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Once the challenge is identified, enjoy creating the solution, master vision and what will be. No one is making any effort to stop you, and no one is coming to help. You are free.

@CroMagna Yes. Of course. ♥️

@perlita Beautiful! It’s a matter if minutes before a Ron Burgundy meme arises here.

@Space Thanks for sharing your experience. That ‘timelessness’ ♥️

@MM1988 with friends can be a decent introduction, drinking doesn’t help, consider future trips on a more solid foundation, and alone, With a trip sitter though.

@Truth I think you’ve got your head in the right place, the right foundation, and I’m super excited for you! I’m new to yoga, but having meditated 23 years and taken many trips, I agree with what Leo says, that a trip is equal to some number of years of practices. Both, in my opinion, is the obvious way to go if one is serious about this. you are wise to be open-minded. Do a lot of newbies a solid, and consider writing down your views on self, reality, God, etc. – before and after the trip. A testimony might help others to open their minds in terms of this paradigm of experience happening only within the brain versus the person and brain simply being Being. Also, in terms of availability of psychedelics, it seems to me to be a situation of, if you build it they will come. I believe you’ve certainly built it.

Infinity is a good word for self, denoting outside of limits imposed with thinking by illusion of finite self. There’s only self, and self playing. Unimaginable large Universe scale playing, and yet, not at all. SIlence is the only truth, boring in illusion though. God is the writer, all characters, and you the reader - of the Bible or any book. It’s ok to laugh. It’s very funny. “Everyone’s so intimately rearranged (Self)...it’s so fun to relate (illusion)...it’s the room, the sun & the sky (only Self)” (Lazy Eye) ”Who made who? Ain’t nobody told you?” ACDC “How do you know when it’s love? I can’t tell you, but it lasts forever” VH ”Sail” -Awolnation This “matter” is a living “bible” of Truth; every cell, every atom, every word, all telling you, all the time. All there is is Truth. Nothing is hidden What you grieve most will be revealed to be the most humorous.

The ‘knowledge’ is thinking, the introduction of duality (Good & evil) or other-than-awareness....separatism leading to “self consciousness”, “the fall” from the grace of nondual.

@TruthSeeker47 Yeah. Practices, learning, etc.

@Shakazulu Believe in yourself. You can do anything.

The 40 hr week being slavery is conceptual & subjective. Get a job you want, parlay it to a job you want more, and so on, until you’ve freed yourself from work altogether, wether through passion or passive income or ideally, both. Otherwise, It’s kinda crazy, and I get it. At least get a van, sleep and stuff wise that’d be easier. Make a YouTube channel and film the ‘adventure’ and make some money. You can see from the posts that people are interested. Go somewhere the weather is good and the scenery is top notch, Oregon comes to mind. Eugene is an ideal area. People are so chill and the scenery is beautiful. Good luck man!

Yeah. That brain rewiring thing is literal. No joke. Wonderful.

@moon777light Teal? Doesn’t seem bad to me. Honestly, though, I don’t listen to her much. I was meaning more, that often, not always, what is ‘out there’ to someone might just unlock a whole new reality, or life, or experiences, depending on meanings. My comment was more about loa, not Teal.

@Elisabeth Circle back on that loa. It’s not out there, it’s in there. Lol. It’s like hay in a haystack. ❤️ In the sense, the teller (Teal) to you of loa, is a millionaire (or well on her way), happy, wise, fulfilled, and can travel the world without a care. Perhaps there is more to what she is communicating.

@moon777light You can sit in meditation, focus on breathe, and an understanding will arise. Allow it to pass, and a deeper understanding arises. This can go on forever. Choose to do it though. It’ll pop up, and you’ll be like holy shit! And free of it. You are stronger, wiser, and more powerful than you know.

@MarkusSweden Who says you can’t say whatever you want? Why would you want to focus and talk about what frustrates you?

@Mj Kumar Think about it in terms of regular density. Consider extremes like a huge traditional Thanksgiving meal vs a lighter vegetarian meal. How would you feel, think, do - how much clarity after eating each?

That’ll work wonders across the board. ❤️

@Feliks912 Make a conscious choice. Like if one is to eat pizza or vegetables for example, the vegetables require the making of a conscious choice. You’re 19, but still, to allow your mind to be at ease, you could make a choice. Stay with her, or don’t. This post, is what the practices are for. Time alone would do wonders for you. There’s little to no separation from thoughts. Your emotions are on the roller coaster of reaction to thoughts, leading to beliefs that you’re somehow responsible for anyone but you. Clarity for this comes from practices. You can’t lose either btw. You could fuck this all up, and learn quicker. All is well.

