Ishanga

You only want relationships to enhance Your inner experience and wellbeing. In survival mode its good to be in a tribe of sorts, the odds of living another day are better, but here and now where survival is not the top priority in ppl's lives, in the west anyways, we use relationships and extract from others due to Lack felt within, this is not so good, its much better to establish Your Being, then go out and share it with others, in this context its all about Sharing, not extracting, so it depends on what level of Existence we are talking about, if life is decent, things are provided for basic living, then that is when we go within to our Beingness, establish Peace or Bliss as our base experience then go out and have relationships, it works much better this way imo:)

Once again we are changing or having specific definitions for words, maybe that is a new generation thing, they think they can just redine words as they please and still have ppl understand what they have to say, lol... Yes today's gen may have more knowledge of wordly things, or what someone in another culture is doing for their Bdays compared to ours, but this is not intelligence, intelligence is using Your skills and potential to the highest point, Being Conscious not Unconscious (scrolling for hrs on end). Remember the generation just before me (late 60's bdate) was in wars, for years on end, ww2, vietnam, other conflicts, its only since 9/11 that the wars started up again big time, at least that is how I see it, so they didn't have the time (the avg person) to intellectualize as much as we do today, which is way too much...Anyways we see it differently, I see these last couple of generations slipping in many areas...their all addicted to pot too, daily users and it dulls their senses...And as Leo said, not enough life experience plays allot into it..

@Ishanga The whole idea of God was given to You from outside, otherwise how would you know of him/it? Yoga is about direct experience, first getting to point of Peace within, this allows the possibility to know reality as it is to happen, if your not peaceful within as a natural state everyday then nothing will work...

The only reason Many Many People search and want God is because they have not Realized the Immensity of Being Human. You only want God, because God represents something More than what You have now, what You think You are, How You Experience Life within Yourself, its the Desiring Process in the end game, You want it all, to be boundless and Free and You think God can give it too You, but that is not It! You have everything You need within Yourself to Live to Your Highest Possiblilty. Don't define what that Is, nor should You label it, that will automatically Limit it. As Human Beings we don't Like Limits or Boundaries, just put Yourself in a closet for an hour and see what happens! So God represents to Many the Highest Possibility, but God is not outside of Yourself, and this has to be Realized Naturally, otherwise it will come and then go when under other influences. Only thru the Pain of Ignorance can You find the Motivation to Find Your Possibility within Yourself, stay on course, don't look this way or that way, once You make a decision to find Your Potential, stay on the Straight as an Arrow:)

Everything intellectual is an assumption, your reading my post you assume many things, as I am assuming many things reading your response, so that is why this way of communication is so very limited. We are not talking about God or Spirituality, we are talking around it, as only via direct experience can one get into it for real, but we have to talk today because our intellects are so sharp and we are addicted to it, but intellect divides and separates, Spirituality combines and unifies so we need another tool to get there, that is the possibility of Being Human that no other life form has, Searching for God in scirptures won't cut it imo:)

We can compare them because we are still Human Beings, really the only thing that has changed since my Grandfather was young is the technology and way of communicating, we have the internet (endless source of info and entertainment), they had radio's. My Grandfather had desires, I have desires, I make money, they made money, its not really that different, this whole thing about diversity and such is only because more ppl from differing cultures are living today than before, but that was there too in more mild forms... As well this generation is most comfortable and convenient generation ever, our survival process is more guaranteed today than ever, if not for the ideology of profit, then no one would be starving or lacking in the basics of life in the world...but there is more emotional suffering going on than ever, the generations before were too concerned with surviving to have the same sort of suffering we have today, at least in the west.. Ideologies have changed yes, but there has always been ideologies around, ppl telling you about life and so called truth, the only cool thing is the real stuff is out there too to balance things off a bit, but its a losing battle I think...

Yes, same on Youtube but the empowering stuff is not getting the hits like the disempowering stuff, massive brain/mind conditioning to keeps us in survival mode is working!!

Yes, that is why Sadhguru hangs around with these types, he said if he had the most powerful politicians and businessmen for focused time over 4 days he could change the world, but that hasn't happened yet, but he gets critized for it, go figure lol.. I hope that we are still here by 2100, I don't know for sure, even if we are would the society be worth living in the way this wokeness has gotten into the world like it has, at work in the mens washroom there is a despinser for tampons lol, what is the world coming too:)

Wasting Your time on social media, scrolling pics and short vids, turning 30 and still not experiencing for real what is what, that is low brain functionality in my book...by the time I was 30 I had already bought my own car, or two of them, taught Martial Arts for many years, travelled a bit, had a few relationships, broken heart and so forth, today the young ones are reading about it and watching it..

