Porphyry Fedotov

Pretty inspiring video

It's surprising they didn't join NATO 8 years ago when Russia annexed Crimea and destabilized eastern Ukraine

With current clusterfuck in Ukraine Russia isn't able to do anything to neither Finland nor Sweden. Never gonna happen NATO or no NATO. It's all bluff. At this point I'm not sure whether Russia even has nuclear weapon ready to strike, it might have been rusted to shit.

Learn the basics of German grammar and then immerse yourself in a German language. Stop reading and watching content in your native language altogether. Make your own Anki deck for all the new words and idioms you stumble upon to memorize them. Repeat the old words and learn the new ones every day. Use Italki to develop your speaking skills. Consistency is the key.

Condoning and silently supporting Israel's apartheid against Palestinians and Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. If only the West had the same reaction towards these atrocities as it has now towards Russian invasion of Ukraine.

I don't think it's a scam, although there're definitely people who scam using Tarot. All divination systems are merely tools which help you to develop your own intuition. For example I have some experience with I-Ching and my predictions have been quite accurate so far.

Well in my opinion there're infinite degrees of awakening. You can trip all your life and only scratch the surface. Even if Sadhguru hasn't experienced 5-meo-DMT or DPT levels of consciousness that doesn't mean that he isn't awaken. He is definitely more conscious than an average person. Also his wrong social takes are just his wrong social takes. Growing up and waking up are different things and have different dynamic. There were awakened af zen masters who supported Japanese imperialism during WWII (I'm not condoning an imperialism here, just saying) On the whole very interesting podcast, too bad Rogan didn't ask him about DMT though lol

Hi everyone. So I've found that my meditation is more effective when I use earplugs. My parents usually watch tv everyday and to me the tv noise is distracting in its irritation (apparently it has some emotional baggage, other noises are mostly ok). I have to spend a lot of time differentiating the irritation from the sound and observing it until the irritation passes or subsides and it eats up a lot of time from every seat. Sometimes my mom just walks around the apartments talking to herself loudly which also doesn't make it any easier. In rare cases of silence (or when I use earplugs) my meditation is more smooth and enjoyable. I practice system from 'Mind Illuminated' btw. However, can it be harmful in the long run because I'm feeling that I'm cutting myself out of the environment so to speak, like how I gonna be calm and joyful in everyday life if I can't manage some noise from the adjacent room? It feels kinda like cheating. On the other hand how about all those monks who live in caves and jungles? I suppose they live that way to avoid distractions and are pretty effective regardless

He isn't going to occupy Ukraine. I think he will dismantle Ukrainian democracy and get rid of its political elites. Ukraine is going to be another Russian client state just like Belarus or Kazakhstan. I feel sad and sorry for them, since Ukraine was a real democracy, not without flaws, but still, and it's a big deal for a post-USSR country.

If you want something very simple - then When Awareness Becomes Natural by Sayadaw U Tejaniya is for you. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki is great as well.

To be honest I don't know what is the issue with your practice, personally I feel more calm and happy after it. I use 'Nam Myoho Renge Kyo' mantra and repeat it for an hour. I consider it supplementary practice though.

Ukraine and Hong Kong protests were authentic. What are you on, dude Also what happening in Kazakhstan is quite simple - people got sick and tired of Nazarbayev and the fuel price spike was the final straw. So they deposed him. I think Russia may use this situation to invade Kazakhstan as it did with Ukraine during The Revolution of Dignity (but I hope it wont). It's hilarious to see how this thread degraded into discussion about how Russia is a shithole. In some ways it is a shithole but it's more complicated than that. There is beauty in every country and a silver lining in every situation.

They may have high income and GDP but you can't have a democracy if your population at Red or Blue stage of development. You can give tribal people great infrastructure and high income - however they won't stop holding onto tribal values. Look closely for example how all this great infrastructure was built by the way. By slave force, that should tell you something about Gulf states' societies.

He has been reckless that way since the whole ivermectin story, it seems personal now. As for Mcullough, Joe has been having questionable guests for ages now. However it isn't the wisest thing to do in the midst of the COVID epidemic, like the last adequate guy he had over was Sanjay Gupta and we all know how it went down. By the way, I noticed a similar trend with Russel Brand. He also became very paranoid about vaccines related stuff.

