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Hatha Yoga done properly does take a long time. 1 hour to 1.5 hours if done nicely. And it's best to end with shavasana at the end of the session, that is a meditative state itself. Every pose is. I'd say 1 - 1.5 hours of yoga, and after that rest for meditation. 1 hour should be minimum for meditation ofcourse.

That's the whole problem, you are fearing right now when asking this. Be it a real demon or an imagination, there is fear in you. So that fear we are talking about. You wouldn't be asking if they are actually gonna come in or not if you worked on your fear. Because it won' matter if they do actually come.

"The rose blooms red, The tulip blooms yellow, The lotus is pink. Surrender to each sense and just sink. It goes inwards infinitely, Look how creation is crafted so precisely. Just as sight can be zoomed in forever to see how infinite it is, Each of the other sense can be inquired into so as well. Sight is so magnificent. You can't describe color or shape; or near and far, But you can witness how meaningless they are. It's inexpressible. Sound is so wonderful. Get lost in it, Focus on it so much that You are gone. It could be pure silence or a lovely song. Feeling is so divine, It is either in the body as sensation or as thinking in the mind. Everything is a feeling, from You to Other. Let go of some and and fully feel into another. Smell is so incredible, It's such a different dimension, Crazy that it's even comprehendible. Forget everything else and focus on the smell, it's so mystical. Taste is so heavenly. Easy to get addicted specially. It is combined with feeling at the tongue so it could be hard to discern, But it is yet another dimension to explore and learn. Each of the senses are a completely different inner dimension, Yet there is no difference between either if you remove all conception. Each is wondrous, from the beautiful highs to the disgusting lows, So don't just explore the pleasurable but also your dislikes. It could be a whole new level of clarity that follows." I wrote this poem, fairly new to writing stuff like this. But it's intriguing and and first time writing something so spiritually based. Ofcourse it doesn't encompass everything I want to say. Infact really each sense is inexpressible. There's a lot to say, but also nothing to say. Just a try. How do you guys like it?

Someone posted this on discord and said this is "So true" "100% agree" and all. I could see it resonated well with them and they considered this real talk and deep. Now I know everyone is on their own level of development but isn't it fascinating to see? Something that I consider totally obvious and not deep at all, is deep for someone else. And something that I consider deep af, is everyday conciousness for someone else. Damn.

just think about it, there's no reason to feel bad about dropping back down. There's actually no reason. The more you experience the more your baseline consciousness will start to alter. But you need to allow it to do that. And for your baseline to be shot up requires lots of open mindedness and courage.

I think it would be easy to just love him if you can train yourself to not generate anger from all the things he did since you know there is no reason for you to get angry. For eg. You gotta be aware enough to know there is nothing to be frustrated about if he got you wet by throwing that drink at you. It'd be nice training lol

I resonate completely with him

damn yeah you right

Isn't it your belief that there were other points in time? That there is time? That there are other POVs? That you are a POV? That there is something else? That there is something at all?

He says that realizing God is yet just another stage of awakening, and that we shouldn't stop there and try to go beyond. He says next state is after realizing you are everything and God, you work on realizing you are nothing. Not even nothing. And then dissolve into reality. Then he says even beyond is realizing that reality is beyond being and non-being, beyond perception and non-perception. edit: tho i'd say you if you can do the nothingness thing then you will simultaneously be conscious that you are everything and also nothing. I think he said that in the video as well.

Very helpful. But I think what he is saying goes at the same time as what other teachers and also Leo says. As he said, "There is no self" is the same thing as "I am everything" I think he is really tryna stop us from misunderstanding the awakening process. I don't think Leo is as much at fault at all. Even with just Leo's video, I was able to experience what Frank is describing. But his video did serve as a great reminder for me. You are immortal and also mortal. There is being but also non-being. Damn. This feels great, but also not great.

Well if you focus on somewhere other than the image in front of you, ofcourse it's gonna blur. And since in your experience, there is nothingness behing your perception. Your vision just blurs and dissolves and no other image comes up. Unlike let's say imagining a red car while eyes open. atleast this is how i see it. I think what you are doing can be a helpful practice tho, just feels like it. edit: Just realized, what you are doing rn is what I do to focus in on the fact that I am awareness which pervades everything Nietz's abyss quote makes sense now lol. edit 2: I am gonna do this too, to focus in on the void! Thank you!

@acidgoofy i'd love to hug that body of yours lol looks sturdy no homo tho

Someone wrote a really detailed guide on how to Conciously Sleep here some time back. They also link several other of their posts that talk about OBEs and AP. They talk about them in the post itself. I think it's helpful, though I haven't tried it out properly myself.

Don't worry, I think you are doing fine. Just keep going. Only thing you can mess up on this journey is to either never start or to not finish. (I think buddha said this, and I damn well agree.)

