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Isn't that the whole point? Of course don't overdo it. Ramp it up gradually over weeks and months. But 6 pranayama is really nothing. People do up to 72 or even 100+ pranayamas a day. Most of you will need to do 10,000s of pranayamas to start seeing serious results. Some will need less, depending on your spiritual attunement.

@Salvijus Have you ever done 2 weeks of nonstop self-inquiry?

@Kode13 Yes, of course all theory and teaching is concepts. If you become really conscious, you will not need my teachings. But it will probably take you much longer to reach that stage than you think. Hell, you can walk this entire path all by yourself, without reading a single book or watching a single video. But if you were the kind of person who was going to do that, you wouldn't be here, would you?

@herghly Yeah, 60 mins is good. But it will end up longer than that pretty soon because you need to aim for 36x Pranayamas + 20 mins of breath of fire + 10 mins at least of concentration. It will start to grow upwards of 90 mins in the end. But do it gradually, over time. 90 mins is tough.

@herghly If I were you I'd just ditch the first two techniques and add in more Pranayama. It's important to optimize the routine because you only have so much time in the day. Keep it tight and super-potent is my philosophy. 70 mins is a long time.

"I have an important decision to make." There's your story. But you probably don't want to hear that.

The teaching of detachment is probably just too advanced for you right now. Go ahead and fix up your life and earn some success. Then you can revisit the importance of detachment (once you have a bunch of attachments and you can appreciate how much they make you suffer). You need to climb Maslow's Hierarchy a bit before you get into the nonduality stuff. Learn how to function in the world effectively first. Learn how to feed yourself. There will be a lot of personal development lessons there for you.

Amen, lol Gives a whole new meaning to "You can't handle the Truth". When you signed up for this truthseeking journey, you never imagined that you'd find it up your ass. Then again, where else would it be?

You're conscious. You tell me.

@Bandit Everything is related to consciousness because consciousness makes up everything. It's sort of like you're asking, "What if the clouds in Super Mario World are related to the TV screen?" It's almost trivial. What the precise nature of that relationship is, that's highly non-trivial, requiring serious investigation. And in the end, everything in infinitely interconnected and inter-caused. Everything is the cause of everything else from the biggest picture perspective.

@Saumaya There is an important practical difference though: People can realize one part of enlightenment without realizing another part. This not a hypothetical point. It happens very commonly. For example, one can realize no-self but not realize Absolute Infinity. Or one can realize no-self but fail to have an insight about the nature of love or the nature of other beings. So, even if in your particular case you managed to somehow realize all the facets of enlightenment in one fell swoop. Which I highly, highly doubt. That would be a special case. The more general case for people pursuing enlightenment is that they will have to access each facet individually, and then all of them collectively, at various times. Otherwise, people will have one profound insight and think: "That's it! That's all there is. I'm done." When in fact they have only scratched the surface, nowhere even close to done. Take some strong psychedelics and see how many different levels and facets of consciousness there are. Of course in the end it's all ONE consciousness. But consciousness manifests itself in various ways, for example: dreaming vs waking consciousness. You can say that dreaming and awaking are ultimately the same, because everything is ultimately nondual, but this is not true from the unawakened person's POV -- and that's who your teachings should be aimed at.

@WildeChilde For you, enlightenment is just an idea. So definitely, it can be an illusion from your POV. There is no one you can trust to tell you the Truth, because you are it. Truth-seekers don't have the luxury of a tit to suck on. Hence truth-seeking is not a popular hobby. As the Buddha once said, "The only way you can know if you have an ass, is by bending over and looking at it."

@Saumaya God is not a confusing word to one who has directly experienced God. There is no mistaking it for something else. You don't need a PhD to experience God. But you do need an exceptional, almost super-human degree of consciousness. What is God? is like the question, What am I? It does little good to here the answer. You gotta experience the answer directly for yourself. The classic definition of God is very precise: an omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful, all-loving, eternal, formless, infinite intelligence which created itself.

Proves my point. There's deeper levels you've yet to access.

@Saumaya No-self ain't the only insight in town. You can realize no-self, but still have no clue what existence is, or what God is, or what another is, or what intelligence is, or what love is, etc.

It's not so easy to distinguish facts from theory. If only it were so simple. All facts are theory-laden.

@The Don 1) You can only speak effectively about topics which you are well-versed in. So lots of research, study, and practice with the topic you're talking about is key. 2) You must also be genuinely passionate and interested in the topic. 3) Practice, practice, practice. Don't think too much, just let your mouth move and say whatever it feels like saying. You can polish it up with more practice.

@REALNEGA As the book says, only after a few years of practice. Don't worry about them. You don't need them. The basic Kriyas should be enough if you just do them seriously.

@Nick5050 Shamanic breathing is not a substitute for meditation. Also, don't expect shamanic breathing to fix all your bad habits for you. It can help you release some of the low consciousness motives driven them, but you'll have to consciously and proactively put an end to them. Try starting a Kriya yoga practice. It should be better than meditation.

@Shroomdoctor Don't call it everlasting. Nothing is everlasting.

-- The Buddha

@sarapr Correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawhid

You say that so flippantly because you haven't even come close to experiencing God. That's your ego talking. And ego hates God. The name/word is given so that we can communicate effectively with one another. Right now, you are missing the communication because you believe God cannot exist. And I'm tell you, you're wrong. You are further complicating your error by appeal to the argument, "But God is just a word." Which is like doubling-down on your mistake. Platypus is also just a word. But there is such a thing as a platypus that you can discover. It's a remarkable creature which would shock and delight you had you never seen a picture of it before. Starting a thread on a platypus forum that goes: "Platypus Do Not Exist: platypus is just a word" only makes you stuck. Open your mind to the possibility that God does exist. Then proceed with your practices. And then maybe one day, in 10 years, you will discover something amazing that you couldn't imagine in a million years.

@Betterself Yes, you are alone. As God. Nonduality means there cannot be any "other" who is not you. The deepest levels of nonduality can make you start to feel lonely, as you realize that you created this entire dream all by yourself and the illusion of "otherness" gets shattered. It can feel very solipsistic, but also, as the mind adjusts to your new understanding, the loneliness should dissipate. I do not exist. You created this forum to entertain yourself. And here you are reading all these posts that you yourself wrote to yourself. Seeking advice from "others" who are really just yourself. Try to see the beauty of that. Aloneness and connection are ONE. You can look at it like the glass is half empty, or the glass is half full. By being everyone, you are infinitely connected to everyone. You still haven't surrendered fully to nonduality. Yes, it's very radical and scary to surrender fully to it. The truth is radical beyond words. Your fear of being totally alone is precisely what you must explore and ultimately surrender. The ego-mind hates it of course and will be resistant, trying to anchor itself into something, anything to avoid Absolute Nothingness and Total ONENESS.

@nado "Speed" and "motion" is only possible within space and time, both of which are creations of consciousness. Consciousness itself is prior to space, time, and motion. Absolute Undifferentiated Consciousness is so nondual, it's like an infinite singularity, where nothing is distinct. The distinction between moving vs not-moving hasn't been made yet. All distinctions are part of the Creation. They are all forms.