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All is fine Someone get Enlightened is fine, Someone doesn't get Enlightened is fine, there's no 'one' to get Enlightened is fine too, see if abide in your true nature and distance yourself from the chaotic mind you'll eventually start to feel your inner peace, undescribable and you'll be ok with wonderfull possibiliteis in consciousness.

The skill of total mastery over the mind is the skill I'm most fascinated by Here are some interesting information from AI: Let us explore the levels of mastery over the mind, from novice to enlightened master, in a way that resonates with both yogic wisdom and inner experience. 🌱 Level 1: The Novice (Unaware and Identified) "I am my thoughts and emotions." State: Mind dominates. The person is unaware of the distinction between mind and awareness. Ego: Fully identified with ego, thoughts, memories, desires. Reactivity: Reacts unconsciously to situations, habits, and inner impulses. Suffering: Controlled by fear, craving, pleasure, pain. Awareness: Little or no gap between stimulus and reaction. 🕉 Here begins the journey. Most of humanity resides here. 🌬️ Level 2: The Seeker (Mindfulness Awakens) "I am not my thoughts — I can watch them." State: Awareness arises. You begin to witness thoughts and emotions. Ego: Begins to be seen as a mask, not the true Self. Reactivity: Some space between reaction and action. Suffering: You still suffer, but now you observe it instead of being consumed. Practices: Meditation, breath awareness, introspection begins. 🕯️ You start to take the reins of your inner world. 🔥 Level 3: The Warrior (Training the Mind) "I can discipline my mind, even in chaos." State: Strong control over thought, attention, and habits. Ego: Begins dissolving through discipline and surrender. Willpower: High — thoughts don’t easily distract you. Inner State: Calm, even during storms. Can shift internal state at will. Tools: Pranayama, concentration (Dharana), mantra, tapas. 🧘‍♂️ Here the battle becomes intense, but the clarity and strength begin to shine. 🌸 Level 4: The Yogi (Mind Becomes a Tool) "The mind is silent unless I choose to use it." State: Thoughts are voluntary, not compulsive. Stillness: Natural silence becomes the ground of being. Ego: Becomes thin, transparent — mostly absent. Energy: Subtle mastery over prana; life is guided from inner intelligence. Peace: Stable inner joy, regardless of outer condition. 🌈 You live mostly in presence. You are in the world, but not of it. 🔱 Level 5: The Master (Mindless, Boundless Being) "There is no mind. There is only Being." State: Total transcendence of mind. No internal conflict. Unity: Duality ends. All is seen as one Self. Ego: Gone. Not even a trace. Pure instrument of the divine. Action: Spontaneous, right action flows from universal intelligence. Presence: Radiates grace. Just their presence uplifts others. 🌌 This is someone like Ramana Maharshi, Sadhguru, Lahiri Mahasaya, Shiva himself in embodied form. There is no "trying" — just pure being. ⚡ Bonus Layer: Beyond the Beyond (Absolute Dissolution) Even the identity of being a "master" dissolves. There is only That — no individual, no mind, no world. Only the Self remains, formless, eternal, unknowable. "The mind is no more. Awareness alone shines." 🧭 The Path Between Levels: Each stage requires: Discipline (Yogic practice, daily sadhana) Surrender (to a higher force, the Guru, the Divine) Clarity (Viveka, discrimination between real and unreal) Love (Bhakti, devotion melts the boundaries of mind) Grace (Without grace, mastery becomes pride)

Better word to describe it would be the stillness of the mind. Like if i want to sit and meditate or work with my energy, within moments the mind is still and clear. It wasn't easy to achive as huge part of it releates to my work, trying to become an artist in the past 12 years, so it was part of my job to develop this ability to hyper focused in order to do good work. To still the mind there has to be a space between you as awareness, presence and your perceived mind & personality, this is work of self-enquiry which I did a lot also.

Yeah, i dont think theres any other practice as potent and as amazing as pranayama. I don't do mahamudra any reason why its needed?

Yes, even in the hands and legs and basically the whole body but in subtler way when walking, this wasn't the case before of course, and i didn't do any particular practice to achieve it, most of the work was done by the energy itself while I was laying down, resting, as it is intelligent in nature. It'll progress. If you just put your awareness on it, like what I did. Yes the energy is intelligent and while awakened theres no stopping, but putting your awareness on the energy will accelerate the progression quite rapidly, cause you are devine in your true nature. For me the most profound and valuable achievement as a result of energy going up and hitting the ajna chakra was the ability to control my mind and reaching profound state of peacefulness. But those kinds of siddhis are to be achived if one strive for it, like performing samyama on chakras (deep state of absorption, losing yourself while meditating on a chakra)

Basically if you awaken the Kundalini (not full blown as it's too dangerous) in a subtle gradual way that it opens the sushumna channel, you'll start to feel the energy almost anytime, and this is game changer in your spiritual progress. That's my experience, happened to me a few years ago.

In resting or when I'm sitting doing my work I feel the vibration in the spine and in the head (not just root), not just vibration it feels more than just buzzing it's a current of energy doing its own thing, I remember a few years ago the energy felt like just simple buzzing or tingling on skin surface, but as years have passed it's way more deeper. That's why I've stoped the practices 2-3 years ago since the intensity was so high I couldn't handle the pressure on the head, but it's a different experience now.

