Kuba Powiertowski

If someone is interested in such practices, they should put as much effort into finding a competent teacher as they would put into finding the best neurosurgeon for their child.

The lotus position is crucial in the intense breathing kriyas of Kundalini yoga, lasting over 20 minutes continuously, followed by intervals of breath holding, especially on the exhale. When properly performed on a 40-day continuous basis, combined with rigorous eating, drinking, sleeping, and sexual abstinence, they produce very powerful effects of expanded perception, including out-of-body perception. Is this necessary? For me, it was a reminder of who I am. It was a great relief to feel momentarily free from this heavy bodily suit. But I'm here for a reason... sort of. In any case, by closing a certain energy loop, the lotus pose enables these experiences. But you have to be very, very careful, both with the lotus and with such practices. You have to really want it and understand very well what you're doing and why. These are not recreational exercises. Btw, you need to be able to sit comfortably in lotus pose in both legs crossings to make changes between kriyas.

Yogis transcend biomechanics😆😆😆 …joking😉

@James123 Citta Vritti Nirodha—the cessation of mental turmoil or fluctuations of the mind—you haven't reinvented the wheel. If you've permanently achieved this state—huge applause from me to you and everyone here who has. Unfortunately, this is impossible to verify, and literally anyone can say, or even easier, write anything these days. Maintaining the state of Citta Vritti Nirodha on a daily basis, in normal human functioning, seems so difficult that even the greatest experts on the subject—yogis, ascetics, and various types of saints—are unsure if it's even possible while residing in a human body. It's quite possible that the so-called Jiva-Mukta, like the fully activated Kundalini energy, is just another fantasy. Besides, is that really the point? It's not difficult to eloquently expound upon obvious truths, especially when everything around aroundo us is ok and things are going according to plan. I wonder, casually, how many of us practice what we preach here in our daily lives—school, home, and work. It's also interesting that you'd have to have a ton of free time, or at least a personal secretary, to post as many as some here. But that's just a side note...

i@Breakingthewall it's probably the language barrier +'my poor English - you read me too literally sometimes😉.

@James123 ah... "no toilets..., damnation without relief" 🤣🤣🤣. I strongly belive that God is The Great Joker. Otherwise he would be just a dick. Maybe powerful, maybe omnipotent, but a dick.

@James123 Don't you think that a very well-masked form of attachment is, for example, excessive seriousness? Take these guys below, for example. Their playfulness with words and form is impressive. I die of laughter every time I watch them🤣🤣🤣 Or this guy: I know, it's a bit off-topic, but I understand what you're trying to convey. I just sense a strange seriousness in you... But maybe it's because of your suit icon😉.

that's what I thought - no dinner...

@James123 Hmm... that's a very funny and very interesting question: does God, in his purest, original, primal form—non-form—think at all? And if so, what about? Maybe: "what will I have for dinner today? - oh, no, first I need to cook, sorry, create this fucking universe!" Who knows?

@James123 ...maybe it's because if you think, or worse, think too much about your True Self, you wouldn't be able to learn anything about your T-Self?

@James123 What do you think you already know? No offence. Just asking, after reading your quote at the bottom of the post.

@kbone And what else does this absolute perfection have to do but constantly create new, relative spectacles of self-discovery—perfect imperfections in which it explores even the wildest possibilities? For me, that's already incredibly interesting. And I'm not a born-always-beautiful-young mult-millionaire. Every day, I deal with reality, sometimes very difficult. But I finally understood that only in overcoming difficulties, in conquering myself, do I find the zest for life. Even though it's all for nothing, and "all those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain".

@James123 It's all oneness anyway. Does the form in which it manifests really matter? The relative exists within the absolute, like mirrors in which the absolute recognizes itself/plays, or whatever. Dreams exist; the fake is real in the relative sense. This is the message of Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, and their successors. The more we crave this ephemeral nonduality, the greater our resistance to duality. There's no need for that, imo.

@Breakingthewall It seems to me, however, that the limitlessness of existence has a built-in limitation stemming from its very nature. This limitation is the aforementioned logic. For example, according to the logic NOTHIGNESS cannot exist, because NOTHINGNESS is identical to non-existence. Therefore, all that remains is existence. Existence, which has no beginning or end, cannot be interrupted. NOTHINGNESS cannot constitute an interval of existence, because NOTHINGNESS never occurs. I've noticed that many times here on this forum, NOTHIGNESS is often confused with EMPTINESS which is something utterly different. Of course, we are dealing here with the limits of what the human mind can comprehend within the framework of available logic. Nevertheless, something within me tells me that 2 + 2 = 4, regardless of whether I'm the one doing the calculation or some super archangel from the 10th dimension.

If the meaning we give to life is expressed through our guiding narrative, then the only thing that truly matters to me in this game of meaning-making is that my story and its execution leave room for other stories. It doesn't usurp any superiority—in short: live and let live.