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I hope I don’t get a blood clot. How do you and those Buddhist monks prevent a blood clots from happening? Such a long period of sitting still cannot be too good for your health lol. In my experience, whenever I sat for a long time, I felt huge pulses in my bottom and I was scared of getting a blood clot lol. I consider myself very healthy, but I don’t know if I am just being too paranoid. @Michal__ Thank you! Awesome! Thank you!

Thanks man!

Damn. That sounds intense. Thanks man! What do you do when your mind wanders to distract from Not moving a muscle, do you just Do Nothing and observe it, or do you return to breath or mantra, or sounds, or body, etc.? I am definitely doing to try it.

Is this the link you are talking about? https://www.adyashanti.org/teachings/intro-teachings

Awesome! Thank you! What is an example of a mantra that you use that has no meaning to you? What exactly do you mean by samatha meditation, and how is it different from anapanasati meditation (awareness of breath).

Is this the link you are talking about? https://www.adyashanti.org/teachings/intro-teachings

Thanks. Wow. I need to look into transcendental meditation. I thought it was all about mantras and stuff. Thanks for your detailed thoughts. I tried Do Nothing m, and it’s hard lol. I feel like I am just in monkey mind. I feel like I am wasting time. What I tried to do was just observe my mind. When the monkey comes, I would observe him and just keep observing. What does your contemplation or self-inquiry practice look like?

That’s how I saw colors my whole life until I went to University. They told me that colors are photons that travel into the optic nerves, rods/cones, and then the visual cortex in brain to be perceived as colors. How did you come to the realization that colors are Being and not perceived. I get it conceptually, but I need to recontexualize my experience.

That’s a good one! What mantra do you use? Could you walk me through how you do transcendental meditation? I use Mooji’s mantra, which is “pure awareness, I am. Pure awareness, I am. Pure awareness, I am. Ohm. (Repeat). I also use the Jedi Code as my meditation as well.

Why not meditate while they are asking for burgers? When you are meditating, there is no such thing as interruption. Use your customer as an object of meditation. Eliminate the boundary between formal practice and daily life. Meditation is something you can do all day. Osho explains this well on Youtube.

I asked Leo what the difference was between Teotl and The Force and he said they are identical!

That’s exactly what I mean by solipsism. It’s not that I exist and everyone else doesn’t. It’s that there is experience but no experiencer. I am imagination. There is no separation between Direct Experience and imagination like you say.

Esse Este Precipi Just because you don’t perceive something doesn’t mean that it does exist either? Truth is that I don’t know whether objects still exist when they are not being observed. You are either directly experiencing something or you are imagining it. That’s it as far as I can see. Any speculation about external world, other minds, or flying spaghetti monsters is imagination that is taking you out of NOW. The only thing that exists is NOW. If it’s not happening NOW, where else is it happening? Look at your hand, and you may find that there is a lot of conceptual baggage on the NOW. There is no hand, there is no you who is looking and there are no minds. All there is, is all there is. Everything is a first-person appearance. Any external world that you believe exists behind the scenes is more concept and imagination. Right?

Ok. If I am imaginary, others are also imaginary. Ego is illusion. Separation is illusion. There are no people in a forum. It’s just imagination interacting with itself. You are imagining the moon and object permanence. You are imagining a nonsense conversation with a solipsist. There really are no solipsists because that is imaginary. Solipsism itself is imaginary, but I in trying to characterize “my” experience, I find that the concept of solipsism describes it best. Only God exists. The idea of you and the idea of me is an idea. The boundary is an idea. Infinite Consciousness is talking to itself. There is no me or you. This is what I mean by solipsism, which is the idea that Consciousness is the only thing that can be known to exist. Everything else is imagination. All objects, people, minds, emotions, moons, sky’s are just imaginations in consciousness. You are imagining that I believe people are not real. If you look at your direct experience, you are imagining people on this forum, that does not mean that they don’t exist or are not real, it just means that it is imaginary. All you have of reality is your point of view. Reality is perspective and never existed. Right?

Yeah medical marijuana license down in Oklahoma lol. Oklahoma is the last place you would think that would pass medical marijuana. Its so easy to get a medical marijuana license.

Isn’t consistency something you are imagining? What is your all’s view on tripping on cannabis?

@Leo Gura I do have cannabis license so do you think that eating cannabis would be helpful for expanding consciousness? I have never tried cannabis by the way.

@Someone here If I look away, the car coming is imagination, but I still hear the car coming, which is actuality. I am not walking on the highway, the highway is walking through me. I am imagining that I am not imagining. That whole highway with cars is all in your imagination. Right? Look at your hand. Highways and cars are imaginary. Everything is just an appearance. @Someone here it’s not a theory, it’s just what it is. Everything is imagination. This forum is a hallucination. Isn’t “reality” just a collective hallucination agreed upon?

Okay! Thanks everyone for your help. I will stare at my hands till the cows go home. Lol. Some day, I might start using shrooms with the actuality practice. I am not quite at a point right now in life where I can use psychedelics yet. I would prefer to do it Buddha style lol.

That’s my problem. I watched your perception video with God being the sponge and me being the perceptual bubble, but when I look at my hand, all that exists is all that is in the perceptual bubble from my point of view. All other perceptual bubbles, galaxies, universes, etc. that are outside of “my” perceptual bubble are imaginary from “my” point of view. How can I experience all of the bubbles that are outside of “my” Direct Experience? How can I have a Direct Experience of all the perceptual bubbles when “I” am stuck within my own?

When I look at my hand, I realize that there is no looking happening. Looking implies a looker, and all that there is, is just my hand. My hand is just Being with the rest of the world, but my hand is just a distinction in DE, and all distinctions are imaginary.

That’s a good point, but it seems like they are “my” creation, but maybe the dream is just dreaming up that it is me dreaming that it is dreaming the dream. That was confusing, but basically the dream is dreaming “my life” and dreaming up other people and dreaming up conversations. But the only world that I know is the one I am dreaming up now. Other dreams that I am imagining are imagination. Man I am going to meditate on this. Good point. I am stuck in this dream, and the idea of other dreams seems like they cannot be known because all others are within the dream of me. This is my main problem: how can I know anything outside of the dream? This seems like solipsism to me because everything is just occuring with the dream of “my life.” The idea of other dreams are couched with “my” dream because that is all that I know.

Here’s how I see it. Reality is like a dream. Everything you experience in your dream: people, cars, conversations, trees, planets, aliens, what have you, they are all a product of your own mind. When you wake up, you realize that it was all you and was all your imagination. It never happened! But the question is how is this, right here, “the waking world” different from “the dream world”? Waking and Dreaming are one right? So that is what I mean by solipsism is True. Everything is imagination with no imaginator because that itself is imagination with the dream.

What about when I do see cars? Aren’t they also imaginary too? I believe that my senses are reality, but I do not know this. All I know is that there is a direct experience of something happening. I could be inside of The Matrix, which would mean that all the senses that construct reality will all be false. There is no car, No human being, No walking, and No highway. Isn’t all of this the Matrix of duality?

I don’t know. The only world I have ever know has been “my own.” I believe that we may be experiencing the same color differently, but I really do not know. I am imagining this.