be a principle, the golden rule. There might be other principles of truthfulness, and honesty and compassion and whatever else. And these are principles that you're you're not just following a prescribed rigid set of, of formulas. But rather, you're intelligently trying to apply these principles in various kinds of messy situations. Within moral philosophy, there's a whole slew of these sort of edge case examples, where it's these little thought experiments where, you know, you say something like, Well, if there's a, if there's a some sort of, we caught a terrorist, and he has the codes to a nuclear weapon that's going to explode in 10 minutes. What do you do with this terrorist? Can you torture him? Is that moral? Or would it be? Or do we have to just let him you know, we don't torture him. That would be the more immoral move, but then you know, a million people will die when this bomb goes off, like, what should we do? And then the questions are, deliberately the thought experience are designed in such a way that they're deliberately very kind of gray areas. So there's no clear right or wrong answers. And that's, in these situations, the sort of stage blue people who have a rigid morality, they're not able to cope with these situations very well, which leads to evil. Because any finite attempt to formalize infinity is going to by definition, lead to all sorts of problems and evil, and it's done for selfish purposes. So if you truly want to be moral, what you need to do is you need to have enough flexibility and open mindedness such that and consciousness and intelligence and selflessness, lack of bias such that in these situations, you're able to adapt very fluidly. And you're not hindered by any kind of rules or shoulds. But actually, you look out for the greater good of the entire hole and you have this very holistic perspective, not just the perspective of your little tribe, family, race, corporation, group, political party, nation or species or whatever you need to truly be able to take a perspective that is beyond your species, beyond your tribe, beyond your nationality, beyond your gender beyond any of these things, and then you will be able to be the best that you can be. You will be more Godlike. So the ultimate morality is a state of such radical, high consciousness and complete neutrality and complete lack of self bias and complete lack of personal agenda, that and a perspective that is so broad that it encompasses the entire universe, such that you're able to see the relativity of everything, of all perspectives and all beings, and you don't get stuck on selfishly defending any one of them. And then you're able to make decisions, and act intelligently, with balance in perfect alignment with what is necessary for the advancement of the whole universe. Yeah, it's a tall order to fill to get there. See, because the thing that's preventing you from getting there is all of your personal stuff, you'd have to be completely impersonal to be able to serve that role. That means all of your cravings, desires, fears, beliefs, ideologies, all of your personal needs, all of this would have to be surrendered. Because all of these are going to bias your perception of reality, and are going to limit your scope of understanding and concern. And your highest priority has to be truth above everything else. Because of course, good and truth are identical. So this is what I would call transcendent morality. It's the morality that completely transcends all norms and rules. And oftentimes, it can look to people who are lower in their development and consciousness, it can look like actually it's completely immoral, or amoral. Because it's so relativistic, it's so profoundly relativistic, that it doesn't judge, for example, Hitler. It doesn't judge Nazis. It doesn't judge terrorists. It doesn't judge suicide bombers. It doesn't judge rapists. It doesn't judge corrupt politicians, it doesn't judge the capitalist, it doesn't judge the socialist, all of the things that you want to judge, it doesn't judge. That's precisely why it's so good. But the problem is that people who are too low in their development and consciousness, they don't perceive it as the ultimate good, they perceive it as evil. See, because they've defined the ultimate good as their own survival and all their own biases. So when they've done that, when they see true goodness, they must project upon it, their own biases. And, of course, their ego must label that as evil. That's the whole tragedy of it. They're literally incapable of seeing goodness, your capacity to see goodness in others, is simply a function of your consciousness. The less conscious you are, the less good you're able to see in others. And if you're infinitely conscious, you will see infinite good in absolutely everybody in everything. Don't believe me? This is not an ideology, actually do it? Do it become infinitely conscious and see what reality looks like from that vantage point? Don't assume you know how it's going to look. Don't assume that it's going to look neutral. It may not it may look good. It may look really good. It may look scary good. It may look so good at terrifies you. So, this leads us to the question of the old age old philosophical question of what is the good life? What does it mean to live the good life? Philosophers have been asking this question for millennia. without really giving a clear answer. Well, I'm going to give you a very clear answer right now. The Good Life for human beings is to realize absolute good, and