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[bazera]

@Lila9

7 minutes ago, Lila9 said:

I have another Kriya book which is more comprehensive in my opinion, and it emphasizes the importance of doing yoga asanas prior to meditation because it prepares the mind and body by making it easier to enter a meditative state, unlike directly entering a meditative state without any asanas. Doing so is like running without warm-ups.

Could you share book title and author?

[Lila9]

42 minutes ago, bazera said:

@Lila9

Could you share book title and author?

Sure.

https://www.amazon.sg/Yoga-Kriya-Systematic-Ancient-Techniques/dp/8185787085

[Ajay0]

While I like using the cross-legged position, there are times when I get discomfort out of it and sit in a chair or sofa, or even lie down on the mat.

So it boils down to comfort as well, which is necessary for relaxation.

There are meditators who sit on chairs as well for comfort. 

There are even back rests for meditation, and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar had promoted back rests as well during meditation.

You use what works and what is comfortable for yourself.

As Bruce Lee stated with respect to his martial arts philosophy of Jeet Kune Do, "Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is essentially your own."

I believe this is sound advice for anyone as well on this matter.

[bazera]

@Lila9 Oh I have that one, it's super comprehensive and full of lots of really good techniques. It also gives a nice gradual approach to adding practices over some time. 

I purchased a neti pot because of that book, and I find it very useful.

[Yimpa]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/deconstructing-artificial-intelligence

 

[Lila9]

@bazera Same. I discovered this book accidentally, didn’t actually expect much, and now my neti pot and I are BFFs.

 

[bazera]

9 minutes ago, Lila9 said:

now my neti pot and I are BFFs.

It really helps with nasal breathing techniques.

That book has some very wierd techniques as well, one was about cleaning your internal organs with some cloth you stick through your mouth, I don't remember the exact technique but he was teaching you how to manage the gag reflex and stuff like that.

I wonder what other crazy shit hardcore yogis to.

[Leo Gura]

10 hours ago, bazera said:

These people who make AI tools on top of LLM's make it harder to notice that illusion

Corporations are being paid billions to invent the illusion that AI is AGI. So they will use every trick they can to fool us into believing they've achieved it when really they don't know how to.

The incentives are so screwed at this point that nothing these AI companies say or do can be trusted. These AI companies are like heroin addicts looking for their next score, telling you, "Just trust me, bro!"

Edited March 3 by Leo Gura

[bazera]

6 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

The incentives are so screwed at this point that nothing these AI companies say or do can be trusted. These AI companies are like heroin addicts looking for their next score, telling you to just trust them.

Don't investors realize that? How is it that they still get billions of dollars for implementing this AGI pipedream. 

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Corporations are being paid billions to invent the illusion that AI is AGI. So they will use every trick they can to fool us into believing they've achieved it when really they don't know how to.

This will get more apparent as some years go by, I think it's still relatively recent that AI penetrated into the culture, even grandmas use ChatGPT now. But I think people will develop higher expectations sooner or later, that these companies won't be able to live up to.

[Lila9]

25 minutes ago, bazera said:

It really helps with nasal breathing techniques.

That book has some very wierd techniques as well, one was about cleaning your internal organs with some cloth you stick through your mouth, I don't remember the exact technique but he was teaching you how to manage the gag reflex and stuff like that.

I wonder what other crazy shit hardcore yogis to.

Yes, I skip the stuff that I don’t understand or feel comfortable with. There is also a urine therapy technique, which I find weird. There is a yogi in my country who has been using urine therapy for 20+ years (by drinking it and applying it to her skin like a lotion). People mock and criticize her. She looks healthy and good, though.

 

[Leo Gura]

14 minutes ago, bazera said:

Don't investors realize that?

They ARE the investors! The investors are the heroin addicts.

Who runs these companies? The guys with the largest percentage of the company stock options.

Plus, they truly believe AGI is around the corner. They don't know any better. They buy their own sci-fi tech fantasies.

Edited March 3 by Leo Gura

[gettoefl]

Anyone catch a typo or maybe I'm wrong. In either case I disagree even if corrected. I have one responsibility. In the world it's good to understand others but ultimately for me a futile counter-productive, distracting and wasteful errand.

Edited March 4 by gettoefl

[Yimpa]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-404

“Conformity for me but not for thee.”

[bazera]

This was also a great example of deconstructing AI hype bullshit. Newport always stayed a reasonable voice amidst all the techno-chaos in the last years. 

It's crazy how these people skew literal facts to push their AI agenda.

[Innerview]

On 2/26/2026 at 3:06 PM, Leo Gura said:

Obviously not since the original techniques teach cross-legged seating.

The closing off of prana to the lower parts of the body is beneficial during Kriya yoga. 

[Leo Gura]

6 hours ago, gettoefl said:

In the world it's good to understand others but ultimately for me a futile counter-productive, distracting and wasteful errand.

 

Irresposibility it is then.

[Leo Gura]

1 minute ago, Innerview said:

The closing off of prana to the lower parts of the body is beneficial during Kriya yoga. 

How do you know?

[gettoefl]

17 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Irresposibility it is then.

For me the world was made to keep me in captivity forever. It can serve a different purpose. Not by getting to know it but changing how I see it. If I do the latter, then doing the former is just extra credit. I already satisfied my responsibility be getting out of here alive.

[integral]

I agree the AI hype train is ridiculous, but most people dont realize AI has replaced all software developers.

No software is written by humans anymore. 

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, integral said:

but most people dont realize AI has replaced all software developers.

No software is written by humans anymore.

This is utterly false.