UnbornTao

That's the thing: maybe you do want to suffer in some way - but you're not yet conscious of this fact. I'm talking about the mental-emotional kind. Since you're experiencing it, it's fulfilling a job that you think is necessary (but it is not). For instance, pay attention to some minor form of suffering you may be currently enduring. What has to happen in your experience for that suffering to exist in the first place? Maybe you're frustrated because a desire is being thwarted - but then, who's the one having the desire that's being thwarted? This line of questioning suggests that something has to be done first for suffering to arise. It isn't something objectively found or located in existence - so to speak. It is fabricated in one's experience. Which is to say, if you experience suffering, it means you're engaged in a process that has suffering as its outcome or result.

I thought it'd be obvious: the entire video, the notion of mahasamadhi. It boils down to: "He dead."

@Ishanga I meant after the fantasy is set aside. That video is purely fantasy-based.

Cognition fits better here, in my view.

@Protein Thank you. It's simply about how long it's practiced continuously. I see. My initial point was that there wouldn't be many "documented" cases like that in the first place. Got it, thank you. @Ishanga What remains when all the fantasy is set aside?

I think it's an incredibly unusual coincidence.

Have you considered that you may well be behind your experience of suffering?

Tell your beliefs to go fuck themselves. Regardless of their content, they tend to get in the way of open investigation. When it comes to existential - and even experiential (such as the nature of emotions) - matters, they're obstacles.

"That was a Canadian cut; now have the Norwegian one."

Take up the 'no nuts this November' challenge.

Ankara Messi.

I like it. In the Trash bin. Because I have bad taste.

You mean refined white sugar, right? Not natural sugars like those found in fruit or similar sources?

Ahh, got it, thanks. I thought it meant recreational vehicle, that's why I asked. Fucking Google.

I'd start with 'what' before asking 'why.'

@Jannes What's RV?

Do you know of any cases of people who have practiced Kriya along with semen retention for years? I find that a certain amount of fantastical thinking tends to accompany practices like these - not to say they can't be beneficial, of course.

@zurew Can't be a free thinker if you don't think in the first place. 🤔 I'm always one step ahead.

I like that.

Damn it, make up your mind.

@Salvijus It was partly a joke, by the way. It's hard to believe, in any case - especially if it's done for years on end.

Finally. Worst 15 minutes of my life.

Okay, thanks.

I don't know, Rick.

Thanks.