Toby

Funny that I was living like 50km from one of his monasteries but I was never really called to go there or attend when he had talks there or nearby. But overall I still like him. Great guy. Did a lot for emerging spiritual teachings in the western world.

Do you want to have physical exercises or meditations? For physical exercises you could do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Tibetan_Rites; you could also check it out on youtube. But make sure you do the correct breathing along the exercises and start with only few repetitions (maybe 3-5). This programme works on every chakra. I personally don't like the whole story around the exercises but taken for itself the exercises are really good.

Lisa Cairns and Roger Castillo were together as well. Bentinho Massaro and Karen Richards were too if I'm not mistaken.

I'm not so sure about their relationship status but at least they were together: Gangaji and Eli Jaxon-Bear; Isaac Shapiro and Meike Schuett. And there are some less famous ones in Germany that come to my mind.

How do you know that he wasn't talking about his state of being drunk? If someone is so drunk that he is falling to the floor and almost passing out he could be referring to his state when saying "why don't you let me die?" and not suicide later on.

good joke. why would you need a breakthrough then?

I would pick self-inquiry and just stay with the sense of "I am" or "I". Not the thought, but the sense. You could just do this for 5 minutes during meditation.

@Dodo http://non-duality.rupertspira.com/meet/#united_kingdom

I'd probably would go to Francis if I would live somewhere near. I guess Mukti (wife of Adyashanti) is also in London in the near future. And Rupert Spira anyway.

The best things spiritually imo that you can do is: - meditation - self-inquiry - sitting with a teacher so, it's really easy. you pick up some books on spirituality with different approaches and see what approach resonates for you and then you look if a teacher is available in that area where you live. then you look if they resonate with you and you go there. easy. so if you are drawn to mainly advaita you could click on the page in my signature. but I'm a bit hesitant to recommend it to you because I don't know if advaita is the best approach for you.

I don't see a problem here. There are four (of that I can think of right now) more or less enlightened teachers in germany that also studied psychology. So I guess it could fit nicely. Also the other things you do... why not, I don't see why there would be any conflict between your interests.

I'd rather use money / time differently than what most festivals would offer. In fact I wouldn't even go to some festivals named here if I was paid for it. There are some exceptions of course. Maybe some of the satsang festivals that are popping up in recent years in germany, maybe a yoga festival where there was some nice music, maybe something like science-and-nonduality, maybe even the "entheoscience"-festival here in germany. But I'd probably still take the money / time and do intensives and retreats.

If I remember correctly I read about this (the experiment with the hand / arm) in the book https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465020690/, so it was interesting to see it on video.

Sounds like good advise.

Also, keep the following things in mind: - human beings tend to project their own stuff onto others - being worried or scared won't help him or yourself - the way you think about your father and the way of your attention affects his perception of himself; so if you see him as wrong and in need to be fixed you contribute to his situation - whatever his situation may be

People say weird shit when they are drunk. Doesn't have to mean anything. I would be more worried that someone drinks too much alcohol and dies from it / puke. But I guess you should know him better than anyone here in the forum.

Please give me a link to a math lecture script of any university that proves your claim.

It's because they make the "mistake" to take a divergent series and assume that it's value is 1/2. Total nonsense. Skipped the video when I saw this.

Just because a woman agrees to a date doesn't mean she has to be super-interested in a relationship or sex or whatever later on. There is no way to know that if you did everything right (which doesn't exist imo) that she would have been interested. It's imo one of the biggest myths of the self-help- and pickup-industry that you can control how others perceive you.

I'm not an expert, but afaik Yoga could be approached with different ways; you have Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga (which are e.g. described in the Bhagavad Gita) and Raja Yoga (which is described in the Yoga Sutra). Other forms of Yoga can have different elements from them here and there or have their own exercises but it does make sense to differentiate as a basic understanding four paths: http://www.sivananda.org/teachings/fourpaths.html

For me, Dynamic Meditation was very helpful regarding integrating aggression though.

Sounds like a good occasion for Dynamic Meditation @Prabhaker.

In it's heart it is a form of self-inquiry which suits some people very well.

Of course.

It's not a matter of being the body or not being the body. There might be tons of elderly people with high degree of dementia that cannot function that much any more. Yet, some of them might be awake. But they cannot function.