Sashaj

Coz we is in the dual world and it’s the only vehicle we have until we don’t need it

@yawning_ It’s the secret sauce

I mean traditional sitting meditation on a daily basis What type of meditation do you do? Do you alternate with self-inquiry or other practices? How has it changed over months or years?

Make sure to cool down the pie first

Cut straight through the hoopness ?

It’s where almost everyone starts with meditation practice, then insights come accidentally. Letting go of the pursuit brings peace and an aha moment! Rinse and repeat coz the insight doesn’t stick the first time

Great answers! I meditate on the breath mostly, 20-30mins a day Letting go, surrendering is the most important aspect in my experience Have started looking into self enquiry as a kind of brute force awakening tool I questions and answers often come up spontaneously during sitting meditation, usually towards that end of a session, when the thoughts calm down and awareness is stronger I did a 10 day Vipassana retreat many years ago. It was ok but found the process a bit intense. However I did have a strong insight that changed something permanently

It’s a good video and Leo seems to be a decent bloke with good ideas. So many trash talkers on here that think they know better. Makes me lol

Say there are no objects, only the senses themselves which we take as our external world and say that sensing is an abstract interpretation of things that we will never truely say to exist in the world, what causes the sense to be activated in the first place? If there is really nothing there then what is being sensed? or do we say that phenomena is here but we cannot understand the phenomena or know it’s true form because the experience is realised through sensing ?

Objects or phenomena may exist but we are the phenomena (objects for namesake even though object implies observer) since they can’t exist independent of awareness?

I once had a crystal that gave me a tonne of energy and I couldn’ts sleep for days but that was a white crystal that I smoked through a glass pipe

Everybody in here is acting kinda shady Aint callin’ me baby

Lay down? Walking meditation? Also there are other ways to get there besides mediation ps I know it’s Goenka, above options wouldn’t really fly but retreats are overrated anyway. Do your own; all you need is a mosquito net and a forest

Don’t forget that people who write books can sometimes be wrong

well either way you’ll end up dead at some point... BUT you will never know if you never try. Nice to see other places. Meet knew people. She’d your old skin for a while and maybe fall in love in an exotic place (or in the next state) Atleast you can choose to come back whenever you want if that’s what you want. Or not ever. It doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things but of the itch is there I say scratch it

Yeah it’s no joke and feels like shit. But it is fertile ground for growth. My best moments come after a beat down. Sometimes it just what you need to give the right perspective to move forward Maybe take a break from you pursuits and idle for a bit. Build up some energy for round 2. Or stop fighting altogether and do nothing

All good, have fun crusading Wrong forum to do it on though

He is now and will be gone later. He is one of many devils in the world and in our minds and one of many more that will keep popping up in eternally because that’s how the ego world works. Stop distracting yourself trying to convince others of the evils of trump and work on yourself. Save your precious energy for the REAL fight

Oh my, the drama of the ego!

Yep. Green thinking to be triggered by Trump. Good vs evil, right vs wrong. Trump is a symptom of excess Green in the media. There is no such person as Donald Trump, get it over it folks

Exactly. Now you can just surrender and your work is done

Ha! Well said. Love em to death

Place your skeleton body in a comfortable position Prepare to DIE Tell yourself you are dying and that there is nothing more to worry about or care about There is no pain in death, just peace Accept your death as a release of all the anxiety and bad things that may be plaguing you Feel the peace of letting go to death. Feel the lack of peace of letting go in death feel the anxiety release as you let go into death. Feel the anxiety rise again as you die. Watch the cycle of rising and falling. Let it die with you Accept all the thoughts in your head but realise that they are useless to you now that you are dying Feel the tension leave your body as you surrender. Feel it melt into nothingness as you leave it all behind. If tension returns accept it and realise the futility of it as you die and it dies with you Do not resist any thoughts or sensations. Do not resist any resistance to the same. Do not resist resisting resistance. Just let it exist without judgment. Let it die to when it is ready. Everything dies whether you will it or not. Let it happen Your body might feel like it is melting or disappearing. No problem if it does or doesn’t. Let it die either way Whatever arises, let it melt into death when it is reqdy to do so You may or may not feel bliss arising. Either way just let it melt away There is no point There is no destination or path there is no permanent enlightened person, just a a bag of bones on the floor melting away Just keep doing this for however long you want. It doesnt matter. Just let it go. And if you can’t let go, don’t worry, let letting go go too Rinse and repeat forever

@Saumaya thanks I will check out your references, cheers

@Jack River how do you mean? In th negative sense? There is nothing negative about death if you kill ignorance and see what remains