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What does enlightenment mean for sexuality? I mean I am still having a hard time grasping the real concept of enlightenment so I could be spilling absolute bullshit right now. After reading this post of Leo: I feel like Sex, Sexuality, seems something that is identified with 'you'. As if it something that arises from within an unconscious Being? If there is no 'You' ('You' does not exist), if anything you see is a 'figment of your imagination' ,"'You' and 'the world' merge, erasing the physical distinction between self, other, and world.". I feel like Sex is something coming from a personal desire which is connected to 'You' of some sort, so which is not 'real', but just.. I don't know, I feel that it is hard to explain. Or am I totally wrong and enlightened people get as much pleasure from sex as people who are not enlightened?

Does anyone have any experience with opening of their third eye chakra? I've read some really weird and thought provoking things about it. It could help people to enlightenment too and gives you a totally different view in life. But I've also read about scary experiences (such as encountering one's own demons?) I'm not sure what to think of it. What are your thoughts? Knowledge?

Jesus and Buddha. How would we have information about their vibrational frequency?

I'm really sorry to hear that. I don't know a lot about it, nor am I able to really be able to help you other than express my empathy to you and a lot of courage. I am glad that you could recognize the actions of your mother are from a narcissist's view meaning that I'd imagine you could put less energy / importance into her actions? I'd advise you to talk to a specialist/therapist who could give you some insight on how to deal with it. Since right now it is kind of a "hot topic" I am sure you could find the help you need. I myself do not have experience with it so sadly I am not sure what to say to help you other than to meditate, try to forgive and let go. Peace be with you, and I am curious about your development. The best of luck!

Hello all! This forum seems really interesting and intriguing. Can't wait to be apart of this. I just started meditating because I have been having a hard time controlling my thoughts lately and I felt like this could help me. Certainly since I need a lot of focus in my life right now, and having a clear mind and peaceful self in general is something I strive for. That said, the last 4 days I did these short guided-meditation sessions for 10 mins. Whenever I steered my focus to my body (mentally), I suddenly felt this rush of energy being present everywhere in my body. It was a really big rush of energy that I could feel was starting from the middle of my body and was spreading through every limb. Now, together with this energy increase I felt it was harder to control my breath (my breath would become shorter), and my heart would start beating much faster (maybe twice as fast). I was wondering if this was normal? I was worried about my heartbeat increasing and my breath being shorter. When I shifted my focus on my breath, the energy would fade away, until I gained a more clear focus on my breath, and I could feel this energy again. Also, my eyes would start vibrating behind my eyelids and would move a bit upward. I was almost in like a hypnotic state but with all of my senses being hyper-active and much more activated. When I stopped this meditation, I felt a little bit 'out of body'. When googling about it I didn't really find clear results as to if it is normal that your heartbeat starts increasing together with the shortage of breath. If anything, it lead towards anxiety symptoms more than effects from meditating. Any thoughts about this?

@Prabhaker Seems like a fraud to me. But I could be wrong of course.

I'm not sure if this is an event of synchronicity, but just yesterday I had this event! I was thinking about how in highschool we always played with a 'mushy' football. It's the world cup now and I was following it closely. Thinking about the hard leather ball and how it must hurt sometimes for the keeper to catch it / when it hits another player. So I was thinking about how it was when I used to play football when I was younger, at school with this mushy yellow footballs. I had never thought about it before, for over 6 years (high school was 6 years ago). Then I visited a friend, and I went to sit on a chair outside in the garden of her house, and this exact mushy ball I was thinking about just HOURS before, is right in front of my feet! It was crazy, such a coincidence

Is it this guy? https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/karnataka-trial-court-frames-charges-against-nithyananda-rape-case-82595

@Nahm I will admit that I do not really understand what you mean with that, but thanks for your time and effort to help.

Amazing. I will read this post a couple of times to really let it sink in and carry it with me. Thanks a lot for this. Have you reached the state of being "enlightened"? "one day I sat down on the cushion and laughed and cried for a few days, completely relieved by the knowing (felt like I remembered something I already knew) that there is only one thing." Would you describe this experience as reaching that state? And "there is only one thing" - Referring to a specific entity or being?

That is actually not true. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-624-x/2013001/article/c-g/11855-c-g-01-eng.htm Edit: This is only Canada, but look for proof / graphs online you will find the same pattern.

Thank you very much for this elaborate response. I am planning on doing daily morning meditation. How is this helping you in your daily life? Do you still every really worry? I have been diagnosed with mild-OCD so I have a tendency for being very sensitive to impulses and over-thinking in repeating patterns. I am sure I can cure myself of this though. Also, addressing the increased heartbeat and shortage of breath, you think these are normal occurring symptoms? Nothing to worry about? However I am very aware that I have unwanted and intrusive thoughts going on, I acknowledge them but I have a hard time of letting go. Certainly when there is no closure. That is my main problem. I try to make sense out of something that doesn't make sense to me. And it can be very very exhausting. There was this one specific thought - criticism and I carried it with me for years, until one day I decided I found a good enough counter argument which enabled me to refute any energy I gave to these thoughts and it went away like *bam*. But this makes me dependent on very exhausting cognitive power in order to try to convince myself of the unimportance of certain thoughts. They pop up like parasites.