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    19 hours ago, ExploringReality said:

    Hey Leo, a few months ago I was mixing Kriya yoga with deep diaphragmatic breathing exercises and at work in the night I would have to sit in a room that was pitch Black because my eyes could not take the light anymore but I wasn't sleepy. My eyes were very heavy but I was filled with so much energy but I just needed to sit in darkness and breathe from the diaphragm, while doing all three body locks with deep inhalations and exhalations while focusing on the third eye. My stomach started feeling very nauseous every night and I needed to sit in darkness in order to recharge. Have you had these effects?

    I have not. But you should not expect anyone's experience to be like yours.

    It's better to feel changes than to feel nothing change.

    So I would say you're getting exactly what Kriya is supposed to get you. Kriya us supposed to active all sorts of eneries and states. That's why you're doing it. Don't get cold feet as soon as stuff starts happening, just carry on with your practice.

    Kriya yoga can be done for decades, 8 hours a day. So you've just scratched the surface.

  3. Posted

    19 hours ago, Cireeric said:

    Would you say the gains made with kriya are more stable over time and more influential in terms of inreasing baseline?

    Yes, that's the whole point.

    It changes your nervous system, which is different from a temporary change in state.

    14 hours ago, Magnanimous said:

    @Leo Gura Why? Thats what I got taught

    Because I don't blindly follow anything. I question and test all human ideas.

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    40 minutes ago, bazera said:

    @Leo Gura Have you felt effects so far? like actually feeling energy rising up and down along the spine.

    Yes.

    I get weird tingely sensations in my skull. I also feel a difference in my dreams, like the pranayama rewired some of my brain stem.

    40 minutes ago, bazera said:

    How many pranayamas are you doing?

    36 per sit. And I try to do 2-4 sits per say.

  9. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    On 8/8/2025 at 5:10 AM, Daniel123 said:

    How does Kriya Yoga compare with rhythmic breathwork / shamanic breathwork / holotropic breathing in terms of depth and intensity?

    They are unrelated.

    Kriya is not as intense. It is subtle and long-term. You need to do it for months for it to build up its effects.

    You're not going to feel anything from a few sessions.

  10. Posted

    On 8/8/2025 at 0:34 PM, ExploringReality said:

    how do you feel about Yoni mudra?

    I skip it.

    On 8/8/2025 at 0:34 PM, ExploringReality said:

    Also do you combine Kriya pranayama, Maha mudra, and Yoni mudra into one practice? Also what are your thoughts on Kriya supreme fire? Is that one a banger?

    I only do pranayama and supreme fire.

    Supreme fire feels important.

    You can always add in more practices after a year of solid pranayama. So don't worry about it. Your first goal should be to start to feel the effects from a lot of solid pranayama. Once you are feeling that, you can think about more fancy techniques. I like to strip away all superflous techniques to get to the bare essentials.

    Pranayama + supreme fire is that. You can also include maha-mudra in that but I am currently even cutting that out.

  12. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    On 8/8/2025 at 5:58 AM, Basman said:

    appeal with bread and butter economic issues.

    Economic issues are too wonky to excite average people. People are excited by culture war identity politics. This is true of right and left wings.

    A debate about marginal tax rates does not mobilize the political activists. It has to be some outrage like molestation of children, shooting a black man, etc.

    The issues that are popular are reptile brain issues. In this way politics is like social media. You don't win in politics by doing deep serious, long-format videos, you will with TikTok slop.

    That's what Trump understood well. Trump is the king of reptile brained content.

  13. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    On 8/8/2025 at 9:21 AM, Jodistrict said:

    Wow, that is really deceptive the way he used MIT. 

    He has worked at MIT for 10 years.

    Be careful with these Youtube "expose" videos. They aren't painting a real picture of the situation.

    Lex has his problems, as we all do, but being a fraud is not one of them. He doesn't really pretend to be smart. I think what you see of him is just his dorky self. You can cringe at it, but it seems authentically him. That's just his personality.

  15. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    4 minutes ago, Wilhelm44 said:

    Please can you just explain a bit as to how this would still be solipsism ?

    It's an expanded notion of solipsism. You first realize the absoluteness of your own mind. Then you consider a possibility beyond that.

    You're trying to grasp Infinity in one shot, and that's just not going to work. You have to experience/realize it in stages. You reach a crazy new level of consciousness and then later you say, "Well, what if I can imagine something even bigger?"

  17. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    4 hours ago, Hardkill said:

    If only Democrats didn’t have to cater to every race/ethnicity/gender, then their messaging would be so much easier.

    I don't see this as a problem.

    An easy unifiying message is to crack down on corruption and the rich. That is enough to transcend race/ethnicity/gender.

    The real battle is between the rich and the not-rich.

    Dem's messaging needs to be virulently anti-oligarchy and anarcho-capitalist dystopia.

  18. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    12 hours ago, Xonas Pitfall said:

    These are pretty bold statements that aren’t very open-ended or exploratory 😅

    1) I am always exploring no matter what I say. You should know this.

    2) From your POV what I say doesn't really matter because you have to explore regardless to find your own answers. No matter what I say you still have to find your own truth.

    I say certain things from my POV but that doesn't mean it is true for you. It also doesn't mean that my view won't evolve in the future -- it usually evolves.

    Just in general, whenever humans say anything it is only true for them at that time, not forever. This is the case even if they don't realize it or say it. Everyone always speaks from their present view of reality and that view always evolves. Even an enlightened person's view evolves. So you should never take human words as absolutes.

    This is pretty obvious basic stuff that you should already know without me explicating it for you.

    My views evolve a lot. I would rather be evolved than consistently stuck.

  21. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    Of course having control over anyone is a fiction.

    You don't even have control over your dog.

    Existentially, no part of God can control any other part. That's why democracy is the best form of government -- because the sovereignty of everyone is respected (at least in theory).

    Government is not based on any deep truth, it is based on survival necessity and pragmatism. Government works as it works because that's what helps keep certain people alive and reproducing.

    "Legitimate government" just means legit relative to certain constructed principles and norms, like not violating its own laws.

    Illegitmate gov breaks it own laws, like a degenerate human does. Trump contradicts himself, as all degenerate lairs do.

  22. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    I'm in Vegas because it is convenient and affordable. It has great roads, no traffic, no nasty winter weather, fun nightlife, not too large to be dirty and noisy.

    There are nicer places to live but they are expensive or inconvenient.

    I wanted to live in Austin but the traffic is a nightmare.

    California is crazy expensive.

    Vegas is a nice livable city. Tourists don't even know what Vegas is really like. I'm not on the Strip doing tourist stuff. I live just like you would in any normal city. The Strip is just a small part of Vegas. Outside the Strip Vegas is just a normal city.

    Vegas is a very practical place to live. You get all the convenience of a full sized city with none of price, dirt, and congestion. The only downside of Vegas is the hot summer and fewer local girls to date.

  23. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    I recommend you first have the realization that God is solipsism, and then try to go beyond that and try to break out of solipsism if you can.

    This is not about having an answer. This is about going on an exploration. Getting God requires exploring it from various angles. You're not going to get it all in one hit. You'll need multiple hits anyways. So don't get hung up on having one final answer, rather you will have a variety of awakenings. Your attitude should be one of open-ended exploration. Try various things and see what happens. Explore solipsism, explore its opposite, and just see where you naturally end up. Don't try to force a single conclusion upon reality. You always want to be open to radical new consciousness -- whatever that might be.