Just another thing I want to say on this thread. Since NoFap amplifies sexual attraction in me (that is I am more easily attracted by other females, sorry for sloppy english.), It is all the more easier to inquire into what sexual attraction is all about by feeling even more into it! I'll probably say something here again if something interesting is discovered by me.

When something appears from nothingness, you call it thinking when it disappears forever into nothingness, you call it forgetfulness And I guess not knowing you're god and all is rather a self-deception than a you forgetting something. It's like the ego has locked a door with deception to the realization, so you have to somehow do stuff to open the door and see what's beyond by unlocking the deception. I think working on a realization is just identifying the deceptions blocking your sight of that realization and eliminating them(well identifying itself eliminates them), either through intense bodily experiences from psychedelics or kriya yoga or other means, or through contemplation and meditation, etc. But you need to identify a path around the obstacles cuz usually you just come back from the realization back into deception out of habit, if you a path back to that realization established, you can go back as much as you want until you are comfortable enough to settle there. This as you know is called integrating your realizations

Thanks for everyone replies! I am already about a week into NoFap. I don't even want to call it NoFap or anything, I was originally just practice letting go, but I guess I'll let go fapping for real. What I have seen is that it is less waste of a time. And also,, my dick feels new lmao. As far as the 'not fapping while i can' thing goes, I think I can achieve same (even greater ofc) bliss thorugh meditation and all that spiritual work. How I know this? Cuz I have been there done that before. It's better than sexual orgasm, so maybe I should just quit being such a slave to survival (always am, but I want to atleats quit some gross manifestation of that survival insitinct). I'll stop counting from now on, counting will only keep my focus on it.

I don't know much about all that, but what I have experienced is that when I go really deep (deep for me), or have a really mind fucking insight, during that experience, the area on my forehead where the third eye is supposed to be, really starts pressurizing, and to say it is pressured isn't even correct. It's like it is pulled in like there is vacuum in my head. Also during all this, i feel pleasure in the head.

I haven't done it but certainly gotten pretty close. If you can induce sleep paralysis consciously, you can then later move on to astral projection when you are hallucinating big time. How to induce sleep paralysis? Well really I don't know. See, I did it 3 times but it happened when I was focusing on my thought without realizing i was focusing, Suddenly by thought grow loud and i 'fall'. Vibrations all throughout the body and I start hallucinating in all of my senses. So from my experience all I can really say is try to sleep by meditating. Which is observing your thoughts. It always happened when I woke up at 3 am (went to sleep around 11 pm), then stayed awake for a while, maybe 30 mins to 2 hours. Then I when i went back to sleep, it is very easy. See I know this much, but the last time i did that was months ago, and i have been trying (not intensely tho), to do it again. No luck yet. So my information here isn't much to go by.

Not asking you to hurt yourself, that was just an extreme example to get the point across.

The first time I ever noticed what I was when I was sitting in silence during the evening. I wasn't expecting any insight. I wasn't even trying meditate. I just meditate on my own without realizing sometimes. And suddenly, I realized I was the awareness that fills all. And the mind, body and world is part of it. I think you have to let go of all your conceptions, Leo's latest video on realizing God helps a bunch in that. If you can burn all your conceptions, you may see that awareness that fills all. Why I say all is because the direct experience is all there is. No conceptions. Once you can see this, it's very easy to identify that me-ness anywhere, because no you are not identified with it. Since you have gone meta to self, self is easily seen. An easy way to identify this realization is if it feels as both "I am everything" and "I am nothing". Feeling "I am everywhere" and at the same time "I am nowhere". "All is me" and "There is no me". So in my opinion, you can realize in this order to make it easy. Realize that awareness (by making a distinction between thoughts and consciousness, is pretty hard to see at first) > then see that it is you (usually it happens automatically when you realize that awareness, but if it doesn't happen, try to see it's you.) > then notice the ego/me/self(it's always a feeling in your heart) > try to let that go > then notice the feeling in your heart which denotes 'the world' > let that go > then notice the feeling of 'other' > let that go > then notice the feeling of "ALL" > let that go > then notice the feeling of "I am everything/nothing, everywhere/nowhere, etc." > and let that go > then notice all your linguistics in your mind > and let that go well you get the idea. Basically be how a baby is. with this practice, you'll develop the spiritual muscle of noticing these feelings in your heart and letting them go. So let's say you put your hand in a fire. You'll then be able to notice that you wanting to pull your hand out is itself a feeling, and you are trying to resist that pain and heat. And you can let that go. Takes a lot of practice lol.

I had an ego backlash but, now I am feeling great tho. I have integrated at least 10% of what I felt during the exercise in my baseline consciousness. And I am working throughout the day to bump it back up and up. By that mean be more conscious. Just sitting is feels great man. During the exercise I felt the same in my head as during an orgasm's peak. I know it goes deeper and more intense, but first let me be able to reach their easily as well. Everything Leo said in the video which would previously make 0 sense to me made 100% sense. And it still does. Just wow. I had a similar experience 2 weeks back, I even posted about it. This was the same, but it was bunch more intense.