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  2. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    6 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

    I think he's just saying that you can't clip your nails with a hammer - that's all.

    I mean, you can, but it won't be pretty. :D

    Spiritual practice happens in the relative. Logic, distinctions, happens in the relative. If you're a dimwit, you will struggle with those things, unless your intuition and karma carries you. If you're a person living in a world that otherwise requires you to be intellectual (the West) and you're also advanced spiritually, it's expected that you will be above average in intellect.

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    14 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

    @Carl-Richard

    Do you know what the doctors used in the procedure?

    I always just pour hydrogen peroxide in & wait

    THE SATISFYING SIZZLE

    A type of metal water pistol.

     

    13 hours ago, Sugarcoat said:

    I wanna do this. I use q tips sometimes because it feels good but I’ve heard it’s not good so I wonder if I have something built up in my ears

    You could probably use them relatively successfully if you started using them when your ears were already pretty clean and you use them regularly. I think it becomes problematic if you use them to clean a blocked ear.

     

    13 hours ago, Jannes said:

    Isnt a bit of earwax also protective. xD

    My logic is, I dont have hearing problems right now, so whatever restriction my current level of earwax gives me I can tolerate and use as protection until I actually experience hearing loss and then I can take the wax out and get a long second chance. 

    I am sure science would agree with me here. :ph34r:

    When I looked inside myself there were loads of black and compressed wax, pressed tightly against my eardrum.

  11. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    I had some severely decent earwax buildup from sleeping with earplugs for over 5 years and not getting my ears emptied out. It was pretty bad because I often had trouble hearing what people were saying if there was a lot of environmental noise. And music always sounded a bit muffled (not to mention one ear more than the other), so that alone was a good reason to get them cleaned out.

    I initially bought some DIY ear cleaning device from Temu which broke after 3 days — who would have thought that could happen? — and I made some decent progress in cleaning (but I don't recommend it because you can easily hurt yourself), but I eventually got them cleaned out by a doctor (my mom lol) by flushing them. It only took 10 minutes from entering the office and doctor preparing everything and removing all of it. Here is the before and after hearing test using an app on my phone:

    Before:

    Screenshot_20250715_231103_Hearing Test.jpg

    After:

    Screenshot_20250715_231059_Hearing Test.jpg

    (It seems like I registered O dB according to the chart at 2000 Hz on the after test. Maybe I hallucinated that one, or maybe not).

    I highly recommend it. Music is so amazing now and I can actually hear people talking to me and things outside when walking.

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    4 minutes ago, JosephKnecht said:

    According to Leo, there are two things in existence. 

    1. Survival: This includes going to Burning Man, having threesomes, science, business, all types of socializing, and pretty much every human endeavor ever undertaken. 

    2. Spirituality: All the things Leo teaches + sitting in the closet for a week  - all fun stuff above.

    They seem to be mutually exclusive; choose your thing wisely. :) 

    I will watch.

  14. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    17 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:

    You mean how does meditation work? I never got that granular about the distractions.  I just  didn't think.  Thoughts appear. Let them go.  Don't get too deep into why because I believe this just feeds the ego.  Just shut everything off.

    Forming the intention to sit in meditation, focus on an object and let go of distractions, is arguably just as deep as forming the intention to dissolve the distractions themselves. But even if it is deeper, again, teachings, practices, are like going to war. You are already making a huge mess. But that's ok. Because you are constantly making a mess. You're just creating a direction in that mess. The difference between spirituality and normal life, meditation and non-meditation, is simply an intention and a direction.

    Nothing feeds the ego more than forming the intention itself, spirituality itself. And if you don't address that, i.e. letting go of the search itself, you will easily go in circles. You can pretend like you don't need to address it, but then it will either be addressed on accident, in the form of a spontaneous insight "oh yeah of course", or it will stay unconscious and you will ponder why the hell you're stuck after these thousands of hours of meditating.

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    1 hour ago, Inliytened1 said:

    The deconstruction is self inquiry. So you if you want to sit do that.  Otherwise I recommend concentration meditation.   Those are the only two that will do any good.  

    How does focused attention meditation work? You focus, you get distracted, you notice the distraction, you break the distraction. What does breaking the distraction entail? It entails letting go of the injuction of the distraction. So focused attention meditation has deconstruction built into it. It's just the object of attention serves as an anchor and facilitator of the deconstruction. But it's also possible to address the deconstruction process more directly, by addressing the distractions themselves. What is driving the distractions? Are you holding on to some notions, ideas, beliefs, that make the distractions arise in the first place? What if you can let go of those notions, ideas, beliefs? Will the distractions keep occurring or will they disappear?

  16. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    23 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    The deconstruction is self inquiry. So you if you want to sit do that.  Otherwise I recommend concentration meditation.   Those are the only two that will do any good.  

