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Thinking a lot is not a problem, compulsive thinking is, or rather, it's a symptom of a problem. Namely, a closed root chakra, in other words, lack of grounding. Try this and see what happens:

@TheAlchemist wow this is great advice thank you

You don't want to masturbate because it drains your life force. You don't want to deny yourself pleasure which is deep and profound human need. It is possible to stay true to both these profound desires at once. The answer is to deeply go into orgasmic pleasure trough chakra meditation. Imagine the deepest orgasm you can and then fill your body, and especially lower abdomen, with this feeling. Create anticipation with the in breath and cathartic release on the out breath. Do this for however long you like, 20 min minimum recommended. If you practice this you can become very good at this. You will bring passionate and intimate energy to your life I've written a detailed description for how to do this: https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/60536-technique-transcend-masturbation-by-opening-the-pleasure-chakra/

@preventingdiabetes "Life is journey from selfishness to selflessness. You are dragged kicking and screaming. The more you resist, the more it hurts." - recent blog post by Leo. He seems to think that transcendence has to be painful. It can be, but it doesn't have to be if you are wise enough. He is right that pain is a sign of transcendence, but it's a sign of transcending while not integrating the lower stages perfectly. This is a reoccurring theme in his teachings. I should write a comprehensive guide to chakra meditation some day but I need more experience first. There are bits and pieces scattered across my topics and replies, dig through my profile and you'll find them. I recommend you do this. I unfortunately don't know any one good source for learning energy work. I've cobbled my understanding together from many sources, trail and error, and my own inventions. There is one good source that I'd recommend: Tara Springett's Enlightenment through the path of Kundalini, 5-minute miracle and Healing Kundalini Syndrome. The techniques that I use is a modified version of Tara's technique to open a specific chakra. I've then integrated the knowledge of how to do that technique into a kriya yoga routine that is more well rounded. More info on that is again found in my replies somewhere. My point was that it's pathological when it's the only goal we have and we reject worldly pleasures. You are right and I wasn't making a criticism of holding enlightened as a concept.

@preventingdiabetes That's my point. Psysical needs ultimately distract from spiritual work but we can't ignore it.

I once meditated on my second chakra, the chakra of sexuality, passion and creativity. Then I felt a genuine desire to have children. It made me realize that we all naturally have that desire unless we have trauma in our second chakra.

Speaking as a swede, it's an untenable politically. With open boarders you necessarily have a nationalistic backlash that then shuts the boarders completely. People with different value sets living together in the same system created friction. A good systems thinker prefers creating systems where friction is minimized.

@Craigxt22 @Craigxt22 I never practiced the bow, I just did supreme fire right away but for a shorter duration than recommended. I still don't do the entire duration, it's too intense. So, I'd recommend skipping bow and starting supreme fire gently. Alternatively, you could wait a bit before adding supreme fire. Practicing Maha mudra and yoni mudra specifically prepares you for supreme fire.

@Zeldor well I think we are in agreement

@Zeldor @Zeldor I mean when enlightenment is made into a concept and an the attainment of that goal is the only meaningful goal in life. Of course this is deluded on manly levels. I've only had one enlightenment experience a couple of years ago so maybe I'm missing something you are saying. So maybe I'm missing something. Idk.

@charlie cho what does justice mean to you?

@Thetruthseeker Your intuition knows the answer already. Just listen to your throat (chakra), if it contracts as you speak it means you are speaking from an inauthentic place. And please link your channel.

@Zeldor You are right. My bigger point is that the best way to transcend meaning is paradoxically by engaging meaning in an intelligent way. With regards to nihilism: I think you should seek to see through meaning but at the same time not be apathic. Which comes back again to the integration of Shiva and Shakti which is the red thread that runs through all I've written in this thread.

@zunnyman It makes perfect sense. I'm gonna try it, and it sounds like a tool everyone should have in their tool belt. Thanks for the post!

I've wanted to see that happen for a long time. Great initiative. You should edit the title to PLEASE VOTE : Peter Ralston on Lex Friedman's Podcast

@SageModeAustin The need for being special has two components in my experience. First it's the desire to be powerful. Secondly it's egotism. You want to cherish the desire to be powerful and you want to infuse that power with love to make it even more profound. If it's not infused with love it becomes egoic. At the same time let go of egotism. Let go of the separate self that you feel in the middle of your head and melt with the beauty of the world. Love is a great gateway to selflessness. Loving surrender. I think me and @snowyowl are saying the same thing in essence.