Yes for sure, its a natural survival level instinct coming out intellectually. In the span of time overall we humans and earth are just a spec, flash of light coming and then gone.. but for now, being here we care about where we are in life and the quality of it, so time is always about perspective and is subjective in nature, as it what we care for and the interests we have...

I think this depends on the person, I look at young ppl today and I don't see too many smart ones, they are all addicted to their phones, and think data input from social media or other sources is the key aspect of life, but none of those sources are telling You any truth, just repeating stories with hype to create drama for the dopamine hit and that they come back for more to make $$. I'm older than most here, but I've always been curious and a researcher as well as someone that does the work when super interested in something, so it depends... It must be somewhere in the food or air or something that many older folks get dementia and other such things, my parent both lived over 80 and had no such problems, they had active lives, kids, businesses, volunteering, social events, etc,, but others get it and are fucked afterwards, must be genetics and combination of things..

Kids, Grandkids, exposing it, talking about it maybe due to chance of changing it and preventing it...

The word Soul is very misconstrued word in today's culture, like everything nowadays everyone is making up their own definitions of words and meanings and creating individualistic ideologies that only separate them from others and everything, a sign that the intellect (dissecting tool that separates things for us to understand) is in charge. Better to use a word like Life, Source, Grand Intelligence, Brahman, Divine..Basically Soul is the Life you have capatured within You, we are embodied beings, living in a dual material world, but have the ability to be One with everything as an Experience and everyday foundational one. Wrapped around the Soul/Life, are Shealths, the Food, Mental, Energy, Etheric and Bliss shealths, what keeps it all together is Your Karmic Substance, its like Glue, when You die Physically, what travels to the next body is the Energy, Etheric and Bliss body which encapsulate the soul/life, which is why You are born with certain karmas/tendencies to work out in this life time, but we are born with Free Will or the possibility/potential of it and much more, we can be Conscious beings and not be bound by our physicality, or karmic substance, if You get this far (Enlightenment) then You may lose Your individuality and go back to Oneness realm and Brahman or Shiva nature (Shiva means "that which is not")

Try creating a space btwn your thinking Mind and what is You, I find this too be a great way to look at it. It took millions of Years for our Brains/Minds to be this way, but we are suffering it not making good use of it, so rather than completely shutting it down and becoming numb, just turn down the volume a bit on it, by creating space, observe it, then focus on what is doing the observing.. Our Culture is super conditioned and they want You to be over thinking, over stressed, too busy to realize what is happening in our human world, its horrible, but there are solutions to it..try this Kryia practice, its only a 12 min practice, help a lot!!

@MellowEd In the West anyways, we are brought via the Christian tradition, my generation was, and all the ones before it, so we have a general idea and conditioning about Hell, Heaven, God and such things, so this conditioning is very much a part of the culture, and ingrained in ppl's minds and subconcious, so when they have this sort of experience it comes out sounding the same, but Hell, Heaven its all within YOU, the experience itself happened within You, take some dmt and You trip into Heaven and Loving experience, trip on something else and it brings you to Hell experiences, its all about what is possible, and Free Will, decide what You want to Live in...

Yes the ultimate reality is that of Oneness, no individuality present there, no duality...

Many Yogis have studied Jesus and Christianity, from what I gather the holy spirit is Kundalini, Life Force that all of Us have but is not being utilized very much in our everyday lives, its "coiled" like a spring waiting to open up in the area of our perineum (Muladhara Chakra). If Food and Sleep are the base quality of Your life then that is where the Kundalini is, as You experience more intensity in Life the Kundaline rises to the other chakras, until is reaches the top of the head Sahasrara or Crown Chakra, now You have full Realization/Enlightenment, One with Everything in Your Experience... I've never experienced Spirits/Ghost per say, but as with everything there are levels to Reality and Existence, from Gross to Subtle, so the inbetween part is where Ghosts/Spirits reside, after physical death something remains they say...

