Leo Gura

Yes, all enlightenment or spiritual practices ultimately lead there. Self-inquiry Contemplation Meditation Yoga Psychedelics Etc. You don't really stop seeing the elephant. You rise to a new level of consciousness where you realize that the elephant was always also a non-elephant. The non-elephant exists in exactly the same place as the elephant! An elephant is a non-elephant. Get it? No. Mind cannot go there. Some form of meditation is required. If you eat some mushrooms, you'll see it.

Lol, it doesn't. Oh, the tradgic irony...

@Krishna Siva Wasn't this answered by the 3 videos about self-deception?

@egoless That was revealed here: https://www.actualized.org/articles/how-to-develop-big-picture-understanding That is also sorta what my book will be about, going into the enormous depth of it. But that won't be ready for years.

The trick is finding a good way to administer it without vomiting your guts out. I want to plug it, but that will require sticking half a gram of powder up the butt. Not sure about that... For the sake of science, I guess...

@MM1988 Well, when they hooked Sadhguru up to an EEG machine, it registered him as clinically brain dead. Science has done a poor job of researching yogis. If a serious scientist measures a yogi with no heart beat, what do you think will happen? Do you think he will say, "Oh! Look! All of our understanding of human physiology is wrong!" or will he say, "Oh! What a fluke! This is just some strange anomaly. I can't explain it, but this obviously can't be real so let's get back to studying normal people." Any scientist who starts to validate mysticism will be outcast by his peers and called a mystic himself. It's a political game you cannot win. So most scientists have learned not to even approach this domain of investigation. All scientific evidence of the paranormal (and there is much of it) is automatically dismissed as impossible. Because it doesn't fit the materialist paradigm. And the paradigm is what's king. You can only "see" evidence which your paradigm is open to. You're thinking about this whole thing backwards. It's not evidence which supports the paradigm, it's the paradigm which creates or denies the evidence.

Daily stretching might help you. How comfortable postures feel depends on many factors, from your weight, to your age, to your body shape, to your flexibility, to your circulation, etc. Find a posture that's comfortable enough so you can sit for at least 30 minutes and focus on your Kriya techniques. If you are too distracted by pain to do the techniques, that's no good.

Part 2 out now:

@MM1988 The problem is that you are expecting yoga to be commensurable with your materialist ways of quantifying the world. And it just isn't. You cannot grasp the subtle with the gross. There are aspects of reality which cannot be mapped, symbolized, or quantified. The scientist needs to have enough self-awareness to realize, "Oh, yeah... I shouldn't expect yoga to fit my terms, but instead I should fit myself to yoga's terms." Instead of testing yoga in a lab, you should ditch the lab and sit down and do yoga yourself. That IS the test.

Metaphysically, string theory is not different from quantum mechanics. String theory says that everything is just a collection of tiny vibrating strings or loops. Okay... but what are these loops themselves made out of? Nothing. They are just mathematical equations. Science cannot grasp the "substance" of reality. Because there is no substance there to be grasped. All you can do is map stuff with symbols in an infinite circle.

That would be your projection. Indeed, the mind is sneaky.

@Ether Does it matter?

@Edvard Have an awakening first, then let's talk.

Death is right here. You're it.

I like the one where some disgruntled villager who hated the Buddha sent an angry elephant charging at him. As the elephant was about to strample him, the Buddha gently held up his hand and the elephant bowed. Always brings a tear to my eye.

Of course

I am thinking of publishing it tomorrow. Maybe. It's uploading right now.

Of course, pragmatism is the last refuge of a stubborn and closedminded materialist. The whole point of ego is pragmatism: self-survival. It knows nothing else.

Lol That's like saying, "Prayer works for me, that's all I care about." Oh... orthodox scientists... sigh...

In other words, find your passion

Here it is: Be sure to watch Part 2 (when it comes out), that's where all the really juicy stuff is.

I doubt he saw that much truth. His journey was only beginning. Imagine if the Buddha had eaten some poison berries 2 years into his journey. That's what happened with Chris. It was a noble effort, but poorly executed, and execution matters.

Actually, I really should. Because the hardest part of shooting a video is the standing still for 90 minutes.

Almost done uploading Part 1. If I didn't split it up, it would take several days just to upload a 50gb file.

@Hermes Trismegistus The only way to know what death is, is to die. By which I mean, become enlightened. Psychedelics can show you this in 60 minutes. Or you can sit on the cushion for 10 years.