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Ram dass video on reincarnation popped on my youtube screen just now, might be a synchronisity.

Yeah, I wasn't trying to prove anything. I don't know anything myself what happens after death just some theories that make sense to me.

@Chris365 no need to be so demeaning.

@SelfHelpGuy nice examples ? I think if some people can remeber what they did yesterday, and some people can remember what they did in the previous lifetime, there is not much difference. Well I don't have a full understanding on this but what buddha or Jesus would say is that ego doesn't die after death. It takes another form. It could take an eartly body, or some other body, or go to heavenly realm or to hell. Where you go depends on how much evolution of the soul has been made here on earth. I don't even myself understand it fully so... but ego survives bodily death according to almost all if not 100% of all religions and spiritual traditions in the world even in advaita studies nobody denies reincarnation. Only "expert nondualists" on this forum have funny ways of disproving everything that they don’t like. ? I think reincarnation is like taking all the data and all the softwares from one computer and uploading it to another computer. If you want ego death, all data has to be obliterated through spiritual practice or antivirus self deleting program killing a computer won't kill the data inside it. When a body dies, I think the personality and the karmic substance and all data of the ego can float around in the energy body in the space or take another womb. The personality and the karmic substance is recorded in the energy body. This energy that carries the information and data of the personality is called the soul. The soul's energy and universe's energy is ultimately the same but it is being seperated by the ego and karmic substance. Like a bubble in the air. Air inside the bubble and air outside the bubble is the same air but a bubble is formed becouce of the ego mass around the energy and appareat seperation of individual soul happens. Dissolving the bubble or the karmic structure makes the bubble dissapear and the soul energy reunites with the cosmos energy. Aka, mahasamadhi. If you dissolve the ego bubble fully, the energy that carries the person's data will no longer be entrapped by the personality and just unites with infinity. Like the bubble bursting and air joining the cosmos.

@Rilles ?

Ups. Sorry than ? I'm bad at jokes probably ?

Why so pessimistic? Trying to pinpoint isness does enourmous things to me. I think you'd be surprised how powerful it is if you actually tried it.

It's really unfair to use nondual phylosophy to dismiss reincarnation. Reincarnation is like going to sleep and waking up in the morning again. Going to sleep would be equivalent to death, and waking up in the morning would be equivalent to entering a new womb. Just because everything is one and there is no seperate self doesn't disprove the fact that there is such a thing as sleep and waking up in the morning. I'm not saying reincarnation is real or unreal. I'm saying nonduality is really a poor way of disproving reincarnation. Nonduality has nothing to do with this subject at all. Nonduality only points to the absolute truth there is no such thing as death. Because consciouness can't die and was never born. But consciouness also can’t fall asleep and can't wake up. And so? Does that mean sleep doesn't exist? A hardcore nondualist would say sleep doesn't exist because there is no self to fall asleep or to wake up (or smth like that). But from a normal human relative perspective sleep and waking up is very much real phenomena we all experience every day. To use nondual phylosophy to dismiss everything is really unfair. You can say there's no such thing as eating because consciouness doesn't have a stomach. And there is no self so who is eating? You can basicly prove any kind of bullshit with this nondual phylosophy. Nondual phylosophy has it's place and is beautiful but it should not be used in every area of life. Even ramana maharshi the god of advaita and nonduality says there is reincarnation...

Define the term "is". That's the most profound one for me.

@lmfao Lol, I thought this was very funny ?

Really good video.

I see, not surprised I will say ? Initiated, yes. The element of grace is a main reason for it's effectiveness I think. I think I started noticing benefits even after the first day of doing it. Just the sense of wellbeing and improved mental balance was clear from the start. Also I think the more you grow in self inquiry and meditation the more effective yoga becomes also. I think maybe that's why it was so effective for me from the start. Basicly you are using the same awareness from your meditation but applying it to a different area now so you reap the benefits accordingly.