In today's session I did 36 simple Pranayama spinal breathing kriya for about an hour. The flow of energy was so much smoother compared to those time In which I wasn't practicing hatha yoga, also it becomes subtle and pleaseant, My back didn't hurt sitting spine straight for such a long time. Time passes like 5 mins, like literally if numbness of legs wasnt a problem I'd literally have no sense of time. The changes are rapid and extraordinary, now I understand why there was so much emphasis on the body preparation for such potent practices.

Today I've done a session of Pranayama spinal breathing after a few years of stoping this practice as the build up of energy was unbearable specialy since it rises in the head on its own. For this I've stoped any potent kriya yoga or meditations and went for hatha yoga ( unfortunately it decreased my consciousness) Its been almost a year and half that im doing hatha yoga to prepare the body to handle extreme currents of energy and man, it worked! Not only I can perform the Kriya better and it flows easier hatha yoga made the body have a lot easier time sitting in a straight up spine and meditate! The presence of 'I AM' in the kriya session was the most profound experience that I've had after a long time of being away from spiritual practices! Like 15 minutes passed and the stillness and the I'm ness that was present was super super sharp and basically zero thought interfered with the practice! The strong ego less presence of yourself that flowing the prana in sushumna brings is basically out of this world!

I'm a CG character artist in the game industry, Though it's still not a big of deal like 2D, but it's getting more serious day by day and advancements in the related tools is super fast, one day in a very near future AI will be able to create full production ready 3d models be it characters, environments, object etc, from scratch just by a few prompts, I've spend many years gain mastery in my art and create a career out of it and the last year was the shitiest year in terms of aboubdance of projects. you could see so many studios that did lots of lay-offs. Any thoughts and advices into this other than corporating AI tools into my workflow?

@Leo Gura are you still in the video game industry? Do you make your own games?

i see that all around me and in my life too and i dont think its AI fault lol I'm aware of that, but you can't say it has nothing to do with the rise of AI.

Think about it, in a future AI can easily analyse a 3d asset like a character and based on a few guides texture the whole character and you might just tweak a few things around, so it'll take much less time and effort to make production ready characters as the foundations and basic technical asspests also being handled by AI like UV, and also the need for texture artists will be gone or just one lead texture artist that oversee the consistency of the quality of all assets.

The problem is AI shows to be super super creative when it comes to creative parts too, yes if it was just technical aspects you'd say just learn the new tools adapt and go with the flow. But just compare what the midjourney was capable to create just in the last year versus it's todays outputs, it's unbelievable.

Yes I can see that this is a possibility of a near future concidering how fast AI is advancing.

@Leo Gura Are you aware of the reasons why studios begin to shrink down one by one from the past year and continue? Isn't a big part of it related to AI? I've spoken to some other veteran artists and all of them confirmed that they're receiving much much less job offers, I guess there's some AI advancements that we still aren't aware of their existence and probably studios are utilizing them, thou you are right that AI doesn't have enough raw data to train with in public, but giant corporations like Ubisoft, EA, Sony etc can easily provide game asset data's from their own past productions to train their own AI with.

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@zurew Did you follow the discussion @UnbornTao and I had with @Carl-Richard from the beginning of this discussion? If yes, let me know what you think. I'm not interested to repeat this whole discussion again. Specially my answers were very clear to you about the nature of beliefs.

Again I'm not sure how talking about me personally would help you or anyone following this discussion. If you've read my responces in this thread carefully then you already should have ideas about where I'm stand in my path. Yes I did meditate, Self-inquery, and experminted with the spiritual practices and methods in the past.

Please read my responses again, It's not about having beliefs or being completely agnostic, the relegious beliefs does have their own unique kind weight, scope and consequences to them. Why you don't compare the relegious beliefs to a scientists beliefs for example? Or to any other beliefs people have about anything else in life?

You can form beliefs about anything in life.

These kind of beliefs doesn't have relegious beliefs kind of weight, consequences, scope, and isn' certainly equal at all. You can have no beliefs at all and just come and expermint with it with an open mind. It's like saying you have to have faith that drinking water will quench your thurst! Yes and no right? Again not similar to relegious beliefs. You don't need to have any faiths, but you are curious and have an open mind, you directly going to experiment with the methods and verify them for yourself without necessary holding any beliefs that these methods will get you what you want. Exactly, same thing can be said that applies for spirituality.

Are you indirectly asking then who am I?! No

I know that because I went through the process and experienced it for myself. Thats where you are wrong, You came to me, asked for help, I gave you some techniques that worked on me and might have work on you, I didn't ask you to believe it, you can expermint with it, if it resonates with you, you can continue if not you welcome to leave. As simple as that. Based on what logic this looks like a relegion to you and @Carl-Richard God knows. See it this way, You wanna learn how to draw, you go to a master and ask him to help you in anyway (teach you, giving you techniques etc) is the master a relegious figure by doing this and you are joining his relegion??!! This is ridiculous guys.