Hello from Russia

Yeah it's very different here, ur right. Not flabby and sick, though, I guess, cause we don't have as good social support/unempleloyment as you guys, hence everyone s kinda have to get a job and can't just coast by for years on said welfare. But other than that, we are much more liberal and pro-freedom like you guys in EU. We embody western values, pretty much, at least in metropoly areas. In places like Norilsk, I guess even youngsters are still as conservative as beans

We might have indeed more stress/anxiety than precious generations, despite living in a materially richer world Now is a very new time to live life, you have to adapt to many very recent technological breakthroughs and it has always been stressful Also all this new media is making us anxious as fuck. They say we have record numbers of depression, etc, I'm sure it contributes to it a great ton among many other reasons

It is both

Retreats, vegan events, garbage disposals (recycling)

Sit at this cafe and contemplate as you feel this I recently did this in Mcdonalds, good stuff, nice insights Contemplating while directly experiencing a thing can be much more juicy and powerful

I feel like Leo could indeed multipost and cross platform breed himself, especially given he hires employees now to help him with that It is just a platform, it has more and less consciousness videos. There are videos of people teaching meditation, yoga and other good stuff like this I used it recently to check out how retreat yoga chicks look like and it gave me very pleasant search results Can't watch any other hashtag here despite meditation & yoga though

@Preety_India I love bit fatter girls. What's the point of there is no meat and just bones?

Pick up coach

I wish Curt took a better thumbnail picture, Leo has a scared/stressed out look on this one

Just having a better truck/car? Lol

Hey man, nice post! All due respect, but I feel like this strategy is "thinking way too small". IMO, getting to $1m in 20 years is kinda peanuts, not mentioning opportunity costs of living frugal life (you'll eat worse diet, live in less eco-friendly environments, you'll wear chemically toxic poor quality clothing, will damage your feet through poor shoes, get other many chronic diseases, etc) - this is impossible to escape on a low budget It looks like a much more stable and fun strategy is to invest in yourself, not funds, train yourself/learn stuff immensely and get money through creating good shit for the world The strategy you outlined have merits too, though, just probably not for everyone (imo)

Can you expand on that a little bit? In your videos you're very often demonizing the notion of manipulation, telling almost that any manipulation is bad by default and you'll get "punished" eventually by manipulating through karmic dynamics. Or at least it feels this way. Do you mean mostly "bad" kind of manipulations are bad in these talks? Cause otherwise that basically implies that to simply to live - is automatically to be "bad' (The devil) and there is no escaping it. Especially life purpose type of stuff seems very confusing because in any powerful enough life purpose, you're pretty much obligated to manipulate the hell of a damn everything around you, though you might be doing all that with good intentions and a lot of love in your heart

We are ourselves the biggest sluts and whores

Yeah, fuck this! I overlooked this point a lot, despite me reading all these self-help and businesy books. I guess conventional Buddhists brainwashed my ass

You're already improving, man. I am currently only 2-3 hours in This introduction of your was really good and on point. It sets the frame really well for these sciency people. Kinda showing them that you too CAN into rationality and that you understand their worldview and their objections deeply Also, this background with tons of books is a very smart move too. It is appealing as fuck for our societal image of how a top notch philosopher is supposed to look like. Much better than palm leaves in a "Charisma" channel interview (no disrespect to palms, I love them)

Thank you for answering! Makes me think that intention and desire is really a key for creating anything in life, be it awakening in yourself or some artsy billion-dollar business. If you are not biased towards these things consciously/unconscioussly, you're very unlikely to achieve it. Well, maybe by some fluke luck

Would you say then that this fundamental premise (About suffering) of Buddhism is BS for our practical spiritual purposes and basically it probably just exists as a sort of bait to lure normies into the Buddhism? I mean, I guess it's nice to suffer less, but less suffering won't directly help you with Truth, right?

In my experience, they kinda want you to, yeah. But it's less about being a delusional idiot but more like being able to "have your shit together" in any situation, especially in situations when she is involved. The reason why confidence is so attractive to women is because they want their men to be a good leader. If you turn into a pussy-cat shortly after you've successfully "gamed" her, that will be a huge turn-off and she might start to lose interest in you I found to a good metric judge all this stuff. Would she trust & be confident about having kids with you? If yes - you're doing good in that regard. No? - something to think about Doesn't matter if you both want kids or not, it's about a certain level of trust in each other. What turns women on/what they truly want deep inside is to have a genuine ability to trust their man, because then they can let go and be a full-blown feminine woman

Good shit, guys, good shit

Sounds like you need to satisfy your inner horny dog as part of your LP path

Try a big quantity of as much quality content as makes sense, I guess? The thing is, quality content might go viral if you present it to the right audience and you can get explosive growth even with relatively small amount of videos

Astrology is legit

I was watching Sadhguru the other day and one student asked him: "How come we are so spiritually developed, yet we are so poor?". To which he replied and said, among other things, that only a few centuries prior, India was #1 wealthy country in the world and we were hyperdeveloped in all possible domains and that they were pretty much always a rich country That made me want to dig on this and sort of "fact check" Sadghuru. And he was actually right, India INDEED was the richest country a few centuries ago and many years centuries prior to that Then I found various statistics and it turns out that China and India were pretty much always #1-2 economies in the World and they were basically competing only with each other for #1 title. Even Roman Empire's economy was 2-3 times less as big. The only times where Indian's/China's economies sapped from #1-2 rank is when they got heavily oppressed by other countries (British Raj) or had huge civil wars (as in Communist Party/China's Republic war in 1927-1949). But even then, they were still developing at a steady pace and then quickly caught up I found a great video illustration of countries GDP in 1-2020 years (AD) and I found it super fascinating: That all makes me wonder how eastern mysticism and philosophy, directly and indirectly, influenced this situation and could it be the proof that it is in many ways superior to the western one. Of course, resources and environment all play a key role too, but we cannot deny that where it comes to intellect, Asian people on average tend to be superior and it shows especially well in Intellectual types of sports (like an emerging Cybersports, for example), where your physical shape & physical genetics play the last role and what actually matters is purely the power of your mind Would love to get your thoughts on this topic, guys, I feel like it is all super fascinating and worthwhile to study/think/contemplate about!

Well done, brother!