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There's all kinds of wee ways you can trick yourself. You gotta tune it to your own self, each person's different. For myself I am conscious that I nearly always put off meditation if I wait until dark, so I try not to wait until dark...too tired. Being aware of time the night before is handy. I'm very precise with my measurements of time. 10 minutes on phone in morning to wake my eyes up (LED light really works), 45 mins up, shower and ready, 1 hour 15 mins for kryia yoga and self enquiry. Just before I need to leave. Also if your like me and you struggle to actually *sit down* to meditate because of laziness or whatever, just force yourself abruptly to go and sit on your cushion shut your eyes and hold your mind empty for 15 seconds. Then just gently move into your normal position and ease into the meditation. For some reason this works for me. If your struggle is doing your full hour...my personal thing that helped me was really keeping momentum, practise after practice keep it fluent and try to get yourself to slip into a trance like state. Time flys when you don't exist ??

Oh, ive experienced the *exact* same thing. Your thinking too much. notice what you do when you notice it happening...you try to fix it yeah. whats happening is this, your thinking too much, you notice that your thinking too much so you tighten your grip on it so to restrain it with your mind, however this is just implementing more thoughts. What your looking for is to become thoughtless...like a child. anxiety is what it is. you gotta learn the language of silence when it comes. not trying to fix it. also, whatever you look at, is what you are literally creating. By looking at something you cause it to become larger in the eye of your consciousness. By trying to fix your anxiety, as you notice it arise...you cause it to arise further. its like me telling you not to think of the pink elephant...the better thing to do would be to stop reading my reply lol Also, look for any possible physical causes of your anxiety. weed makes your anxiety go mad. when the anxiety arises either...*silence* ................................................................................. ...or get up and dance, look at something else. you are creating it my friend

You need to be able to have all your food prepared and ready. Also you need to do walking meditation or your ass will cease to exist before you do trust me. Get some nice, tested psychedelics as well. Be much better

Be sure to loose your mind in a healthy, stable way. If it's happening in a bad, unpredictable way...focus on fixing your mind first then focus on removing it ??

@Nak Khid it's whatever you make it I guess...since, your literally making it A hippy, a scientist, a Christian, a Buddhist and a nondual seeker might all take the exact same psychedelic and dosage and see completely different kinds of things. The trip will be somewhat angled towards what they believe or what they've focused on in their lives. It might be that psychedsubstance just wants to see some cool stuff and not go deep ...and so the psychedelic don't necessarily take him as deep as a zen Masters psychedelic experience.

Psychedelic would have been much safer for him

@Leo Gura truth be told, it's kinda the same with myself. I've only ever cared about deep metaphysical shit. Since I was very young I've only been interested in understanding truth. Spent a shitton of my teen years researching my religion. I've always been able to just pull truth straight out of any situation, it's fucken easy for me. It's got to the point where I can now intuitively tell shit like when someone's lying or whether I'm doing something wrong in my practises. I follow the urges and guidance I feel from...God. even though I'm still not conscious of it. About 1-2 years ago the voice told me to go up and put my hand on a tree, I did, and it said "none of it is real." I just thought, wtf does that mean. In fact leo, the only reason I listen to you is because I was (by chance) watching one of your videos (unrelated to spirituality at the time) a long while ago and something deep within me said "stop, x marks the spot" and I knew it was trying to get me to listen to you. Although, I'm gonna seriously need to ramp up my psychedelics game if what you guys are saying here is true. Fuck crawling up mount Everest. I have 5meoDMT that I've been too scared to try. I'm gonna do 2 heavy doeses of DMT then try the frog ?

