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yea- hard to manage that. May help to schedule in naps or sleep in more throughout the week if you can afford it. Do you work a 9-5 job?

The Andrew Tate affect:

haters gonna hate.

Ralston differs from a traditional Buddhist in that instead of silencing your mind, he wants you to become conscious of what it’s doing and why it’s doing what it’s doing. He’s like a mad scientist of Consciousness in this way. The idea that emotions happen to us and that we have no involvement of how interpret, process and act on emotion is deemed as a conceptual activity of the mind that reinforces your conceptual sense of self. When he says stop thinking, he really means stop interpreting your thoughts and emotions in ways that give them power over what’s actually the case, which is that they are fabrications of the Mind and ego meant to distract you from the Truth

This forum is one of the few places where we engage in controversial topics like truth and survival. Most online and public forums would shut this stuff down a long time ago-way too threatening. I’m seeing a trend of discussions getting more and more serious in the subject of Truth, which is good.

+1 what “rational” human would? These teachings are liable to get the teacher killed in certain places. Did Jesus make a career off of spreading Truth? Not even close, they crucified him instead. This is the reality of human survival.

Lol

Money exists as a tool for survival. Humans are survival zombies so money (or any other form of currency) holds tremendous value for humans across multiple cultures. Why do you even want to be happy in the first place? Our notions of happiness are culturally programmed for the most part (ie. avoidance of pain, pursuit of pleasure). Society is already starting to see the limits of culturally programmed definitions of happiness.

@Leo Gura thanks for not charging money for your content - YouTube / blog. It’s already hard enough for common folk to see the value in the teachings, just imagine if they had to pay for it It would be like paying money to get slapped across the face with a plank of wood- extremely inconvenient. Money can’t buy a human’s desire for Truth

In 2025, i'm less dependent on validation from socializing- much of that is a result of this work. But I do need to be careful not isolate, deep understanding of the structure of reality can make you retreat into your own Mind-there are profound tradeoffs as it relates to human relationships. I am also an extrovert (ENFP on Myers Briggs to be exact), so I admit I get energy from socializing and relating to humans. Bringing that in balance with time with God is challenging, but a worthy endeavor. I'm also auditing my career path, getting it more aligned with my value system in 2026

love me some hot yoga Consumerism culture in America

I clearly explained it in my post. Read past the first sentence

Bit of a strawman of the post. The ontology of an intellectual matters. Not only that, but a philosopher who hasn't had insight into the nature and structure of reality through meditative practice has a flawed metaphysics. It's critical one has a proper metaphysics to do serious intellectual work. I also wouldn't categorize Tim Snyder as a philosopher- he is a political historian, similar to Stephen Kotkin, they are doing good work, but not focused on philosophical questions of metaphysics at all. John Vervaeke would be a good model of a serious intellectual that Leo is talking about.

Early 2000s- hip hop cultures obsession with oversized white T shirts in rap videos:

Working hard aint so bad when it's going towards building a powerful life. Put hours into things that will pay dividends for years to come .. you got this: