Rigel

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    That’s a hard balance to strike.
    Ultimately none of your stories matter. They are all false. Suffering doesn’t matter. Goals & dreams don’t matter. The way you feel also doesn’t matter. You could just grasp that no trying will ever work & drop all that shit right away. But I get the paradox. It seems like it’s sooo important. It feels like life & death I know.

    I think action always trumps the alternative but you  might not be able to stomach that much action right away. There’s nothing wrong with pulling away from what you are trying to do, gathering yourself & trying it again later(even tho “trying” will never solve your actual problem).

    Yoda had a point y’know

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    9 hours ago, SimpleGuy said:

    Thanks! But wouldn`t it aggravate my back pain?

    No it’s a basic human function that you evolved to perform often & you suffer precisely because you don’t do it(and a million other things).

    not doing it puts pressure on your back. You are always compensating for weak hips, knees & ankles if you can’t adopt that position.

    But again it’s most likely a messy combination of all the ways you hold your structure wrong that adds up to your pain so you gotta think more broadly than just squat too. 

    Really the solution here is consciousness. See how many ways there are to lift a cup to your lips as an exercise. Some of them are bio mechanically efficient & make sense. Some of them recruit 10x the amount of energy required or more. Now realize that that is your entire physical existence. The way you move every second of every moment matters.

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    2 hours ago, Someone here said:

    Well ..who's the victim here ? Social media is designed to keep you hooked and tied  to your fucking phone 24/7 . You keep scrolling shorts and you keep jumping from one thing to another mindlessly. It's really difficult to stop this .I call it addiction . What I'm proposing is that people back in the days had it easier regarding this side of the coin..that is ..that they didn't have YT or TikTok or PH or none of that ..so they can relax and unwind in the evening instead of partying with their online imaginary friends . Which is what makes people up all night.

    There’s no victim here unless you identify as such. You choose to numb yourself & stay up all night at the end of all your excuses. Does technology make it harder? Yes. So what? It’s still not causing it & it’s still a choice. 

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    Here’s a few other considerations:

    • Spend some time in a deep squat every day. Inability to open up your hips puts massive pressure on the back.
    • Check to see the state of your hip flexors. Do a split squat & feel if the hip area on the front side of your back leg is tight. If it is keep doing that movement in deeper ranges progressively.
    • No bio mechanical process in your body works in isolation. Low back pain doesn’t mean that the problem is in the low back area. It’s all one complex system. It could come from many places.

  9. Posted · Edited by Rigel

    On 2025-10-17 at 9:29 AM, SimpleGuy said:

    When I got this problem with my back, it was true. But now it`s not.

    How long has it been? Repairing the damage caused by most shoes that exist out there is a project of literal years.

    Edit: And it’s not like just changing footwear will solve anything without your conscious effort. It’s literal years of focus & attention on your structure. And it’s like sleep. Having functional feet is non-negotiable but insufficient. Weakness is not an option. 

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    5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    I prefer to keep things real.

    Never forget that humans will eat you alive given the right circumstance. Your compassion will mean nothing to them. They will tear you apart like a pack of dogs.

    I have no illusions about human nature.

    Humans are evil, ignorant creatures.

    It is not. The more god-like one behaves the more worshop one will get no matter what. Because humans worship God. This has nothing do with me.

    Why do humans like me? Because I communicate godly things. That's also why they hate me.

    I have been observing this in myself & others for years & I still don’t know how to deal with it. It makes me disgusted & disappointed in myself first of all & then the world. I don’t believe myself when I think that but I waste a lot of time & energy in this pattern. How do you make peace with that fact? My ego isn’t ok with the human condition being as it is. It whines all the time. Thank god I actually see it & don’t act all judgmental & critical around other people. I still suffer for it though.

  20. Posted

    6 hours ago, Zen LaCroix said:

    Good luck with that. It might take some time for people to get comfortable

    We've been watching you on youtube for years. You're at the cutting edge of your field not another random youtube prankster or fitness influencer either

    People are flying out and paying a good chunk of money and giving up their time to do this work but also to see you. They may want God-Realization but they're also coming for you. It's just the truth

    This is not some Vipassana retreat where Vipassana is the brand. You are the brand

    Leo will probably weed out the fangirls & the dumb worshipers. It’s very easy to determine who isn’t mature enough to trip. Leo can just say no go eat your bread crust & come back. I assume people are dumb but not enough to buy a plane ticket before being admitted into the retreat.

  23. Posted · Edited by Rigel

    They all work fine. You need your own mind, a way to record it & to access it back. They all do some version of that.

    People shit on me for liking Apple notes but I tried all of them & settled there lol. A-Notes also stores locally(& cloud) on top of exporting in .txt & .pdf if you want. Apple Pencil & convenience of the cloud options is the thing that makes it more worth it than obsidian for me. 

  24. Posted

    On 2025-09-17 at 9:37 AM, EternalForest said:

    He's a total scumbag BUT you can learn to be confident, motivated and charismatic from him. Take the good stuff, leave the bad. That's what I did.

    Yeah you can learn to coat your ego in fake confidence, motivation & charisma from the guy. Only an insecure, boyish male would act & talk the way he does.