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    The Single Greatest Obstacle To Liberation (w/Tobias Ricardo)

    • calendar_today November 15th, 2026

    What’s actually in the way of liberation? According to Tobias, it’s the one looking for it. We get into why no speaker can hand you a path, why pain turns into “my pain,” and why “this is it already” is the last thing a seeker wants to hear. 😉⁠

    Check out his YouTube channel, The Unknowable This!

    Timecodes and topics:

    0:00 Welcome back, Tobias
    0:44 The belief that one day “me” won’t be here
    4:09 When the speakers stopped talking about a destination
    6:03 What to say to someone who feels so much like a me
    10:02 Hitting the brick wall and the end-stage seeker’s last tricks
    12:14 Terror at the bedroom window
    14:32 Awareness teachings, asymptotes and celebrity seekers
    18:11 Was the seeking a necessary preparatory step?
    23:17 Why no speaker can give you a path to liberation
    27:44 An energetic dance, not an explanation
    30:23 Pain vs suffering: when people own their story
    35:29 Unworthiness and the energetic death
    36:36 You can’t explain an illusion: mirages and the Uber me
    40:54 Fifteen years as a monk and the regrets that never happened
    42:12 “Nothing is happening” and the bathtub plug
    46:13 Iron filings and the magnet of personal energy
    49:01 The death of the questioner (pneumonia, Neptune and just this)
    52:38 Parenting without ownership, and how fighting creates the opponent
    55:47 Nobody wants “this is it already”: game over, everything continues
    57:44 Wrapping up and how to find Tobias

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