I disagree with the forum

[Joseph Maynor]

What are the practices that you feel are important in the sense of doing the practices?

[Davino]

9 minutes ago, Oppositionless said:

I've definitely been guilty of being a know it all. Especially pre awakening, when I was just obsessively thinking about metaphysics all day rather than doing practices.

It's fine, I'm very guilty of that myself, sometimes I can't help it. That's why I always try to surround myself with people that have more experience, maturity and intelligence than me, in this way I get humbled and can learn.

11 minutes ago, Oppositionless said:

 

I would try more chemicals if I wasn't so paranoid about buying stuff online. 

You gotta take calculated risks, where there is a will there's a way. I just can't buy it that with you intelligence you cannot make it for this 2026 to find an interesting psychedelic compound in a safe way. So if you make a one year goal to do so, in 2030 you'll have tried 4 new substances, how exciting right!

[Davino]

8 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

What are the practices that you feel are important in the sense of doing the practices?

You should try it all. I have done so many weird shit you wouldn't even imagine ahahah. 

So this was my approach, trying as many techniques from mystics, different religions and schools of thought as possible. Try one technique for a month let's say and then report feedback. Moving to the next. So after some time you've got yourself a wide bufet of experience and you'll find stuff that works for you and other that doesn't. Try everything with an open mind, for example right now millions of people are fasting as a spiritual practice in Ramadan style, try everything. Then discard bullshit and what worked best for you invest and deepen it or craft your own combination of practices.

Overall, what I like is the following:

Kriya Yoga (from Yogigems in YouTube)

Vipassana meditation 

Do nothing meditation with boundless spaciousness (recommend Michael Thaft)

Autonomous Contemplation 

Breathwork (Wim Hof and alternate nostril breathing)

[Oppositionless]

@Davino this year I added two to my list . 5 meo dmt and 2-fdck. I pretty much never talk about 2-fdck but in some ways it was just as profound, more so in the emotional and healing domain than the nondual one.

What do you think about tai chi / qigong? I find it's the best counterweight to kriya yoga. If I'm ever feeling wired after pranyama I can do 10 minutes of microcosmic orbit work and I'll feel much better. It doesn't take away the befits of pranyama either, just the negatives.

Edited 12 hours ago by Oppositionless

[Davino]

12 minutes ago, Oppositionless said:

 

What do you think about tai chi / qigong? I find it's the best counterweight to kriya yoga. If I'm ever feeling wired after pranyama I can do 10 minutes of microcosmic orbit work and I'll feel much better.

Absolutely! I was gonna write QiGong but then slipped my mind, was thinking a few minutes to recall it but just posted it. So thanks! 

I like this lady:

Just posted three Banger videos and disappeared from YouTube.

Kundalini yoga is great but I feel it's moving energy from a pseudostatic standpoint, with QiGong I get to move energy from a moving flow. It's great.

On microcosm orbit it's just another way to move energy around the body there are many really, that works great. My favourite (although not that accessible even for me) is torus style.

When you wire your energy like this, you're both high as kite and grounded as a rock

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[Natasha Tori Maru]

5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I constantly push back on it. But it's all over the internet. You can't stop it.

You're essentially trying to fight some users paradigm lock programmed in by the algorithms. As long as they consume online content, whatever headway they might make to get out, is going to revert back. 

Although, despite the futility of the above statement, I appreciate you calling users out. Much of my arguments are disregarded because I am a female. Sad.

Symptoms of the chronically online.

[Leo Gura]

Just now, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Much of my arguments are disregarded because I am a female.

Sorry about that.

[Joseph Maynor]

1 minute ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Although, despite the futility of the above statement, I appreciate you calling users out. Much of my arguments are disregarded because I am a female. Sad.

Who do you feel needs to be called out?

[Natasha Tori Maru]

11 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Sorry about that.

C'est la vie - your good work is noticed 🙂

11 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Who do you feel needs to be called out?

So much. Basically misogyny rebranded as woke culture. There are probably 3/4 users who are severely paradigm locked here, who perpetuate it. 

Mostly it makes me feel deep sadness, because the pathology acts to prevent real intimacy with women.

I simply do not have the energy to constantly reconstruct the same stupid arguments again and again. @Emerald was amazing at it. She had endurance I will NEVER have! 

Edited 11 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Joseph Maynor]

10 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

C'est la vie - your good work is noticed 🙂

So much. Basically misogyny rebranded as woke culture. There are probably 3/4 users who are severely paradigm locked here, who perpetuate it. 

Mostly it makes me feel deep sadness, because the pathology acts to prevent real intimacy with women.

I simply do not have the energy to constantly reconstruct the same stupid arguments again and again. @Emerald was amazing at it. She had endurance I will NEVER have! 

True.  And no wonder these men have to work really hard to win love from a woman or feminine type.  Men are always looking for a conceptual strategy, especially when they are young and lack a sense of social maturity.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

4 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

True.  And no wonder these men have to work really hard to win love from a woman or feminine type.  Men are always looking for a conceptual strategy, especially when they are young and lack a sense of social maturity.

Yes, absolutely. I tend to view it like this also - young men with less experience simply looking for a solution. Action steps to get there and a clean map that gives them duration/path/outcome. Logical to search for a solution.

I can't even get angry or upset at them when they fall into red pill or misogynistic thinking. The moment you begin searching online for a solution to dating or women, you are flooded with it. Then algorithms begin to really cement it all in place over and over. Many of these younger guys are encountering dating advice aimed at 30+ or coming from emotionally jaded, damaged adults. Some of the advice is crazy for younger men to adopt!

Experience and growing up will wash it all away (we can only hope!). 

[Alexop]

@Natasha Tori Maru

I get them, maybe because I am a man idk. The feeling of getting rejected my dozens of women in a row or knowing you are a virgin at an age you shouldn't feels like nothing else. It feels you are the last piece of shit in the world. You can sell anything to such people if you just empathize with them enough and call out the "external evil".

Just saying they are some stupid pricks and moving on is a naive, low consciousness approach (I say it rethorically, I know you didn't). "Stupid" people usually have a sad story to tell.

Edited 10 hours ago by Alexop

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1 hour ago, Alexop said:

@Natasha Tori Maru

I get them, maybe because I am a man idk. The feeling of getting rejected my dozens of women in a row or knowing you are a virgin at an age you shouldn't feels like nothing else. It feels you are the last piece of shit in the world. You can sell anything to such people if you just empathize with them enough and call out the "external evil".

Just saying they are some stupid pricks and moving on is a naive, low consciousness approach (I say it rethorically, I know you didn't). "Stupid" people usually have a sad story to tell.

I empathise 🙏

The real issue is there is a lot of good advice mixed in with really unhealthy stuff. Mature people who have good critical thinking and experience will have an easier time sorting the shit from the good. Wisdom.

Overall I think the younger generations are really scared to go out and put their balls on the line. That shit really does build resilience. But it isn't just gen alpha or z - growing up out of youth, into dating and the world? It's always been hard. Character building. Nothing worth it comes easy, in my experience. What we invest in and work for we value more inherently. Just how the human organism works.

I do think the internet and social media has increased fear and risk aversion. More than earlier generations who weren't swamped with information and comparison syndrome.

[Jodistrict]

The problem they are having is revealed in the language.  I hate the word “pick up”.  It’s like picking up a piece of garbage.  And “approach” reminds me of a lion approaching a zebra.  This is predatory language.  Why not just get to know someone?

[Yimpa]

2 hours ago, Jodistrict said:

Why not just get to know someone?

The only One worth understanding is God. 

In other words, you are after Truth.

[Joshe]

Performative uncertainty.