Salvijus

Meditating on presence with eyes open is a valid practice and can take you a long way. But I believe to get to the final goal one has to close the eyes eventually in order to cultivate a sharper discernment between psychological reality and existencial reality (presence). If you want to make closed eyes meditation easier, you can anchor your presence to the breath. It used to help me as an intermediate step between open eyes and closed eyes meditation. "Primordial Meditation with Breath This method is most ancient and is found in many esoteric schools. Essentially, you allow your body to find its own natural rhythm of breath and rest your attention gently on the breath, using breathing as the vehicle of the Presence of Awareness. When you meditate using this method, breathe naturally, with even inhalations and exhalations, just as you ordinarily do. Focus your awareness very gently on the out-breath, and when you exhale just flow out with the breath. Every time you breathe in, let go and let be, and imagine that at the end of the out-breath your breath dissolves into the infinite spaciousness of Truth. At the end of every exhalation, before the next inhalation, you will find there is a gap – let go and enter into the gap. In the gap is the “place” of Pure and Primordial Being. This is called Perfect Repose. Whatever thoughts or emotions might arise, neither grasp at them nor push them away. Just let them be, and let them naturally arise and pass away, without doing anything with them or entertaining any judgment. If you find that you have become distracted or identified with thoughts and emotions arising, or find yourself daydreaming, merely restore your focus to your breath and continue. If mind enters into the gap and the Natural State dawns, let go of the practice and just calmly abide. If the mind or heart moves, return to the practice. It is that simple. Do not focus too tightly upon breath, but focus upon it lightly. Basically, you want to place about ¼ of your awareness on breath and leave the other ¾ free, abiding in a quiet and spacious state of relaxed awareness. In this state one is essentially aware of oneself and what is happening in one’s consciousness, and aware of what is happening in one’s environment. Instead of watching the breath, as though separate from breath, progressively allow yourself to identify with your breath, as though you are becoming your breath. Breathe and let the breath and the one who is breathing gradually merge in a natural way without unnecessary force. In this practice you will find that as the Presence of Awareness grows you will experience the mind becoming more and more silent and the vital-emotional being becoming more and more quiet. It is as though one is shedding the Serpent’s skin and putting on a Body of Clear or Transparent Light. In this way one is set free!"

True but that's not there real reason why you've been prompted to respond in the way that you do.

Okay I understand. 🪷

What are you thanking him for? As if my points got debunked or smth. But my points remain undisputed. 1. You can't live without killing. 2. Eliminating meat entirely is not practicable. 3. It's good to avoid unnecessary and unconscious killing.

That doesn't make any change to the points I was making.

But I thought we were in agreement with each other, lol what a backstabber

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That's an orgasm to my ears. Seems like the prophecy of your enlightenment is coming true.

I don’t know what it was but it would probably fall under the category of what most people call astral projection. But it might fall under the category of lucid dreaming aswell. Because I was not sure I just called it "concious weird dream phenomena". There seems to many layers and planes of consciousness that one can experience in sleep. It's hard to properly categorize what is what.

Had a 30min long of some kind of concious weird dream phenomena. I'm stoked, haha. This is great success because my other dream incidents were always very short. I hope I can replicate the results if I repeat what I've done. Too bad I don't know exactly what caused it 😭

You're not taking from others. You're including it into your system. You merge your conciousness with smaller conciousness and you both become part of a bigger conciousness. And then you get consumed by a guru conciousness. But you don't dissappear. You become part of a larger conciousness.

It would be a static existence without any growth. Consumption is what makes growth possible. Smaller life becomes part of a bigger life. And so on forever. Ever higher. Ever greater.

You're always part of something bigger. To be eaten is not a bad thing. It means you've ascended into a higher possibility. Humans are not on top of the food chain. You have to let yourself be consumed by grace and you will know the joy of being eaten alive 🌟 🙏 🪷 🦋

I think we are in agreement then 👍

Living without meat entirely is not practicable either. I agree with reducing cruelty and unnecessarily killing.

It still makes the vegan argument crumble that killing is unjustifiable because you can't avoid killing. The only question becomes, to what extent killing is appropriate and to what extent it becomes excessive and wasteful? And who said animal meat crosses the line of what's appropriate and inappropriate?

I'm convinced that you have to kill at least something to grow crops. So being vegan is still contributing to animal killing. To what extent is the only question.

Vegans kill more animals than meat eaters.

Greed is when you're attached to the thing you're grasping on. Afraid to give it away because you believe your happyness, success, or survival depends on it. True living is about not being attached to anything. Willingness to give everything away if need be. Yet being grateful for all the things that sustain you every moment.

Observe your desires. Feel your desires. Allow your desires Let desire flow unrestricted. Surrender..

He's so good 🥹🥹🥹

I've just watched few videos of Vivek Ramaswamy. Wow. That guy has an intelligence and conciousness of a sage. I'm in awe. Truly fantastic individual.

If you become very still and gather all your focus to here and now, you might experience a shift in experience from being in the mind to being in reality. It's a distinct shift in quality of experience. I know the instructions are vague but that's just it is. If you're willing to simply try without overthinking it, you might get it.

Lol. I meant this. "Just make an attempt to become here and now with absolute focus and eyes open. See what happens. If some kind of subtle shift in experience will happen. Like moving from psychologal reality of labeling things to existencial reality without labeling anything. That's the best explanation I can do through this format ."