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I couldn't agree more. A time comes when we have to make peace with our own ego instead of persistently trying to transcendence it. Becoming a well rounded human being with a steady life makes awakening easy.

I'm very surprised by his channel honestly. I plan to study his work more. I feel he complements my awakening path by a profound encounter with my human self.

Could you elaborate further? I've heard diversity of opinions regarding this. Ken Willber says there are 3 unavoidable parts of the Work: Awakening, Shadow and Development. Wake up, clean up, grow up. Other like Ramana or Adi Shankara take your approach, all you need is Awakening. Could you explain your point?

As far as I know, taoist don't seem to have discovered that facet of Awakening, or at least is not popular among their tradition. They are reluctant about making claims of what Reality actually is. In fact, I came up with a meditation technique the other day, everytime you make a statement about anything, immediately make the opposite statement. Reality is a dream, reality is not a Dream. I exist, I do not exist. I am blissfull, I am miserable. I am everything, I am nothing. I am God, I am not God. This would be the approach a taoist master would take to what you said. So yeah, I can take out the taoist hat for the moment.

The fact that it is, is it's own explanation. This types of questions are like cheating in solitaire.

The problem I have with shorts is how much time I waste and how much dopamine & chemicals they segragate in my brain, too much unnecesary stimulation. I don't use to watch them but from now on I do, with this not anymore hehe

You have to be but you already are! The "I gotta be" comes from the contraction side which you already are familia with. You need "to be" also from the expanded side of the equation, openness & spaciousness, surrendering and efortlessly being, flowing in the already present beingness. You may find pleasure in exploring expansive meditations like Michael Thaft. I just picked a random meditation from him:

Mantak Chia is one of the few real alive Taoist Masters. What surprises me about Taoism is their profound realizations of the Absolute merged with a solid grounded approach to life and it's ten thousand activities, like taoist medicine. The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false. Lao Tzu

Sri Ma’s Special Directives for advanced Spiritual Aspirants In order to advance towards Self-Realisation, it is absolutely necessary for an aspirant to yearn constantly for his sublime goal. He should practice sadhana regularly, whether he feels in a mood for it or not. To criticize people or to feel hostile towards anyone harms oneself and puts obstacles into one’s path to the Supreme. If someone does something bad, you should feel nothing but affection and benevolence towards him or her. Think, ‘Lord ! This is also one of Thy manifestations.’ The more kindly and friendly you can feel and behave towards everybody, the more will the way to the One – who is goodness itself – open out. Take care not to be contented at any stage. Some aspirants have visions, others realizations. Or, someone experiences bliss, great happiness and thinks he has himself become God. On the spiritual path, before true Realisation supervenes, one may get caught in supernatural powers (vibhutis or siddhis). These constitute obstacles. The positive proof that the aspirant is centred in God is that he ceases to hate any person or object, and that good qualities such as love, forgiveness, patience, forbearance go on increasing in him. When this change takes place in an aspirant, he will come to see that the One Brahman pervades each and every form, all sects, creeds. An aspirant should not indulge in useless conversation or gossip, but speak only when it is really necessary, which means that he must be a man of few words. Try and try again to reach the goal you have set before yourself. So long as Realisation does not come, you must never relax your efforts. Let this be your firm resolve. In the quest of Self-Knowledge, Love is the crucial factor. Whether it pleases you or not, you will have to make the Eternal your constant companion, just like a remedy that has got to be taken. Without loving God, you will not get anywhere. Remember this all the time. -Ma Anandamayi. Meeting with Sages and Saints. Compiled by Sri V.Ganesan.

Weird things can happen in the outside world when you change your inner state & space. I experience a lot of alarms going on in my area, from cars to houses, when I'm doing some heavy tripping. There is no such distintion between inner and outter, when you arrange the inside, the outside also arranges. What is inside is like what is outside. What is outside is the same that is within.

It's a very common practice, so common it would scare you. I know this from direct experience. The higher the position you are applying to, the more in depth the investigation of your online activities is.

Unhappiness is there in the background of happiness. The experience of the ultimate reality is a state beyond happiness and unhappiness. You consider a wet pitcher to be full of water when seen from a distance because usually a pitcher full of water looks wet. Likewise in the gesture and posture of a self-realized person, there appears an apparent state of happiness but this is not happiness. What that state is cannot be expressed in language. After seeing which the longing for seeing goes away forever is real seeing. After hearing which the desire for further hearing never appears is real hearing. Verily, real darshan (witnessing the ultimate reality) is that after which the question of witnessing, not witnessing and proof of witnessing does not arise. (There is) Unveiled, pure and unquestioned darshan everywhere.

Think of it as Martial Arts. In boxing they don't teach you how to kick but it's useful. In taekwondo they teach you how to kick but not how to grapple. In judo they teach you how to grapple but not how to submit properly and so on. In spirituality is the same, if you want to be a Mixed Martial Artist you will have to discover and train particularly each facet and then combine them all together. They all have value in a sense, some are better and some are worse but you should definetely learn to box if you wanna fight even though they don't teach you the other dimensions. In fact they may be better in that dimension than others that teach more dimensions at the same time but lack depth in that particular facet you are interested in. Therefore, you should consider carefully Ralston program even though he does not teach love, he may be good in other things, he is a genius in body consciousness for example.