This is a very...interesting, thread

@Patrick Lynam only trust the voice on the inside. Be indifferent to all teachings until the guru confirms it in your heart. If you close your eyes and open your heart...become sensitive to the unction of the spirit and make this your sole compass...you will succeed. It is in this simplicity that God is found. It's like how a child makes decisions, they don't sit and analyse...they go with the feeling. Females tend to be good at this more than men I've noticed, however men can do it to. These are high truths bro

Yeah I perceive that enlightenment is like a build up of pressure like water building and building until one day BOOM your ass blows out and you cease to exist as an ego. It's pure emptiness I see in an enlightened being. Very powerful

@TDW1995 Yeah I find it hard to talk about anything else other than god, enlightenment or philosophy. Especially because of the nature of how my brain works I think. Obsessive kinda. But I really don't mind that. I can't take drugs or go partying without having fucking visions of the lord haha it's cool tho

Lol

@Patrick Lynam sounds like some bullshit to me homes. I recommend, meditating your ass off

@Leo Gura holy fuck

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You know by not knowing

Ok when I first watched Leo's video "how to do self enquiry" to me it was very simple...leo said that you have to "look for yourself". "Am I the face, am I the heart, am I the images in the imagination." "Where am i?" These are the kinds of questions included in Leo's practical guide to enlightenment. He said that self enquiry is not like a meditation. I did this for around a year. Sat down, tried to locate myself. I would imagine my leg and ask "is this me" and then imagine it being removed and say "no this cannot be me". And this is how I did self enquiry. Very rigid, very active. But then someone told me I've been doing it wrong this whole time. One of the moderators on the site here told me "it's not about asking yourself what you are over and over again...it's about being quiet and when a thought arises, only then ask who is perceiving it. Someone else told me that I "shouldnt ask the question 'what am I'." Then, someone showed me a video with a guided meditation where she keeps saying "identify a characteristic of your observer...now, who is the one who observes this? Focus on this new observer. Then who is observing this? Focus on this second new observer." But to me it just feels like it's just me there, one observer, staring into darkness trying to see these other observers? Really confused. Don't understand all the mixed messages, should I sit in silence and wait for a thought? Should I actively seek out what I am with thoughts? Should I focus on these "observers" (that I'm pretty sure I'm just imagining anyway)? At one point someone actually told me that I shouldn't even be looking for myself in self enquiry at all. So....I really need some clarity up in this hoe Someone tell me what I'm supposed to do. After the moderator told me not to repeat the question "who/what/where am I" I resonated with this advice. But this contradicts Leo's video where he tells me to try really hard to locate myself. ??????

@erik8lrl intuition...yeah <3

Ok@Inliytened1

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Mate I'm tired of being in the "spiritual seeking intensifies" shit. I Wana have the shock of ego. I'm gonna have to get my ass in gear and start taking this seriously

@FuriousGeorge i usually just blab it out whenever I want to. If someone has a problem that I know a spiritual truth that can help...I'll just tell them straight up. Of course, depending on each person and truth you have to be very clear with how you present it to them. Funny, my father (a strong Baptist/Pentecostal mix christian) is always hearing mad shit come out of my mouth and just recently he's started perking his ears up Everytime I go "philosophical mode." Haha. Today I was sitting in class, getting a beating from the ego....worry, anxiety, pain. And it was making me think about how I'm a human. Anyway I just turned round to my mate and said "so mate, what do you think about all this business?" He said "what business, our (college) course (he's my college buddy)?" And I said "nah, I mean all this human malarkey...being a human and all.....do you like it?! I dunno." ? And he just didn't know what to say back. But I think, when your open and forward about the things you contemplate...it opens others minds to new flexibilities and consciousness. #FreePhilosophy

Leo is more dynamic, powerful and impartial

Yes this is good advice. Remember that it's about letting go. I myself was more focused on doing the techniques correctly that I was on letting go. I was robotic and linear with my practices. I would say something I've realised is, the most important thing is remembering to forget (letting go). It should feel like your a sand castle on the beach, and the tide is slowly coming in. It should start to wash you away. Try lots of techniques. Try talking to the Great Spirit. See if it talks back. If you want to know what your doing wrong, go buy some nice, clean DMT, test/weigh it, smoke it and ask the Spirit for yourself. Remember, the techniques are only templates...once you realise what this spirit is, the practices become more fluid and nonlinear...like a dance. Nearly, improvised intuitively.