Ibn Sina

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  2. Posted · Edited by Ibn Sina

    @Ramanujan
    I think that the best study technique for someone depends on the individual and the type of content be studied. But after doing a lot of research on 
    the study methods , if I had to choose just 1 then that would be - Active recall and spaced repetition. There is a book called - Make it stick, you might wanna look into it.  In the book the psychologists do a lots of experiments on various study techniques and showcase their findings. 

    So using flashcards like Anki can be a good way. 

    But personally I use a lot more study methods suited to my own needs and specially catering to the needs of Medicine.

    eg - 

    I often use a randomizer.

    I randomize thousands of diseases and symptoms and see if I will be able to deal with such a case. 
    I keep a file for all medical terminologies. 
    I try to differentiate a lot between diseases and terminologies as many diseases are very similar in their presentation so properly 
    differentiating between diseases, and what makes each disease unique, is vital. 
    For anatomy, it's all about visualizing diagrams and images and only THEN memorizing the theory.  Same goes for any Skin related conditions.
    Use Freeplane for Mindmaping and get a big picture thinking . Onenote is also good. 

    There are many study methods and softwares that I have employed in various situations and it would take hours to get down to every detail. 
    All in all, my method is to to learn based on the content you are studying and what suits you. Discard what is not working for you. 

     

  3. Posted · Edited by Ibn Sina

    @OBEler

    @Thought Art

    Thank you guys. Although I may not be as active as before, this site will forever be associated with my days in Medical school. After college I often found myself relaxing here. The mods may change, the users may be dfferent, but I don't think I will ever stop revisiting here time and again, as this site represents a phase in my life. Its kinda like revisiting school once in a while. 

  5. Posted · Edited by Ibn Sina

    I find it pretty nostalgic returning to this site. As a medical student I liked reading and discussing in this forum, but later I decided not to be here, as I found arguing with others pretty unproductive and distracting. But still this site reminds me of those days in my past , and there is this feeling of 'good old days'. I see that the Mods have changed and I don't recognize many users here. But glad to know that the site is running as before. It's like I am returning to my old days again. 

  7. Posted

    On 4/14/2020 at 1:13 PM, Visionary said:

    Forgiveness is in the deepest form actually a karma dissolving and thus highly energetic releasing process. If done properly it can dissolve lots of subject/object garbage. 

    True Morality is not just a mere choice. It's true integrity which can only be the result of surrender and oneness. Or else it will just be protocol. Protocol can always be updated to a newer and higher version ofcourse. 

     

     

    Without Morality you are a joke

     

    Good luck with your journey! Toxicity is to be avoided. Both the inner psychological hell and the karmic hell is awaiting.

  8. Posted

    On 4/12/2020 at 2:32 AM, Meta-Man said:

    There are people who have meditated for 40 years and have not taken a single actual step toward Realization. To me timeframes are irrelevant if you don’t know what you’re doing. Consider the possibility that this applies to you and that you have to go back to the drawingboard.

     

    «It all works»

    That’s false. That’s like saying Christian orthodoxy will lead you to Truth and that the Pope is awake.

     

    I am too busy practicing spirituality that I don't drop by here often. 

    It's obvious that you have not developed spiritually, that's for sure.

    *Back to meditation
     

     

  9. Posted

    I tend to think that people think suicide is wrong because of their beliefs, prejudices, and insecurities attached to this act. 

    There is no difference between suicide and no-suicide because they are all distinctions and all distinctions are constructions.

    But if you ask me, if suicide is a form of enlightenment, then I would say no.

    Because after suicide, your mental aggregates coalesce and transfer to another body.

    Enlightenment is the elimination of all mental aggregates. There is nothing left. The pendulum has stopped. There is no back and forth motion.

  10. Posted

    On 4/10/2020 at 8:15 PM, Meta-Man said:

    @Ibn Sina

    The Dalai Lama isn’t awake.

    Buddhism is outdated.

    There are much better and less dogmatic teachings in this day and age.

     

    Just to make things clear, I have been following actualized.org since 2014, and the entire martin lobdell , 5-Meo thing , non duality thing since I don't know how long.

    It all works. 5-meo  works, Vipassana also works, Anapanasti works, Hath yoga works, Kriya yoga works, Sheel works, Holistic breathing works, Dalai Lama works.

    It's all good. 

     

  11. Posted · Edited by Ibn Sina

    At the end, this is all I will say,

    for any spiritual practitioner, the way to go is-  Meditation + Morality.  ( Previously, like many people here I thought it was just meditation)

    The Dalai Lama meditates 5 hours a day, he dies 7 times (Tukdam)  . Then he doesn't go out spreading negativity, but positivity. Then he comes back and again mediates for 5 hours, the cycle repeats. ( He doesn't say this is a dualistic notion so he should spread both love and hate. No, he is one sided here. It is only love and compassion.)