@preventingdiabetes Lets make a distinction between physical needs and emotional needs. I'm taking about emotional needs. Ignoring your physical needs is a bit different as ignoring your emotional. If you just meditate and neglect your physical condition then eventually you will probably reach a breaking point where the stress becomes too much and you compulsively start caring for your physical needs. The best way to reach enlightenment is to sit on the cushion. And meeting physical needs distracts from doing that. One on the cushion I believe in doing a powerful chakra meditation to fill all your emotional needs for comfort/grounding, pleasure/connectivity, joy/power and love/purpose. This is the best way to fill our needs and once they are met we will naturally go up into the self-transcendence need where we just sit and witness the world. In this case there is no need to force meditation, it just happens naturally. Then when you get of the cushion, you bring the passion and love you developed on the cushion to the world to profoundly enjoy it. But that passion and love is something you bring to the world and it would be a trap to think that you can get that level of satisfaction from unconsciously engrossing yourself in the world. Spiral dynamics is meant to model cognitive/cultural development. There is also ego development (Cook-Greuter's model) and needs/drive development(Maslow's hierarchy of needs). But it all describes different aspect of chakra development. And yes Buddhism isn't concerned with chakra development and that's where we differ. That is still not proper integration, but it's better than just flat out ignoring our needs. At the core of Leo's repression is his fetishizing of suffering. Suffering is the result of transcending and repressing, which is a failure of proper integration. True integration can really only happen through chakra meditation. If this is not seen as an option then I could see why he views comfort, pleasure and joy as mare distractions. These emotions plus love are what our needs are made up of. Leo's idea of exhausting a need is when you pursue a need and you end up concluding that it's unobtainable so you move on in life. What I think Leo means by exhausting a need is that you seek an object of desire and that you think obtaining that object, may it be power or sexual conquest, will give you lasting happiness. Exhausting the need is to realize that you won't get lasting fulfillment from obtaining that object, and when you realize that, the object stop having a pull on you. Then you can move on in life. Here is my path: say you feel attracted to pickup. There is two components to the desire for women: pleasure/connection and power/joy. I recognize that I feel a profound lacking of these qualities. I recognize that what has to be fixed are the emotional wounds that make me feel lacking. I also recognize that trying to mask these wounds by sleeping with woman would be futile. Instead, I sit down on the cushion and I open my 2nd chakra to get lasting pleasure/connectedness and my 3rd chakra to get power/joy. This will get me lasting fulfillment. This way pleasure won't be exhausted, it will be fulfilled. Here is an example for how to open the pleasure chakra: https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/60536-technique-transcend-masturbation-by-opening-the-pleasure-chakra/ Leo's way doesn't work. He sought connectedness and pleasure for years as a PUA and that need still has a grip on him which now manifests as his porn addiction.

@asifarahim They are fundamentally different experiences. The turquoise peak experience involves the 2nd, 4th and 6th chakras as I described it. While 5-meo opens the 7th chakra. It makes you melt together with the cosmos. 5-meo is a much grander experience. What made the turquoise peak experience so powerful was the change in cognitive style. 5-meo gets you into the trans-personal. But if you want to change the personal to gain power and healing abilities than chakra meditation is the way to go. I've had a yellow peak experience with 5-meo. It got way deeper into the trans-personal aspect of the stage than my turquoise peak.

Method I did a 1h 30min session of kriya supreme fire once on every chakra, and then I alternated between the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 7th. After every breath hold of kriya supreme fire, as I was waiting to recover my breath, I did a chakra opening exercise on the same chakra. Kriya Supreme Fire The general Idea for this exercise is to focus on a chakra while holding breath and doing the 3 main bandhas. The area of focus for the 2nd chakra is over the hip bone on the stomach, the heart space for 4th chakra, third eye for the 6th chakra and top of head for the 7th. This fills the chakra with energy. For instructions read Kundalini Exposed by SantataGamana. The energetic increase from this exercise can saturate dysfunctions of your chakras and manifest in various ways, it could be dangerous, especially for people new to energy work. Do at your own risk. I'm not trying to avoid spelling out the technique here it just takes too much explaining to go into in a forum post, better read it directly from the source. Chakra Opening On every out-breath you gently relax the chakra, fill it with bliss and tap into its positive expression. This synergizes with kriya supreme fire as it gives more energy to work with. The positive expression of the 2nd chakra is pleasure, 4th is love, 6th is presence, 7th is energetically melting together with the kosmos. There are many ways to do this. Here is an example for the 2nd chakra. I recommend Enlightenment through the Path of Kundalini by Tara Springett for more general instructions and Wheels of Life to better understand the chakra system. It was very energetically intense. When I had finished and opened my eyes I saw the word in a way I never had before. It was a way of perceiving, cognizing, behaving and experiencing myself, a totally new way of being that I realized was turquoise. The Anatomy of Turquoise The 2nd, 4th, 6th and 7th chakra make up the inner workings of turquoise. Everything I witnessed fell into an open heart(4th chakra). My open 6th chakra made the love indiscriminate, totally compassionate for even the darkest side of a being. That ability to see someone in their totality, without judging its ugly sides, is what gives turquoise it's famed holism. A 2nd chakra bond was then formed with being entered my awareness, could be a part of my subtle body, psyche or could be another living being. The indiscriminate love then worked through that bond to create the desire to heal the being. Healing means making happy, as happiness is the psyche's way of signaling health. It's then perceived that the being has bonds with other beings that in turn has more bonds. These bonds continue out to a whole network encompassing every being on this planet, aka, the web of life. The open 7th chakra made this cognition cosmic rather than personal, giving a 3rd person perspective required for the impersonal nature of the 2nd tier. Conclusions That state of mind requires a high degree of energy and purity. If I were to sustain that level, I would have to purify lower traumas and impurities that are keeping my energy down. Cleaning up is so important for vertical growth. I had never experienced yellow even close to this strongly before. It almost seemed like I had skipped that stage in many aspects. Just like rationality is the way of knowing for orange, intuition and empathy was a way of knowing for turquoise. Yellow systems thinking gave context for that intuition to give structure to the web of life. Turquoise is in essence a holistic healer. Leo has portrayed turquoise as spiritual in essence, which I now think is wrong. The ego transcendence achieved by spirituality is one aspect of turquoise, but turquoise is not complete without the involvement of the 2nd chakra in the way I described. I have ~2 years of energy work under my belt. I was meditating quite a lot around the time I had the experience. Normally I'm pretty orange but with a yellow worldview. But I also have a high amount of trauma and undeveloped sides of my psyche, so if my spiral development could skyrocket like that, then anyone could do it.

