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They are both required for the best service to spiritual seekers because at many points people will not believe those who speak clearly of their opulence, but I consider the Buddha, Krishna, and Jesus to be among the best. They all certainly had imperturbable confidence in who and what they were.

The present moment is not quantifiable as every process you could be doing to gauge things would be analyzing phenomena which have already ceased.

I would say that maybe the energy is moving around because there is a need for it to. No human being is as intelligent as the energy which drives your being. Having higher chakras open and lower ones less pronounced can be disconcerting for sure, but it also comes with a ton of advantages for certain stages in the spiritual path. People love to have a bias toward grounding because it’s far more common to see and understand humans who operate mostly through the lower chakras. The most effective things I’ve ever done for grounding involved opening my higher chakras up even more because that’s how I’m naturally geared. At first this is destabilizing, but the energy of the upper chakras is often chaotic. It’s learning to operate at stronger intensities which will ultimately result in you becoming more equanimous in all experiences. If your whole system keeps taking you higher, ask yourself why something far beyond human intellectual processing would move in that way. I hope this helps. Don’t be too eager to open things up too fast, but also don’t be fooled into thinking that trying to suppress your higher energetic capabilities will be in your best interest in the long term either.

Talking to me on the forum like I’m a separate being who can respond to you is the exact same.

If you prefer less stimuli and find it helps your meditation, keep doing that. I personally find that I go deeper into meditation with intense music on full blast while using an app called Lumenate which flashes rapidly at your closed eyelids to produce tons of visual sensations. I do vipassana meditation in this way just with way more sensations than the human body is going to get even through psychedelics most of the time.

Praying to God in a nondual way works the same as talking to someone. Yeah, the whole field of experience is one, but that doesn’t mean your ego is the same as your mom or that your ego is the same as God or whatever deity you like. You’re trying to connect to another aspect of experience with your ego. Pray to God or the deity of your choosing as a transcendent aspect of yourself that you’d like to bring closer to your normal relative life. Praying to a God you appreciate, respect, and love is important. It’s an individual choice. There is no best thing to pray to for everyone. If you really find the life of Jesus great, maybe try him. If you like Krishna more, do that. It’s easiest to connect to that which we already find inspirational.

I was lucky to meet someone on the Actualized.org community who had the perfect personality, passion for truth, and dedication to practice to become my first true student. Teaching many people is great, but to teach one deeply is just as effective. You can have a great impact on others. The boddhisattva role is the highest of aspirations in my opinion.

I showed him the thread, and it made him quite happy. It’s not as if this reveals his identity in some way anyway.

Good work. Try to focus on how ego death and no self might be different. Here’s what my first deep no self awakening was like. Live No-Self Enlightenment & Stream Entry (Intense Shadow Expression & Healing) This is a good one if you want to go deeper into no self. The Three Doors to Enlightenment (Impermanence, Suffering & No Self) https://youtu.be/kScZE1U6Nxl

Keep reading MCTB. I can give advice on how to overcome suffering in your case. It sounds like you are already doing a great job, but next time you’re overcome with suffering, try to focus on the sensations of suffering. Rather than seeing how it is not self, feel into it as completely and directly as possible. If you turn toward the suffering, it is guaranteed to change under enough investigation. Feel free to check out my channel where I post Q&A podcasts with my student regarding spirituality, usually from a Buddhist background based on MCTB. How to Escape the Dark Night of the Soul - Advice from a Living Buddha

I’ll probably post here whenever I do something self-expressive which I wouldn’t have had the confidence to do without awakening and spirituality. The Grand Wizard Appears… Looking Good, Good Lookin’

Why don’t you just try concentrating on things which you enjoy? The most successful in any discipline operate far more on obsession and desire rather than against it.

This is a perfect way to come to terms with the basic philosophies of Buddhism.

He hasn’t released it yet.

So we just start getting enlightened instead of lasik…. Seems like a steaming pile of dog shit lol. Enlightenment is not about powers or otherworldly things. It is about proper insight. This can happen with or without development of siddhis and such things. They are loosely related.

Do some coaching for free to develop some genuine testimonials. They’re paying you with their confidence in you rather than cash in this case.

Ayahuasca did the trick. No other psychedelic came close.

Because compassion is more intrinsic to most people’s nature than starving yourself in a cave…

Every worthwhile enlightened teacher had the confidence and balls to tell people exactly where they stand in their own opinion. Locking in realizations is like 90% confidence 10% content of the awakening. It’s more powerful to be convinced you’re awake than to be unsure even if you had deeper awakenings as far as baseline shifts go. If you can actually convince yourself, there will be baseline changes which align with that belief. At a certain point you know it’s impossible to know to such a degree that this becomes an aspect of what you know.

I recently made a video specifically targeted at these insight stages. I hope it helps. How to Escape the Dark Night of the Soul

These beings usually know you’re thinking about them immediately. You’re already in contact. You have to have some confidence. You can’t just say some Willy nilly incantation under your breath and expect the universe to align to your will. Think about what love and value you can give these beings, and then give this freely to them. They’ll likely poke their head in to see once you do that.

Effective contemplation can also be done on the nature of suffering, pain, resistance, impermanence and many other things. As long as you have no-self, suffering, or impermanence as the core of your contemplation, it can be very fruitful.