then to work to embody it as best as you can for the rest of your life. Or, to put it in other words, to become godlike. Or to put it even more starkly, to become God. So Look how good your life is, is simply a function of how close to God are you able to become. That's it. It's that simple. Now, of course, to be able to actually work towards embodying goodness, you first need to realize what absolute goodness is, or to even know that it exists, it's not enough to just hear someone tell you about it. I mean, this is the starting point, we got to start somewhere, so it's good to hear it from me. But that's not enough, I could be lying, I could be wrong, I could be deluded, whatever, you know, from your point of view. So from your point of view, now you have to validate whether what I'm saying is true. And the only way you can do that is by actually becoming directly conscious of absolute goodness. And not only do you have to do that in order to validate me, but you have to do that for your own self. Because until you become conscious of absolute good, then you won't really understand the point of embodying it, or what you're really even working towards, or why you're working towards it. You know, I can tell you to be godlike in your life, but you won't understand how, and you will understand why. Which is even more important. In the back of your mind, you're not going to be fully convinced that this is the right way to live your life, you're gonna think that there are other ways you're gonna think that having a bunch of sex is a better way, you're gonna think that having a bunch of money is a better way, you're gonna think that doing a bunch of cocaine is a better way, you're gonna think that traveling the world, is a better way. And you're going to be wrong. But you won't understand why you're wrong. The only way to understand why you're wrong, is to become directly conscious of what is absolute good. And then you can use that as as your north star to guide you for the rest of your life. And in a sense, that is what religion is trying to do. That's the function of religion. That's the function that it served. Since the beginning of human civilization, it's tried to be that North Star, and it's trying to guide people, the only problem is, is that the people were just following some ideas, and some ideology that somebody else told them, they never actually broke through to absolute good consciousness. And so they were just, it's a case of the blind leading the blind, leading the blind, leading the blind leading the blind, off a cliff, into evil. Because you can't get to absolute goodness, through a mechanical process, or through following rules, or through the 10 commandments, or through hearsay, or belief or any kind of ideology, all of that only leads to evil. The only way to get to absolute truth is by actually becoming conscious of it first and foremost. And then you can, you can understand what it's going to take to, to actually start to embody it. Now, here's a really practical aspect to everything I've talked about here. This might have seemed to you rather metaphysical and abstract and philosophical, here's where it gets practical. I want you to recognize that within you, from the beginning of your life, there was always an impulse inside of you, whether it was large or small, but it was there, there was an impulse inside of you to be good. Just as simple as that just to be good. Isn't that true? Check. Don't believe me check. Is there this impulse inside of you to be good? It might be as simple as you see an old lady walking across the street and she's struggling. So you want to go out there to her and try to help her with her groceries or whatever that she dropped. Or it might be as simple as you know, your child is struggling with something at school, and then you you have just a natural inclination to go and to help your child or you see a dog freezing in the streets in the middle of winter, and you just have a natural desire to, to, you know, to grab this dog and take it home, feed it some food and give it a warm shelter. Or you see a homeless man, you know, begging on the curb for some food with a sign that says you know, please help I'm hungry, whatever. And you just, you know, have an impulse to say yeah, I should probably give him $5 Or something that that that desire, that impulse for genuine goodness, not because of how it's going to make you look not because you have to not because it's Got to impress anybody. Because all of these are, of course, obscuring factors. It could be the case that you know, you're you're on a car driving on your way to church. And you know there's there's five of us sitting there in a van, you and your your colleagues that always go to church together and then you see this poor person sitting on the side of the road, and then you feel obligated, like, oh, well, normally I wouldn't, but this today, I'm gonna I'm gonna pay him $20 Because, you know, all my church friends are watching and you know, they're gonna, they're gonna think I'm, I'm so godly if I do this, if it's that, if that's the reason you're doing it, then it's not genuine goodness, that's actually the ego sneaking in there. I'm talking about genuine goodness, when you do it, without any reward back when you do it without any expectation of a, you know, increase in your reputation. Not because you're gonna get punished either. See, if you think all if you think like this, like, oh, well, look, there's that, that that poor person, if I drive by, and I don't