Enlightenment

Depend on the person. After enlightenment, every step, moment, breathe, thoughts and doing is meditation. Because they are no longer, step, breathe, moment, thoughts nor doing. Some do some don't No, there is still effort required to properly meditate, even after enlightenment

Something is happening or at least something seems to be happening

Matthieu Ricard

@ChickenFeathers Technique is very good especially for people who have more trouble concentrating but TM is a cult. It's a very simple technique but they will claim that you have to learn it from their teacher and he will give you "special" mantra blah blah blah They are money hungry $$$

@Heaven Yes, it doesn't change your predispositions to mental disorders either. It's easier to bear anxiety when you're enlightened tho

Have you tried Transcendental Meditation (I'm well aware of TM cult and shady things going on there) technique? Some instructions for a different type of mantra meditation; TM is that ripples in a lake thing ~38:40 Shinzen Young about mantra practise vs mindfulness https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/art_mantra.pdf

@The Don How does it feel like? Joyful, open, alert awareness with effortless stability of attention. Sudden unexpected sounds don't startle you as much or at all, high equanimity

@Farnaby Temporary? Yes For all the time everyday functioning? No

@Michael569 @neutralempty I stumbled upon this today https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002239561100032X?via%3Dihub

@BlackMaze Losing seeming center in the head (self) from which all experience seems to be observed. No longer feeling like you are looking out the world out there and there is a separation between you and the world. Drastic reduction in self-referential thoughts.

@mmKay lol The Chad Sam Harris have a Stacy wife Unlike Virgin Jordan's wife

I don't, and experience fatigue is the main reason When you talk to old people, it’s not uncommon for them to say something like, “I’m tired of this life. I hope I die. I just don’t like it anymore.” Now, as a young person, when you hear that, it sounds horrible. You’re thinking, “No, please don’t talk like that, Grandpa. You have so much to live for,” and so on. But from Grandma’s point of view, they have experience fatigue. They have already eaten all the great meals. They’ve already had all the great sex. There’s very little novelty in your life as you get older. And it turns out the novelty is one of the things that makes life enjoyable. So when Grandma and Grandpa say, “I’m ready to go, and really the only reason I don’t jump off a bridge right now is for you guys,” for the family and the loved ones, and maybe even for society if they’re thinking of themselves that way, Grandma and Grandpa are not necessarily depressed, even. They’re just reflecting their experience of their life as an old person. So even though it’s hard as a young person to take that in, it’s worth considering that you’ll be there someday as well.

At one point, that was my plan (maybe not 20 but a few) but then I got severely Ill and sex was not in my mind for a long time. I probably will try hookers at one point. There's no way to know if a hooker is 'clean'

Throughout history men always had a tougher time in terms of getting laid. Today it's actually easier for an average male to get some pussy but the minority that don't get any will create toxic red/black pill ideology because at least it's something they can blame it on. *or is too inhibited to escalate Storytime A few years ago I was in a club with friends. We had very pure MDMA crystals which we eyeballed (I know it was incredibly stupid), it was for sure the highest dose I ever took, just unimaginable euphoria, might even be on the edge of serotonin syndrome. So we took it + a few shots of vodka before entering the club and in the club as well. So here I was dancing on the most disinhibiting drug combo imaginable MDMA and drunk. A girl started to grind on my dick, I backed up in crippling fear, she looked back at me and smiled, she was very persistent trying to do that a few more times yet my fear managed to cripple me completely. Essentially my inhibitions were too high even on super drug combo, what chances do I have sober? After that night I let go of even trying at all to get girls because I thought that unless I will get some amygdala removal surgery, there's no way for me to ever get pussy. Brutal

I'm still getting off slowly. Emotional blunting goes away as my dose decreases There is no cure for major depression yet. SSRIs, therapy, tricyclics, or other drugs are all ways to decrease suffering and cope with a major depressive episode until it runes its course and goes away. Major depression is an episodic illness, about 95% of episodes last 2 months to 5 years, once triggered there's not much we can do to stop it. Blunting of emotions is good in MD cause it may be a difference between committing suicide and not committing suicide during a peak.

Losing the self in the head, the perceiver, the centrum of experience is of supreme importance for him - more important than temporary states of God

Venlafaxine blunted my emotions when I was on it but it was why I took it in the first place. Have you tried any psychedelics after being off of SSRI's?

Only Two-Thirds Of American Millennials Believe The Earth Is Round The odds of winning a recent Powerball jackpot were 1 in 290 million. This means you were more likely to be killed by a vending machine (1 in 112 million), have identical quadruplets (1 in 15 million), and become a movie star (1 in 1.5 million)

14:22 Oh no, give me another spiritual teacher, I don't like this one, give me the one that was telling me I'm immortal and can not be killed

Interesting case Proof that psychedelics are not an easy cure for a devil, a psychopath will still be a psychopath even after a lot of psychedelics 2:33 a guy says how "doing a lot of acid" really messed him up https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/ramirez-richard.htm

At least for me, it's easier to drink something bad tasting when I do it in one gulp. If you really wanna do it in tea, wait until the tea is room temperature cause hot temperature may affect MDMA (just my speculation). Orange juice, coca-cola, or anything else with a strong taste. It's not so bad for it to be a problem to drink it (at least for me and a few of my friends) Capsule like: Solves your problem

Aspartame in doses I use it which is 10 - 20 tablets a day is completely safe. It's not harmful neither has any benefits, just neutral. But it brings a pleasure of eating a few points for me (I have cravings for sweet taste not for fat foods usually), it helps me to stay fit cause no calories, unlike honey. Studies showing aspartame giving cancer to rats were using insane doses. Honey also destroys teeth I also use some sodium cyclamate and sodium saccharin but way less because they don't taste as good as aspartame

@OBEler you can put it in a capsule or just dissolve it in something like 30ml of water to gulp it on in go, like vodka (taste of pure MDMA is horrible) be prepared for a very bad taste