    And this is what works.

    The contrary , no matter what people say, doesn't ( Have  tried all my life)

    Good luck harboring bad thoughts to inflate your ego while you meditate 10 hours a day. Not gonna work. You won't have any opening of the  heart. It's just suffering all the way.

    Being humble, having a  generous heart and good intent, and meditating is what  works. Is what will give you the peace  of mind to reach non-dual states (Tukdam)

    Hate cannot be cut by hate, but only love.

    Peace. And good luck for your spiritual journey.

     

    Barry Kerzin talks about Dalai lama dying 7 times a day and also talks about Tukdam.

     

  12. Posted · Edited by Ibn Sina

    10 minutes ago, Osaid said:

    @Ibn Sina Meditation is about realizing that you are not your thoughts. You can have negative thoughts during meditation, but the important part is realizing that those thoughts are not you. You do not reject negative thoughts, but rather, you let them pass through and spectate them from your true self.

     

    I know that .

    And it connects Moral conduct with meditation.

    If you are really meditating, then you cannot act out of pure unconscious reaction because your  mind is watching. 

    While if you are not in meditation, you can loose your peace of mind and become violent etc which is what happens to people.

    So it's connected and one helps the other.

    I am just emphasizing both the facets of this equation.

    While in Osho's books only one side is more emphasized.

    Like right now I am watching my own mind, I see a range of emotions as opposed to if I acted without any mindfulness.

    And at the same time my moral discipline can protect me from having a lifestyle where such negative thoughts is encourage in my mind.

    which gives the ground for higher spiritual states of no duality.

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    6 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    Heres the key.  If you go inwards.  

     

    What is going inwards?  It is becoming completely selfless.  See God created the ego so that form could survive as a form.  To do that it needs to be selfish.  However if you notice honesty and love are facets of selflessness.  

    So when you turn inward who is going to be there to sin?  One can be a devil there entire life and still wake up - but to do that they need to stop being a devil long enough to awaken to Truth.

    Post awakening they can align their lives with Truth and it will happen naturally.  The ego may flare up every now and then but eventually one becomes so conscious that it just ends up dissolving because it was realized that it never existed.  It was exposed and the game is up.  Peace and happiness are found in Being and Truth - it is found within.  When the ego realizes it has been an illusion it ultimately becomes powerless.

    I agree.

    "So when you turn inward who is going to be there to sin?  One can be a devil there entire life and still wake up - but to do that they need to stop being a devil long enough to awaken to Truth."

    Yup, that's what I was also saying.

  14. Posted

    1 minute ago, VeganAwake said:

    Within the dream there seems to be all kinds of ways to improve the me's situation.... more meditation more peace, more practice more progress...

    What this subtly suggests is that what is here and now is not good enough...

    When the resistance to whatever shows up in life gets dropped the suffering ends.

    Before Enlightenment chop wood and carry water after Enlightenment chop wood and carry water what has changed is the resistance to what is...

    I agree 100% . Nothing to disagree here.

  15. Posted

    4 minutes ago, The observer said:

    it does essentially but it also transcends it aswell. sheel is only one way of being it does not acknowledge other ways while samadhi or enlightenment does. the teaching is very simple. accept whatever is the case without force if its negative thoughts accept them if its positive thoughts accept them if its no thouths accept it. simply be who you are love and accept yourself. for you its sheel + samadhi accept that. for others it might be something else accept that too. its all about you cause you are unique you dont have to make your uniqueness universal cause then it will lose its meaning.

    Of course, it's all about transcendence. Sheel is not the goal. Pragya is.

  16. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Javfly33 said:

    When glimpses of truth start to appear, then the drive/motivation to do meditation can start going from somewhere else, but I think its totally common and normal to not approach meditation in a truth-seeking mode, basically because people already assume that they know 100% what reality is and who they are

     

    I think morality , and positivity, is mainly for calming the mind, as opposed to meditating with psychologically harmful behaviour, from there one can have the mental ground to realize non-daulity.

    Of course, everyone starts with duality, but when choosing duality, one should choose the one that makes you calm, and eliminates agitation, from there the realm of positive and negative is removed and one reaches non-duality. That's what I am saying.

    So this doesn't mean it is not a truth seeking mode. It is. It is just choosing one duality and slowly moving towards nothingness.

     

  17. Posted

    1 minute ago, Meta-Man said:

    I am saying ‘give up dualities’.