I'm not fighter, they are born, killer instinct is something everyone is born with but Fighters have it more intensely and its always on in a way. I've studied Martial Arts for long time now (Wing Chun) concentrating mostly on one system and the variations that exist within it, but I'm a researcher so have watched and read about all sorts of fighters. You have Your Bruce Lee's, he just loved it, he fought allot of street fights and challenge matches, maybe it was an adrenline rush for him, but he loved it plain and simple, but he rather be a movie star than prize fighter..Ali, not sure he loved to fight, but was a natural, unbelieveable skills both defensively and offensively, but in the end he did if for Money I think...Royce Grace had some 400+ fights, I think he did it for family honor and to prove his fathers methods (GJJ) worked against all comers..Tyson for sure did it for fame and money, but he had great natural talent, he looked like a mean ahole, but he was scared as hell walking into the ring on all the occassions.. So fighting is on many levels, Survival like ppl have said, for Glory (think Rocky 3), for self respect (think Rocky 1), for redemption (think Rocky 2), in a small way its a spiritual challenge, it brings you too physical exhaustion, and mental fatigue and limits taking pain and dealing with losing and pride issues, for sure not the weak of mind or body...

Ditto...

@numbersinarow For explaination, there are two ways to explain Consciousness, there is Consciousness on a cosmic scale, that is anothe name for God, Brahman, Source, Grand Intelligence and so forth, this is what was there before the big bang.. Then there is individual consciouness, this is how intense Your Awareness and Perception of Life is. We have individual Bodies and Minds, we live in a Dual Physical world and universe but we have the capability to feel Oneness and Completeness and connect with the Universal Consciousness that I explained before. Spiritual Practices and Sadhana get You there, find a method do it everyday consistently, allow a Guru to come into Your life so it happens within this lifetime and Your set! Every experience You have only happens in one place, within You, so everything is subjective in a way, you are the center of Your Universe, when you go into deep sleep nothing exists for You, but we know there are other bodies/minds and physical world out there, so we have to deal with it. Even physially we are very connected to everything else, the trees and plant life provide 02, the earth provides food, the stuff we buy is put together by other humans, so we are connected on that level in millions of ways, we are not independent of it even on the physical level..

This is one of the first videos that really got me on to Sadhguru, he just explains it like no other. Here someone asks if Mediation/Yoga is like a Brain Exercise or something, Sadhguru explains that when You get something or achieve a goal what happens next? You want more, this is desire in action, Desire is Life, without it there is no Doing, but in the end You what You want out of everything, Love, Success, Money, Fame, posting a response, is Bliss, Bliss is not an Emotion, but a State of Being where Your Intensely Pleasant on the levels of Body, Mind, Emotion and Energetically which is the most important, when Your energies are highly intense, active and alive, then Your in Bliss. Its been proven that when in Bliss states vs Depressed states, everything about You works better, more creativity, more clarity, more intelligence, more of everything that makes Life worth living, it opens up Possibility and Potential. Good Video, he basically explains that whole reason why You want to do Yoga and follow a Sprititual Life Path.. https://dai.ly/xij335

Your Muladhara or Root chakra located at the perineum is always open at birth, the quality here is food and sleep, if that is the quality of Your Life, then that is where the Kundalini is rooted in, to raise it up first You need a constant state of Peace within Yourself, to do this some mental steps are 1) Accept all that is as it is (this lowers the stress response so that it does not happen in your life), 2) Live Now, get wise from the past, plan for the future but don't live in these places in your mind b/c they don't exist, so focus on Now experiences and presence, 3) Respond vs React, Responding corresponds with being Conscious in Your Awareness.. After getting those down, try Isha Kriya, its a simple sadhana or spiritual practice, takes around 12 min to do, do it twice a day for at least 40 days straight then as much as You want afterwards, this will get You to place of Peace for sure, after that try Isha's Inner Engineering program that will finish the job...

From Ian Bremmer, looks like we are f'd no matter what we do. Our systems of everything have to change, education, political, economical, cultural, everything has to transform or every year will look worse than the prior...slightly different outlook than Zehan who basically says we will be alright here in the west compared to most everywhere else in the world!

Who's the Youtube guru? Do some research!!! Now the person that started this forum more fits that description:)

The Spiritual path is all about this but its not about a Conversation, its about the Realization of what we are, so Realization is the important part. Once You touch Your Bliss Body, as a part of the 5 shealth (Earth, Mental, Energetic, Etheric, Bliss Bodies), then Your intouch with a part of that aspect, they call it Bliss body because it is non physical aspect, and You as an embodied individual living on a dual material planet, and being a Human Being, You can make this the fondation of Your Experience by identifying with, because that is You...So conversation is limited and low level, Experiencially Bliss is the language of God or Creation/Creator...