Life is a maze by Leo. Key points

[Preety_India]

 

Key points from the video life is a maze by Leo. 

You start life like a rat dropped in a maze. 

You have no idea of how the world works, how the mind works and what the traps and dangers are. 

You have been bombarded with programming from the school, culture, media and society 

You have been chasing cheese all your life. Convinced that all you need is cheese. 

It's a maze within a maze within a maze and it's profoundly misleading. 

When you go deeper into the maze you only end up getting more clueless than before. 

This maze is very deceptive. The maze is your own mind. There are all sorts of deceptions, illusions, self deceptions

 

But it is possible to master it and escape it. 

You created your own maze and nobody can solve it for you. Every rat's maze is different. 

You could be wasting decades in just one trap,like an abusive relationship. 

You can self inquiry to understand and explore these traps 

 

The problem is that most people don't do any serious research in life. They just stumble and bumble around. 

There is no strategy or intelligence about how they should go about doing research in life. 

What research means is that you should be devouring book, videos, workshops, Google, asking questions, philosophy, contemplation, forums, psychedelics etc. These are the forms of doing research. 

Everything you learned in schools or universities does not count as research. 

Research is something you do for decades. 

You haven't asked any high quality questions about life. 

You can Google a lot. But you should know how to separate the wheat from the chaff. 

But don't be a freak. 

You need the right videos the right courses and the right books

 

But the problem is that most people are looking for a technique or a cookie cutter solution and that's not gonna work 

Most people don't do a hero's journey in their life and those who do are taken down. 

Most rats are just following one rat that existed years ago and they don't realize that the maze has completely changed since then. 

It's super important that you study hundreds of diverse perspectives. 

It's important because nobody provides you with the full perspective. Everyone will give you a partial perspective. At best you will get a partial truth. 

The other rat cannot anticipate all. Of your traps because you are different than him. 

Read good hardcore spirituality and psychology books cover to cover. 

 

Radical open mindedness is absolutely central to do this research. 

 

You need to have intention and focus to escape the maze. 

You need to have a strong work ethic and discipline to escape the maze. 

One thing. You can't keep all this information in your mind. impossible. You need to keep a commonplace book to keep all of it stored for reference. Organize it all. 

This is not a quick fix solution so you need a vision and patience to be in this life research project. 

Your entire life's work is escaping this maze. 

It's not going to be all sugary like a video game that rewards you because you won't have many rewards but it's a serious fun. It is something that keeps you happy in a way. 

It takes time and momentum to build it up. It takes a decade of work. 

Most people can't build the momentum 

Practicing awareness will help escaping this maze. However don't make the mistake of thinking that meditation and awareness alone will solve or escape the maze. 

You also need heart, love and intuition.

The more you figure out the maze the more astounded you become at how amazing it is. 

You need to be a good strategist to make it all work. 

Research is not just googling. You will also need to take action. You baby step your way further  up and up the maze until you are all the way  out.

You need your job too cause you need some cheese before you get your way out 

As long as you have the intent the solutions will present themselves to you. 

You are inside your own maze.

You really created this maze on your own for your own amusement. 

 

An immature amusement is all sugar and positivity 

A more mature form of amusement will not only have joy but also pain and suffering. In fact the suffering is there to motivate you to be even more serious to escape the maze. In fact the suffering is also to show you that having the cheese is still not same as escaping the maze and therefor you aren't happy despite having the cheese. 

There is hope and you can work through it. 

Don't give up. 

Leo talks about some awareness practices that wil help you. Could someone list these methods to raise the current state of Awareness. 

Thanks. 

 

 

[Ayilton]

Thanks for the summary  ! I feel like I don't need to watch the video anymore ...?

[SoonHei]

@Preety_India kaash aap hamko real life mein dikhti... aur jaise Rupert Spira sahib kehtay hain... mein aapki beauty ko dekh kar fully us moment mein gum ho jata aur enlightenment paa leta...  

 

Jokes aside, nice post  thank you.

[Nevon]

Thanks for the summary