Leo Gura

I'm not sure how to answer that. That's a strange juxtaposition.

It may for some, but it won't work for most. Modern life is too busy for that to work.

For meditation you are better off doing retreats than daily practice. Meditation is too weak.

How do porcupines mate? Very carefully.

It permanently quiets the monkey mind. But very subtly, very slowly. It raise baseline consciousness, but very subtly, very slowly.

That is tough. You have to somehow convince yourself it is the most important thing in the world. What will convince you of that, I don't know. A major Awakening to God would help. Via a psychedelic. That's what convinces me the most.

Death has never been demonstrated. Scientists do believe in death. Improperly defining death is half the problem. You have zero scientific evidence that Charlie Kirk is not alive in heaven with God.

Christmas is gone.

It depends how deep you want the understanding to be. You can't understand that the point of all politics is Love unless you realize that Love is what drives all conscious beings. How you gonna realize that without some meditation? Most people are happy with shallow explanations, for which meditation is not needed.

Obviously you can still do good narrow intellectual work, like writing a biography of Hitler, but as far as sense-making of reality as a whole, that will fail.

I updated the blog post to add a few alternative docs, but they are not the same. Use a VPN.

Hot yoga

It's not conformity, it is done because 80% of people never watch more than 30% of a video. Chasing after subs count is conformity though.

It is a profound mistake to want things to be easy.

Haha, yes. But also rewarding. If it was easy it wouldn't mean anything. Climbing mount Everest means nothing if you can just helicopter to the top.