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@Leo Gura I do 20 minutes of meditation daily. I would love to do a retreat but it will take some time to fully have my business set up, generating income and also being 100% outsourced and running in my absence. Hell, I might wait until after I've sold my ecommerce business before I would do a retreat. It's impractical.

Intuitively, I didn't want to believe this news when I first heard it a few months ago. Wim Hof has said he will sue the newspaper for false allegations. However, this isn't just a gossip paper, and ChatGPT tells me that: Original article: https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2024/the-outside-world-knows-wim-hof-as-the-eccentric-iceman-his-family-suffered-domestic-violence~v1176564/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/wim-hof-biopic-on-hold-after-claims-of-domestic-abuse-against-cold-water-guru That being said, it is not entirely unsurprising that he has domestic violence in his past when you realize that he got into the breathing method because his first wife killed herself. I think we all tend to lionize our coaches and influences, but as we find out, they're not perfect by any means.

This isn't real merch, just something I made this morning as a joke...

https://apnews.com/article/financial-markets-wall-street-trump-tariffs-33b8562c7b76fe3b967ea6cd9d61719b Doesn't look too great for the economy. Is a recession here sooner than we thought? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/us/politics/trump-tariffs-fox-news-recession.html

This is a vitally important question. Why? Because I would strategize differently based on the answer. If I am the Witnesser; I would remind myself more to relax, to surrender to God, bringing more peace into my life. If I am the Doer; I would be the ultimate manifester, and I would remind myself to remember how little of myself I know, and how much I am capable of. So, which one is it?

Doesn't really work when there's a next election or he's impeached before then. That's the good news is Trump will be gone in less than 4 years but is already losing support.

He starts by talking about setting the proper frame in relationships, pretty interesting dating advice. Later he says he's worked with Elon Musk. In his earlier videos Owen hinted at this, saying he coached 'the PayPal mafia' but here he admits having coached the 'billionaire who saves free speech'. After that he goes on a rant about thinking for yourself and avoiding group think, followed by full MAGA speech about Elon Musk saving the country. Ironic and surreal to hear him talk about self deception while saying these things. In this video it feels like he digs a deeper and deeper hole for himself. The more he rants against group think and deception, the more deluded he comes across. No rational onlooker would say such a thing about the current political situation in the U.S., making it all the more obvious he's heavily influenced by his surroundings and conditioning.

Recently my experience has been that my body is tense throughout the day. As I become more aware of my body and thoughts, this tension seems to increase, but I'm sure that's just my awareness. Once I become aware, I let go, I have a happy thought, I smile and relax the body. I can now even smile and relax and bypass the thought, like I've made a neural shortcut 😁😁 Has your experience been similar? Can the body stay relaxed during work or intense thought? Does it feel more tense as you become more aware?

I find this mean and judgemental.

I heard that Canada's counter tarrifs on the U.S. could put the entire car industry to a standstill. It's probably those utterly unnecessary tarrifs that will jumpstart this recession.

If you look at SD stage Purple you could say they were living in harmony, but then came Red and so on. I guess conflict is just part of the human experience.

This is probably the best and most insightful North Korea vlog I've ever seen, shot in February 2025. He gets a couple of genuine interactions with regular North Koreans on camera. I can't help but feel that everybody in this country is in a big cult and it's sad to watch. Notice the little girls' absence of any spontaneity. Everybody looks so stiff and robotic.

It's the French who always try to be contrarian 😒 @Husseinisdoingfine cool I will check them too.

@Leo Gura what about Dubai real estate? Heard many good things, but that was before this whole Trump thing.

In Kenya visiting the Maasai. Notice how one of the guys calls people who don't eat meat "uncultured". Of course! When your culture consists of mostly hunting, you consider vegetarians "people of no culture" 😁

Tell that to dudes in prison.

I was enjoying the Akaash Singh comedy special on YouTube until he interrupts his performance for a gambling ad 20 minutes in. This bothered me so much I couldn't continue watching. I've seen several comedians promote sports betting companies in their podcasts. Have they no conscience? This seems like such a lowly grift. Leo has given the example in his video "what is love" of the man who works for a company that manufactures landing gear for drones. That the man is not conscious enough to realize the evils that his work support. But with these gambling ads it's just blatantly obvious 😑 Some kid watches the show, their favorite comedian is literally saying "turn $1 into $10.000" (Akaash's words) and now he thinks that's a good way to spend time and earn money. But the comedian didn't make any money gambling, he made his career focusing on his talents and working hard. What a terrible and dishonest role model. The worst part is that these comedians already make enough income for themselves and their families through YouTube monetization, merch, ticket sales and other sponsorship deals. But of course sports betting companies pay them more money. I find it terribly confusing, how could they not be aware of this blatantly obvious evil? Do they have contempt and no empathy towards their own audience? It would be so easy to do the right thing here and just choose a different sponsor.

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British-American influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate - who are facing trial in Romania on charges of rape, trafficking minors and money laundering - have left the country after prosecutors lifted a two-year travel ban. Andrew Tate, 38, and his brother Tristan, 36, left Bucharest on a private jet early on Thursday. Both deny the allegations against them. Romanian prosecutors stressed the case against them had not been dropped and they would be expected to return, understood to be at the end of next month. However, their decision has raised concern that they came under pressure from leading figures in the Trump administration, with one leading Romanian politician saying she was outraged. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpq222rqv4po

Don't you have anything better to do?

Yeah obviously, but this is a literal skit in the middle of his special where he pretends to take a phone call from his mom to talk about their sponsor. My post refered to sponsorship reads.

Reality is all a mind game yet Leo comes here saying how Trump is bad and all sorts of things about politics. Well, Leo creates reality with the mind, so why would he choose to create unpleasant things? Sure you could say the God-mind creates all sorts of suffering for a reason, but at least Leo the person would choose to create happy things only. Leo would then teach his followers how to only live in a very high state constantly. Leo is interested in finding truth, but truth (lowercase) is entirely subjective, and Trump has nothing to do with absolute Truth, so why create this into existence by talking about this? This is a lack of construct awareness. Unless we're going to split Leo's audience into separate stages. Perhaps then we could say "political talk is only for the highest evolved who have become emotionally unshakable", but until then why not focus all the teachings on creating your own truth, which is as good as truth, since you construct reality with the mind. All you wanna do is move up this ladder, there's no need to dilute progress with false gods like politics, society or any other things, these have nothing to do with absolute Truth. But Leo talks about them which makes it seem like any of this matters.

Does it help you manifest things quicker into your reality, such as money?

This thread is a good example immaturity and not taking any personal responsibility.

I don't watch his content often but on a day like this where I am low on energy and focus, it's a wonderful mood booster. This video has everything; it keeps me engaged and combines humor with emotional hooks. It's really cool to see the candidates have empathy for each other and not only act selfishly. A while ago there were some posts on here abour MrBeast being really unhappy or something? I cannot find the threads anymore. This to me seems a strange criticism, there is something to be said for making such wonderful and engaging content. Much better than dumb scripted shows. I think the criticism was "no artistic value", I strongly disagree after watching this video tonight. Very good stuff, much better than mindless streamers or Youtubers.