Leo Gura

I read comments under my YT videos every week of people saying how much the work has changed their lives, even saved them from depression and suicide. If you are not seeing benefit from the work that means you aren't actually doing it, you are misunderstanding what the work is, you are probably lost in concepts. There are thousands of insights in this work and you haven't gotten any of them? You are just reading words and having ideas. Yes, that alone is pointless. But that isn't even to begin the work. Yes, it is very hard to experience the stuff Ralston talks about. It requires serious hardcore meditative practice. There is no easy way to understand deep metaphysical truths. The only way is either psychedelics or week-long meditation retreats. If you are not doing that you will not understand God. I think you are underestimating the seriousness of this work. Did you really think you would transcend death with such meek effort? We are talking about insanely difficult things here. What is it you want me to do? Stop doing my work because you are too lazy to do a 2-week meditation retreat? This work is very, very, very advanced. It requires the drive of a bull to succeed in it. After you complete 10 two-week meditation retreats, then you may complain about it not working. But until then you just haven't even begun the serious work. The problem is, people today have no work ethic. They expect Awakening to be like watching Netflix and quit as soon as the work gets rolling. Zen monks meditate for years and still don't reach these insights.

People are deeply unconscious if what belief is. A belief has nothing to do with death. You believe the Earth is round. You believe Saturn exists. You believe Antarctica is a real place. That's what belief is. A belief is just an idea of what you think is real. For example, you believe Satan is real or you believe Satan is not real.

Objectively it's hard to do more damage that Bush did with Iraq. But Trump is more corrosive to domestic politics.

Lol

It's an interesting question whether than decorum was net positive or negative. There is something good about removing the mask, uglier though it is. There is a perverse kind of authenticity to the devilry of today's Republicans. The pretense of goodness is gone. It's just bald-faced devilry now.

Of course he did. They all fucking do that. They don't even know the difference between truth-seeking and beliefs. No. He was never pursuing truth. He never cared about truth and he never did inquiry. Believing human stories is not inquiry. No, because if one cared about truth one would do inquiry. Sure, if you put it like that. Lack of consciousness explains all human nonsense. - - - - - - When I say caring about truth, I mean a very specific inquiring attitude of mind. I do not mean believing that one's worldview is true. Holding a worldview is NOT caring about truth. Caring about truth means that you discard all worldviews and question reality from scratch. If you are unwilling to do that, you do not care about truth, you are full of shit.

All of that is answered in the video: An Intro To Serious Philosophy. If you follow that advice you will become a great philosopher. If you don't, you won't.

The right has always been crazy. Lol. Because they never care about truth.

Oh, that's super clear. I found the precise answer: The only way to break feel of illusion is to care about truth. The key insight is this: no one cares about truth. Which is why you cannot help them. There cannot be a cure for not caring about truth. You will notice no ideological person cares about truth. If you want to save them you have to get them to realize that truth is the highest value in the world and that nothing they call truth is the same as caring about truth.

It's all explained in the How To Get Laid series. That's how you find a girlfriend.

I'm sure I don't want oligarchs to endure.

Nope. You snooze you lose Don't worry about it. It wasn't the best content.

He does that because he himself is confused. He knows God is real, but he doesn't know how to rationally square it with science and religion. So he's put himself into an impossible situation.

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What the hell is wrong with you?

Ralston is not above criticism. But you guys are not even in the same ballpark as him to be criticizing. You are like baboons criticizing Einstein. Ralston is one of wisest people on this planet. Less criticizing and more trying to understand him. To waste your time criticizing such a man is beyond foolish.

This fucking guy

@Breakingthewall Questioning is good, but you are out of line.

The quote is perfect. You just need to reach the point where you get it. When you finally understand, there is nothing to defend.

@Breakingthewall Dude, you are asking for things to be put into words that cannot be put into words.

@OMG Any attempt at success has a pretty high failure rate in life. What is it you expect? Everyone who takes the LP course to succeed? Of course that will not happen. Do you know how many projects/careers I've attempted in life and failed at? A LOT. That's how this stuff works. And what does any of this have to do with moral progress? If you have personal gripes with me, that's fine, but don't conflate it with questions about reality and history. Also note that I have never claimed to be free of corruption. I am corrupt in some ways. When I speak of corruption it is not to virtue signal to you but because this is a topic I am deeply interested in researching. I share my research with you.

You are making this into some kind of personal thing about me when it is clear that all of political history contradicts your view. Rather than psycho-analzying me, spend more time reading history.

Yeah, the first 5 episodes were tough to stomach. But I got into it after that. It's not so much enjoyable as a study in corrupt psychology. More like a documentary.

I don't mean to tell you how to think, but I do not believe this is true. You are expecting too much from government. It can only do so much. Government cannot be an effective solution to broken and dysfunctional families. Government tries to help, but if you are born into a broken/dysfunctional family that is not an evil system designed to create people like you. It's just the brutal nature of life and survival. No human-invented system can compensate for a broken family. In the end, there is no system responsible for anyone's well-being. That's not corruption, that's life. There is no system to save the birds from the snowstorm. Are there systems of human exploitation? Of course. But child services is not one of them. I'm speaking in general. There is much evil in the world, most of it we do not even know. But you're not the only one I communicate with. I have to be careful what I say because lots of people are listening and might misuse it, even if you are good. If by motive you mean survival, of course that motive doesn't change. But nevertheless humanity is much less corrupt than it was in the past. You're not appreciating just how corrupt humanity used to be, and still is in 3rd world nations like Russia, China, Middle East. If you live in America you don't even understand what corruption is. You've barely experienced it. True corruption is when someone rapes your daughter, you go to the police, and the police rape you and tell you to shut up or they will kill your family. This degree of corruption simply doesn't exist in Western democracies. If you had experience with this level of corruption you would appreciate how developed America is. It's hard for you to appreciate this because you've had a difficult life even in a developed nation. Of course bad stuff happens even in the best places. I'm sorry that you got a bad deal in a relatively developed place. That does nothing to reduce your pain. But the really ugly truth is that there are much much worse places than America. As far as global corruption goes, America is more like paradise than hell. That's thanks to development and moral progress. Which is why so may desperate migrants dream of coming to America. I am sorry about your difficult situation, but I propose that it is clouding your view of reality.