give him $5 I'm gonna feel guilty for the rest of the day, I'm gonna feel bad. So I better give him $5. That's not it. That's ego. I mean, genuine goodness, think of it. Think of one time in your life, where you did something genuinely good for somebody for no reward, and no for no reason other than, for goodness itself. And think about how that felt. Now multiply that times a million times infinity, and you will understand why God is nothing other than good. Because you'd have to be a fucking idiot. You'd have to be truly a moron. To be able to be good, but then not to be good and to do something else instead. I mean, what else? Are you gonna? Do? You got something better to do in the universe, but but to be good? Well, what are you gonna do, you're gonna go get money, you're gonna go get a bunch of sex, and that's going to be better for you. Nothing will make you feel as good as being good. It's completely tautological. So it has to be this way. Because good is good. That's what good is. It's very direct. It's so circular, that it just is. So I'm telling you that you do have this impulse inside of you. This impulse is not ego, this impulse is actually God trying to move through you. The problem, of course, is that this impulse gets obscured, and clouded and corrupted and forgotten. Because of all of the survival demands that you're placed upon. As you're here trying to live in this material, plane. You need to earn money, you got to feed your kids, you got to go to work, you got to answer emails, you got to do all this stuff. And because you're so busy doing all that stuff, you lose touch with this impulse towards goodness, and your life becomes purely pragmatic about getting stuff done. It becomes very mechanical. And all of a sudden, you're going to work and you're working 40 hours a week, 60 hours a week doing something. Not because it's good, but because you need to, to pay the bills. You've gotten sidetracked and lost in the complexity of life and survival. See, like, you might become a an engineer who works for a defense contractor like Lockheed Martin, Martin manufacturing, you know, missile warheads, or nuclear weapons to be used in the Middle East or somewhere, or whatever. And are you doing it out of goodness? No, you just, you got sidetracked somewhere in life years ago, decades ago. And you're just unconsciously mechanically moving through life doing stuff, following rules, to get your paycheck to survive. And that has supplanted your true purpose in this life, which is goodness, the pursuit and manifestation of goodness. And you have a bunch of rationalizations and ideologies justifying that what you're doing actually is good. So, the practical thing that I'm telling you here is try to remove all of that clutter, and all of that obstruction and get down to the root of that impulse inside of you to be good. And start to follow that impulse every single day, a little bit more and a little bit more, and build your entire life around that impulse. And if you do, that is going to be the best life that you can live that life, that strategy will produce for you. The greatest joy. If you do that, of course, it takes time to build up your life around the simples, it can take years to build it up, especially if you've spent the last few decades living like a devil. And constructing a life which is the opposite of this impulse, which is all purely based around survival. Being good, truly good is one of the most challenging things you'll ever do in your life. Which is why so few people rise to this level of goodness. To be good requires being godlike, which requires that you face every fear and conquer it with love. Which is the ultimate rule for living life. Every fear you encounter, conquer it with love, that's the ultimate solution to your life's problems. For example, if you're working for Lockheed Martin as an engineer, and you're you've been manufacturing warheads for last 10 years, because that's just something new, you know, fell into that trap. And now you hear what I'm saying here. And you realize, oh, shit, Leo's right. You know, I have been manufacturing these warheads, like what was I even thinking, Why did I even get this job? Why am I why I stay here for 10 years? Now, you face a problem. Now you face fear? Because now it's like, well, yeah, what Leo says, is correct. But like, yeah, my job does not align with my impulse to be good. I have some other impulses to be good that, you know, don't fit with this job. So, but what do I do, like, I can't just quit this job, I got kids to I gotta feed down. And maybe I won't get another job. The economy is not doing so great right now. So that's fear, fear arises. And then you have to conquer it with love. And you have to be fearless. And you have to make a difficult decision here, which is to say, Okay, I gotta find a new job, that's going to be more aligned with my impulse to be good. And what what might that be I don't, I don't know. That means you have to go do research, you have to go job hunting, maybe you need to change your entire career, maybe you find that engineering no longer works for you. Now you got to become I don't know, whatever, you want to become something totally different want to become an artist? Okay, you wanna become an artist, but that's a huge transition. There's financial difficulties there difficulties with your family, maybe your wife won't support you bla bla, bla, bla, bla, bla bla, right. But facing all those challenges is precisely than how you will realign your life and