Shin

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  1. Just go to a Zen temple, it's not that pricy, and if you don't have enough money they either cut down the price or let you come for free. @iss100 http://iriz.hanazono.ac.jp/zen_centers/centers_data/usaNW.htm
  2. A typical spiritual seeker day:
  4. Becoming a child again, no problems, just happy little accidents. Look at Leo in his last video ! What an innocent man !
  5. Start there: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-move-past-the-superficial-and-build-deeper-frien-1685595122 https://tinybuddha.com/blog/7-ways-to-form-deep-meaningful-friendships/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wander-woman/201509/how-make-new-meaningful-friendship
  6. I have to buy it directly from Samsung ? Can't find it on Amazon.uk or .fr. BTW I'm quoting Leo, but I'm asking everyone. Edit: Nevermind, buying this one, it has a better battery. https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Notebook-NP900X5N-X01US-Traditional-Laptop/dp/B01N5HXZAB

  9. Can’t focus studying

    Shin replied to Ross's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    What is distracting you ? To me it was video games. Sold all my consoles/games, gaming accounts, computer. Basically, remove what is distracting you from your life, like the word points to, it's useless in your life on top of taking time from what you really want and must do.
  10. I don't know, I'm still waiting for a pm of AleksM for the ones he said that are "extremely powerful".
  11. Yes and no. Your "problems" will still be there, but you won't make drama of them in your mind. @Moreira It's not seen as a problem since there is no drama, it's just an event that you have to deal with.
  12. Easy to experience, impossible to understand.
  13. For those who wants to guess what it will be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
  14. He realized he was dead all along, that the ego was just an illusion. Just like any old scripture, there is a lot of bullshit in it, cause the people who wrote it didn't understand jackshit about it. Same thing for reincarnations, it's just identification with a new form (or an old one), again and again. You "go" to the hellish realms when there is a huge identification (you're more inconscious = more suffering), then you go to the paradisiac ones when you go meta and realize an identification was an illusion (more conscious = less suffering).
  15. I FIGURED OUT, LEO WILL CONTACT BOB FROM THE DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE WILL BE POSSESSED BY BOB, AND BOB WILL PAINT FOR US !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KILLING TWO STONES WITH ONE BIRD, SO PROFOUND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  16. What do you think they are doing in a Zen monastery ? I'm not saying self-inquiry isn't usefull, I'm just saying you can be conscious every second, and go deeper and deeper, there is no end.
  17. It becomes way easier if you watch your thoughts patterns 24/7
  18. The momentum of your meditations will carry into your trip, and vice versa
  19. 2 week solo retreat + 1 trip in the middle and 1 trip just before the end.
  20. It could be the case. I don't see the point to think like that personally, I just see that life becomes more and more enjoyable, fun and beautiful, that's enough to makes me think it's no bullshit (at least for now). Even if it was bullshit, if we follow the logic of the path, that would mean there is something even better after this fake enlightenment paradigm ! Super Enlightenment 2 !!!
  21. Because I had samadhis where I wasn't "Shin" anymore (never took any psychedelic). So it really doesn't make any sense that I could be the brain.
  22. You CAN be self aware, of course you can that's what you practice during your meditation or when you practice presence of your thoughts during the day. You just can't locate it, because there isn't a location for it, it's both everywhere and nowhere. When you really really REALLY get that, not just some vague feeling, then you have an awakening.
  23. If you only do that you aren't that aware that much of your thoughts pattern, because if you focus on the body thoughts tends to disappear pretty quickly. Try both approach for let's say a full month each and then see what changes. BTW, awareness is doing you all along, except now you think you have free will, but you're still its little bitch
  24. More like after 1000 noticing
  25. Enlightenment is so simple that it becomes extremely difficult. It's also very hard until you realize it's easy as fuck. Are you too stupid or too smart ? Maybe both ?