Thanks for the advice. So even my room isn't safe from tobacco smoke if somebody smokes in a kitchen with a closed door?

Is passive smoking a significant source of heavy metals? My father has been been smoking around me since I was a kid. Only recently I've been trying to avoid it. Is it as dangerous as the press making it out to be? How do you guys deal with smokers in family? Like if a person smokes in the kitchen for how long you should air it?

Fermented milk (kefir and such) is pretty healthy, other forms of milk like cheese or raw milk- not so much. I have a gastritis and after I started a vegan diet I found that the lack of kefir had detrimental effect on my health. So now I'm a lacto vegetarian and my stomach inflammation mostly eased.

Pretty accurate POV. It's tragic that Putin and his clique treat Ukraine as CCP treated Tibet in 40's. Putin is clearly overestimating the importance of Ukraine for Russia. I think Russia will be alright even if Ukraine become NATO member, a lot of Russians sick and tired of Russian unchecked aggression against our neighbors (Georgia, Ukraine etc).

Why not? Lucid dreaming is a legit spiritual practice.

Stupid question, but how do you guys practice it with open eyes or closed eyes?

Hi everybody. I've recently read "The Mind of the Universe" by Christopher Bache. For those who is unfamiliar with his work - he did about 70 high dose LSD (500 and higher) trips. What I found out was revealing and confirmed and clarified my own experience. Basically, before every breakthrough and god realization he had to go through excruciatingly purifying suffering. It seems to me that taking the 'right dosage' of psychedelic isn't enough to have an awakening experience. The psychedelic has to clean up the The Augean Stables of your mind to make room for it. Leo rarely talks about it. At least it was for Christopher Bache and as I found for me as well. For example - even to get the tiny sample of blissful cosmic love I myself went through tons of trips filled with suffering. It's like in order to experience subtle states of consciousness, your own consciousness has to be pulverized to more subtle formation and attuned. And this process of refinement ain't easy. It's difficult as fuck. I feel like I'm moving very slowly in this direction fighting at every step and even when I surrender - I never do it fully because I still not fully understand how to do it properly. It goes like this - at the beginning of a trip I usually realize that I'm in the midst of internal struggle, and I'm like fuck here we go again. It takes time to get to the point when I surrender (or sometimes not). For me purification takes two form. First one is getting attacked by very coarse bass-like vibrations which grind and massage my consciousness. I call it cosmic coffee grinder. It takes slightly different forms. Sometimes it accompanied with visuals, sometimes not. Second one happens when you feel unpleasant feeling like fear until it gest absurdly intense and magnified so that it disappear. That's what happened to me yesterday. I drunk 3 gr mushroom tea. And most of the trip was suffering. At some point I felt relief when a blob blocking the flow peeled off. Then followed extreme fear which run it course and followed by impatience which run its course as well. Then a brief moment when I kind of surrendered and for a short time became breath and I was an energy flowing through myself peacefully. Then at the end of a trip were usual post effects, all these beautiful but vacuous bells and whistles like fractals and extreme mind-wandering. Do any of you have similar experience? Can it be somehow related to the particular type of psychedelic? Christopher Bache used LSD, I usually use mushrooms. I only used LSD once and from my experience it was extremely similar to shrooms. Also does it have to do with trauma? Because I definitely had a few traumatic experiences in my life (for example I even have a physical manifestation of I guess some trauma - constant ache on the left side of body below heart. There're moments when I don't feel it, but it never goes away) Any suggestions on to how to improve the quality of trips?

Maybe I should've used different words. I feel like any psychedelic opens you to conscious high frequency vibrations which transform and attune you to the level they are at. It's like there is a hidden intelligence to this process It's not that I attributing something specifically to a mushroom. I mostly use them only because I have an easy access to them. Otherwise I would have switched to 5 meo dmt or something like that long ago.

What is twin flame? Can you elaborate a bit on your broad approach? Do you suggest investigating avenues of spirituality I've never been to before? Also how do you discern when a method doesn't work for you? Sometimes it's confusing. Some authors like Pema Chodron in "the Wisdom of no escape" advice to just feel whatever you are feeling no matter how difficult the feeling. Isn't it pointless to start looking for a new method every time you hit a rough patch in your practice? Or when it's mostly rough? The climbing of Everest isn't supposed to be an easy task.

Great advice. I tend to do the same.