ajasatya

Life's already what you want. dealing with anxiety dealing with remorse/guilt dealing with sexual desire dealing with your eating habit dealing with your parents dealing with your friends dealing with your intimate lover dealing with your children etc those are the fields. study hard but be careful... they're 90% practical and there's no teacher to tell you that you've passed or failed.

@Marianitozz that's what i did. but if you're interested in what "others" think about it, then you're not ready yet. just start by living like a monk. becoming an ordered monk is something else.

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@Marianitozz why do you want to hear our opinions?

@Preetom i like to talk to people and to listen. i like to know what makes them happy and sad. i like to look at their eyes and be able to really see them. i like to see children running and playing around. i like to see people healing themselves and shining like the big old sun. i like to dance and i like it when people dance with me. i did write a short journal. you can find it here. during my transformation i tried to write a book but i wasn't able to catch up. recently i've written a short book. it's in portuguese, though. about the 24/7 mindfulness practice, go for it. it's the best gift you can give to yourself and mainly to everyone around you :). pura graça.pdf

keep looking keep searching as if there was something to be understood some superior knowledge to attain so you can feel special so you can feel different so you can feel better so much of you. my dear brother, there has never been anything to comprehend. we keep on running away but eventually we understand that there's no need for anything else but to be kind. kindness, my dear brother. kind words. can you love me? because i don't want to play your game of being better than... i don't want to run. i'm getting older. i rather walk and smile. i rather be kind, gentle. all i would want from you is that you can feel complete, content, present.

@stevegan928 no. on mondays i started to practice zazen in a sangha only at night. then, after a few weeks, i started to remember the intention to practice meditation in random moments. these moments became more and more frequent so i started to meditate while doing other things. and then there was one point where the meditative state was my natural state and i was able to reach celibacy very easily.

@TBurg82 hello! i had the same problem. practicing yoga, zazen and biodance healed me. but it took a while. it requires patience and consistency. nothing else could heal me. i had to do it.

yes it's extremely challenging. but it's also extremely exciting because you're doing it for your own health. i recommend (because thats how i began) finding a sangha to practice with. for me it was every monday at 8pm. then mondays became the best day of the week. and then i carried the practice with me throughout the day. so choose one day of the week and organize yourself in a way that you won't miss it. constancy is more important than spending many hours in one meditation session every month.

why would you tell people they can't do something? how is that inspiring? the guy is motivated to engage in a 24/7 mindfulness practice so let him master his own life. when people ask for help, it's usually because they already have enough people around them saying stuff like you just said.

less than 1 year. in the beginning i would practice mindfulness intentionally 24/7. it required a lot of effort to stay present. but after a few months, the practice started to live in me and i wasn't doing it anymore. it was doing me. and it became completely effortless until this very moment. be careful not to fool yourself for an enlightened one works happily for his own living. i am a mathematician and i could be anything else. chop wood, carry water. be more sincere towards what you want. and by being sincere i mean go for it. if you want to live like a monk then do it. if you want to program then do it. as long as you don't practice any kind of violence, mastering nonduality has nothing to do with the role you play. it's exactly the opposite: knowing that you're not the role you play. when a man embodies truth, the result is the practice of all virtues. ask yourself if you're not letting yourself be filled with laziness.

@nick96 try this http://www.zen-azi.org/

mastering/embodying truth requires a complete shift on one's behavior towards virtues, altruism and purity. intellectual gibberish or truth experiences alone won't lead to true happiness.

@aniss well, if you manage to quit masturbation and porn without yoga/meditation then you're a spiritual genius. also, what you ingest is directly related to your capacity to attain true peace of mind. alcohol and industrialized food are real toxins.

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@aniss as i thought, you're wasting your sexual energy. this leads to demotivation and stress. if you want to heal yourself, you need to learn how to channel your sexual energy through your spine. i have nothing else better to recommend other than the practice of the 8 limbs of yoga. it's a millenarian method and it works.

@aniss this requires DEEP analysis. how are your relationships with people from the opposite sex? how sedentary are you? how dependent on your parents are you when it comes down to experiencing things that you judge as essential? and what do you think of that dependency (it's ok / it sucks)? how hard is it for you to handle your sexuality? have you ever tried meditation/yoga before?

yes, this is a claim to enlightenment. but be careful: most people think that enlightenment makes them special. i am saying that i am completely healed and that i'm grateful for the life that i have right now. the guy wants to know what enlightenment entails. and i'm saying that enlightenment entails true happiness.

mastering nonduality leaded me to true peace of mind. everything i do in my life comes from that state. every thought, word and action. every decision, including not to think. my mind is steady and everything in my life have flourished. i'm WAY more tender. all my relationships have improved. my sexual life has tremendous quality and i'm being able to heal my parents (slowly). i can focus on my professional tasks (mathematics) and inspiration comes naturally and with ease. nobody can be led to enlightenment. one has to follow his very own intuition by using his suffering as his fuel. there's no other way.

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@JKG i am a computer scientist too. take a look at this: Philosophy_of_Mind_s_New_Lease_on_Life_A.pdf

teaching yoga is my top1

@Revolutionary Think just find a zen sangha. they know what they've been doing for almost 800 years. zazen all the way through your suffering.

@PetarKa here you go.

in fact, that'd leave me with no other choice.