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Oh my god, I wish I had enough self control to pull this off and actually sort my biology. UGH. Thanks for the insights anyway, it's the thought that counts, right?

@Kamo The forgetting can be forced if you're on psychedelics, and with lots of patient practice if you're not.

So cool!! Legendary update!! Where's your journal?

Give me a transmission plz and thankz

@Fearless_Bum Just tried this on my sense of there being a witness and made objects perceive themselves where they are slightly more. Crazy technique, bro. What do you practice to get better at this stuff, or just get more enlightened in general?

@EntheogenTruthSeeker Sweet as, I'll prbably pick one up. Lol, should be fun seeing what the parents have to say when it arrives

@lmfao Sounds like my experiences of becoming more aware of what's already there and shocked at how bad it is. Ever heard of Collision with The Infinite by Suzanne Segal? It's her autobiography where she talks about being in a constant state of terror for literal years at a no-self insight. I've had similar stuff happen, but only temporarily. That book showed me how bad this dark night shit can really get. "The mind's hypervigilance was exhausting. Because it was constantly engaged in rejecting the experience of emptiness, there was very little attention available for anything else. My life was filled with seeing no-self, and raising questions about no-self. Even in sleep the emptiness of personal identity continued unperturbed. No mental activity ever changed the experience of no-self in any manner, and none of the attempts to figure out, organize, or evaluate it ever brought back a sense of an individual indentity." <— Excerpt from Collision with The Infinite You can read more from that frightening experience here: https://realization.org/p/suzanne-segal/segal.collision.html

@BipolarGrowth How long did it take you to break through from the lazy munchies phase to the awakenings phase? Was there anything else that could've contributed to this switch, that I could replicate? Cheers ??

Peter Ralston is one for the spirituality for sure. Maybe also Rupert Spira.

@EntheogenTruthSeeker Did you buy your tramp' online? Got a link? UwU

Short term, no ideas. Long term, you're probably doing them all. My other idea is this 'gladdening the mind' meditation technique that I got from Dhammarato. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Maybe check out Dhammarato's YT channel, he explains the technique in this video: Skype Call with Ashley: Joy is a Requirement for Practice

Thank you, very useful. He uses the same asana as me and Leo.

@diamondpenguin I must say, not only do I appreciate the tag, as this put a smile on my face, but that I wholeheartedly support the message. #loveislove #loveisleo #?

@Moksha Wow, so beautiful. Thank you for your contribution, I love this so much ♥️. @Terell Kirby I've learned more from one thread than like a week on the forum, hahah. Btw, does not suffering right now (or being ok with the fact I'm suffering slightly) count as being awake? I thought that maybe this could be like a kinda of 1% of the full thing, or is there no percents?

@VeganAwake I really liked your answer, it's cleared up so much confusion for me. Thank you!! <3 @Terell Kirby This thread is great on the whole for newbies like me who haven't wrapped their heads around this stuff yet and are still trying to sort their toes from the rest of their feet, so to speak. Thanks for being OP.

Thanks for being so open and honest about your experiences as always, Brandon. Hope you are feeling a bit better now

@Vincent S It's very sad vibes, but I really like it, totally how I feel sometimes. Thanks for sharing! @Iesu ?rekt I adore Frank's videos he's been making lately, so full of useful information and he expresses it in such an original way too "You're like this airpuppet with no strings attached, and your whole experience is so full there's no room for air." —Frank Yang.

So Satan is the false self that believes itself into existence through believing in the impressions given by the sensate world, such as all forms, instead of seeking refuge in nothing (itSelf) where it is self-supporting and so may exit the survival simulation (matrix). Something comes from nothing because Satan seeks to escape God in form and so become a false version of Him to himself. This is why idol worship is a Satanic practice and a blasphemy against God. Synchronicities, correlations, coincidences, cause and effect relationships, materialistic and relative truths, and insights that come to us in form are messages left by God, and these can be noticed by opening our minds to the possibility that we may not know certain things even though they are obvious, that there might be more to be learned and discovered, which opens the door so to speak to the spirit (rest of the) world. Meditation instructions are reformed manifestations of formed insights, designed to correlate your mind with a more similar direction to the one that produced them in the teacher, a form of brainwashing. Things said to be worth opening our minds to the possibility of are the impermanence of self and form, which in time may lead to us developing openness to the possibility that self cannot be found in form, leading us to decreasingly seek ourselves in it (neti neti), leading us to a pointer that it is unsatisfactory. However, if here a seeker forgets their openness, which is felt as severance from God, they experience dark night phenomena aka dukkha nanas, feel trapped in a prison of forms they can't cling to and don't like enough anymore, and pine for lost innocence (ignorance), leading them to fall for the pretty constellations form may take (peak experiences) and so unconsciously reinvest hope in form. This creates an A&P dark night cycle, and they are now a stuck tape loop until enough insight into impermanence at last leads them to enough disillusionment with form that they give up enough hope in form (reasoned hope) while maintaining enough open-mindedness (reasonless hope (faith)), thereby allowing them to relax under all conditions, so that the repeated reobservations no longer send them escaping into A&P's but to a grounded equaminity. As the cycles repeat and increase in severity, so must their equanimity (and, assuming they remember what they've learned, it does). Once this equanimity is perfected for the duration of the cessation, it leads to true non-doing/non-grasping/non-surviving: that's fruition/path. All form is a thought and a lie, without a thought about any sensation, it does not exist. Form and formless will not be merged until the seeker becomes an Arahant, and as such, one must seek to discern forms, lest they wrongly assume their repression (ignorance) to be acceptance (equanimity), the root of most enlightenment delusions. A method I've been experimenting with is to cultivate unconditional faith in the possibility that I may discover something new and true (the correct application of this technique takes the form of perfected self-esteem, feeling of excitement like I'm a kid again, engagement with right action that is righter and more creative than the mechanical (fear driven) self can conceptualize of - let alone experience - as well as surprising myself with how much fun i'm having and how abnormally effective I am, essentially a powerful flowstate) and directionalize (concentrate) this openness at myself (NOT my "sense of self"/"the I"/"awareness"/"the ego"; myself). Leo says to stop treating philosophy as a pointless armchair game and instead open your mind to the possibility that existential questions do have answers. This is like that. Closed minded attitude --> relying on reasons --> limitations on whats possible --> lame vision --> hopelessness --> mechanical lazy unmagical meditations / mechanical lazy uninspired life --> lack of vigour/excitement/engagement --> weaker flow states or can't get into one often --> apathy and despair, or worse, being an atheist (?).

That's a really cool rational analysis of the different methods. Can't wait to go deep into experimenting with this technique.

@Inception Very cool answer. Subtle beliefs in others.

@Fearless_Bum I like it ?, thanks.

@ardacigin Will you be my Enlightenment coach?

@Yog Thank you haha. Listening to the tune in your tag, I like it, giving my sit a vibey mysterious atmosphere, totally inquireous

@Iesu

@Iesu Dope track. I love metal.