Esoteric

Well said. Metal as an art form is very broad. There is metal music that is very sophisticated with very high level of musicianship and artistic integrity. Post-Metal is not brute force aggression it has a deep atmospheric element to it with long build ups and crescendos. Death Metal is just over-the-top gore usually with an obvious comedic hint to it often. Much like the splatter film Brain Dead Black Metal in all its subgenres does take itself very seriously usually and there are bands that are probably not that healthy to listen to. There are classical music you can say the same about. Shostakovich's first violin concerto has a demonic vibe to it. Just because you have distorted guitars doesn't make it demonic or aggressive by nature. There is metal that is happy as well. The people I know who are horror movie nerds and go see old classics every weekend are stage green vegans and probably the most non-aggressive people I have met in my life. @Leo Gura I am surprised to hear you that talk so much about nuances and open-mindedness make such broad generalisations and label it as "lower art". It's like listening to Sadhguru talk about psychedelics.

@GreenWoods Krishna

I am not doubting that he had an awakening. However that "Woah, what the fuck you guys!!"-moment whether on psychs or from meditation shows a lack of grounded awakening, that's just how it is. I have had it too, and I even believed my work was done. But identification to the body slowly creeps back. I just didn't jump on a computer and wrote about it. Aww, you even love my ego. That humbleness is amazing. You truly are an angel!! I love your ego as well <3 <3 <3 *kisses*

Healthy red I can think of is Yakuza helping japanese citizens during crisis.

@Jed Vassallo I guess he is orange yeah. But it is hard to label comedians. True comedians/tricksters ideally should stand aside and make fun and provoce people on the whole spiral. But of course they will have preferences and imperfections, but their spirit should be to make fun of the absurdity of it all including themselves. That's why comedians that turn political get so horribly bad.

@DrewNows

@DrewNows No i'm a receptionist

All these manic "Guys I am enlightened. I LOVE YOUUU" threads really show a lack of groundedness and an unhealthy spiritual ego. Let's see in a couple of months if you are as manically lovey dovey as you are now. Maybe you will end up like some users here and post the same redundant shit over and over again in every thread.

@Superfluo

Could be, yeah. Just be persistent and patient and sleepiness will pass with time. It is a fairly common defense mechanism. Also you could try focusing there with your eyes open. Just soften and widen your gaze so the visual field is spread equally while attention is on the third eye.

Oy vey

And who are you to say what people SHOULD do? Some people choose to have families and some people choose to become renunciates. But yeah if you want to preach how people should live their lives and what the one ultimate spiritual path is then I guess you've found your man.

This is a very broad and complex topic. So many over simplifications and generalisations done by the guy. There are many different branches and schools of Yoga. It is not one thing. Patanjali's Yoga is very different from Tantrik Yoga for instance. The first is focused on transcendence while the latter is focused on embodiment and therefore is not interested in just reaching the void state and stopping there, because that is a trap. Consciousness pervades all states including the void. It is both full and empty. Also the 7 chakra system is just one system for the chakras. Some systems use 5, 9, 12 etc. It is just that the west has adopted the 7 and made it mainstream. So basically judaism is superior and every other tradition is wrong and the devil. He is just crusading for his religion. His people are the saviours and care about the world. Yada yada yada. Not all Yoga is about detachment and not all "detached" people dismiss the world.

Rumpnissar

You can buy his complete collection of works on Google Books for like a dollar. FYI

That's very uninteresting. Thanks for sharing.

Sounds like you've found your spiritual bath.

Trying to turn things "positive" is actually very destructive. It sets you up for aversion to feeling "negative" emotions. Tragedy, sorrow and pain has a sharp beauty that you can fully immerse yourself in. It's much healthier to learn to do that than setting a goal that something "positive" will come from this "negative" situation.

@FourSeasons Sounds great! My advice would be not to get too hooked on seeing signs and guidance in every moment instead just focus on being in every moment. You are a pattern seeking mammal, so "1111" and "0000" will pop out a lot because you are expecting to see those numbers. Not denying synchronicities but when true synchronicities shows up they are usually more profound than seeing some numbers. When you throw away your stories you will see that reality is way less dramatic than what your ego wants it to be.

This the best video about kundalini out there. Both in a historical context and what it is. It clears up a lot of misconceptions. The word "kundalini" was first seen in Tantrik Shaivism texts, it talked about an upper kundalini and a lower kundalini. Also it was never referred to as serpent or snake originally. The women used to wear coiled earrings called "kundala" and that is where the word comes from.

Oh God yes. Infact it's a wonderful and efficient way to get more conscious. The key though is whenever that resistance and suffering comes you immedietely throw away the story and narrative associated with it and pull the energy into the most center of your being and you stay with the energy until it subsides. Bigger traumas comes in chunks so you will have to dissolve them in segments. You will suck at it in the beginning and it will feel very hard to do because of the attachments to your story, pride etc. But if you commit and do this continually you will see that energy is just energy. Neither positive or negative. It will also strengthen and make you feel your subtle body. Recommend reading Recognition Sutras for teachings and practices regarding this.

@RedLine https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/FiveWaystoKnowYourself_ver1.6.pdf This will give you a great overview of his practice.

@CVKBT It will definitely clear a lot of misconceptions about what Tantra, Yoga, Kundalini is etc. Wallis has a great youtube channel as well with a lot of valuable information. Once you start to study this stuff you see that so much have come from Tantra, and that Kriya Yoga has a strong Tantrik foundation. Wallis has a youtube series going through all of the verses of an early Tantrik scripture (from the Trika lineage) called Vijnana Bhairava Tantra. It was an esoteric text written probably in the 9th century that has a lot of Tantra Yoga techniques in it. Here (and perhaps in even earlier Tantrik texts) you first start to see the mentions of a central channel, side channels, chakras etc. His book/commentary on the Recognition Sutras is also highly recommended. These Tantrik masters had such quality teachings that they feel really fresh, open and alive even today imo.

"You know the funniest part about doing an office conga line? When you look back and realize you're doing it alone and you're not in an office, you're in a psychiatric hospital."

@Leo Gura Thanks Leo. Both your latest video (especially the part about love) and this Shunyamurti video has been tremendously helpful and perfectly timed. I am using my time off work (due to corona) spending a huge majority in silence with no external stimuli. Love you.