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The main benefit of not cooking vegetables is the preservation of vitamins. Cooking can lead to the loss of water-soluble vitamins, so it’s sometimes better to eat vegetables raw or to cook them only slightly.

Understanding how everything = nothing is a really advanced thing. It took me a lot of contemplation to reach the point where it clicked. It was an insight rather than a logical conclusion. I think understanding how everything = nothing can’t be done using logic. Understanding the concepts is essential, but the final insight needs to come from beyond concepts (or the rational mind). Leo gave a great example of this in one of his videos, where he mentioned how a child suddenly grasps (numeric) infinity. You start counting from 1, and after a certain point, the child gets an insight that this never ends.

@Princess Arabia So your premise is: demonizing social media will keep me addicted to it. And awakening to social media’s true nature will put me (and then keep me) in a state of higher awareness, which is essentially what one needs to let go of attachments (or addictions). The problem is that to awaken to social media’s (or anything for that matter) true nature, one must already be in an elevated state of awareness, consistently. And to raise your awarness requires work, time, and effort. Raising your baseline awareness level is difficult. You may argue that wanting to raise your awareness is an attachment or that enlightenment is right in front of you, but that is a gross oversimplification, just look at people who take psychedelics and don’t do the work. Part of that effort and work to raise your awareness is to protect yourself from shit that keeps you in lower states of consciousness. You can say “there are no lower states of consciousness, everything is infinite love, you just can’t see it”, but again, that’s a gross oversimplification. Now, do you think that it's helpful to forcefully try to see social media’s true nature as a construct or as Love, God, or Mind?

@Princess Arabia I agree with you, Arabia. No matter how powerful the algorithm becomes, it can't affect me if I am in control of my mind. After I made this post, I realized that my inability to escape from my thoughts or disengaging from them was at the root of my problem. Shifting the blame onto social media wasn’t very helpful. However, controlling my thoughts takes time. In the meantime, I need to keep everything that preys on this weakness away from me. For that reason, it’s important to acknowledge social media for what it really is.

No measures. Just raw-dogging it.

@Yimpa By sprinkling DMT on it

🍑♌ is crazy good

@Leo Gura We would greatly appreciate an updated episode on contemplation, recognizing the significant benefits your work offers that are closely tied to this practice.

@The Renaissance Man I’m swapping it out for reading, and it's been highly effective. And social media platforms are far more dangerous than heroin. You have billion-dollar investments backing them, all working to make their products more irresistible. They study your deepest cravings and understand what you desire. This system is dynamic and constantly evolving. Plus, it gives off an illusion of safety, which is why it ensnares far more people than heroin ever could. @Hojo I don’t think it's a compulsion from within. I think it's manipulation. You are being compelled to do something, yet it's not a natural compulsion (For instance the compulsion to have sex). You can argue that accepting being manipulated as an act of God (The devil is also God), but you can’t forget that you are a human being too that needs protection from manipulators or else your life goes to shit. It's like you have a leech on your arm, you recognize that it is God, you love it, but you have to get rid of it. And to get rid of it you have to see the harm it is causing.

@integral That sounds much better, not gonna lie. I've also learned to keep this mystical side of myself mostly private. It's always more effective when someone notices those elements in my behavior or decisions rather than through direct conversation.

@Hojo The devil in disguise

@Yimpa I woke up a while ago, saw the truth, and went right back. It's only now that I finally got the courage to get back in. This is why I started watching Leo’s videos again, hence the reminder of my family’s feelings towards Leo

One of the primary reasons for my habitual phone usage is the need to distract myself from my internal dialogues, particularly those related to financial stressors. This compulsion arises from a lack of control and mindfulness regarding my thoughts, making it challenging to pause and simply exist in the moment. I often find myself fixating on a limited set of concerns, leading to a desire to disengage cognitively and achieve a state of peace something that proves to be significantly challenging. To counteract this, I turn to stimuli that can effectively divert my attention platforms engineered to capture engagement and interest. The foremost example of this is social media. Platforms leveraging short-form video content, such as reels, epitomize this form of distraction. They facilitate a detachment from my ruminative thoughts, replacing them with a rapid succession of novel stimuli that elicit dopamine release. These systems employ sophisticated algorithms designed to analyze user behavior, thereby curating personalized content that resonates with individual preferences. Social media functions as a finely-tuned mechanism that caters to our inherent need for distraction, effectively positioning itself as a tool for cognitive engagement. I see social media as an intelligent and live parasite adapting to its host's behavioral patterns to optimize its own survival and profitability.

My family members don’t even understand what he says but for some reasons they don’t like him. They say that listening to him has made me too mystical.

My family members don’t even understand what he says but for some reasons they don’t like him. They say that listening to him has made me too mystical.