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Seeing reality, i.e. being enlightened, has absolutely nothing to do with having every virtue in the world. Many enlightened people did terrible stuff to others. Leo is arrogant. But so is everyone else that puts himself in a position of authority. You can't have the good without having the bad. Display of one virtue is usually accompanied by the display of a vice.

@Leo Gura If they banned you, it would be kind of a dick move. Great video by the way. I had the survival insight during my last LSD trip. It was on the same day the "Understanding the conservative mind" video came out.

I have lived and seen with my own eyes many of the things from Actulized.org teachings. Some things I have experienced before meeting the channel. I had a pathological stance about my own intelligence and knowledge that would make me constantly keep thinking that I was dumb, that I couldn't trust myself or anything that I knew, and that nothing was obvious. This stance actually led me to many realizations, and I believe is actually one of the keys to a deeper understanding of things. Besides, being called dumb by a guy that has this puffed chest approach, actually ignites many egocentric people to "prove him wrong". One in one thousand of those will eventually awaken by these seeds of knowledge being planted. Whenever I listened to Leo, and have never heard what he was talking about, I just ignored the free insults and paid close attention to the concepts. His, or anyone else's, including myself, opinion about my intelligence has no bearing on what I learn or not. I was there for philosophy, got what I wanted, applied what made sense to me, worked on the inferences, and arguments myself, tried to refute them, and gained knowledge this way. If you want approval from Leo, seek to be praised by an authority that you projected onto him, or wish for a delivery that shows respect to you, I would say you should work on your self-confidence and epistemology. Leo is just a channel for knowledge, and your worth is not measured by the opinion of a guy that speaks to a camera on the internet. Wanting some kind of specific treatment from him seems to me as getting mad at a TV because it's not calling you Mr.

What if I enjoy being slapped?

Who is labeling emotions as higher or lower? Feeling shame or fear can be painful, by would that necessarily lead you to suffer? The first step to stop running away is to recognize the implicit boundary between where you are (not necessarily physically, but mentally and spiritually), and where you want to be. If you do any practice to cease suffering, that itself is suffering, as you create more pain for not being where you want to be. That's why "do nothing" meditation is so powerful. It is practicing surrender to the present moment thoroughly, reducing distraction to nothing, or close to it. Not indulging pleasant sensations, not repelling unpleasant ones. Observe without bias what crosses your awareness and expand it so more and more of reality can fill it. Remember that the underlying feeling beneath "trying to reach a higher state of consciousness" is inadequacy. "Trying to reach a higher state" is saying "I am in a low state and can only attempt to reach a higher one". That itself is a presupposition imposed on your consciousness that you probably only assessed superficially. Have you completely explored your consciousness to the point where you can unequivocally affirm that it is shallow? I would safely bet that is those set of not questioned assumptions that lead you to an interpretation of your mental state as necessarily fooling you. It may be, but only careful analysis of your biases will show whether or not this is fact or fiction. Your frustration regarding your ignorance of self-deception comes from not observing yourself without preconceptions. You shouldn't assume deception or reality. You should observe and define it as such after consideration. Difficult task to do, but that's why you need the hours in introspection.

Many women do prostitution because of psychological manipulation and poverty. It's harder to find this in places where morality and good social and economical factors are better developed. Hence he moved to Romania. It's predation, not mutual interest.

@Leo Gura I don't know how to contact you otherwise, but can you tell me where do you get those beautiful scarves you've been wearing on your recent videos?

Can someone, or even Leo himself, tell me where this distinct gentleman acquires such stunning attires? This is of utmost relevance to my self-actualization.