Know Thyself18 Feb 2025

E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

This week we dive deep into the transformative insights of writer Yung Pueblo, exploring his journey towards becoming a presence of love. He shares his experience of sitting through a 45-day Vipassana silent retreat, shedding light on how such profound stillness can deepen our wisdom and awareness. He discusses the importance of embracing impermanence and the practices necessary for honing the power of the mind while erasing conditioned responses.

Reflecting on his personal evolution from darkness to brightness, Yung Pueblo reveals how he began sharing his poetry on Instagram, igniting a movement of self-love and healing.

He opens up about the power of relationships to serve as a container for growth and transformation. He explores why love alone isn't sufficient for sustaining relationships, highlighting the value of solitude and the skills needed for cultivating long-term connections. Through discussions about the miracle of life, the significance of listening to our intuition, and staying grounded in spirituality, this episode is a heartfelt invitation to awaken and embody love in all aspects of life.

Energy & focus without the jitters? Try MUDWTR & Get Up to 43% off + a free frother:

https://mudwtr.com/knowthyself

André's Book Recommendations: https://www.knowthyself.one/books

___________

0:00 Intro

1:59 Writing as Yung Pueblo

3:33 Becoming a Presence of Love

5:11 Sitting a 45 Day Vipassana (Silent Retreat)

8:03 Deepening Our Sense of Wisdom & Awareness

16:36 Embracing Impermanence

19:48 Honing the Power of the Mind & Erasing Conditioning

29:07 His Life: Going From Darkness to Brightness

34:05 Starting His Instagram & Poetry

35:31 Ad: Mudwtr - Energy & Focus Without the Jitters

37:03 Facing off With the Ego

40:11 Relationships as a Container for Growth

45:35 The Qualities of Enlightened States

48:52 Learning to Love Better: From Arguments to Allowing

59:08 Why Love Isn’t Enough to Make a Relationship Work

1:01:44 The Value of Solitude

1:06:20 Skills for Cultivating Long Term Relationships

1:14:54 This Life is a Miracle

1:18:17 Listening to Intuition

1:22:58 Staying Grounded with Spirituality

1:27:43 The Power of Meditation

1:32:18 Mystical Experiences

1:38:52 Conclusion

___________

Diego Perez is a meditator and #1 New York Times bestselling author who is widely known by his pen name, Yung Pueblo. Online he has an audience of over 4 million people. His writing focuses on the power of self-healing, creating healthy relationships, and the wisdom that comes when we truly work on knowing ourselves. He has sold over 1.5 million books worldwide that have been translated into over 25 languages. Diego is a general partner at Wisdom Ventures and a founder of Ready Platform, a dating and relationship support app. Diego’s new book, How to Love Better, will be released in March 2025.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yung_pueblo/?hl=en

Books: https://yungpueblo.com

___________

Know Thyself

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/

Website: https://www.knowthyself.one

Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4wglCWTJeWQC0exBalgKg

Listen to all episodes on Audio:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4FSiemtvZrWesGtO2MqTZ4?si=d389c8dee8fa4026

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/know-thyself/id1633725927

André Duqum

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreduqum/

Det här avsnittet är hämtat från ett öppet RSS-flöde och publiceras inte av Podme. Det kan innehålla reklam.

Avsnitt(214)

E214 - Tom Bilyeu: Humanity Is Splitting into 4 Futures… Choose Wisely

My guest today is Tom Bilyeu, the entrepreneur behind Quest Nutrition who went on to build Impact Theory into one of the most watched long form interview channels in the world. Tom is now building a p...

29 Sep 2h 39min

E213 - Matthew Hussey: The Patterns Blocking You From Love (& What To Do)

Matthew Hussey is back on the show, and this conversation picks up right where our last one left off, except he's grown a lot since then. Matthew built his early career on a simple idea: create more o...

22 Sep 2h 35min

E212 - Dr. Shefali: How To Raise Conscious Children (It Starts With You)

I sat down with Dr. Shefali, clinical psychologist trained at Columbia and the voice behind the Conscious Parenting Movement for over two decades, to explore what it really means to parent from awaren...

15 Sep 1h 56min

E211 - John Wineland: Love, Safety & Desire - What Your Wounds Are Deciding for You

John Wineland has spent nearly twenty years teaching people how to love more deeply, and in this conversation he lays out why intimacy has become one of the most demanding spiritual practices availabl...

8 Sep 1h 53min

E210 - Dr. David Spiegel: #1 Hypnotism Expert, “Wake Up From The Trance of Your Life”

Dr. David Spiegel is the Wilson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry at Stanford, the co-founder of the hypnosis app Reveri, and one of the world's leading clinical researchers on hypnosis. He ...

1 Sep 1h 29min

E209 – Rizwan Virk: Are We Living in a Simulation? (It's Deeper Than You Think)

Rizwan Virk is an MIT-trained computer scientist, video game pioneer, and bestselling author of The Simulation Hypothesis. His work sits at a rare intersection: quantum physics, Eastern mysticism, and...

25 Aug 2h 34min

E208 - Dr. Robert Lustig: What Modern Food Is Doing to Your Sense of Self

Dr. Robert Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, pediatrician, and bestselling author who has spent 45 years watching children get sicker despite his best efforts to stop it. His work connects the dots be...

18 Aug 1h 50min

E207 - Jim George: Stillness Expert: “How To Not Miss Your Life”

Jim George is a stillness coach, former animator, and one of the first guests ever to appear on this podcast. He has spent nearly 50 years developing what he calls practical spirituality, a way of wor...

11 Aug 2h 10min