martins name

@winterknight was my experience an enlightenment experience or is that something else? also big thanks for your answers. very illuminating.

@Unwiring For the sake of love, the bliss of letting go and reduction of suffering mostly. When I sit down on the meditation cushion I do it for the sake of meditation. For contrast, orange is completely engrossed in the life they have constructed around their egos, also known as maya, and uses meditation for the sake of maya. For example meditating to be able to concentrate harder and more effortlessly on their work or to seem calmer in social interactions to become more accepted. Nothing wrong with it, some people start of that way.

@winterknight I think there was still an I during this experience of non-dual being if I remember correctly. I simply wasn't concerned with enlightenment and the ego back then so I wasn't checking.

@winterknight Am I right in saying that enlightenment is about this nothingness that I don't think I've been aware of yet, rather than non-dual being? If it's true, how do I then go from non-dual being to nothingness? Do I just bask in the non-dual being until the shift just happens? Just like it happened when I went from dual to non-dual. I see this as a first and second layer of the matrix.

@winterknight Dang I missed your reply. I asked: and you answered: My answer to that is: By doing the same meditation techniqe in the same way, the do nothing/letting go/surrender technique. I know how not to get stuck in the trap of trying to get a state back. What i got was not a state, but pure being. I've climbed the mountain once, I now know the path, and I'm certain I can do it again. I've just gotten in to self inquiry with the new goal of reaching enlightenment and I dont think i quite understand what self inquiry is about. Is the non-dual being that i experienced an important part of the self inquiry prossess? How does self inquiry and non-dual being relate to eachother? Or do I even need self inquiry if the do nothing technique works so well for me?

I don't think it's important to be anal about material minimalism. If some gadget would save you a lot of time I would recommend buying it. Budget is more important. I recommend second hand stores for that and in general. If you don't decorate your apartment at all it's gonna feel like a prison cell. Make it more inspiring. I've bought some cheap and beautiful paintings second hand. You can get a nice one for 5 dollars if you are lucky. Some plants are also cheap. When Leo talks about minimalism is't more about your activitys. Clean out distractions so you can live mindfully and only do things that are fulfilling. It's healthy to spend some time in silence instead of bombarding your senses all the time with music and youtube. There is some wisdom in material minimalism tho. Like don't buy gadgets that you only use one or twice, and don't buy stuff to show of. I don't think you need to worry about this so much yet. 3-4 years is a long time for someone your age. Your plans might change due to some unforseen opertunity, or you might end up renting second hand so it's decorated and furnished already. With that said, it's good that you are visioning. Just be mindfull that visioning is what you should be doing here.

the answer to that comes during an enlightenment experience. I don't know but don't assume that there is reason. As a general tip: Find and question all of your assumtions.

People meditation for the ego serving benifits. Concentration and releaving stress for example.

ken wilber has a bunch of good books if you haven't read them already. Integral psycology and integral spirituality for example. Also i would go in depth in to spiral dynamics.

On the 3rd day of a meditation retreat, I was doing the surrendering/do nothing/letting go technique. I was struggling to completely let go. Then in all of a sudden i kind of stepped out of language and realized that the present moment is prior to meaning in language. It was like i escaped the matrix. I realized that reality is prior to morals, values and meaning. I still felt like there was an observer tho and i didn't get an egodeath like i have had on LSD. Later that day I red a book called 'God is Nothingness', it talked about non-duality and nothingness. Its description of non-duality seemed to fit with what i realized. It said that there is this thing called which nothingness is beyond non-duality which blew my mind. Now, my question is: I know how to get to back to that place of pure beeing. Is that what i should do to realize nothingness and reach enlightenment?

A lot of different people i see on the internet or know in real life. The biggest influences are Leo and Hayao Miyazaki through his art.

+1

hatha yoga. I think i need to do more of it. Aming for 2 times a week now. Will start swimming to.

Yupp definitely stuff going on beneath the surface.

the heros journey is basicly personal development.

@Ampresus this is where he got the story about the monks from https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Marathon-Monks-of-Mount-Hiei-John-Stevens/9781626549951?redirected=true&utm_medium=Google&utm_campaign=Base1&utm_source=SE&utm_content=The-Marathon-Monks-of-Mount-Hiei&selectCurrency=SEK&w=AF7YAU96SKJ1G4A80948&pdg=pla-311544571188:kwd-311544571188:cmp-806215649:adg-43350854602:crv-191468170312:pid-9781626549951:dev-c&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6rXeBRD3ARIsAD9ni9D0QeCOBX5ZzNzuaPHi751ChJ_mq4tnLDHD6O0WQWbtev9aBJyZGf8aAjktEALw_wcB

Just doing the maha mudra worked for me. It's like in weight lifting; the best way to get better at a certain lift is to do the lift, not by doing similar lifts.

@Ampresus how old are you exactly? both 13 and 19 year olds are teenagers.

@GeoLura Do you regrett going this far?

I think edible weed is a good introduction to bending reality. Taking it in edible form is probably healthier and it gives a more psycadelic effect. See that you can handle it befor you try something like lsd. Of cource don't make it to a habit or a party thing. Take is seriusly. Just sit and observe or contemplate the effects. See it as a warm up.

20

Partly depends on how much you want it.

Cave men usualy belive in magical spirits. SD stage purple. But I sill think you might be right that scientists are even more lost.

Try loving kindness meditation that way i think that you will experience the appeal of green first hand.

I'm sold on the concept of hatha yoga. I want to get a physical exercise while becoming more conscious, clearing out energy blocks, etc. But how do I get started? When I search for hatha yoga on YouTube I get lots of results. I've heard that yoga has been corrupted by the west. Is that true for hatha yoga? And if so where is the legit stuff?