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Do you guys have a specific diet when doing Kriya? Obviously eating junk food would affect the practice results, but what about meat?

@Leo Gura Actually, watching you grow in the last 6-7 years was very informative to me. I remember all the points you mentioned because you've documented them in your videos and it's really amazing if you think about it. So from a very young age, I was watching a dude who went through all that, and even though I didn't know that what you were describing in your videos was true, I intuited that it was worthwhile to listen to you. And it opened up a whole world for me because I was reading and cross-referencing insights I heard from you and other teachers in spiritual books, and before I heard it from you, I was trying to satisfy my craving for understanding reality with academic psychology books which I couldn't really understand. Also, for the last 2 years, I started teaching. Not the metaphysical stuff like you, but technical, like web development. But I did that from a kinda 2 tier, non-ideological, holistic approach, and my students loved it. They couldn't pinpoint what exactly was different in my style of teaching, but I knew that what they liked was my detachment from specific ideological stances, multi-perspectival teaching approach, and a wholistic big-picture understanding of the things I thought. And you were one of the people who taught me the value of that from a very early age. So thanks for that. I'll continue building my infrastructure, discipline, and health, and having small daily spiritual practices. And hopefully, all the metaphysical stuff that you talk about will become relevant in the years to come because at the moment I just lack sufficient foundation, but hey, one step at a time.

@Leo Gura Thanks for the advice, I appreciate it. When was that moment for you? During your first enlightenment experience on the retreat? When did it hit you that this is what your life should be about? And I don't mean just philosophy and questioning you did in your youth. I mean, the proper Spiritual path that you began. Was it before Actualized or after?

@Leo Gura And it causes suffering when you don't live up to it? At the moment I'm viewing my life as a process of setting up an infrastructure that will allow me to do more and more spiritual work. That includes satisfying my cravings, building solid skills & career, buying a small house to reduce my expenses to not have to pay the rent indefinitely, etc. Having relationships and social life kinda handled and stuff like that. But in my mind, I do all that because I'm leading my life to have a lifestyle that allows solitude, full-time contemplative days, psychedelics, more practices, and stuff like that. But the thing is, I haven't had any direct experiences of the things you talk about, or other spiritual folks talk about. But I kinda intuit that that's what life is about, understanding (philosophy) and embodiment. But still, that's a bit of brainwashing (in a good way I guess) that I got from you and other people like you, but I think it leads to a good place, and since I'm 27 years old, I still have (hopefully) some time to figure all that out myself. Did you also view your life and daily routines and habits and all that as a ladder to higher and higher realizations when you were my age?

@Leo Gura How is your daily life changed after realizing all that? I mean, you still have to do business, some family stuff, some socialization, some chores, bills, and stuff. But you know all the things you listed there, so how does that wisdom affect your daily life and goals? How is your life now, for example when you wake up in the morning to start your day and in the back of your mind you have those realizations vs in the past when you didn't have all that?

Hey, I just found out that there are people who only eat fruit and nothing else. There is also a YouTube channel from that type of guy: https://www.youtube.com/@TheFreeMelonSociety What do you guys think of this? How healthy is it? Maybe it's worth trying in case of some autoimmune diseases. But I worry about a lack of protein intake and too much sugar. This just doesn't seem natural.

A great TED talk about that

@todefe Cheat days or cheat meals?

@Leo Gura What do you think about doing shamanic breathing every week for like 45-60 minutes? Do you still think that it's useful? And in what way is it useful? I've done it like 6-7 times, but I'm thinking about how it will affect me if I do this for a whole year.

@Leo Gura Are you still gonna release the practical course you've been referring to for the last 1-2 years?

@Leo Gura Why? As an experiment? Do you get an urge to do that during a breakthrough because it doesn't matter?

@jedimasters Is there any specific reason for why you are on that diet currently? I want to try something similar this year, to test how it affects my autoimmune condition.

@Butters Do you make designs yourself? And how much do you earn my doing that?