Take time to decompress. There is a beautiful balance between breakthrough and surrender. In pushing and releasing. Contraction and Expansion. Concentration and Relaxation. Make sure to get both. I'm telling you, because I'm naturally inclined to your style and took me too long to realize this. Things become easier, you lack the flowing ease. Others have too much flow, they need to break through, but you need to dance and forget, surrender and cry in a pool of release

Yeah go ahead why not? You feel the calling Learn from as many teachers as you can, contrast and expose yourself to a wide range of spiritual experiences and paths. Each one reveals a facet of the beloved One

It's absence is also it's manifestation

He is indeed. I remember him saying once: you keep outsourcing your inner work to me because I do a good job. He has the ability to work in you as much as you are connected to him, anything can happen from kundalini awakenings, powers, changing your inner space, shifts in consciousness, brutal karmic cleansing... Moreover, all the work does not leave the system till it's completion. Years after having an initiation it suddendly starts unfolding again and ending the process. It kind of gets stored, the question is not "if", but "when". This has been specially touching. I'm happy that more people are sharing their personal experience

Trust the experience and work with it instead of against it. 5meo is a benevolent force

Yes there is a slope of development and maturity for religions also, as it is with individual stages it is with colective stages over time. It is the inability to mantain it's original subtance translated to the winds of each generation which ends up killing them. The oldest living tradition which is hinduism, more of a compilation of religions than a single religions, has this principle of: "Unyielding defense of tradition and tireless innovation." Which translates as preserve what has worked in the past and continuosly strive for improvement. Also older is not better but it has been more proof tested against the fire of experience and life. Religion unfolds in diverse dimensions, birthing from mysticism, encompassing sociocultural norms, and traversing through the realms of architecture, food and music. It's a very multifaceted and rich expression. Frorm the side of sociocultural norms, when it has been linked with authority and politics, we have seen many corruptions and evil making. About the science vs religion debate you should get very comfortable with development psychology models like Spiral Dynamics or Susanne's Cook-Greuter ego development research; to really make sense and put into proper context the science vs religion discussions. Try what calls you with a child like curiosity and playfulness. Don't get ideologic, just paths and tools you are trying. Religion is a technology made to access certain states of consciousness.

Happy new yeaaaaaaaaar!

@Princess Arabia You are femenine so take into account that you are waking up from a woman's biological and psychological system. This may include more emotional labour than a man waking up, which will have other areas of work. Take this into account when people answer you, as most people in awakening are masculine and as a matter of fact, we don't have direct experience of being consciousness manifessting through a woman's body and that certainly makes a distance in advice giving and life experiences. Specially in topics where femenine is naturally more involved like emotions.

I don't know anything about this topic but hope you make it through Lots of love man

Shadow Work is not done to repress feeling but to fully feel and process the most repressed and obscure feelings in one's psyche. THere's nothing wrong with being sensitive and empathetic, it's a blessing! but it has to be done in the proper context. It has to come from the space of powerfullness and not from powerlessness. Imagine feelings like waves, when your mind and consciousness is like a bathtub, when little waves come all the water starts falling outside and you can even drown yourself. Imagine this waves in a swimming pool, now in a lake, now in the beach, now in the middle of the ocean. In the same way, your empathy will be able to be expressed in the oceanic deepths of your being, you will not be shaken or want to avoid them as you said earlier, because you will be grounded in a sky like mind. It is not in being sensitive and feeling, it is in the triggering that comes from that ability. Being able to be empathetic and then focusing that tool on others pain and then that triggering inner pain and turmoil. It is when the triggering comes where there might be shadow work to do. In the future you will be able to live the pain and joy from others, without inner wounds spilling out. As it come it leaves the system, like images in a screen. Being empathetic is a huge gift you haven't mastered it yet, why? Because it may be triggering your shadow. I hope I made myself clear, ask if there's something hanging out.

It has been so. The Ruetir (US), OrientalDaily (Malaysia), TickerTV News (US), Koldanews (Senegal) have removed their newspaper articles. Republic World TV has also removed 3 defamatory videos from it's YouTube platform. In last two days, YouTube has taken down 17 more Deep-Fake content targeting Nithyananda, and thus now blocked a total of 100+ such false defamatory videos. It seems that finally things are turning around. We'll see how things continue to unfold in the future. This, if anything, can teach us how easily media can be biased and false, propagating arround the world from newspaper to newspaper. Fooling even the Washington Post, that after further investigation realised they had fallen in a Disinformation Campaign. From that point on, as the giant newspaper made a step back, all the other newspapers did so. It's just so low quality this whole media system it's honestly very sad. They create narratives and worldviews out of thin air and then people cannot distinguish that from reality. I'm pretty sure, you the one reading, is still very reluctant about all of these. The damage already done by the media is very hard to reverse. Just cultivate an awareness of these mechanics within yourself and the world.

Lol was going to write it. I still have not entered deeply in her teachings because I feel I still have to work through other things before, but she's very unique, extremely unique. It is said to be one of the few to go beyond God-Mode, she then had to be taken care of, otherwise she would have become a beggar and maybe also die. Also obviously Sri Anandamayi Ma: Honorable mentions: Hildegarda, Hazrat Babajan, helena blavatsky, mother meera, Sister_Mary_of_the_Divine_Heart, Lal Ded...