E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
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.
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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
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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
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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
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| 0:00.0 | There's something very different and powerful about the wisdom that comes from your own direct experience. |
| 0:05.5 | It's not easy to be open to deleting your conditioning. You can talk to your therapist, you can talk to your teachers, you can, you know, read stuff online, but ultimately it's up to you to bring it into action to make it real in your life. |
| 0:17.8 | Vapasana, it's a path of purification that leads to the end of suffering. |
| 0:21.4 | When you observe the body with this crisp clarity, what you get is this truth that's pervasive |
| 0:27.3 | throughout the universe, this truth of impermanence. It's awareness. It's a sharpened awareness. |
| 0:31.5 | The mind can become like a canon. Like it becomes so much stronger. I went into meditating |
| 0:36.8 | because I needed to save myself. |
| 0:39.3 | But in the act of saving myself, immediately I noticed that my relationships were very surface level |
| 0:45.3 | and that I could do something about it. |
| 0:47.3 | When you cultivate your emotional skill set so that you can have more peace in your mind, |
| 0:52.3 | it immediately helps support you in your relationship. |
| 0:55.1 | Through meditating has really helped me see that this life, |
| 0:58.5 | it's a giant miracle. |
| 1:06.1 | Diego Perez. |
| 1:07.8 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 1:09.1 | Thanks for coming, man. |
| 1:10.2 | I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:11.6 | I've been looking forward to this day for a while now, so I'm glad we get to connect. |
| 1:15.6 | Me too, man. |
| 1:16.6 | It's been really cool to see your content online. |
| 1:20.6 | I feel like we always have these, you know, these parisocial relationships with people's content, their message. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah. And you hope that they live up in person to the energy that you see online. |
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