@Leo Gura Did you maintain that after you started eating? I lost 22 pounds in 5 days on water fast. But it quickly came back once I started eating food. And it was not junky food.

@Eyowey Why? ? Won't that make it taste bad? @Roy What about weight training? I read in the book called "Burn the fat, feed the muscle" that if you want more fat burn you should prioritize weight lifting. But I'm not sure if I agree with that or not. As the author wrote, ideally you should do both, but weight lifting is more important.

@Roy How much? 30 minutes?

@Asayake Thanks for your detailed explanation. Right now I'm trying to lose 45 pounds. I've read in multiple books that reducing my carb intake to 50-100 grams a day will help me with that because I won't generate as much insulin and fat storage will be emptied easier. I am also trying to not eat more than 1800 calories a day (I'm a 27 years old male, 180cm in height, so maintenance calories are like 2600, and I'm doing a deficit). I plan to do that for 3 months. But 50-100 carbs are a bit harder to sustain, and on most days I eat 100-150g carbs. Do you think that after I lose this weight and I get back to the maintenance calories, the chances of me getting that weight back on become higher?

@Asayake Strange. I thought eating above your maintenance level would cause weight gain. So if you eat like 4000 calories of fruits, you don't gain any weight? How come?

@UDT Yes, I also intuit that a more balanced diet is healthier if you don't have any intolerances. I think the benefit of these kinds of diets is, if you have any autoimmune disease or something that doctors can't treat, maybe you can try just eating only fruits for 3 months, and see what happens. In the long term, yes I would agree that a diet with balanced macronutrients seems more reasonable.

@Asayake Why? From your experience? Maybe 90/5/5 is doing some damage that will show itself in the future. I'm not sure either, but it doesn't seem natural to only eat fruits.

@Michael569 Yeah I agree. And what do you think of eating only fruits in general? Even if you don't have any autoimmune conditions, do you think that eating only fruits can give you all the micro and macronutrients that the body needs? I mean, how are those people on the above YouTube channel healthy? As I know, protein is like a building block for our bodies, not only for the muscle tissues but for all the other things as well. Also, as I know, some fats are necessary, like essential fats that our bodies need to absorb vitamins better. And also from the evolutionary perspective, people ate a more balanced diet, not only one category of food. Protein, carbohydrates, and fat were balanced. Doesn't only eating fruits disrupt that balance? (in case you don't have any special condition and can eat other things as well)

@Jannes I have an autoimmune condition called psoriasis, and I wanted to test if an all-fruit diet would make any difference. But I'm kinda afraid that I'll be lacking essential nutrients that I get from other food, like proteins and fats.

Hey guys, Because of inconsistency, last year I haven't really benefited from my meditations, I was skipping too many days. As the new year resolution I'm commited to stick to my habit no matter what. But I experience feet numbness after like 20 minutes, basically I can't feel my legs any more. I freaked out and stopped at 25-30 minute mark, even though I was going for 60 minutes. I kinda know that it's common and not really something to be concerned about, but still, do you guys experience that as well? And does the condition improve after lots of practice?

@IDressMyDog Yeah I sit crossed legged. I use meditation cushion for a bit of an elevation.

I am a software developer, and my manager told me to figure out how to do Web AR (Augmented Reality). Instead of Googling my way toward the solution, I started asking questions to ChatGPT. I figured everything out in a couple of minutes, including how to write an actual specific solution that we needed. So, this just made my work way faster. I have it opened as a separate tab all day because it helps me with many things. Like for example automating some boring development work, or documenting my code better. I see the future as having AI assistants in all human fields. I'm also teaching front-end development, and I tried and the assignments that I give to students, basically all of them can be written with ChatGPT. So the entire education system must be overviewed. The concept of homework might not make sense anymore in the near future. Or we will be needing a much better way of assessing people's work. My little sister started cheating and she makes ChatGPT write her English essays for school homework, lol.