Pernani

I wanna read this book, but there's a shitton of diff versions with diff translations, and with translation a lot of the meaning is lost or distorted from the original, so which do you recommend ?

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Does weightlifting count? Lol

I got into pickup stuff from a friend of mine, and there, there was a vid from rsd abt meditation, so I youtube "how to meditate?" And his vid was the first to pop with million of views, I look on the side and find that this guy has a shitton of all kinds of interesting videos. Binge watched some of his videos. And the rest was history

awesome! gonna check that out my to read list is an ever growing library that I'll probably never finish lol, I only got so much time for one book but i think ill check the red pine ver and the ursula guinn

Hahaha yeah that's crazy! Im starting to bump randonlly into people who watch actualized.org

I've read once that doing nothing and not controling your mind is the best way for your mind to become very focused, so like you said I think you are focusing on becoming nothing, although I haven't experienced that myself just yet

It may sound like a silly question, but I keep seeing in the foum people giving advice and saying to meditate on: death, life purpose, answers... etc Is it just another way of saying to contemplate the given subjects? all I know is that there simply exists meditation techniques that help raise awareness, but what does it rly mean?

I'm sorry but this makes no sense to me. I suppose there is more than one way to do this, thank you for your replies! I think what i'll do is concern myself with the subject matter, get into that zone of questioning and wondering then maybe do the do nothing technique

There is? Sucks that I dont have it, anyways thanks for your input! I would love to get other people's opinions about this, but I can feel it's about to get dry as an arabian sahara ?

I've been thinkin about starting a yoga practice so I got the PDF of this book for free, and I must say it's one hella huge book of almost 1000 pages split in half, I haven't finished the book yet, I've actually only started reading it and it looks to me like the perfect book for a newbie who knows nothing abt yoga, but I've been wondering about what people who have read and practiced the book think about it and how does it compare to the other book that leo recommended

It's best when you got a tough toilet session and you summon devine energy to open your anus chakra.. Man I dont know if it's okay to joke around like this in the forum ?

Yes I have started experiencing it when I did some third eye meditation, in my hands, now I do regular meditation and I experience it through all of my body in the thick of the session, and sometimes i still feel it in my feet throughout the rest of the day, I would say it's just energy flowing through your body, but im no expert ?

Which book do you suggest i start with?

But I've heard that the techniques in his books are for people who've already been doing yoga before

You better start levitating man, contacting SHIELD agents on yo ass!

Does it feel like you're becoming doom from fantastic four?

Im gonna bump this because i still need more clarification

So basically you just bring the topic of question into your awareness, get yourself a bit curious and then do whatever meditation technique you're using? Whats the appropriate technique for this? Maybe the do nothing meditation Btw awesome content anna! And idk why the reply function is screwed up, i cant answer outside the quotation box lol

So it's just another way of saying contemplation

I'm no expert but in my opinion I think motivation is your main problem, it's like you're doing self help just for the sake of doing self help, maybe you don't have a vision for your life, yourself and for what you can create in the long term that is compelling enough, that brings you to tears the moment you think about it and that makes you willing to do anything to achieve it without being attached to achieving it paradoxically, enjoying the process and not being so attached to the outcome, in my opinion that's what brings the most change.

How's this working out @Leo Gura ?

Is theory important at all for this work ? What role does it serve other than acquiring beliefs that have no basis in your own personal experience ? What's the point ? Shouldn't one just focus all his time on the actual practices rather than reading books and watching videos ? other than maybe refining your own practice and knowing what the practice looks like with all its traps I don't see why one would bother with nondual theory

I felt that way too but I didn't wanna delude myself and avoid taking action, you better keep them videos coming then

So many inisghtful replies to digest in this thread <3 thank you all for your help, since I'm pretty much still a noob I think I can put some theory into good use but eventually, like everything else I'm gonna have to find the proper balance for me