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@Leo Gura Have you played much Minecraft? If so do you enjoy it? I absolutely love how open-ended Minecraft is and all the creative potential it has. A few years ago I made this survival world that I put a ton of time into. I started by getting all the best things in the game until there was pretty much nothing left to do but build. I decided to just stick with that world and keep building more and more and see how far I could take it. I made this huge castle and this massive hidden underground base beneath it. I did so much in that world and enjoyed it so much that it no longer felt like I was playing a video game, but like I was doing art. I've never felt such passion and love while playing a video game. I loved the creative aspect of it so much and being able to build everything and set everything up exactly how I wanted to, and and it was so much fun doing it in survival where you have to gather the resources from scratch. I ended up using that world as an example for that exercise in the life purpose course where you review times in your life where you have been really passionate. I gained a lot of insight into the specific way I enjoy being creative and it helped me pinpoint my zone of genius. I'm wondering if you like Minecraft a lot too because I know how creatively inclined you are

Take it as a compliment to the quality of your work??? Why don't the podcast episodes get released at the same time as the YouTube videos? Do you choose to upload them later or is there some kind of delay when you upload the podcasts?

If you feel like you could get past these instant gratification activities completely then of course that's ideal, but I feel like for someone in your situation just overcoming smoking would be easier for you. Does it feel realistic for you to give up that lifestyle completely and remove that crutch with all the emotional issues you have? I would try and separate smoking from everything else in your mind. Cigarettes are much worse for your health than porn or video games. I let myself do those things but I would never touch a cigarette, so I wouldn't put them in the same category. What if you tried to quit smoking, and then you start to feel really shitty and you crave a cig, and so you say to yourself that you can play video games and watch porn or whatever, but you're not going to smoke, because you have an issue with that and you know that you can't let yourself do that? It's up to you what you feel like would work best for you but personally I feel like you have to separate smoking from all those other kinds of activities, because then you'd be able to use them as a crutch as you try to quit smoking without being tempted to smoke just because you're watching porn or whatever. Otherwise you're just going to have to take on some kind of more disciplined approach where you cut off all of these pleasures, and that's definitely a harder approach, especially considering that it sounds like you've already been struggling with quitting.

The root cause of addiction lies within your emotional issues, in the sense that the pain you have stored within you makes you more desperate for an escape and for a hit of pleasure, so the real solution to this problem would be solving those issues, but of course that can be difficult and take time. For now, the fact that you said you've been able to quit for up to a week or two is good. I would recommend for you to come up with a habit that you can replace the smoking with to help minimize your temptation to go back to it, something that replaces the pleasure you get from smoking to some extent, such as maybe watching TV or playing a video game, but is healthier than smoking. Replacing the habit is much easier than just dropping it completely. Of course you still might not want to be doing those things long term, but at least those things are healthier than smoking, and it would be easier to quit those things than it would be for smoking. You can let yourself have those escapes until you get your mental health issues resolved because you're always going to need some sort of escape when you have a lot of emotional pain. It's unrealistic to expect yourself not to.

@Leo Gura I had the same question as I know very little about politics. I'll make sure to watch that series at some point. Do you have any recommendations as to what things I should research and learn about within politics alongside that series? I've started to learn about the political ideologies a bit but I really don't know much more than that. I also want to study government and law as well because I don't know much about how that works either, what's important for me to learn about within that?

I haven't listened to a whole lot of Kanye but I liked his older stuff when I was younger. Songs like homecoming, all falls down, touch the sky, those are classics. Now his music is just kind of weird and I'm not into it. New Kanye:

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Just as a side note, I’m curious, do you enjoy horror movies/games?

This hits so deep. Amazing.

@ThePoint no problem

Yes, but you still need to find a solution to whatever your health problems are rather than just trying to love yourself. It's just that whatever solution that may be is a form of love. Sometimes the solution is more obvious and intuitive, such as if you eat a lot of junk food and you are fat and your body is in poor shape, if you focused on loving yourself and body, it would be natural to move in the direction of eating healthier and taking better care of your body. If you had an emotional issue or maybe some physical issue that is rooted in some unresolved trauma or imbalance in your psyche, you will need to learn how to resolve that and find techniques to deal with that, but the point of what Leo is saying in that video is that the techniques that you would use to heal yourself (assuming they are high quality techniques that work) are just a way of giving yourself the love you need, because all healing is love, and all dysfunction is a lack of love. Just learn about health as you would normally, but go into it with the understanding that love is what heals you, and understand that you trying to resolve your health issues is just you trying to figure out how to give yourself the love you need. By understanding that love is what you're going for, that will help you determine which techniques are high quality and which aren't. Taking an attitude of self-love and living your life that way is of course great and will promote great health overall, but there are issues, dysfunctions and imbalances within you that need to be targeted with love directly, in a specific way, with a technique. You're not going to solve all of your deep rooted problems just through loving yourself on the surface. To be self-loving is to care enough about your own health and well-being, in every aspect (mental, physical, emotional), to seek out the wisdom you need to be able to give yourself the love you need in the way you need it. That is what will heal you.