    I awoke on an airplane while listening to Martin Ball's electronic music and breathing deeply and lovingly with my spine extremely erect, focusing intensely and lovingly on the music. The lyrics mouthed "surrender to the flow", and a few moments later, my mind shouted internally "oh shit oh shit you're dying! Do something!".

    I open my eyes and reach out to drink from my water bottle. My hand literally travels from my seat to the water bottle with ZERO feeling of me controlling the arm, ZERO feeling of weight, ZERO feeling of having moved by my own will. That is when I realized oh fuck this is it.

    I immediately turn my head to the right to look out the window and the airplane lands, and I feel like I'm at home in my old house from when I was 3 years old or younger sitting in my living room, safe, comfortable, at peace. Tears boil up, but I force them down.

    People are standing up and getting ready to leave. I stand up and look behind me. I see every single person, every single face, sitting there in one single space, all at once, no focus, just wide focal view. And as I walk off the plane, I'm not walking. I'm levitating. Someone else is moving my feet and it's not me. And tears come, but I press them down again.

    My eyes meet a child in a stroller, they catch my eyes, they keep looking, even as they pass by, they keep looking, they turn around to look behind to keep looking. What did they see? Did they see what I had seen?

    That worked.

  17. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    31 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    Bro you need to get off the high horse.  Please. It's getting old now and  I haven't even talked with you lately. I'm not sure what happened.  I don't know If you got jaded .  But this is weird.  

    I have a cold virus and I'm cranky >:) Sorry.

     

    29 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

    Never saind single, read again.

    Sorry, got you mixed up with the other person in the thread saying that. My bad.

     

    29 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

    Letting go is letting go. When you go to sleep you are not deconstructing anything. You are letting go.

    Stop intelectualizing letting go.

    Lol. Quote Paramahansa Yogananda "you people do not know how to sleep, you pull with you all sorts of images and personal drama".

     

    29 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

    Never said but implied. Just look at the tittle of the thread lmao.

    How to get it to work ≠ only way to get it to work. You can awaken/meditate spontaneously without doing anything. That also works. Or staring at your own navel.

  18. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    23 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    But yeah these are good points  i would say leave deconstruction  completely out.   Once you begin to bring science into the mix you might as well take psychedelics.   

    Yeah, never let go of any of your attachments. That's a good way to get stuck looping on a forum for the rest of your life.

  19. Posted

    17 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

    I actually agree with @Carl-Richard to some extent. Different people in different eras might need different techniques for spiritual development. Different strokes for different folks. I can live with that.

    Osho did say that the average modern man simply can't meditate traditionally because of the various distractions and the speed of modern life. So he developed his dynamic meditation.

    Nowhere in history was there one single "traditional" meditation. And dynamic forms of meditation have existed since forever.

     

    18 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

    What I dont agree is the insistance on deconstruction as in treating as an end and not as a means.

    ?

     

    19 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

    And also implying that you are deconstructing no matter what, I find it too arrogant of a position.

    ?

    In your little meta one-up game, I responded by saying that all of that was deconstruction. Letting go is deconstruction. It doesn't matter whether you're letting go of "letting go". Obviously, that is still letting go. I don't know what you're going on about.

     

    22 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

    And you do NOT necessarily need to do it nor is it a prerequisite in meditation for it to yield results.

    You've said things I've never said three times now.

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    55 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    All this stuff.  Yeah..I can't help that society  corrupted it.  But what is done is done. Mediation wasn't meant to be that.  It was meant to be simple.   It was meant to shut down the mind. Can you still do that? If you can then you have the essence of meditation.  I'm telling you this not because it worked for me but because that's what it is.

    You sound like a literal Blue religious person.

  21. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    11 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    It was that in the days of old and it should be preserved.  So no. It's not a billion things. 

    Sitting meditation, walking meditation, music meditation, chanting meditation, mantra meditation, kundalini meditation, third eye meditation, vipassana meditation, focused attention meditation, open-awareness meditation, TM meditation, ACEM meditation, compassion meditation, devotion meditation. Just on the top of my head late at night while having a cold virus.

    Let's also quote directly from all the religious traditions, Eastern and Western. Let's quote Sadhguru. Let's quote all the online non-duality teachers. Let's see how many meditations we can find. Then let's try to claim that meditation is one specific thing and that doing so has any meaning outside being dogmatic about your highly personal interpretation of a word that describes practices that have worked for you in your own life.

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    6 minutes ago, aurum said:

    But are you conscious of what it is you're sensitive to? What is energy, ontologically?

    Animals are sensitive to all sorts of phenomena humans are not sensitive to. But they are not conscious.

    Using the word "ontologically" makes it seem like a deep thing, but it's really just me. What I see, what I feel, what I sense, is just me. It is made out of me. We call it "consciousness" when we want to contrast it to some notions of materialism. But we don't need to call it much.

    Going beyond the ontological ground, operationalizing it, that is what I've done here.