Esoteric

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    @Yonkon All brain tumors are related to hallucinogenic use?

    Ramana Maharshi died of cancer. Actually a lot of people die of cancer. Both "saints" and "devils". That's just the way it is. The vessel gets old, sick and then it dies. 

    I'd be more observant of the fear about whether psychedelics doesn't go well with your idea of a judgemental God than actually having a good time with psychedelics. You can trip and visualise skullfucking Jesus cranium if you want. Because you are completely free. It is your imprinted fear of a personified cunty God that makes you scared of being judged. God is beyond judgement.

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    2 hours ago, JalenS23 said:

    Hmmm. I just feel like there’s still a difference between being able to adapt to withstand tough situations, like surviving in extremely cold environments and needing to eat meat purely for survival. Compared to living in an optimal environment that much better suits our needs. Sunlight, warm temperature, fresh water, fresh produce. Would you be physically comfortable living butt naked in a cold environment? Shouldn’t that say something? 
     

    @JalenS23 Humans at harsh environments had to go beyond their capabilities and use their brains to the max to survive. Getting harshness thrown at you actually make you stronger and more capable if you endure it. Have you noticed that privileged kids who got everything served to them are not very pleasant to be around. Shouldn't that say something? 

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    @CVKBT Hello, sorry for a late answer, I don't get notifications when someone tags my name.

    @Serotoninluv@cetus56 If any mod could look into that I'd appreciate it, been having that problem for over a year. Thanks.

    Regarding your question. I'd say it's not that important if it counts technically as a pranayama. If you start out doing pranayamas and enter breathlessness, very subtle breathing or parvastha, you're golden. This is what you want, even if you enter subtle breathing after 1 pranayama you always abide in stillness if it becomes accessible. Forget everything about technicalities or traditions and abide in stillness for as long as possible. Good luck in your practice.

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    @Endangered-EGO If you feel bad and that your nervous system gets stressed you need to take it easy on yourself. Like I said check out the FREE course on Tantrika Institute. You can ask questions there and Chris also have a facebook page from what understand. Be smart about this and be gentle on your system. Like I said look up grounding techniques and focus on that as your body adapts to the energy. No need to rush things, especially when it comes to this.

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    @Endangered-EGO Congratulations. Treat this process with reverance and respect and dare to be open because it is a blessing. 

    When you feel shakes and vibrations in the base you need grounding, look that up. My suggestion is to buy a book from Jason Miller called The Sorcerers Secrets, it has a great middle pillar ritual that can help you clear and feel your central channel.

    Also on gaia.com Christopher Wallis has a Tantrik Pranayama technique that is tremendous in the morning for clearing the 3 channels. Gaia is a great great resource I have found, it's not simply shallow asana routines, it has great tutorials for energy work as well. His Tantrik Micro Meditations on there are gems too.

    Christopher Wallis also have a course for free to get you through the basics of Tantrik Yoga. Look up Tantrika Institute. Also check out his videos on youtube about kundalini, he clears up a lot of misconceptions. Check out all of his work. He is both a great instructor and a scholar of Tantrik Shaivism.

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    1 hour ago, Hermetics said:

    @Esoteric out of all PEOPLE im fucking surprised you're sticking up for this FUCKING bullshit AND your name is  "esoteric" >?? are you fucking kidding me?  
     
    LET Me ask you something.   WTFFF are you doing still LISTENING TO NEO ADVAITA SHIT??? ITS FUCKING EXOTERIC!  AREN'T YOU INTO FUCKING ESOTERICS??? THAT'S LIKE LITTLE LEAGUE TO FUCKING MAJOR LEAGUES.   BUT you want to play in the fucking little league??? STOP wasting time with this fucking bullshit! 

    @Hermetics Esoteric was actually a metal band I used to like in my teens lol. I like the name.

    Anyway, I see that you are suffering much right now. I know how it feels to have that whirlwind of anger in you that you can't accept. Sending love to you.

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    This forum is an amazing resource if you use it properly. There are quality content and posters here that have really made an impact on my spiritual progress.

    Of course there is a ton of mental masturbation and a lot of spiritual egos, devilry and all that jazz. And I see posters complaining about the harshness and bad stuff here sometimes.. But if someone really irks you, you simply ignore those users content or take it with a grain of salt and filter in the good useful and practical stuff. It's really not that hard.

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    @Bridge to Infinity What techniques are you doing? How long have you been meditating?