@Leo Gura This is the real mod dream

As a mod Leo will give you a room to live in in the private residence he has built for mods on his mansion property. There you will have a private chef who will make and serve you all of your meals free of charge, with only the healthiest and highest quality foods, with meals such as Leo's super healthy vegetable soup as well as Leo's super healthy blueberry smoothie. You will have access to the highest quality drinking water and there will also be regular heavy metal detoxes. All living expenses will be paid for. You will get free access to any psychedelic you want and Leo will personally guide you towards accessing mouse-God consciousness whenever you want. Any girl that Leo brings home from the club, the mods get seconds on her. You also get access to Leo's large assortment of halloween masks to wear whenever you want, including the pylon hat as seen on Leo's instagram. The mods are treated with upmost respect and will live a life of luxury on Leo's estate, however there is no salary on top of that.

I don't know If they have this where you are but here they sell containers of pomegranate seeds already peeled and everything, but its really expensive

I agree, I saved that last paragraph that he wrote. I love how he basically says that you can do whatever you want and he’s not telling you whether you should drink coffee or not, just be aware of what coffee does to you and make sure you do everything you do consciously. This leads to a person making the right decision through their own understanding and conscious choice rather than just because they are blindly listening to someone.

I love them but they are so much work to peel apart and take all the white shit out, and they are messy too.

I feel like the worst thing is that an easy path that allows you to put in minimal effort and just coast by in life even exists. The fact that putting in no effort to do something creative and make something of your life is even a viable option for surviving and making it through life, it makes sense that most people would take that easy route because there's nothing stopping them from doing it and they don't have the wisdom to see that the easy route will just make their lives worse in the end. If you never had the option to take the route of the easy life and you just accepted that to do more with your life you are you are going to have to face more challenge and difficulty and be much more strategic than most people, it would just be the norm for you and you would get on with it. It's like what you said in your old episode 'motivational speech for building a passionate life' about how we as a society are disconnected from survival, and it makes us lazy and soft, and the best thing to do would be to get connected to survival again and go on a hero's journey, because that's how life is meant to be lived. By having the option to not life in this way, of course most people wouldn't do it. If you made a firm decision to reject the easy life and just accepted that life is hard, your life would be so much easier and go so much better in the long run.

"Though destiny a hundred times waylays you, in the end it pitches a tent for you in heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you, in order to lead you to his kingdom of safety." - Rumi

@Ulax I agree, spirituality most often becomes a method for avoidance for people with mental health issues. Those issues should be worked on with psychology knowledge and proper healing techniques, and then spirituality should be pursued after that where it will no longer be used as an escape.

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@AtheisticNonduality That's funny asf?

Is there any harm in taking drugstore medications for sicknesses, things like cough syrup, tylenol, ibuprofen, things like that? Are there any chemicals in them that could potentially be harmful?

I suspected that these medications may have harmful chemicals in them which is why I asked this question here and why I refrained from using them this time when I got sick. I did some research and I got similar answers to what the people provided here - that they are okay in moderation but frequent use isn't recommended. I'm curious how you research these types of topics, I feel like you get more out of it than I do. How do you know there are toxic chemicals in these medications? I didn't hear anything about that when I researched them. Are you researching the quality of the ingredients in them and that's how you know? What kind of questions are you looking up if you were researching something like this? What about if you find mixed opinions in your research, how do you know which to go with?

@flowboy @Yarco @Michael569 okay thanks guys. I'm currently sick for the first time in years. I'm still living with my mum and she's trying to get me to take all this medicine and that made me wonder if it was really safe or not. So far all I've really had is a cough candy, otherwise I've just been doing what I can to take care of myself like resting and all that and I'm recovering fine. I think in the future I will take medication only if I feel like I really need it.