then build a life that will truly be good. That is the new good life for you. But of course, it's so scary to do that it's much easier to stay at your old Lockheed Martin job, and to keep earning a nice fat salary. not stressing yourself too much about being good or whatever. And just to ignore, ignore the fact that you're creating weapons, that that kill pill, people just ignore that and just pretend like everything's fine. That's just one example. I mean, I hopefully you can see how this translates into millions of examples. This is just one example. So what does it mean to say that some person is good? Like, oh, oh, you know, Sarah, she's such a good person, or Johnny, he's such a good person. What do we really mean when we say that about somebody? What we really mean is that he or she has godlike qualities. And what are those? Well, here are God's qualities, truth, honesty, integrity, concern for all rather than just oneself or just for some, doing what is necessary for the benefit of all. Working for the benefit of others. selflessness, self sacrifice, love, non judgement, humility, acceptance, non attachment, consciousness, the recognition of beauty in everything. Giving rather than taking benevolence, fearlessness, wisdom, intelligence. Creativity, flexibility of mind, or just flexibility holism, the ability to see the whole of not just the parts, forgiveness, forgiveness of anyone for anything, balance, and not selling out. Those would be some of the most important qualities of God. And when you see a person that aligns with most of these qualities that I just listed, you're gonna automatically think this is an amazing person, this is an exceptional person, wow, I want to be friends with this person, wow, I want to marry this person. Wow, I want to be a student of this person. I want to be a follower of this person. Because such people are rare. And such people offer the world hope and a glimpse of what they could become, they offer you a glimpse of what you could become, if you lived the good life. A godly life, a godlike life. And that is because in the ultimate, biggest picture, all motion in the universe, all of evolution basically is moving reality towards higher consciousness, higher unity, higher integration, and higher love and higher goodness, because ultimately it has to lead to an absolute infinity of goodness such that any point in the universe, if you select that point, and you follow that point, all the way to its natural conclusion might take billions and trillions of years. But if you follow all those points, eventually all those points will merge together into a absolute goodness. And that is how God created itself as absolutely good. You see, any point within God, because every point is within God, any point within God has to ultimately to the Godhead, you see, it's just a question of how long it takes and how circuitous the route is. But eventually, every point leads back to the source, and then goes back around and cycles like this forever. And that's what God is. And that's what goodness is. And that's what love is, and that's what infinity is. And that's what you are. And so just you being alive, you're, you have an opportunity to participate in this process. This process requires conscious participation on your part. And it's difficult to do. And the reason is difficult to do is because you're selfish. Becoming good. Becoming godlike is the hardest thing in the world, which is why there are so few godlike people in the world. Because it requires surrendering yourself. And it's really difficult to surrender to the self, because 4 billion years of biological evolution has led to a very strong sense of self within you, that self was necessary by all of your ancestor 4 billion years of ancestors you have of selfish ancestors, that were increasingly more and more selfish, because they had to be just in order to survive for you to get here. So of course, it's difficult for you to abandoned 4 billion years of evolution in this one lifetime. You might wonder, Well, where is this God? Why is God invisible? Well, God is invisible. Because if God was visible, it would have to have a form. If it had a form, it would have a self. And if it had a self, that it wouldn't be infinitely good. So the reason God is invisible for you, atheists and physicists, you think this is a cop out, but it's not it's actually the very nature and structure of God, God has to be invisible. Because if it were visible, then it would not be unlimited. And then it would not be absolutely good, it would actually be evil. So when you ask God to be visible, when you ask God to incarnate into a single limited form, you're asking God to be evil, which of course, God won't do. But at the same time, God is visible, this is it. You are God, this everything you're seeing is God. God is invisible by virtue of the fact that it takes infinite form. So you can't pin it down to any one form. So it's a rock, it's a tree, it's a car, it's a human, it's a dog, it's a alien, it's a planet, it's a whatever, it's all of it. Now, here, we got to talk about a very big trap that comes up for people. And this is falling into the trap of the ego, or the self, adopting a role or persona or a front of selflessness. And confusing that with what I'm talking about here, which is true selflessness. So please, let's distinguish these two things. We have true selflessness on the one hand, which comes from an increase in your consciousness, and actually surrendering your biases and your survival