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@Loreena Rupert Spira. Hands down my favourite non-dual teacher. This video is the latest on his channel, it actually gave me my first "a-ha" moment on the non existence of time.

Lol I've done about 100 hours. Already 1% of the way there! Also, SAND seems to have quite a lot of good videos.

I've been meditating 1-2 hours a day and seeing some results, but I'm still nowhere near where I'd like to be. If I go on a retreat or two, do you breakthrough permanently and maintain your new baseline with like an hour a day?

Hey guys, I've never done visualisation before and I'm just adding it to my morning routine. Currently I'm switching goals that I visualise daily for example: 1. Visualise myself being a gun at work 2. Visualise acing uni 3. Visualise confidence with women ect Is it okay to do a rotation like this, or is visualising a goal only effective when that particular goal is done daily?

Just keep going. I've been working on similar issues by meditating a lot, slowly doing more and more. Over the last month I've gotten much more in touch with being, although I still can't sit motionless for an hour. But I was heavily unconscious and addictive before, so I feel I have to work hard just to get to some people's baseline level of awareness. If you break your streak, don't fall into the trap of thinking "oh fuck it, I've already broken my streak so I may as well binge on porn/internet/food ect". I've fallen into that trap many times. You can minimise the damage.

I see Sam Harris as someone who's kind of got one foot in both camps. If you read his stuff on free will and the no self, he clearly sees the importance of direct experience. Like I remember an interview where he explains no free will and he argued it from a direct experience point of view rather than pure neuroscience. And he has studied and meditated with practitioners of Advaita Vedanta and so on. However he still defends the standard scientific, materialist, rationalist paradigm. He's made such a reputation in that camp that I doubt he'd allow himself to be ostracised by his academic mates for admitting non-dual truths even if he recognised them.

The Diet Myth

What does this have to do with spirituality or enlightenment?

Does she claim to be enlightened?

@Leo Gura Do you think you're going to cover bodywork/chakras and purification in the future? It's something I'd love to learn more about.

Hi guys. Anyobody here successfully stopped a porn and masturbation addiction? I first came across nofap 18 months ago and I've been trying to quit the whole time and I just keep failing. Willpower just doesn't seem to work. Anybody have any tips they would like to share?

This guy doesn't seem spiritually inclined or anything, but watch this if you want to hear an interesting anecdote of what 30 hits of LSD is like.

Hi all. I was just doing some meditation (SDS) and I began to enter in the highest state of concentration I've had. I then began to have what I believe was an enlightenment experience, it was fucking intense. Everything became extremely still, and my visual field started tripping out and it began to become like a flat surface, kinda how Leo describes it in his enlightenment experience video. It was kinda cool but I started to freak out and my hands started sweating, heart started beating fast and I had to stop. my question is, has anybody else freaked out from a samadhi state. I've been gunning for higher consciousness states like this but it's dissapointing that it seems my ego can't handle it. Is it possible to gradually adjust your comfort zone to accomodate these experiences?

I'm working on my phone addiction currently. Funnily enough you just gave me the simple idea of just turning it off.... I've also weaned off Facebook, holy fuck I used to waste a lot of time on that.

I've been working on similar issues. Just force yourself slowly to get back from as much artificial stimulation as possible. I am susceptible to addictions, social media, Youtube, porn ect have been big issues for me but I'm making huge progress through long meditations. When you abstain from these highly stimulating things for a while you can feel your brain rebalance out and your dopamine levels become more normal, which allows you to focus on more mundane shit like books. Don't give up, the brain is highly plastic.

This animation makes my visual field wavy and trippy when I look away

@cetus56 helpful response, thank you! I am anticipating more of these states as I've only been doing serious meditation pretty recently. Hopefully next time I surrender a bit easier. @Deep that's interesting, I wasn't aware of the different types of samahdis and their terms. @ajasatya Thanks! I'll be sure to check it out.

Same here, suburb?

That would be amazing. Being ADD makes it so much harder to pursue your goals and feel optimistic about yourself. I find meditation helps immensely, I've been doing an hour daily, broken up into two chunks.

The Power of Now is great, and it was a fundamental starting point for me in this journey. However, I didn't find it practical enough because specific practices make it 1000X easier to live in the now. You have to build it like a muscle. And yes it's true that you should enjoy the process rather than ONLY focussing on how present you'll be in the future. Leo's videos are like a manual for actually embodying the Power of Now.

Yeah I have the same problem, I'm prone to addictions and always bite my nails. Basically 30 minutes a day probably won't cut it. Try keep life as simple as possible, meditate more and implement mindfulness throughout the day as much as you can.

This is cool! Might use it myself. I'm currently doing 2X20-25 min sessions a day, ideally working my way up to one 60 minute session. Would anyone care to answer these questions: Meditating on a chair vs sitting crossed legged? What is better? One 60 minute session or two 30 minute sessions per day?

My whole life from a young age I've always been suspicious of the idea that dead matter arranged in a certain way can produce consciousness. It just doesn't seem possible.

See Leo's response on a thread which has a similar question to yours:

Sounds like purification to me! Detaching from the ego usually creates an unpleasant adjustment period after which comes a kind of revitalisation you mentioned.