SonataAllegro

Keep in mind, these Sadhguru vids are extremely click-baitey. The thumbnails disgust me. Also Sadghuru always speaks on the side of caution, for better or worse, since he's addressing a mainstream audience.

I'm planning to buy the Kriya yoga book on Leo's booklist, but Sadhguru really be out there giving me doubts about the effectiveness of "book yoga". Anyone with experience able to say if it's still worth doing, and if so, what practices to maybe avoid without supervision?

So sorry to hear, man. My mom died in July, I'm 21. Grieving takes time, and you have to honor it. Love yourself fully, even at the expense of loosing footing on your habits and productivity. Sometimes going easy on yourself is the thing you need most. Trust that as you move forward, you won't forget your friend. You'll think about him less often, but his memory will change meanings for the better. You'll start to look fondly back on the positive memories you had with him rather than dwelling on the regrets you might have. This can become a great source of motivation and an outpouring of love in the future, but don't be mad at yourself if you feel self-focused and lazy for now. This is your greatest opportunity to give yourself space and radical self love, and you'll inevitably live from a much deeper place after this. Also understand that "moving on" and suppression of emotion is not always bad -- sometimes there's just too much to handle all at once. There's very little you need to do, just make sure to not get in the way of your healing. Try to sense the complex interplay between your thoughts and your feelings, this makes you more mindful of emotions. Yoga is especially helpful -- it's really the whole body that's experiencing the grief, not just the mind. And when you're ready, psychedelics can really help you overcome emotional pain, as LSD did for me recently. Work toward something -- I highly recommend the life purpose course if you don't know yours, or if you do, go deeper into your purpose. And then there'll be days when you're just plain depressed, and you'll have to be present with your emotions. See Leo's episode on how to deal with strong negative emotion. I also found much comfort in the what is death episode. Don't spend hours on youtube finding the cheap fix for how to cure emotional pain, learn to feel it. Bottom line is, give yourself plenty of space and radical self love. My condolences, man.

An ego-destroying symphony. Written just before Mahler died. Pay attention to how your consciousness and emotions are affected by the music, you may be shocked.

What's the difference between scientific experimentation and self inquiry? Sure, they're worlds apart in paradigm, but they use the same principle of starting from a place of not knowing rather than a place of dogma. The scientific method may lead to a bastardization of reality but doesn't it have its place in getting people to understand how self inquiry and recontextualization work?

@Leo Gura I think for this series to be successful you need to draw a clear distinction between the scientific method (hypothesis, testing, concluding, etc) and scientific models (conceptual representations of the results of experiments). The method is an inquiry process of discovering the unknown, essentially the same as the self inquiry methods you talk about but applied to the "external" world. The problem you address in your videos is about mistaking the models of science for the territory of reality. The method, though, is an invaluable skill that, if directed inward, will transform your life. It's like how there's a lot of valuable lessons that can be extracted from religion to produce a profound spiritual life, but only if you can avoid dogmatic attachment to one religion. So one question I have for you is, are there any lessons that can be drawn from our current scientific models that can be applied to personal development? Read this insightful article I posted earlier: https://medium.com/@kaitaraporevala/seeing-the-world-as-it-is-not-as-we-wish-it-to-be-the-story-of-charles-darwin-cfba6cbe69a Can't wait for the series!

Eye-opening article written by my friend: https://medium.com/@kaitaraporevala/seeing-the-world-as-it-is-not-as-we-wish-it-to-be-the-story-of-charles-darwin-cfba6cbe69a

To some extent you're gonna be tired after you eat, but make sure you don't eat too much "heavy" food (processed carbs, meats, dairy) for lunch -- save that for dinner and focus on fruits and vegetables during the day. Doing this gives me so much more energy than I used to have.

Very easy to see why people vote for Trump. Tbh, if I were an alien dropped into this debate I would vote for him because he seems to have his shit so much more together, I would never guess that every other word he says is a lie. So so easy to fall into the trap if you're like most people and you don't question what you're being told.

I have near-samadhi experiences regularly where I feel deeply connected to everything I'm seeing and feeling. Specifically, when I self inquire about my sense of touch, my awareness of my "physical" body merges with my "visual" field; when I put my hand out in front of me I don't feel that it's mine, I'm just aware of it as a visual/physical phenomenon. This isn't a constant state but it feels blissful and everything Leo's spoken about seems consistent with what I'm experiencing. BUT, I have been depressed recently and when I told my therapist about it he told me this is dissociation. I can't tell and it frustrates the hell out of me. Whenever I meditate or try to be present with something this is the state I get into and it feels amazing. At the same time though, I could be using this state to avoid emotional pain that I'm going through (my mom recently died). What do you guys recommend? Anybody else experience this? Much appreciated!