attachments. That's the true selflessness, this sweat actually makes you good. And then there's the egoic version of it, which is an aping or a mocking of that, it's doing that without actually doing it, it's pretending like you're doing that. So this is the example of, you know, some of the spiritual people who like to talk about love and goodness. But then in reality, they are just adopting that as a persona. They don't have sufficient consciousness to truly be conscious enough to act selflessly. And they have all sorts of attachments and things. And they're mostly run by their ego. But now their ego has also added another feature to it on top of everything else, that's sort of the cherry on top of the ego sundae, as it were, is that the ego believes that it's selfless, and godlike. And this is, of course, very dangerous and problematic. So honestly, I even hesitated to release this, and to shoot this video. Because after I came up with the idea for it, I was thinking like, well, but what's the point of even telling people about absolute good news, because isn't, the only thing that's going to happen here is that there's going to listen to all this, and then they're going to just adopt it as a persona, just another thing for the ego. And then this is just going to make them more egotistical and selfish, this idea of living the good life, now they're going to go around thinking that they're living the good life, when actually they're, they're pure devils. And so I thought about that, you know, gave me some pause. But on the other hand, this has to be explained somehow. So I just, you know, look, there's there's traps everywhere in this work. You've heard me say that a lot of times in the past. And that's very true, especially for this episode. There's a huge, huge, huge trap here. So just watch out for this. And also, there's the trap of self sacrifice, and people pleasing. And a lot of women especially fall into this trap. So I want to point this out to ladies, because you can really hurt yourselves here is, but I mean, men can also fall into this trap. It's this idea that you take on this persona of being the self sacrifice, or the one who sacrifices for everybody else. So you sacrifice for your children, for your family, for your husband, for your boyfriend for all of this for the world for the company, you're sacrificing and sacrifice and you're giving and you're giving. And people keep taking from you and taking from you, they don't give you back and then this this exhausts you of your energy that leaves you shattered and broken and abused, and then you stay in abusive relationships because you think that for you to be godlike, and to live the good life, like Leo said, I have to stay with my abusive boyfriend and he just can keep abusing me. And Leo told me I have to stay in I have to keep taking it. Because that's what God would do. No, Leo didn't tell you to do that. That's a misunderstanding of what I'm talking about. In that situation, actually. You need to see the the larger good is served by you know is not served by you being abused. Because when you're you're abused, and your values are trampled upon. That is not serving the greater good. It doesn't serve you to be you know, emotionally manipulated by narcissists and leached on by energy vampires this this doesn't do anything good for you and your ability to serve people in the world. This lessens your ability to serve others, you have to see the bigger picture here, you're lacking a holistic enough perspective. And really, you're succumbing to fear. You're not being fearless by staying in an abusive relationship. Actually, you fear. The reason you stay in the abusive relationship is because you fear leaving your abusive husband or boyfriend. And that's because maybe you think that you won't find a better better boyfriend or husband, maybe you think you're too old, maybe you think it's, it's too much trouble, maybe things gonna be too painful, you're too attached to him, you fallen in love with him. You don't know what's going to happen to the children, you're afraid for the children's sake and all of that. But that's fear. That's not true love. True love is stronger than that true love is courageous. True love, is bold, in the sense that it's willing to cut some losses here and there. Right? True love doesn't just get trampled upon. Because if you truly are fulfilling this manifestation of the good life, you're a rare and unique individual. We need you as a leader in the world. And how can you be a leader in the world when you're stuck in this abusive situation? How can you be a leader in the world when everybody walks over you when you can't enforce your boundaries? When the values that you value when you value truth, and honesty and love and all this when you value this in your intimate relationship, but your husband or boyfriend doesn't? And he shuts all over that? You see, that means you've you're sleeping with the devil. You're sleeping with the devil and you're tolerating the devil's games. That's not very godlike. See, to be godlike, you have to you don't got God doesn't compromise with devils. You think if the devil comes to God and gives God a bunch of bullshit, the God God will just say, okay, yeah, I accept your bullshit. No. God's truth cuts through all of the devil's bullshit. And God doesn't let himself be manipulated by devils. If you're truly doing it right now, I frame it here in the context of for women. But of course, this doesn't just apply for women, it applies for men as well. There