Traumas impurities and old emotions of the mind are in the body not it the head. Body needs to be made into pure energy and transparant. Than ego and bad thoughts will dissapear. So yoga is very effective way to purify the mind but I don't know what it was that you did in there ? yoga can change how you think and behave dramaticly if it's done properly. It works on the fundamental level of who you are. It should change even the fundamental ways of how one relates and perceives life, food, people, atmosphere. Each asana is like a statement. A healthy high conscious statement if one makes with the nessecary awareness in it everyday, it will change the entire belief system and psychological and energetic structure inside out. It can deeply transform one's personality. But it needs to be taught in a specific proper way. Only then the benefits become vivid. Isha is one of those schools that offer this possiblity. I don't if there is some other. Probably is. But I don't know where. Small personal example of mine. All my life I never were able to speak with people. I had huge blocks speaking with people was very shy etc. This is one of the resons I started meditation to overcome this. I did self inquiry for 2+ years and it still remained the same. Tho I gained lots of benefits of intelligence and awareness but the behavior patterns remained the same. Only when I started doing hatha yoga all my communication blocks went away. Today I don't ęven know how to shut up ? so it was a huge very fundamental change in me. So I'm sharing this example to testify that it works if it's a proper yoga. ?

Yes you can do it with gentle sounds also

That's not what I meant. I meant your ability to laugh at your situation and see it with detachment. That's a nice quality really.

@bloomer Lol I don't see often people call themselves like "losers" with such detachment and unseriousness and playfulness ? that's really next level humor here. Very coool ??with this level of intelligence and confidence you should be able to get any woman you want ?

Play a video of someone you like like echkart tolle or rupert spira that is 20min long. Listen and meditate as you listen. It will keep you engaged, time will go faster, and the benefits are the same. Or find some guided meditations 20min long.

If you follow this regimen you should not experience big energy drains. It's mantak chia's regimen here.

Sorry, yeah awareness of awareness purifies the mind sufficiently. Except that it's not the fastest direct way of doing it. That's what I meant. Purification means dissolving ego. That implies anger, lust, greed, compulsions, attachments, envy, everything that is toxic in the mind. I probably missed many more. Long. Even if you do therapy all your life, there will still be things to work out. It's really... usually you have to live it. To make it into your path of liberation. Some people invest their whole life into it. It's a spiritual path by itself. The level of your mind's purification can determine the level of your awareness because it is the ego that pulls awareness down. If ego is gone. No practice is needed, your awareness will float up to the sky. Like an air balloon. Heavier your ego is, the lower your air baloon is. If your ego is gone your awareness floats to the mahasamadhi. So how long does purification take is the same question how long does it take to achieve mahasamadhi ? Others you know, instead of eliminating ego, crank up the energy, that's the kriya path. It's like intensifying the fire in the air ballon so it goes higher. That's what psychedelics temporarely do to you. They blow your energies really high and you experience what it looks like when the air balloon is in the cosmos. It all works the same to all people imo. The machanics of purification are simple. There are many techniques in spirituality in that regard, you can find something that you resonate with. If you don't know anything echkart tolle's inner body meditation is good. Vipassana retreat could really purge you well also. There're many of these things. Probably every path has it's own way of dealing with purification. Do some confessions to the priest maybe ? it all works. Just chose what you resonate with. Or just do aware of awareness. It's good enough. Does the job eventually anyways.

@Raptorsin7 see, aware of awareness is not the most effective practice for purification. It's more to rise awareness and create distance between your psyche and awareness. It leads to the realization that I'm nothing at all and nothing ever happens to me. It's beautiful but it has no quality like bliss or love. It's a different kind of freedom, freedom of silence. Also it's a little bit like problem bypassing. When you do aware of awareness meditation. You jump over all your traumas and problems into that which has no problems. It doesn't purify the mind and traumas much, rather it separates you from the psyche and mind and traumas. The purification element is there also but not so deep like therapy for example. If you’re interested in purification there are other ways to go about it. Practices like vipassana or hatha yoga that focuses more on the body has a deeper impact on purification of the mind. But know this, purification takes a lot of time. There's garbage in your mind you have no clue about. Layers upon layers of garbage, even lifetimes of garbage. So ? but still purification has it's place. I do it also. How much you care about it depends on individual. If you really want to invest in that direction than just find an appropriate practice you can do that purifies your mind on a daily basis. It would be useful. But aware of awareness practice does purify the mind sufficiently enough imo. Hopefully something will resonate here. ?

Lol, that's good one ?

? sorry, I've read "It". MB.

What looks like a snake?

Yeah, I've heard many things like that also ? it takes a huge cultural leap to start liking snakes ? I think only one who accepts death can enjoy snakes. Somehow they go together. And acceptance of death is what spirituality is all about. If you accept death, you go beyond death or you become death itself. A living death is the fragrance of a realized yogi. It's a different world altogether.

Yep, I like death and snakes ? . That's what self-realization means. Plungging into death, the core of existence. But it's not easy to explain this to people ? better not to speak about it.