ajasatya

@schmitzy the best you can do to anybody is to wake up completely

@ZX_man yes. you should do something about it. i strongly recommend hatha yoga.

starting a new life free from all old patterns, leaving the past behind and following your inner truth with accuracy. no more boring excuses. finding a job, living with your own effort, shutting down all addictions and corrosive relationships and sticking to a spiritual practice unconditionally.

@Lipthru i had an easy life and i decided to throw myself into "trouble", leaving behind the comfort i had. i left my parents and engaged in a rigorous zen practice. why do you think that siddhartha gautama left his palace? he was feeling the way you're feeling right now, same feeling i had back then. the story of siddhartha is a generic story of a human being with deep anguish, sincerely ready to find out what it's all about. siddhartha gautama was me when i left home. siddhartha gautama was me in my training process to heal my anguish. siddhartha gautama is me telling you to live for your own sake. siddhartha gautama is you, fighting inner conflicts and starting to get ready for the real deal soon.

maybe you need some drastic real situation, some intense episode of suffering like parental death or actual somatic disease. suffering is a true gift for us to learn how to live.

i'm here to raise the flag of "no, don't do it." cannabis can help with body relaxation, but yoga can do the job with many other benefits. in my experience, since i've already learned how to maintain a relaxed body throughout the day, cannabis just weakens my ability to focus and makes me feel like a retarded, unable to observe the present moment properly.

@Lipthru nice. you don't have to believe it blindly. actually that would harm you. instead, i invite you to play with this idea and see for yourself if it works not just from a life to another, but even within one lifetime. so death and birth would be just raw continuity of life... existence desiring and fulfilling it's desires through us and all sentient beings.

@Dodoster very well put. being playful with words with sincerity and without turning it into a personal game is healthy.

nothing can make you enlightened. your only option is to unbecome unenlightened by practicing conscious presence. books, videos, speeches etc can teach you how to be present here and now. but it's your choice to get the hands dirty and practice for the rest of your life.

if you're free of attachment; if you're ready to live without suffering nor causing suffering; if you can appreciate life as it is and stop demanding/expecting things from people around you; there's no need to question/test anyone answer anything be approved by anyone compare yourself or others there's no need to help who doesn't ask for it. there's no need to tell someone that he/she needs help. the one who points flaws on others is the biggest fool in the scene. any desire for knowledge/wisdom unfolds spontaneously and trying to make it grow on someone else looks very very silly. be happy and content instead.

for me, it's about finding a way to help spreading the dharma

@quantum appreciate the touch of your own hands as the simplest act of self love focus on your breath with a relaxed belly and an erect spine allow yourself to mentalize the miracle of life happening on the area you're touching and let it be

@electroBeam just ask her what she thinks about splitting bills. fuck social fear. you may die tomorrow.

@Peace and Love i see that you're struggling very hard with conditioning, still expecting to be approached by the perfect man. my advice: just be sincere and face your fears. if you find a man attractive, go for it. be open for questions and ask him everything you need. my best advice: heal yourself completely already. find your peace without the need for social approval. go to vipassana retreats, zen sesshins, yoga courses. it's your happiness that's on the table.

@OhHiMark the teaching is about telling people to use wisely everything they have at their disposal right now instead of crying over things they don't have and doing nothing about it.

no teaching works for everyone. and the teaching that works for you will not work forever. i am going to explain this in the framework of zen. a teacher that delivers the teaching of "give up on enlightenment" has to be very careful. at this point, the student has already detached himself from the usual drama of life. he doesn't suffer from lack of confidence, motivation, addictions, fear etc because his pillar is his practice. his mind is steady. concentration is his codename. he's turned all of his life into a zen practice, but he is doing it in order to be enlightenment someday. he still has that expectation for he's not free yet. he's waiting for some event, some "boom" experience so he can say "ok, that was it". but it doesn't work that way. the teacher, noticing those symptoms, has to guide the student to be free from that desire as well. the student, then, needs to let go of his last ego driven motivation for practice. it's usually some deep radical shift because he had transformed his life in a pursue for enlightenment. the student has to practice for no particular reason. freedom lies on living for no particular reason. a transcended ego doesn't suffer from expectation nor regret for he's completely free from craving and ideology. most people here, though, are afraid of doing the real work. they attach to points of view and prefer the safety of their old lifestyle. deep inside they're like scared kittens and do not qualify for this kind of thing.

@Kimasxi as long as you still depend on external approval/motivation, you'll be doomed in any context: work, friendship, family, intimate relationship etc. and if you want a healthy intimate relationship, you better start genuinely desiring happiness for others even if they're not with you. quit perceiving others as objects/means of satisfaction for your ego.

@carlos flores in order to practice "do nothing" meditation, you have to realize that you cannot do it right or wrong, because you are literally doing nothing. why do even want the benefits of nothing done? just practice for the sake of it. practice for practice's sake itself. there's nothing to get from it.

for a while, my bad meditation habit was the fact that i used to judge my own meditation practice.

@mathieu why this urge to be a leader? are you trying to prove something? if you really want to lead something, it depends FIRSTLY on how you heart is connected to the cause, how much you love what you do and how much you want to benefit others. if you want to lead just to inflate your ego, then grow up instead.

@Rashid nidra yoga

@quantum it works instantly and yes, one can apply reiki on oneself. on the video i linked above, they talk about the quantum experiments having the same results even when the meditation practitioners were far away, around the globe.

@metamorphose i had this problem. i solved it by making the zen practice my foundation, my belonging and my place. now everything i do is an instant of practice.

@Kaity losing oneself so one can find his own way is the best thing that can happen to a human being. there's nothing you can do to take it from him. i'd give him a mini buda statue.

@Loud1 you are a human being but you are limiting yourself to be just "something". in this case, a musician. life will always invite you to become more virtuous. be fully human. then maybe you'll be able to become a musician.