are many situations for you, man, where you also self sacrifice. And you people please and you don't enforce your boundaries. And you think that you're being good by doing this, but actually, you're, you're being meek and weak. And weakness is not a quality of God. Strength is. So the antidote, antidote to your problem is more strength, more courage, more fearlessness, more integrity, sticking through having the courage to stick through and honor your own values, right. And one of your values is that you don't allow people who abuse you. You don't allow devils to manipulate you, that should be one of your values. And if that means you're going to lose that relationship, then you have to take that hit and accept that pain of losing that particular relationship and deal with the fallout of it. That is really where the self sacrifice lies. The self sacrifice is not in tolerating abuse, the self sacrifice is in. Sight sacrificing your weak little ego. And all of its petty concerns about how it feels that it's comfort and all that such that you can ditch this situation and go on to a better situation but going through a sort of a difficult period there in between the bad and the good situation. For example, if you're a drug addict, you're addicted to heroin. The self sacrifice for you in that case, is the sacrifice of the ego. That occurs when you decide to kick heroin, cold turkey, let's say and then all the withdrawals you go through it all the emotional agony and suffering you go through for the next month after kicking that heroin. That's the true self sacrifice. Now, you might wonder, Leah, what's the difference between good and love? Because you've spoken about love before, now you're talking about good, they sound like the same thing. Is there a difference? Well, they are very similar. There's a, there's a subtle distinction there to be had. But ultimately, you know, all these absolutes are going to unify into a single thing. So ultimately, of course, the ultimate good is love, love, truth, good consciousness, God's self. Everything, nothing infinity. All these are identical, ultimately. But also, as you sort of go lower in consciousness, they sort of fragment and split apart into different facets, like I've talked about, in my episode called the many facets of awakening. So good is one facet of awakening loves other facet of awakening truth is another facet of awakening, you can have these realizations independently, you can also have them. Together, in combination, you can realize how they all equate to each other. So there's different realizations of this. Mostly here, I'm emphasizing good because I'm also relating it to the kind of common usage of that word that we use, which has certain utility to it. You know, the word good does serve as sort of a different function in our language than just the word love. They're not always used interchangeably. But But yeah, ultimately, they're a similar. Now, it's impossible to become good without the following things without truth, which includes honesty and integrity. This is crucial. If you don't value truth above everything else. You'll never be good by definition. Because if truth is not your highest priority, then the only other alternative is that falsehood. And illusion is a higher priority than good. I mean the truth. Because these are, these are your only two options when it comes to truth. You either value truth above illusions and falsehood, or you value illusions of falsehood, above truth. And if you do, then you're a devil, and you can't be good. Because truth is good. And then also, you need it's impossible to be good without consciousness. You can't fake being good. Good is an honest signal. It's the most honest signal there is. You can't fake being a good person. Have you noticed that? No matter how hard you try, it will work. And you can't fake being good through beliefs. And through ideology. It's not enough to believe you're good. It's not enough to believe in God. It's not enough to read the whole Bible and memorize it word for word. That's not enough, you can't become good that way. Consciousness is what you're lacking. So raising consciousness is crucial. You can only be as good as you are conscious. And the reason most religious people aren't very good is because which leads them to the third point, it's impossible to Be Good Without a deep realization and understanding of relativity. Relativity is crucial. And by relativity, what I mean is go see my episode called Understanding relativism, part one, I will also release a part two in the future. Relativity is hugely important, but relativity basically means understanding that all perspectives are relative, including, of course, your own and appreciating the relativity of reality. Reality is absolutely relative. Everything is relative except the absolutes. And so that's another reason why religious people, traditionally religious people, fundamentalist religious people aren't very good is because they don't understand relativity. In fact, they demonize relativity. They demonize things like post modernism. And they put their own perspective and worldview on a pedestal, and they denigrate all others. When you do that, you're not being truthful. And that you're going to be judgmental of other perspectives. You're not going to see how they all fit together. You're not going to see the relativity and partiality of your own perspective. You're going to confuse your own perspective with the Absolute Truth, which is actually false. And therefore you