    Surely you are not lost in thoughts your entire sit? There must be at least a couple of recognitions that your mind has wandered? When it has you simpy go back to the meditation object, until your mind wanders, and then bring it back again. That's it. This is not a process that will be smooth in the beginning. You just have to be patient and dedicated to your practice. You WILL get lost in thoughts, there is no miracle remedy for that. You simply notice it and return. If you keep doing that you will get better and better, even if the progress can seem painfully slow in periods, you will get progressively better at it.

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    Hey@ardacigin , very helpful and interesting stuff as always.

    To simplify things and to ge the terms clear, basically a good samatha practice would be to have stable attention while maintaining peripheral awareness? And playing with the dynamics between the two. And an insight practice would mean to completely remove the stable attention part and just keep peripheral awareness on max. Is that fair to write?

    In your opinion, for a beginner to build continous stable attention would the best tactic be to just get back to the meditation object over and over again when the mind wanders, or work with stable attention/peripheral awareness from the get go?

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    2 hours ago, actualizing25 said:

    @Esoteric So if I just do the practices, it will bring me nowhere? But isn't it the purpose of Yoga or meditation to actually do the spirtual practices so that if you do them long enough, it will bring you some results.

    @actualizing25 Yes, what I am saying is do the practices with commitment and dedication. There are people who meditate for decades with very slow progress, don't be one of them. Just because you sit on the cushion for years doesn't automatically give you amazing results, you also have to do the actual work.

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    @actualizing25 Of course, but in the end it depends on you, how you organize your practice, how you learn from mistakes, how honest you are with yourself and most importantly your desire for truth. Just doing Yoga for x amount of years doesn't really mean anything if you think it will magically make you enlightened one day. You have to be consciously brave and keep withdrawing from external desires over and over again. A practice like yoga can help create a space in you, where you can rest and withdraw from the seduction of the external world, but will you? Do you really want to?

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    56 minutes ago, Matt8800 said:

    @Esoteric Regarding eternal individuation, how do you know that "you" will ever merge and not be individuated? At minimum, near death experiences seem to indicate that subjective experience continues after the body dies. If "you" dont dissolve into nothing right after physical death, when would you dissolve into nothing? Why would you think that and what do you base that on? If you investigate this, you'll find it is just unsubstantiated sectarian dogma that contradicts Ian Stevenson's studies on reincarnation and studies on NDEs. Many people discover the truth of non-duality and forget that it doesnt mean that duality does not exist in consciousness, and consciousness is eternal.

    @Matt8800 I don't know, I have no idea. But an explanation could be that you continue to reincarnate because of the desire to experience. And as individuated consciousness you continue to do this until you exhaust yourself completely till there is no other desire left but to merge with the infinite.

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    16 minutes ago, MountainCactus said:

    There are other differences in spinal breathing other than just the elimination of Om Japa. So no, just adding Om Japa back in is not the same technique Lahiri taught... though it's at least a better version than without.

    I think that the spinal breathing started from Yogananda, as the Yoga Niketan guys branched off of Sriyukteswar and they also have the proper technique. I'm not sure why Yogananda changed it, but I want to believe it was well intentioned. I mean, being a guru in 1920's America had to have it's challenges. But one also needs to look at Yogananda's system as a whole. While he taught spinal breathing, he added Om Japa back in during his version of 2nd Kriya. He also taught people to do Om Japa as a separate practice. He also severely limited the number of Kriyas one could do. He also added in Hong Sau, AUM, and the Energization Exercises. In away, Hong Sau is almost his replacement for Om Japa Kriya, as you'll see when you read GoL that Lahiri recommended people practice 100's or even 1000's of Kriyas in a session. One cannot do that with spinal breathing without overloading. So when Yogananda added in Hong Sau he kind of added in the sublime calming practice that one could practice for long hours. Yogananda also added in encouragement for renunciation, as well as external practices for Bhakti, Jnana, and Karma yogas. So one really has to look at the full system. Just pulling the spinal breathing technique alone out of all of that and thinking that alone is where the magic is in his system is simply not true. It's the whole that is greater than the sum of the parts in Kriya.

    Can you link me the post from Forrest? Was that Forrest himself that said this? The number of Om Japa's one should do is highly individual, and tends to change over time.

    @MountainCactus Ok, thanks for clarifying. Much appreciated. I will see if I can find the video, it was in the comment section on one of his videos, and I think the question wasn't even related to the vid. But I will see.

    Edit: Oh and what you wrote about placing an OM in the actual chakra where negative emotion arise sounds like a great idea. I will experiment with this during those intense ego backlashes days, thanks :)