Which practice works best for you?

[Joseph Maynor]

5 hours ago, Ramasta9 said:

No practice, flow, intuitive living, play.

I agree a lot with this.  No practice per se.  Conscious creation, intuition, play, humor, playing music, listening to music, performing (especially within a group of creators), immersion in creation (including intellectual but all artforms including games like chess and conversation), spontaneity, reactivity (and honoring my reactivity), improvisation, channeling insights.

I'm less concerned with insisting on flow, but I'll take it and when I'm on a roll with creating I'll notice that.

Edited yesterday at 06:28 AM by Joseph Maynor

[AtmanIsBrahman]

• Contemplation throughout the day
• Questioning the ego as in “how is my ego acting out” or “how is my ego preventing me from seeing I’m wrong”
• Tuning into love
• Radical honesty
• Lie down with head propped up and don’t move at all. Remove all thoughts. Literally just be— and if you can truly just be for long enough, eventually you get to a mystical state of consciousness.

[Oppositionless]

On 2/26/2026 at 11:02 AM, JoshB said:

Sesshin retreat sounds neat. What do you do on that retreat specifically?  

Also what did you awaken to or realize on 5 meo ? And how did it help you pursue practice further? 

This was a loving kindness retreat so all day we were doing metta meditation. The first meditation on the first day was guided, the rest were silent. AFAIK this is pretty un-typical, Zen practice is usually just sitting with no technique, or koan practice. I honestly think I got more out of it being focused on metta however. I had two profound awakenings (well, one, it happened all at once) to unconditional love and to intelligent design, on the second to last day. But I didn't realize God until 5 meo.

I mean it's very standard stuff with 5 meo. I realized God, that I was God, that consciousness is equal to nothing and to love, that the separate self is an appearance within consciousness not the source of consciousness, and that it's impossible to die.  I don't credit the molecule the realization, the molecule just raised my consciousness so I could realize what I've always known.

Edited 16 hours ago by Oppositionless

[Yimpa]

@Oppositionless You are 🔥 yoga 

ROCD is hot 🗑️

Edited 7 hours ago by Yimpa

[pursuitofspirit]

Contemplation, self inquiry, and psychedelics

Edited 3 hours ago by pursuitofspirit