@TruthSeeker47 I struggled with this, I now find relationship synonymous with relativity. Can’t work on the consciousness of others, can work on yours, and I’ll be damned, it was relative all along.

@SirImprovement Could you post the reference of this?

@Frylock Entirely subjective. ❤️ It’s up to you. Self deception is at play either way, but, subjective.

@CroMagna @Kisame In case you didn’t see it... ❤️ This could be very helpful... Two main forms of meditation are usually taught in the West, and both are beneficial for different reasons. I personally switch between these two most of the time. They are: Concentration meditation. This develops concentration, i.e. your ability to focus on one specific thing for long periods of time. A common technique is focusing on the breath. You can focus on the feeling of your belly moving as you breathe, the feeling of the air passing in and out of your nostrils with each inhale and exhale, or any other aspect of the breath, but pick something about our breath and just focus on that. Let your breath be as natural as possible. When your mind inevitably wanders, and you suddenly remember that you're supposed to be focusing on the breath, just bring your focus back. If you wish, you may count ten breaths, and each time you lose count because of mind wandering, start from the beginning again. This will give you a general sense of how good your concentration is. Mindfulness meditation. This is "meta-cognition," being aware of thoughts as thoughts, and sensations as sensations. For example, usually what happens when you think of something that made you angry (e.g. someone cut you off in traffic, or your boss was acting like a dick), you just get lost in the memory and become angry. When you properly apply mindfulness, you are aware that you are becoming angry, rather than just becoming angry. You see the angry thought arising, rather than getting lost in the thought. Then, when you see the thought as just a thought, you deliberately observe it with detachment, and (insofar as you are able) just let it go. Don't pursue trains of thought. Some thoughts will be "stickier," like anxious or angry thoughts, and will want to hang around. This is fine, simply remember to observe them with detachment and let them come and go. When you get better at concentration meditation, you can enter really peaceful, relaxed, and stereotypically "blissed out" states of awareness. This is nice, but note that it's hard to bring this state of altered consciousness to everyday life, because rarely in real life do you get the opportunity to focus on one thing exclusively for long periods of time. This sort of meditation and super-concentrated absorption existed before the Buddha's time, but wasn't a particularly reliable path to radical alterations in consciousness (i.e. enlightenment), since as I mentioned, it's difficult to replicate in everyday life. The Buddha is usually credited with formalizing the second type of meditation, mindfulness, which is also called vipassana or insight meditation. That is, insight into the nature of reality. Theoretically, mindfulness meditation is a far more reliable path to awakening than concentration meditation. When you get really good at this type of meta-cognition, and detachedly recognizing all your thoughts and perceptions as nothing more than fleeting subjective phenomena, you begin to grasp the insight that your "true self" is not the things of which you are aware, but rather the consciousness that is aware of them. On 3/29/2018 at 3:33 AM, TruthSeeker47 said: Also do any of you experience pain in your back or legs after 20 - 30 mins of meditation? and if so what helps you cope with it? Yes, this happens to everyone, and it's actually a great opportunity to apply mindfulness meditation specifically. Many awakened individuals have apparently superhuman levels of pain tolerance. There are the marathon monks of Mount Hiei, Thich Quang Duc who burned himself alive in gasoline and didn't so much as flinch, or guys like Peter Ralston who can undergo a root canal with no anesthesia as though it's nothing. The reason they're capable of such things is that they have enormous sensory clarity, in that they can distinguish between physical sensations and negative thoughts, and the constant experiential awareness that they are not the sensations and they are not the thoughts. They can disidentify from both, and watch them detachedly as nothing more than sensory phenomena. Rupert Spira always uses the metaphor of a television screen. The screen is consciousness itself, and all things that the screen shows are thoughts and sensations. But no matter how negative or painful the images that appear, they can never fundamentally change or damage the screen. When you have true insight that you are the screen, and not the screen's images, the images lose their power. Hence the pain tolerance. So what I'm saying is, when you begin getting uncomfortable or bored, meditate on the discomfort. Try to tease out the differences between the physical pain and the negative thoughts that the pain provokes, and with mindful awareness explore how they interact, congeal together, and occasionally separate. Of course, don't push it to the point of actual injury or anything, but generally speaking, if you can get into your meditative position and hold it with no issues for the first couple of minutes, it's not going to permanently damage you if you hold it for another hour.

@Kisame Excellent post.