Dedicated to world peace and freedom through universal self-realization | Teaching through the Leela
09/25/2025
If the sun exploded, we wouldn't know for seven minutes. Knowing that everyone dies, what *is* the point? To ignore the essential or examine it? It means taking stock—what one is willing to live (and die) for. Then comes freedom.
09/23/2025
Are we truly awake until we face life's essential truth? The world distracts us from the inevitable. Living as if death won't come, when really, we don't know what tomorrow holds. A reminder to live fully, now.
09/21/2025
Ever feel like chasing 'more, better, different' leaves you empty? It begins with a deep dissatisfaction, a moment of realizing that all you've tried hasn't brought lasting peace or happiness. When you truly see it, things can change. .
09/19/2025
What if showing up in service of love could end suffering? We all want the unnecessary suffering of life to end. Consumption is often just trying to get some pleasure back for the price we’ve paid chasing false desires. "We're here to end all of that."
Explore the profound human desire for purpose and alignment. We delve into the ego's role in serving something greater, and the importance of staying true to yourself to serve the Truth of life itself. Discover the path to fulfillment and gratitude.
09/17/2025
Is "more better and different" what you really want? Or is it something real, like freedom? The desire *for* freedom might *be* freedom. Just follow that desire back to its root.
09/15/2025
Is settling for "relatively happy" enough? Or are we all meant for a life of liberation, creativity, and peace? The very wanting of something *more* can be the obstacle—unless that wanting is for something truly real.
09/13/2025
What if embracing our darkest feelings could set us free? Instead of running, meet rage, despair, terror head-on. By experiencing it fully—"without moving"—we reclaim lost parts of ourselves. It's about becoming whole again.
09/11/2025
Feeling the weight of the world? It's a shared trauma, a call to end the unnecessary suffering. Imagine being the antidote—open, loving, and non-judgmental. "That's the least we can do" to heal ourselves and Mother Earth.
09/09/2025
Our video explores the core of human existence, delving into love and shared consciousness. We discuss the trap of immortality and the importance of turning away from obscurations to find truth.
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A life long search for freedom took Eli Jaxon-Bear around the world and into many spiritual traditions from a Zen monastery in Japan to a Sufi circle in Marrakesh, among others. His search ended when he was drawn to India (1990) where he met his final teacher, Sri H.W.L Poonja, lovingly known as Papaji; a direct disciple of the renowned Indian Sage Ramana Maharshi.
Confirming Eli’s realization, his teacher sent him back into the world to share his unique psychological insights into the nature of egoic suffering in support of self-realization.
Eli infuses his teaching with his teacher’s living transmission of silence and peace. He presents a unique map of egoic identification as a vehicle for ruthless self-inquiry and final realization of true freedom. His life is dedicated to passing on the transmission of his teacher.
Eli founded and currently teaches through The Leela Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to world peace and freedom through universal self-realization, as well as The Leela School.
Eli is the author of The Awakened Guide: A Manual for Leaders, Teachers, Coaches, Healers, and Helpers; An Outlaw Makes it Home: The Awakening of a Spiritual Revolutionary; Sudden Awakening: Stop Your Mind, Open Your Heart and Discover Your True Nature, (Hampton Roads); Fixation to Freedom: The Enneagram of Liberation and the third edition of the spiritual classic Wake Up and Roar: Satsang with
Papaji.