won't be good. You're gonna be evil. See how it works. It's very elegant. The logic of this is very elegant, precise. The next thing you need to be good is a lack of bias, as we've been talking about. Being good is like being a very high quality judge, you need to truly not have any biases towards any defendant or plaintiff, you need to be able to look at every situation neutrally, the way that God does, because God isn't attached to any situation. So God can look at it neutrally, you need to emulate that. The next thing you need to be good is a concern for the biggest picture for the highest level of concern for all rather than just some part, this is actually very closely related to this issue of bias. See, if you're concerned about your little tribe, or your little political party winning, or your little sector of your religion winning, or your family, doing well, but you don't care about the, the well being of your neighbors or other families, if you care about your nation doing well, like you want America to do well, and you don't give a shit what happens in China, or in Africa or elsewhere. That's the very thing that leads to evil. Do you think God prefers America over China, over Russia, over Germany, over Brazil, over Argentina? No. God has no such preferences. God's concern is for the whole thing. You might say, well, so God's concern is for the earth. No, it's not for the earth. It's for the other trillion planets that exist in this universe, as well. And everything in between, and not just planets and all the creatures on them. But everything, every microbe, ever, every, every stone, every tree, everything anywhere, every particle of space, dust floating around in space out there, everything, the concern has to be total. Anything less than total concern for everything leads to evil. Because absolute good doesn't happen on local level, it happens at the absolute level, at the total level at the level of totality. And the last thing you need to really be good is non judgment. That's a huge one. Non judgment, notice how about you judge stuff all the time you judge everything. Look at how much you judge within politics and locate. I'm not saying don't get me wrong, I am not saying that I am by any means completely above all of these biases and on judgments or judgments and, and that I'm that I have perfectly embodied any of this stuff. I'm not saying I've embodied even half of it. I have a lot more work to do to embody this stuff. But what I am saying is that I've understood up to this point, how this stuff works. And that that's a that's a big deal. You know, before you can truly worked to embody this stuff, how can you ever embody it if you don't first just understand what it is and how it works? Alright, so really with actualize that org my first and primary concern for the last eight years as I've been shooting this content has simply just been understanding what the hell is going on, and how to live a proper life. Just figuring that out alone has taken me like, over 10 years of never ending research and contemplation just to figure out what the right things to do are. Now, at this point in my life, I've kind of understood now I kind of know what all the right things to do are, but I haven't done them all. That'll take me another 10 or more years to start to do them. All. Right. So if you're sitting there thinking like well, but Leo doesn't behave this way. Well, that's right, because Leo is a finite thing. Leo is only 35 years old. Leo has another hopefully 40 years of life left to work all this stuff out. And, and Leo is not above you. Leo suffers and deals with all the same shit you do. See, maybe I'm a little further along a few years more developed the new but overall, I mean, whatever issues are preventing you from becoming completely godlike? Well, those are the same issues that prevent me from becoming completely godlike and prevent every other of the 8 billion people on this planet from doing the same thing. If it was easy as easy to do as just watching a few of Leo's videos. Then the whole world would be godlike, which obviously isn't the case. So obviously, it's very, very difficult to do, even if you know how to do it. Knowing how to do it is the easy part. But still, it's hard to get even to this point, it's hard to get. Most people will never just reach this level of understanding, conceptual understanding, but then to actually fully live in alignment with this is very, very difficult. In fact, I almost hesitate to, to feed this idea into your mind, because now you see, the problem is going to happen here is that now you're not going to be able to enjoy life, because you're going to have this idea in your mind, like, oh, I have to be godlike. And every single day, you're going to be realizing how on God like you are, and all the things I told you, and every single day, you're going to notice, oh, I'm judging someone there. And I'm bias here and all. I'm not conscious in this situation. It's like, Oh, I was an asshole in this situation. And then you're going to get so neurotic about this whole thing of being good. That actually, you're going to pervert the entire process, and you're going to get depressed by it. And then you're going to turn into a devil. Because you're going to be guilty over this. Your life is going to suck for the next five years, as you're struggling with all this, see what you do? I know because I've done it. I mean, it's very, very tricky. You have to be very careful about the way in which everything twists, inside