AngeArthur

thanks you guys for this wonderful discussion...

Namasté, After adoptiong the idea of enlightment, i started doubted my beliefs about reincarnation. Because from my view, becoming enlightned means that you are going back straight to the source.

i will suggest twice a day

Music is great there is no telling. But you might wanna learn to meditate without anything, no drugs, no nothing. Because that thing becomes your addiction on the long term.

The ego is the best friend you ever had. The ego is just as a child whom has been miseducated through your life expecially through your childhood. You just have the patience to rewrite his program into helping you taking the right decisions at the right moment, see what you need to see, touch what you need to touch, be where you need to be. and of course, you have to setup a goal. otherwise he is still by himself. You setup the goal with you focus. When you focus on something you are telling your ego that is what is want, and he start working. he puts your eye on thing that can help you reach that goal, he walk you to place where you meet people that can help you, etc... And let be honest, the ego you can't know what to "fix" within you. i define the ego as the unconscious part of ourselves. You "CAN'T" reach enlightenment without work hand in hand with the ego . You "HAVE" have to accept and work with every single part of you.

The more the better my friend. THe more you meditate, the more you get experience and the easier it getsto reach higher level of consciousness and "higher" realms. The thing is consistency, you shouldn't start with 1h and then decrease as you move through your life. So to keep the momentum, you should start small if you are not sure to keep this up. But definitely from where i stand, 5 min is really not enough. i will suggest 15 - 30 min. Personnaly i do meditate about 45 min a day. And i really would like to do more, but i have some "obligations" in real life too. At least for now.