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True, but is music not as much nothing as silence is? Or is music distracting the sense of nothing?

" Yet men go on nofap because they lack sex in real life and hope to have more sex by not masturbating. " Not really accurate. There's a lot of men and women for that sake that still have sex while on NoFap. Also there's tons of people not going on NoFap just for the sake of "attraction powers". I personally have never had problems with finding girls, and I went on NoFap for almost a year, just for the sake of feeling more confident and building up more energy inside of me. Turned out that in the end I had so much energy that I couldn't handle it, was filled up with testosterone so much that I got kinda aggressive, which was too much, I could have handled it with Qi-Gong, but I didn't know that at that time, so I decided to just masturbate. Also, there goes a lot more into visualization and LoA than just visualizing. If you really want to manifest sex irl, you can surely use LoA, but you have to do it the right way, with the right intentions Here is a pretty nice report of 160 days of NoFap + a report of 10 day vipassana while on NoFap

Don't try to manipulate the meditation, then you're not allowing. Meditation is all about becoming 110% present and allowing all feelings negative + positive, don't cling to the feelings or thoughts, just allow, allow, allow, and watch the emotions and thoughts pass again, notice the impermanence. Keep doing this over and over again, and a sense of general bliss will flow over you

Amazing reply, I just meditated on this while using the experience you had on a retreat some years ago from the video "My Enlightenment Experience - Exactly How It Happened" - Where you tell about that tree you look at, and kinda discovering that there is nothing behind this tree and actually there is nothing in front of this tree, while I did this with objects in my room, I kinda felt like it was 2 manifestations of nothing looking at each other in some sense, I think I got a glimpse of some sort of universal infinite presence, very very minor glimpse, I felt it, again another extremely minor / subtle feeling of no-self, while I was doing this. I think I should train my concentration even more, so I can become better at sustaining these meditation sessions. Is staring at an object for 5+ minutes pr. day maybe, without getting distracted by anything, just simply looking and focusing, a great way to strengthen concentration and focus?

You can have many different deeper insights / mini-awakenings, guiding you towards the ultimate truth (enlightenment), but it's a process, and for each insight you get, and the deeper you go, the more you'll strip off all the bullshit, and in the end you got the truth. This will be different from person to person I guess, everybody has their unique things to battle with, different mindsets etc.

Confusing, but I understand the essence of what you mean So that perceiver / true self / nothing, is what both of us are, therefore, I am you and you are me. I just don't understand the meaning of bodies and physical life then, why isn't everything just non sentient, non physical, what is the idea, if everything is nothing, fuck this is mind wrenching.

Food for thought, or maybe food for awareness, thanks for your reply Leo, really valuable!

If I am not the person I believe I am, and I am consciousness instead. Then why is the consciousness planted in this body? Why can I only be aware out of my vision, and not from my friends eyes/vision? Why can't I be everyone, if I am everything, if I am it? Like, why am I stuck with this person? Does consciousness just manifest in all objects? And if everybody is consciousness itself, if they are everything, why are we still different personas?

Didn't see this wonderful reply before now, thank you so much for your great reply and great analogy with the image!! I really appreciate it, even though there is no I, but whoever is writing this is appreciating it!

Interesting OP, how do you feel now? Also, what have you been doing leading up to this experience, have you been practicing self-inquiry, meditation, kriya yoga etc.?

People in this thread keep mentioning that Leo has a video about this guy, anyone with a link?

You've probably experienced it yourself, you were in a deep meditative state or had an incredible mystical experience / glimpse of awakening, that you're just so eager to reproduce, but you can't seem to get into the state that is required for this experience to happen.. I was wondering if any of you intelligent peeps out there had an explanation of this? How come we can't reproduce these experiences with force? Is it because the desire stems from the ego? We have too many expectations to how the experience should turn out, so there is no organic flow in the experience, which means it can't be experienced, because it would then be an artificial/mind-made-up experience? Looking forward to your replies :-) Spread love!

Nobody can help me out here? Can I stick entirely to "The Secret Power of Kriya Yoga" or should I mix both books? Would love to hear your opinion Leo.

Yeah I got both, but Leo is now recommending "The Secret Power of Kriya Yoga" more than the other one, so I wasn't sure if I should just mainly focus on abovementioned book.

Can I start practicing Kriya Yoga primarily from the book "The Secret Power of Kriya Yoga" without having any prior experience, or should I start with the exercises stated in "Kriya Secrets Revealed"? In "The Secret Power of Kriya Yoga", the exercises seem really powerful, and I am not sure if I am ready for that, because he states in the book that they are very powerful, but what do you guys think, is it safe?

Maybe figure out why it doesn't work and try to fix it? If it just doesn't work, personally I would cut the connection. But I am sure you can learn a lot by dragging yourself through shit like "mentoring" her, when she comes to you and asking about that new guy etc. Up to you man - Do you want to mentor here? Do you want to hear all kinds of stories from her? My advice: If it just doesn't work, move on and cut her out, as she is (most likely) distracting your life. But first of all, try to figure out why it doesn't work now, and have a real honest conversation with her, spit out your feelings, be 100% honest and transparent.

Nice explanation! Yes, would love to hear about those exercises!

What am I then? Not my biological, physical body I guess? And not my persona / ego ofc. But the living, aware essence?

So, I am awareness, and awareness is me. But why can't that awareness expand out of my body? Why can't I be aware of what you are doing right now, when I am you, and you are me? So me and you are actually the same?

Can you elaborate a little more on the course? What is being teached? What was your experience?

Hey Actualizers, So I am currently reading The Work, by Byron Katie, which seems like a book with A LOT of potential. Although, when I get to step 3 on the worksheet "How do you react when you think that thought", I get stuck. I just don't feel any bodily sensations, or maybe I am just too unaware to notice them, but I can't really move past this, I just end up writing my thoughts about it, but I don't feel like I am doing it correctly, which is quite sad as I feel like this is the first book I've stumbled upon, that can really dissolve some negative thoughts. What's your take on this step in The Work? All replies are highly appreciated! Thanks.

I see I got some Feldenkrais workshops in my town, can you elaborate a little more on it? Have you tried it for yourself? I feel like I have a lot of emotional blocks in me, I am having a really hard time expressing myself in front of other people and being authentic.

Thanks for your replies, really valuable! I am using the worksheet :-)! Maybe it's just, when I try to notice the emotion that it triggered inside of me, I get distracted by so many other things, like I can't really concentrate, so I have a feeling that it is an awareness issue.

@Leo Gura Would really love your advice on this one! :-)

Wonderful explanation, thanks alot!