Serious Spirituality Mega Thread

[r0ckyreed]

Wanted to dedicate a thread for real examples of serious people doing serious spirituality. I’ll start with mine. I’ll keep it concise.

10/11/25: At-Home Meditation Retreat

Started at 8am with meditation for a 2 hour sit. The main techniques used were breath awareness, open awareness, and light self-inquiry.

I took a brief break to use the bathroom and adjust myself. 

I returned and continued for another 2 hours focusing on stillness leading up to self-inquiry. The main questions contemplated were “What am I, What is Consciousness?” I kept my consciousness on the awareness that I am the entire room. Thoughts of media and videogames kept distracting my attention and I kept returning back to breath and self-inquiry. I had the insight just how much influence the media has had over my mind and how much garbage and past relationships my mind is focused on.

Took another break for lunch and just stared at my hands while contemplating consciousness. My hands started to look alien. I kept my awareness on the field of consciousness. Whenever my mind wandered, I returned back to the questions of “What is consciousness? How does this hand exist at all?” Additional questions came up such as “Why does consciousness exist at all?” “How did consciousness decide to experience/create my current life?”

Took another brief break and spent the next 2 hours in a dark room in my closet and continued my previous meditation techniques. Nothing new happened here but more mind wandering.

Took a break for a brief snack and returned to meditation. I sat for another couple hours and after a while my mind got still. I started feeling love and joy going through every cell of my being. I started having a big smile on my face that I couldn’t resist. It felt like I was on mushrooms for a moment. I started to feel satisfied with my own mind in pure existence. I tried to keep this awareness for as long as I could. My legs started to fall asleep so I had to do some walking meditation for a bit which got me out of that state.

I spent the rest of the time contemplating existential topics such as death, eternity, the first cause, time, memory, and my purpose.

At around 7pm I couldn’t keep focus anymore and so I decided to end it for today.

My main takeaways is how much noise and garbage filled my mind. My mind resisted stillness in the form of thoughts about media and entertainment. I also realized how much I do love my mind because I was able to think creative thoughts and have insights.

Other insights I had is that I am imagining time, memory, and the past. The past and memory are nothing but a construction of consciousness. I realized deeper that my consciousness is creating everything I see and hear in a similar way it creates thought/imagination. I also realized that I need to practice meditation more often and that I have been mistreating my mind.

Thats all for now.

Edited yesterday at 12:35 AM by r0ckyreed

[Hojo]

Yes time is imagined via brain dead state. You go to sleep and see the brain dead state then wake up. When you wake up the brain dead state is still there and time is layered over it.

[Yimpa]

Despite my internal reservations and concerns about potential negative effects or my inability to cope, I decided to take a full dose of a psychedelic substance. My initial apprehensions were merely distractions because my current state of mind was already disconnected. By fully embracing the experience, I was pleasantly surprised by its smoother progression than anticipated. When one willingly engages with an experience with an open mind and heart, its inherent beauty reveals itself.

[Princess Arabia]

The amount of times the words "my" and "I" occurred in these statements was mind blowing, especially after saying you were the entire room. So many things owned by this I who is the entire room. Such delusion. Spiritual practices keeps that energy deluded and trapped, chasing it's own tail. You are not imagining time, memory and the past, you are imagining yourself to be a self, time and memory are appearing all without a you being there to abstract it and turn them into personal stories all about the you that doesn't exist. Thake the you, the I the my's and mine out of all that was said and it's simply life flowing organically, free flowing and being itself but without the claim of a you. It's not personal. There's no you to take yourself out already but that felt sense is what's creating the you so this is not an instruction to take yourself out, that self is already not there.  

[Dodo]

For me, spirituality is about happiness at its core... serious people doing serious spirituality for me its just a funny sight, someone lighter might laugh at it, at all the effort.

But yeah, I get it, there are different type of meditations, but ultimately we all just want to be happy. People do serious spirituality to be eventually happy, right?

[Princess Arabia]

14 minutes ago, Dodo said:

For me, spirituality is about happiness at its core... serious people doing serious spirituality for me its just a funny sight, someone lighter might laugh at it, at all the effort.

But yeah, I get it, there are different type of meditations, but ultimately we all just want to be happy. People do serious spirituality to be eventually happy, right?

Speak for yourself. Not everybody gets into spirituality for some selfish, fearful, lack of courage I wanna be happy gain. Some are really curious about existence and what this is all about. There's no difference with wanting to be happy using spirituality and searching for happiness through material things. Happiness cannot be found because it's not lost.

Edited 19 hours ago by Princess Arabia