out. Upside down. That's just the nature of the ego mind. It's always perverting everything. It's misunderstanding everything is taking everything the opposite way. It's approaching everything backwards. Well, yeah, that's why it's difficult to do. Again, if there weren't all these traps, everyone would have done it by now. There will be a lot of really, really good people out there in the world, very godlike people. And the fact is, they're just aren't. Because there's so many traps that they get lost in these traps. So there you go. The bottom line is that life is very simple, devote your whole life to actualizing goodness with a capital G. And then once you've made that commitment, then take the actions that goodness demands, see goodness demands certain difficult actions, that of course, we don't want to take. And that's why most of us are very good. Because we don't want to take those actions that goodness demands. Maybe goodness demands you quit your job. Maybe goodness demands you go back to school, maybe goodness demands you leave your boyfriend or girlfriend, maybe goodness demands that you go meditate in the woods for a month, maybe goodness demands that you give more money to charity, and you don't have very much money. Maybe goodness demands, you read more books, and you don't want to read books. Maybe goodness demands you stop smoking weed because it makes you chronically lazy and you don't want to do that. You're addicted to whatever. Well, do you want to grow or not? Do you want to self actualized? Or not? If you do, and this is what we're talking about here. And that's really all there is to life. You're either actualizing towards the highest goodness, you're becoming more godlike or you're not. And you're wasting time with distractions, and you're stimulating yourself in alternative ways, which are all going to be poor substitutes for the real deal. Let's see. All right, that's it. I'm done here. Please click that like button for me and come check out actualize that org is my website. On there, you will find the book list, you will find the life purpose course you will find my blog, you will find the forum and other material and exclusive content that I plan to be releasing in the future. So stay tuned for that. Make sure you check back with me because I will be releasing new courses and new resources and other things I have planned in the future. And you'll want to be staying aware of those things because they could really help you in your life. And the final thing I'll say is this. Remember that my teachings are really designed for enthusiast of this work. I go into unnecessary detail truly. And I cover topics that do you need to know all these topics? Not really. My work is designed for philosophers. Which means that these are people who love this material. These are lovers of wisdom in the literal sense of philosopher lovers of wisdom, so if you love wisdom, then that's what this work is for us for Michael on tennis is designed for that, so that you love the wisdom, you love the details, you can sort of really go deep and juicy with it. So just keep that in mind. For many of you, this level of depth and detail may not be necessary. It all very much depends on how much you want out of life, you know, you're gonna get out of life, what you invest into it. And if you just want a basic, successful life, then you probably find my material too long winded and too abstract and too philosophical. And you can find other teachings and teachers out there, they're a little bit more direct, and a little bit more practical than me. But if you actually enjoy contemplating how wisdom works, how everything interconnects together, the way that I do, that's what my love and passion is for, then this work is for you. And you'll, you'll be able to appreciate it. And then of course, certain fruits will come from, from going to this level of depth, you'll have a deeper understanding and appreciation of wisdom and life than you might otherwise have if you only took the more utilitarian approach. But hey, find whatever method works for you. That's one of the most important things I can imprint you with is that in this work, the point is not to follow Leo, the point is to find a path that works for you. And if I'm part of that path, great. I'll be part of that path. Until I no longer am. And one day I no longer will be part of your path. But also don't be too eager to leave me behind. Because there's a there's a lot still you haven't learned for me yet. See, just by watching a few videos, you think you've understood it all. But you haven't I can, I can promise you that. And there's a lot more that I'll be sharing with you in the future. It's not just a rehash of the same old material, we have a lot of practical topics to come. I know I spent the last year or two really hammering on the existential metaphysical and sort of abstract philosophical topics, very spiritual topics. But we're reaching a point now that I'm sort of exhausting, exhausting that for a while at least, I feel satisfied with the the level of content sort of the catalogue of content that I've built around the spiritual topics. And in the future going forward. I'll be talking more about just very practical topics, simple stuff, success based stuff, relationship stuff, more practical, psychological stuff that's not so spiritual. And I know you guys will love that stuff. So thanks for hanging in with me, and suffering through my overly metaphysical deliveries and so forth. And the practical stuff is coming