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@Giulio Bevilacqua I recommend neither cultivating the breath pattern nor restraining it, let it do its thing, allow and accept it unless you see it can harm you, in this case get a hold of the situation immediatly. You should still be able to control your breath and keep goin with your practice. If you feel the need to perform Breath of Fire make so that it fit your stack of exercises. I raccomand not to do just BoF and mild it down with normal Pranayama and Mahamudra.

@catcat69123 The books have been mentioned many times in the thread, get the time to read it atleast. Or think about buying Leo's book it

@Etherial Cat oooh then pardon me, i didn't catch it at first. Makes sense for sure, the problem is, you can count the people capable of doing that on your hand. Most individuals are light years away and can't even self-reflect, let alone complete liberation.

@Etherial Cat No selfishness can derive from Love. Self-love and self-respect instead are concept a wounded ego uses when it has to riconfigure its tactics to fullfill its needs. The same old dirty job, just sugar-coated Nontheless, They converge or step away because they have an interest in doing that. As long as there is an agent. I agree that we can distinguish between levels or degrees, but at the bottom of the Ego you will stll find the voice "what's in it for me?". mmh...not really. Humans are attracted to whatever that fullfill their needs. Certain need are met in problematic scenarios and people hold on til the Cons becomes unbearable. If what you said was true, toxic relationship wouldn't exist.

Hahahaha. No one is demonizing you, it's simply our nature. If you think you are not selfish then why do you choose to have a relationship with your boyfriend instead of a bagger on the street? We are being ego-centric whenever we chose something over another and there is nothing wrong about it. It's a give-and-take situation. Mostly take if possible.

@GabeN Notice that the above definition of time and space has to be intended just as a reference point, we cant really say that a shift has "happened" it's already falsehood.

This is all we have There exist is only one an endless and eternal film in which a character wanders if multiple films exist Every experience you think is happening outside your view is actually happening inside as you think it, now. Everything is happening now, even you immagining poeple fucking 3000 ago. Past and future are illusory axises that appears whenever reality shift from infinitly present beingness to Ego.

We can say that Intelligence is the ever-active capacity of infinite mind to create patterns. This means that everything is the work of this capacity, forever. "intelligent"-"non-intelligent" is just a discrimination pattern made-up by Infinite Intelligence.

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@flowboy On the use of magical tools: Always keep in mind that magical tools are merely symbolic aids that are meant to bring the magician,s spirit into a certain gnosis. By structuring one's universe externally as well as internally with symbols, one's creating anchors for various states of consciousness. One consciously projects part of one's self and then retrieves this part by working with it practically or epistemologically. Although this process can be understood as rationally and intellectually as just described, the act itself happens in an entirely different way. A person who looks at his or her dagger and consciously thinks "You are the projection of my will and nothing more than a tool that I can just as easily do without, won't have much success when working with the dagger. After all, there's a reason why magic is sometimes called "controlled schizophrenia,» - Frater U.·. D.·., High Magic I (2008)

@Giulio Bevilacqua By that i meant attention kept towards a single point. If done for too long and without adequate warm-up it can cause cause problems (research Gopi Krishna's story). But i don't think it's your case. Anyway, i think you can tackle your situation in many ways: 1)Leave aside energy work, and stick to a simple "I AM" meditation, investigate the "I" that is suffering this condition, Ramana Maharshi-Style. 2) I would suggest you start to spill that seed once in a while. Semen ritention might have added-up at your problem. Find a way to "release" that energy ( go running, take a singing class). 3) As @Nahm is writing, you can put spirituality on hold for a moment. An overload of concepts and beliefs can be overwhelming. Take a second to reflect and consider that you may have many unquestioned assumptions about the cause of your pain.

that is exacly the point of saying "past is emagined", meaning that the "past" is simply a present experience thought to have happened in a "before". I have the feeling that you enjoy too much getting lost in mental masturbation, bewere.

@Giulio Bevilacqua What kind of practices are you performing? in my opinion this kind of situations are the resault of incorrect "energy" manipulation. Prolonged concetration at a body part can build this kind of energy in the area, but if you start to feel too much heat or pain you should immediatly stop and de-focus. Through Kriya Yoga i'm understanding more and more that energy is meant to be tamed and carried at will through the body rather then built in a single spot. Concentration is meant to be the climax your session after intense worming-up. If you have stomach pains i suggest to research the practice of navi kriya, use it and se if it gets better.

If you look closely to your moment-to-moment experience, you can see that you are doing exacly that. Now.

@Emerald I would suggest that the brutal way Leo keeps talking about this is instrumental to demystify many myths about attraction in which guys easely believe to be reality. It goes perfectly in contrast with the sugarcoated depiction of attraction that you find most movies, TV etc. Dating is a negotiantion, a battle of Egos, and you cannot deny it. That what He points to. You are making him to much of a fool if you think he address this as a net dichotomy. Nuance is always needed. Emotions and Psychology are still part of the Game! Also, personal anecdotes are useless here because you are probably more conscious than the average club girl. You probably underestimate how much poeple lie about their needs in order to preserve their Persona.

@Roy mmm i would say that Sinkfist is more a depiction of a Yellow-Torquaise perspective acknowledging its Red side I Think an accurate first person embodiement of Red is this:

Also:

The movie is the moment-to-moment experience field, and since this field is infinite, by definition you CANNOT zoom OUT of it. Therefore this thought is happening within your experience field, it cannot be otherwise. Drop the bubble analogy, it can be misleading. Just notice that there are no "borders" to your experience beacuse the thought of a "border" is appearing in your experience!

@Girzo For some reason i never got into Tool until recently and oh shit now i understand the hype Thanks for the raccomandation i'm gonna check them out, even though only instrumental music usally what i listen to (but i might dig it!). Anyway, if you like my previous pick, then i can raccomand: Black metal too has some awakened folks but i don't know if you dig it And if you explore the more experimental(wierder too) side of metal you can finde stuff like this:

Metal is easily the genre with the widest spectrum when it comes SD

if you're so much on him you have to put shyness aside and be honest. Stop the games, the strategies. This is lack of direct, honest communication. Then, if it's meant to work, it will.

@Javfly33 bro, Step 1 - deliberately divide reality between raw experience and thoughs. Step 2 - look that this division you just made up is the work of mind. Every difference/division is mental activity.

@Holygrail Because every object, by definition, is naturally geared towards self-preservation. The only difference is that Humans have a much more sophisticated survival mechanism than a rock, for exemple. The idea of an identity, if you think about it, is just the ultimate survival trick! Whatever you think you are, you have all reasons to protect it, right?

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@Shin Hundreds/Thousends years old traditions swipt away in a second with "This approach is... wrong" hahaha. A concetration of banalizations and inaccuracies from start to finish. But the biggest problem is that these poeple also go on teaching "meditation" to others.... I actually like his usual content but this is a big NO.