@kinesin Describe your experiences of turquoise. I bet that what you call turquoise is actually the "3rd tier" para-mind. Which is actually the transpersonal aspect of the second tier turned to an 11. The third tier is actually a branching away from yellow. You can experience the third tier without having experienced turquoise. Cognitively I'm at yellow, my self-sense and drive/motivational line is at orange. This doesn't disqualify my insights tho.

@preventingdiabetes yes it's the same for financial needs up to a point. But after that point it just feeds an addiction. Survival and enlightenment are not completely opposed to one another. From one perspective enlightenment is perfect happiness. It's unhealthy to think that enlightenment is the only meaningful thing in life. What makes enlightenment desirable is the same thing that made those burritos that i just ate desirable. It's both happiness. So instead of seeing burritos as opposed to enlightenment it should be seen as a window to enlightenment. Finding gratitude and pleasure in the simple things in life is a spiritual practice. There are however two legitimate reason why eating burritos could be unhealthy: 1. If you have cheese on them. Make simple healthy vegan ones instead, they are still delicious i promise. 2. If we eat burritos to distract us from an emotional wound, such as scarcity trauma. Then we become distracted from facing and healing that wound at it's core. There is still no shame in eating burritos to cope just know that the happiness you seek in burritos can be found in abundance in emotional healing. And emotional healing takes us closer to enlightenment. The road to God is paved with bliss. Same goes for finances. It's all good to fix your finances up to a point but if wealth becomes a crutch to not face a deeper emotional trauma. Then it's better to face the trauma. Transcending can happen in two ways: transcend and include or transcend and repress. Transcending and including means eating healthy, delicious food, having stable finances and doing chakra meditation/kundalini yoga/kriya yoga to melt you ego in comfort, pleasure, joy, love and bliss. Transcending and repressing means selling all your stuff, starve under a tree, dominate all your desires as you sit in meditation 20 hours a day as your body is falling apart. If you do option one with rigor I think it will actually get you to a lasting enlightenment faster than option 2. Buddhists have a hard time embodying and getting their enlightenment to stick. I think Leo teaches the latter option, which is too bad. Focus on emotional healing. The ego is made out of suffering. Lastly what I want to say is this: I became hungry from writing about the burritos I'm gonna go and devour another one have a nice day

@tatsumaru there is a difference between what people need and what they want. If you give people what they want but not need they will stay in addiction. If you give people what they really need, that is healing or the means for healing, they will grow. Maslow's hierarchy goes towards self-transcendence. If people are hungry then giving them food will get them closer to enlightenment than giving them Buddhist teachings. Life isn't meaningless. Even if people would be happier if they let go, the happiness that they feel in their "meaningless" lives is still profound. Happiness is like a landscape of peaks and valleys, where some peaks are higher than others. The peak of the standard modern life isn't very high while the peak of spirituality is as high as it goes. Every peak is meaningful and profound.

@Thought Art Turquoise is an operating system for the mind. What I'm describing wasn't spiritual development but evolution of my drive, self-sense and cognition. Spiral Dynamics is more focused on cognitive development but I really mean developmental psychology as a whole. The fact that I was able to use this spiritual technique to develop turquoise cognition is very interesting.

@Craigxt22 Maha mudra is the only technique where flexibility is recommended. Flexibility is not required tho, just do your best and your flexibility will increase with time. I recommend getting the specifics of the technique from Ennio Nimis'es book. It's free: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.kriyayogainfo.net/files/English%20I.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjl1d3h0qrxAhXk-ioKHX-DD_oQFnoECAMQAg&usg=AOvVaw3P7u6I5RB_ezKIYV-5I149

@Superfluo No, kriya yoga should be very gentle in general.