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KEEP GOING. And observe your doubt In vipassana (and I guess many other style) doubt is recognized as one of the "enemies" of meditation. You have already overcome other enemies, such as laziness, as you do actually meditate. Keep going, and if you really some day realize it is not working, change it.

Sound more like you played one round of monopoly rather than traversing back half-way trough... Back to basics, nothing wrong with that

Just... wow. If you are not into nerding out over synths, watch the first minute and then skip to 6 minute mark. Mind, body, electricity and music are collapsing into unity and the result is... acid house? I'm not sure but I'm loving it. Is this the future of music? It's so funny to see how baffled he himself is on how effortless it is for him, how fluid his experience is. This made my day if nothing else...

You will find absolutely no peace in bankok. It's awesome, enjoy ;D

You would be on the safer side if you had an upright sitting posture. It promotes alertness and attentiviness much better than lying down, which might make you dreamy especially if you intend to not move for an hour.

Yep, do a 2-hour SDS meditation. You are just trying to come up with an excuse to slack off.

@Shin Well put, but to me this gives way too much reality to spiritual hear-say. In my experience I have existed as long as I can remember. I dont't know if I have born really, but I do know I exist and I have existed, or at least I have these "memories", scenes of being in my minds eye.

You say yourself you have never had a mystical experience, yet you have this elaborate chain of reasoning and logic that constructs your understanding of reality. It's good to recognize and be honest about that, so you can always ground your speculation and contemplation to that fact: I really don't know. That not-knowing is a fantastic tool with which you can contemplate deeper: "why do I hold all these beliefs and constructs, if I at the same time I aknowledge I have no first hand experience of these things? What is the force that holds them together?" "From my perspective the world is too miserable for this reality to be a manifestation of pure goodness" Exactly. Who is this "me" whos perspective is full of misery? This is a perspective you need to challenge, if you are really passionate about truth. Is the world really miserable, or is it you who projects that misery on the world? You need to be REALLY clear about this, there must be no error made here, otherwise all your inquiries on to suffering will be stained by a mistake in thought. "If I was on ecstasy all day and believed myself to be invincible, and had infinite means of manifesting realities, I would most likely end up creating a fair variety of monstrosities along the way. How can you be sure your life isn't a manifestation of this sort? To me this seems to be a plausible explanation for life as I know it" Have you applied an equal amount of scepticism to this worldview? I would be REALLY carefull to state that anything is plausible. Plausible only means "i dont know it, but i believe its believable". Try not to mix your own perspective to be what reality really actually is, as all perspectives are limited. 100,000,000 years of torture would be HEAVEN to someone who enjoys pain, a masochist, and for that person it would be obvious why reality is made of Love. What a wondeful situation to be in! In the end you have to be able to answer the ultimate question: who are you? If this is not clear you can never be sure where you are really grounding your understanding. Before that, everything you said is just speculation. Dont be afraid to throw everything into thw fire, after all, it's lighter to walk your path with less baggage. Cheers!

@assx95 Dont be ashamed, she clearly overreacted. These things are messy, no way going around it. Be glad you had the courage to do it.

Came to this thread only to see who would be the one that has posted this exact sentence. Well, time to go now!

@Dima logach Do you often daydream when you are supposed to be mindfull? Have you tried something like labeling or self-inquiry or some other technique? There are multitude of meditation and yoga techniques you can try if your current practise does not seem to give much result.

@ardacigin How much time you are spending on average meditating per week nowadays? I remember reading your older posts where you said you were cloking (to me) crazy hours. Would you say that there is a personal, semi-definite "loss of returns" after some point? Also, nice post Nowadays I just come to the forum to check out what you and Leo are posting and what crazy shit is locked this time lol

@ardacigin Also got TMI inspired by your posts (after few years of meditating with little sense of real progress +1 10-day retreat), now almost on 1 month mark of daily meditations, looking forward to stretch the time of individual sits (currently at 30mins a day)

@SoonHei hehe I do prefer video game analogies though, Im not that civilized

Note your "old sage" projection onto people who are giving advice/insight. No one is putting you down but yourself.

@roar Life does not stop at awakening, rather it STARTS at awakening. The whole consept of life purpose will be radically recontextualized when you find out who you are. Drop your simplistic notions of how life should or should not be lived.

Time is like a book, your dog dies on page 100, you ask your question on page 130. On what page does the book itself exist? Nonsensical question, as the book is not bound by the limitations of the story contained within. You and your dog are in the book, and you will always be in the book at the same time, just not on the same page. The existence of the pages is the now, and that is why you and the dog exist NOW eventhough in the story the dog has died. Further than that, you ARE the book, but right now the book's story is being perceived by the charecter sausagehead that gets born at page 10 and dies at page 500. When you wake up, you realize your bookness and the fact that you cant die, as the real self, the book, has never even born to begin with.

Yes, the unconsciousness is YOU! You are god but you are unconscious of that, so in that way there is a duality to god's consciousness of itself. That is, in a way, the non-absolute. When you transcend that, you discover the real absolute, where there is no counter part to it's absoluteness. Watch leos video on dualism, it's a pretty good explanation.

And thats exactly right. Have you become conscious of your tru nature? If you have, how would you phrase this better? Leos style can be off putting to some, especially people who havent followed him from the start and seen the whole of his growth.

Just because he does not phrase it that way does not mean ultimately they don't agree. Leo continually dresses non-duality on provocative and radical clothes, it's a teaching style thing. "Imaginary cardboard cutouts" starts to smell like solipsism for me, has leo used that exact phrase somewhere?

Well put. I can't get over that tie, though.

Are you conscious if consciousness is in the brain or not? Do you REALLY know? I would be careful approaching this work with too much certainty, if I'm not really sure to the guts-level. Surely Richard Dawkins is not merely an example of flawed thinking. That DNA-tie is quite a statement Reminds me of Christians wearing cross-neclases. It is evident before 10-minute mark how utterly clueless he is about spirituality though(trying to fit punishing-the-body spiritual practises into some biological models).

Imo the biggest hole in solipsism is that it does not reveal what you are. You are you all the time, so it must be possible to know what you are, but solipsism does not address this. Even if you believe in solipsism, you can still inquire on what you are, and if you are lucky the truth can be revealed to you, and at that instant the notion of solipsism dies. Until it is picked up by the ego again

@Rohit N In the same way you would not judge flowers for blooming, it's silly to judge the world for justin-biebering. Fundamentally you are not conscious of what you are and who Justin Bieber is, so judgemental attitude is possible. I suggest you sit down with a pen and some paper and write as a contemplation topic: "why I fear being judged?" and ultimately, "what is fear?". If you haven't already watched Leos video on fear, do check it out. Also check out his video: All Criticism Is Untenable. I feel it's one of the nicest milestones in early self-development when you start to notice how much better you feel after dropping some major judgements you keep making. Your mind won't like it, because judging is a form of entertainment for the ego. It's similar to dropping a TV habit.

So either everything is imaginary and everything is at the same level of unimportance or everything is real and levels of importance are real things?