Rishabh R

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  8. Posted · Edited by Rishabh R
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    I contemplated for 30 minutes- How do I jailbreak my mind ?
    Answers-- By realising that my mind is useful
    By stop being caught up in my mind
    By realising that my mental images are not real
    By preferring my experiences more than other's opinion
    By acting based on my experiences than concepts
    By preferring experience more than knowledge
    By realising that knowledge is imagination while experience is reality
    By focusing on experiences and acting according to their conditions
    By forgetting about concepts and start facing my existence

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    29 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Yeah, be careful with that.

    Buddhist meditation skill is not to be underestimated. It is seriously impressive. Just not the end all be all they wish it was.

    Meditation does not grant intelligence. You can meditate for decades and still be stupid.

    Does contemplation grant it ? Which grants tranquility amidst chaos-- Meditation or contemplation ?

  12. Posted · Edited by Rishabh R

    @Leo Gura What are your views on your Indian subscribers of your YouTube channel( I subscribed in 2017) and forum users. Could we break free from Hindu dogma ? And jailbreak our mind?

    Background: I was born in a Hindu family but I wasn't a extremist. Most of my friends put Hinduism on pedestral. But I don't even though I respect Hinduism , I have read Buddhism , listened to Rumi ( Sufi poet) and Islamic songs too. Yes, religion creates hindrance in understanding God as it is conceptualisation with some truths into it. Direct experience is the reality. One of my friend called me sn exception as I am not a radical Hindu. Few friends in my past told me that you are a shame to Hinduism. Haha. I am proud of not being like them who insult other faiths.

    Also I think philosophy , self-help has contributed a huge to my life.

    All of us must contemplate( including myself) -- How do I jailbreak my mind ?

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    @Leo Gura Congratulations.

    By the way does self help or philosophy makes one stronger ?

    I experienced a setback yesterday but it affected me for less than an hour. I find myself smiling a little when I began feeling the negative emotions or accepting them. Earlier I used to suffer a lot more than that before doing self-help.

    Could you explain what just happened to me.

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    3 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    I mean two weeks of non-stop meditation. 200hrs of meditation in a row.

    Nope dude you are much more advanced 👍.

    I have a question -- Is self help for the weak or the strong as if most people could do it then why most people are anti Self- help, anti-philosophy even though they respect spiritual fantasy in their minds which they call spirituality? 

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    2 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    It's not primarily physical pain. It is the emotional pain of the ego struggling and dying.

    We all struggle from emotional pain. The only difference is duration of pain. Some of us distract ourselves when it occurs while very few feel through it. Which is the key to reducing it.

    Your journey is different than everybody because people have different problems.

  16. Posted · Edited by Rishabh R

    4 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Have you ever meditated for two weeks straight?

    You know what that feels like?

    It's basically self-torture. And you may not get any awakening out of it.

    I have meditated for 5 years straight with frequency of daily meditation only with little breaks of 4 days 5-6 times.

    But yeah you have done more radical practices than us which is why you are at a high place in life.

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    @Leo Gura Then it's mind boggling why most people spend their time watching YouTube shorts or instagram reels . In college my friends used to make fun of me by reading philosophy books , self-help books , watching videos. But they were a little surprised when they came to know that I meditate for 20 minutes and they also made fun of my insights which I came to when I contemplated.

  18. Posted · Edited by Rishabh R

    @Leo Gura I am grateful that I made an investment for myself by doing self-help which later transitioned into a philosopher's life. 

    By the way-- What are your views on how ancient Eastern philosophers lived ?

    As per suffering Leo the most advanced stuff Self- help has taught me to accept suffering and see it as temporary as happiness.

  24. Posted · Edited by Rishabh R

    I sat down 30 minutes contemplating this question-- How do I reduce my suffering due to external circumstances? Answers -
    .By realising that they fluctuate like switch
    . By realising that they are just in my mind
    . By realising that other's actions, words, attitude towards me is reflection of their own thoughts
    . By realising that other's are not within my control
    . By realising that I am imagining external circumstances
    . By realising that in the far future I won't look back at them
    . By realising that external circumstances doesn't mean anything
    . By realising that suffering due to it is temporary
     

     

  25. Posted · Edited by Rishabh R

    @Leo Gura But what about acceptance of suffering ? I noticed many times that when I accept it I begin to smile no matter how much I am in emotional pain. I used to have a fantasy that positive psychology will cure my pain but as soon as I discovered acceptance of suffering via Acceptance and commitment therapy-- I began to engage with pain 

    How to overcome the challenge of people disrespecting you and being haunted by the past ?