Vitamine Water

Try to get rid of the games you are addicted to. Make it harder to easily access them. It's hard, but it worked for me. As Leo once said: "Always do what's emotionally most difficult". NO EXCUSES!

The belief that I am the body.

Thought is thought. Everyting else is monkey mind.

It's thought. Try not to DO anything. Let it be. Be present. You can't outplay the mind by telling it what to do. Tye open eye meditation if the fear remains.

Just a simple Leo video on Youtube got me motivated! Now books, meditation, inquiry and more videos. "Behind the curtain of everyday consciousness Is hidden another, unutterably strange, mental universe"

Hi all! Lately I've been having some wild "spiritual" dreams. This one night I dreamt about me following a forest path. The path ended in an open field, still surrounded by trees and nature. I remember saying "yes" to myself, in a very peaceful way. I lay on the ground with my arms and legs spread open. I felt my whole being become one with nature. Wherever I was, this relaxed state was present. Everything was all right. I remember waking up thinking "what the fuck have I just seen?". Now my experience tells me dreams are created through the sub conscious mind. They appear because my mind is processing these things, even when I'm unaware of it. But this could well be "een broodje aap verhaal" (a "bullshit story" in Dutch). What are your thoughts on this?

@Dodo Sound like an awesome experience, man. You dream the dream and therefore you become the dream. Interesting! But then: when we drink vitamine water, do we become the vitamine water? @starsofclay Nice. Thanks for your input! Good questions to contemplate. I feel like I really don't know, so this could be something to dig in. @Nahm When I look at the content of my dreams, it is somehow linked with things that keep me "busy" during the day. But if this is due to the sub conscious mind, I really don't know. It feels weird to talk about "sub conscious mind" and "dreams" while I really have no clue what they mean lol. Thanks for making me question myself

Thanks for this @Shanmugam and @Joseph Maynor ! I would like to suggest the book "The Book Of Not Knowing" by Peter Ralston, wherin he explains this "not knowing" attitude in even greater depth.

Accept whatever is. Don't fight it. You're not going insane

A little context: I am 20 years old, I meditate on a daily basis, roughly 40/50 minutes per session since march 2016. I've recently become more interested in contemplating and enquiring the nature of things. A very familiar feeling while meditating, is the feeling of pressence, the feeling of being "in the now". For me this is a very calm, relaxing, innocent and silent "state". The thing is, whenever I become aware of this, it feels as if the awareness automatically focusses one the space outside of my body (especially a few meters in front of me), therefore making it a very spacious "feeling". I then become aware of the fact that it is perceived in me, in my body. This creates an overall dual state. I was wondering if you guys have any input in this, and if possible, some tips to help me investigate this. Is it my being? Is it awareness itself? Is it infinity? Is it an elephant eating a strawberry on a surfboard? My direct experience tells me "it" just is. But somehow nothing of the above. I don't feel that yet. It's only the awareness of now. This moment. I don't really connect with it so to speak. Something also tells me to just let it be as it is. To keep it simple. I guess it's just the mind trying to understand the Unknown. Cheers and love to all of you! <3