Consilience

Sounds like it will be amazing, but just curious why wouldn’t you be going for enlightenment while you’re there? That‘s what Buddhism is all about.

Perhaps long term. If we define the aim of meditation as the training of attentional skills, or mindfulness, coffee can help with paying attention. However, if we’re defining the aim of meditation to be with the way things are independent of state, not such a good idea. Ironically this second point can also be defined as a quality of mindfulness. Meditation without supplementation of any kind is certainly helpful in some contexts.

Coffee + Lions Mane + L-Theanine + meditation = psychedelic Have to be careful not to overdue it on caffeine though because it can and has created an over fried CNS in the past off of relatively small amounts. 1 cup of coffee per day is the max I try and stick around. As one becomes more conscious via meditation, the sensitivity of drugs seems to increase.

+1 Freedom feels like a nice pointer though.

??‍♂️Enlightenment happens when I drops. Nope. Self activity remains just as it remained before enlightenment. There is literally no-thing to drop. Cessation of self activity is not enlightenment. Cessation of self activity is just another transient (impermanent) state.

This is where you’re lost. All experience, the ‘isness’ of whatever is appearing, IS absolute truth as what is. The next step is becoming conscious of its true nature, it is experiencing ‘isness’ so directly you experience its empty nature.

What experiences enlightenment? A rhetorical question. Fantasy. There was never a you to end. Nothing disappears, nothing appears, nothing changes. What is true was already true. Something disappearing is more duality, another ego story. Good luck ?

Strong determination sitting Rules: 1. Don't harm the physical body 2. Don't move unless to prevent harm from the physical body Facing pain and suffering head on is one of the fastest ways to understand deep compassion and love for all sentient beings. Impossible to bullshit yourself when you're basking in massive amounts of discomfort. You either have wide open equanimity (Love) or you don't.

Even in the darkness, there is only light. Even in silence, there is only sound. No need to go seek darkness or silence when darkness and silence are always present. If you think reality isn't real as what your post seems to suggest: You haven't gone all the way. But is that actually what you've experienced? That there is no such thing as reality?

This is not an experience, this an interpretation of experience. In Zen, just sitting is complete reality. This is not an experience, this is an interpretation of experience. This depends on your definition of real. Real is what is ACTUALLY going on, experientially, directly, as it IS. THIS. In this way, all experiences are equally real. By recognizing when the mind is interpreting reality vs. directly observing reality. Direct observation = truth/real. Their actuality is profoundly real. The way one interprets the experiences and builds metaphysical models is relative. Look into this concept from Janism, "Anekantavada"

And tbh this is a completely fair criticism. The number of psychedelic users who pursue enlightenment is a low percentage of the psychedelic community. The success rate of psychedelic users who pursue enlightenment (whether with psychedelics or not) is low. The number of enlightened masters who are interested in psychedelics is even lower. By the time one is enlightened, the need to chase states to experience God is non-existent.

I'd keep going with your contemplation. This is when the Zen master would hit you with a stick! For me personally, a vipassana retreat was what shattered my entire metaphysics and let me step into a direct experience of the nature of reality, given perception = actuality = being = reality. (Some hints: impermanence, not me not mine, unsatisfactory, boundless space, compassion, infinite interconnectivity, God, Love)

How can you trust your experiences within the sober as real? It seems like more than a bit of a leap to build a whole metaphysics around any state of mind. Why? Precisely because of the infinite range of possible mind states there are. So how are we gauging which ones are better, more accurate, more indicative of reality than others? The mistake of the mainstream science is to place so much authority on the sober state of mind, as though somehow the natural state we've all been given is 'the state' to make metaphysical conclusions about reality. Moreover, we then have to consider how much un-cognized mind state activities are influencing the ways we interpret and build stories around whatever perceptive experience is taking place, whether sober or tripping. This is why have a strong epistemological basis is critical for any kind of contemplative work, whether psychonautic or not. This is all to say, great that you're questioning, but make sure to apply that same skepticism to the sober mind. Point the questioning to the structure of mind itself, not one slice of content within all possible mind states, in my opinion.

Perhaps this is a description of enlightenment. What is reality?

Which specific playlist is this apart of?

^ Mindfulness Microdosing mushrooms would be fun too. They’d teach you how to dance while simultaneously allowing you to go way meta.

He passed away so online retreat is all we’ve got. Everything I learned about accessing all 8 main jhana’s came from his recorded lectures on Dharma Seed. Typing in “Rob Burbea Jhana retreat” and you’ll find the list of recordings. There’s probably a depth to jhana work impossible to emulate without going on a retreat, building the day by day momentum, and working with a teacher, but these recordings are the only resources Ive found that are clear and powerful. Everything Ive learned about jhanas has been in a home setting and Ive been able to access all 8. There are many layers, subtleties, and forms of each jhana… getting a first glimpse is the critical step though, the rest tends to naturally unfold with increasingly less effort… we learn how to surrender into them. Id treat the recordings like a meditation course, each is about as long as a Leo video, some a little shorter. Good luck dude ??

Have you read Christopher Bache‘s “LSD and the Mind of the Universe”? Dude was doing 500-700ug. Fucking insane.

One’s karma is whatever is actually happening in the present moment. Karma is real only insofar as this present moment is real.

Shinzen Young’s See Hear Feel technique is really unique when it comes to how he presents concentration. Long story short, concentration =\= attention stability, however attention stability can be a feature of concentration. The beauty of noting meditation is one can get into a state of shamatha without stabilizing attention on a single object. Instead, momentary concentration doesn't disrupt the natural rhythms and flow of attention, or activity of mind but still facilitates the benefits of mindfulness. We learn to ride the wave of this field of flux rather manipulating it. Id also highly highly highly recommend Rob Burbea’s jhana retreat. There are certainly benefits to attention stability such as deep jhana work.

This is huge. ??

Amazing list.

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That’s a very difficult question. “World of form” = perception + awareness of perception + time + space + awareness of time & space. All of this is subject to impermanence as you mentioned. Absolute truth is not impermanent though, otherwise it would not be absolute and so therefore cannot be any of these forms. Yet by virtue of the actuality of form, forms are “true.” Actuality = what is true. All of this is the epitome of paradox and the quicker your mind can rest into this paradox comfortably, the better. There is a quality to existence though that is utterly unchanging, absolute. It is the true nature of self and reality and is inextricably unified with all forms. And so when one is grounded in the absolute, one is necessarily grounded in form but at a ‘meta’ level. Being at this meta level is not the same as seeking different flavors of form though, it is allowing the play to be exactly as it is. Equanimity. When you become conscious of this absolute, happiness and unhappiness collapse into Happiness. “Happiness” is beyond time, space, mind, self, other, and reality. Beyond all duality. Impossible to think about or describe, really. Best input I could give is to keep meditating and self inquiring until this ‘makes sense.’

Truth is eternal. The world of form is impermanent. Happiness based in truth is not impermanent.