    You are saying ‘keep dualities’.

     

    I am not. 

    How many times should I go on? 

    You first need to understand what I am saying. This is like the basics of buddhism, and you are saying I should go to the drawing board smh.

    I am saying practice sheel.

    I am saying destroy dualities.

    Now if you cannot understand this then it is your problem. 

    If you understand this, it can lead to spiritual progress and peace.

  18. Posted

    Just now, The observer said:

    paradoxically i believe it does. love is all encompassing and must include negative thoughts too so only if they love them fully will they be able to transcend them.

    of course thats what im saying they have to apply love on the negative thoughts for them to go away cause fighting will only create more negativity and suffering for them and us.

     

    Sure, Then we have nothing to disagree.

    That is exactly what I am saying. 

    What you are saying all alighns to the concept of Sheel + Samdhi.

  20. Posted

    9 minutes ago, VeganAwake said:

    Osho is pointing to the truth that nothing arises out of the separate me because it isn't real.... everything real arises out of post Awakening...

    Yes, from the top down , at the highest level, of course this is the truth. But I am talking from the ground level.

    Which means, you cannot be immoral, and practice meditation and make progress. 

    At the highest level, there is no morality.

  21. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Meta-Man said:

    I never mentioned ‘immorality’.

    Immorality/Morality is a dualistic concept you are afraid to let go of. It is preventing you from realizing the Truth. 

    Throw the Buddha in the dustbin for a second. You need to go back to the drawingboard.

    I am saying the same thing that you are saying. 

    In higher states there is no duality.

    It's the same thing.

    For the 11th time I am writing this.

  22. Posted · Edited by Ibn Sina

    10 minutes ago, The observer said:

    @Ibn Sina

    i think you are partially correct and partially not. yes you cannot be enlightened with an agitated mind but if you put yourself in other peoples shoes you realize that the state of agitated mind is relative and some people experience more agitation than serenity due to forcing positive thinking. you experience peace of mind through positive thinking and thats great but from their point of view its extremely difficult to find peace of mind without letting themselves think that way even though they dont have to act that way and they usually dont. if i understand correctly your point is that everyone should only think positively but the reality is that not everyone is capable of that. also notice theres a distinction between thought and action. those people are not bad people we have to understand that thought is completely out of our control and by trying to force control over them we create resistance and therefore suffering. this is very different from acting on the thoughts. again people who experience those thoughts are genuinely good people so who are we to judge them. they need our help and understanding and thats what osho was offering.

    Sorry but the psychologists ( Who write papers on- do x y z to feel good / conduct research on buddhism/ happiness) and my life experiences disagree.

    But your point is also valid. Different things work for different people. 

    It's not about labelling peope as good or bad, but basically seeking the truth.

    Well, if people are violent or have bad thoughts because it is out of their control, it's okay, I am not saying they are bad or good people.

    I am saying it doesn't help their meditation.

    Yes, Osho was famous for not judging people, and that's good. 

    All I am saying is such thoughts/actions (and doing nothing about it) do not corresspond to well being in the psychological sense/ buddhist sense, it's opposite to a peaceful mind so has hard time making progress in meditation.

    Hate does not go away by hate, but love.

  23. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Meta-Man said:

    So you want to be a temporarily happy, ‘moral man’, not discovering the Truth

    No, my goal is to discover the truth. 

    But to discover the truth I don't do that by becoming immoral, I do that by becoming moral, that is what gives me well being at a ground level and I can work upward with practices.

    For the 10th time I am writing- Good conduct + Meditation.

  24. Posted · Edited by Ibn Sina

    6 minutes ago, mandyjw said:

    It felt good, why not leave it that? You don't have to label it as morality to try to lock it down, you discovered something that felt good, discovered a behavior pattern change you could observe and change that felt better.

    These are not rules bro.

    These are psychological facts.

    There are behaviors which if you did , will have higher chances of your well being compared to other behaviors. 

    Note - I am saying higher chance.

    And these are not rules. These are what I have discovered actually is beneficial for mental health ( reading psychology), which happens to be the same as morality of buddhism.

     

     

  25. Posted · Edited by Ibn Sina

    10 minutes ago, Meta-Man said:

    Don’t you get it? All conceptions of morality are bunk. Because they are just ideas. Until you realize this you are just spinning your wheels. Go beyond ideas. Discover yourself. End of story. 

    I did say that in the higher states  there  is no duality. The state of neither this nor that. 

    So what are you talking about? I wrote this 4-5 times already.

    And doing good, having positive as opposed to negative thoughts, works. That is what your psychiatrist would recommend. It works. So what's there to argue?