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Anything, which is done in extremes always lead to a negative experience. Take exercise, for example. You will be doing it once in a while. But suddenly you get this energy to build huge muscles and do exercise without breaks. That will break your muscles and it will leave a negative impact permanently. Your mind might never want to do exercise again. Similarly, based on my little experience, its always better to do it progressively. Starting from 20 minutes per day, even if you increase one minute per day, within one and a half month you will be doing around 1 hour every day. Now if you feel uncomfortable, you can increase or decrease a bit. Like @LarryW has written, it's better to try for one or two days first. Otherwise you may get bored and lose interest permanently in doing meditation.

I love those guided meditations, especially for having a sound sleep (like yoga nidra) . That works like magic!

By my understanding, progress in meditation works differently for different people. Most people advice focusing on the breath in the noise, in the belly etc. Some people advice visualising an object in mind. And some people advice not to focus intenselyat anything at all, just observing thoughts coming to the mind. I have a calm mind, not filled with much thoughts. Which technique might work best for faster progression for people with calmer minds?

Nice! The words are filled with deep insights, I am always intrigued by the hidden meanings in various religious texts and even sculptures. Even though I follow Hinduism, I know nothing about it, nowadays it's sad to see people here are more interested in bribing and decorating God with blind faith rather than experiencing God.

Yeah, it makes sense, thank you!

Yeah thanks, gives more clarity.

Sorry, my tiny mind is not able to get it. I assume you meant 'emptiness' instead of 'emotionless'. If so, Is 'nothing' technically made up of something? Ok, I seem to get this point. What I understand from your words is that all realities we perceive exist in a single moment of consciousness, and hence time has no meaning. Still, I believe that some meaning can be found and it will all make sense one day. Maybe not in this part of time, but atleast in some other part of time.

Yeah, maybe we are still able to perceive the true essence of life, so that we don't get lost in our thoughts and forget our true nature. A balanced world! Imagine what will happen if everything around us become thoughts, that we all are unable to 'contact' our true nature and become robots in the future.

If body is a thought and hence does not exist, what about the empty 3d space occupied by the body? This is really a nice thought., thinking about it gives me goosebumps!

Yeah, finding the balance between both will lead to an ideal-looking life. Maybe, we should remove one or two ghosts from the game! (Like famine and poverty)

I like his teachings and it's true. It's great for people who wish to be joyful all the time. But for me, knowing the truth itself is like a play. It's not necessary to be serious about enlightenment and to spend whole life searching for it, for it is always there. That doesn't mean we should stop being curious and stop questioning everything, even things beyond enlightenment. That's called life. But living the life understanding reality makes life even more livelier. Even if people are sure that there are no things to search, no more truth to be found, we will still search for the joy it offers, just like there is no purpose in living, still we are living for the great experience it offers. It may be true or may not be. But spirituality and morality seems to have no relation. In fact, realizing that whole life is a play leads to more crimes and disorder. You can take a recent example, Culadasa, author of Mind illuminated and a buddhist teacher. He is a great guy, but he seemed to have had lot of illicit relationships which drew flake from his wife and lot of his supporters ( Even though it seems to be consensual ). He is very matured in his spirituality levels , but morally he lags here a bit. That's why many hindu / buddhist philosphies combine spiritual teaching with moral teachings. That gives a good balance to enjoy life to its fullest.

I will rephrase the question. Can a body become less ( or more ) conscious? This question is of relevance only if the concept of maha samadhi is real. It is considered as the highest path of spirituality atleast by some people. If we reach such state, the soul ( or consciousness ) is said to leave the body. So, the body has no conscious since it is dead. So, does this mean there is a varying level of consciousness in the space perceived by us?

Thank you, this makes sense, but I am still going to dig deeper. Questions that still arise in my mind are : What is stopping us from experiencing reality as it is all the time if it's not the brain? Is 'feeling' consciousness a capacity that only human body has through rigorous meditation/ psychedelics or is this the other way around? ( Like consciousness of stone >> animal >> human being). If so, why nature is moving in the opposite direction of burying the consciousness deep underneath etc.) The questions are endless just like reality is! What you say here makes sense, maybe the aim of Vedanta teachings was to make understanding reality simpler and hence reach more people.

Yeah, I get that. The whole world / universe is within our experience, which includes my room, the objects in it, my body in it, my eyes / ears / noses and even the brain in it. But, if you meddle with the brain, for eg, if you cut open your own brain and poke the region responsible for seeing with your hands, you will not see anything. Even if brain is a part of consciousness, Can we atleast conclude that brain is atleast responsible for fooling us by limiting the perception of consciousness and giving this illusion?

Can you try to elaborate this further ? Is it like awakening removing the filters over our senses ?

How do we manage to remember that experience when we come back to our reality if it's not through our senses? How is it registered in our mind if it is not through the five senses? Do we have some hidden senses inside our brain? ( Even if brain does not exist , still this perception of reality follows certain rules which are never violated )

Does this mean some people who enter a stage between enlightenment and maha samadhi have a good chance to lose a part of their consciousness when they come back to this reality without dying?

Then with what sense do we experience consciousness if seeing / hearing / feeling etc.. are forms of experiences?

You're welcome ! To make your journey more efficient, try this book : The Mind Iluminated by Culadasa

Right, meditation has an uncountable number of benefits, which improve and stay longer and seems to depend both on our practice time and dedication. When it comes to music, the mind works better when we are in the flow state, something similar to meditation but not the same. ( although we can be mindful while playing music ). There are so many different kinds of meditation.From @Nak Khid's words, he seems to point out to the ultimate fruit of meditation, the enlightenment process, questioning whether it is really necessary to spend years pursuing the same, instead of doing something 'useful'.

Is hugging through words and by actual hugging action all one and the same ? After all it's just an illusion, as long as what you perceive in your mind ( the feeling of hugging ) , it should be the same ! ( Wth, I am asking and also answering the question , who cares, it's all the same if you answer the question or if I answer it )

I too second this too. Meditation is for all the minds, only that 'weak minds' MAY take less time than 'strong minds' in controlling the thoughts, but the benefits seem to vary depending on what the person is after and what perspective of life he was having before meditating.

Yeah, I second this. I belong to this category of 'weak mind'. I don't have much thoughts in my mind, at least when I don't want it. Genetics seems to have a role in deciding what kind of mind you have. Leo has a hyper active creative mind ( which was told by himself and also evident from the various videos he is posting ) and maybe thats why he prefers psychedelics over meditation. Meditation is for weak empty minds, other things are for strong creative minds, but using 'other things' without guidance requires a still stronger mind, to deal with the experience.

The key to removing the perception boundary created by your mind. Experiencing and fusing this idea in your day to day life gives you superpowers. You don't have to worry about death, you don't have to worry about reactions to your actions, because now you know that everything is one and nothing ( or whatever you call it ) and so you don't have to give a damn shit about any repercussions to your actions. But it may also lead people to go in wrong way, commit crimes and disturb the survival process. That's why the idea of karma, heaven, hell and all came up, because enlightenment without morality is destruction. But the combination of both not only increases the chances of survival but also makes nature move faster towards its goal.