Buddha Jackson

@Xin sitting meditation is like learning to ride a bike with the training wheels on, you should also try to be mindful of everything you do during the day every step you take try to be mindful of everything going on be mindful of the contact your feet makes with the ground, your breathing be mindful of sensory inputs coming in. Meditation does not end when you stand up from your sitting meditation session. I believe that every breath we take is an opportunity to practice our mindfulness If you practise this way you should see results more quickly

@Quanty it is a nice experience to see things like the ajna you described and other phenomenon however you should not get attached to those experiences as they too can hold you back from awakening

@Martin123 hahaha we cannot time these things man, awakening caught me by surprise as I didn't specifically seek it going into the meditation however I did keep thinking about Enlightenment for months on end

@Nahm It has been a long ass journey man, I'm 29 now but if we believe that we are not "our bodies" then by that logic we have been living for many many reincarnations what you did to “get there”: I was exposed to meditation through my uncle when we did some sitting meditation when I was 9, this was after one of my dear uncles died in a car accident. I read a lot about science as a kid, I have a degree in pure mathematics/ psychology, I also read a lot about the Buddhist sutras such as the lotus, heart, shurangama and the platform sutra by Hui Neng. My approach to life has always been to try to find the best teacher in the subject and see what they had to say. I watched a few videos by Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Dalai Lama, Thay Thich Nhat Hanh, Taoism. I found psychedelics helpful in speeding up the process as well however they need to done with a lot of respect and preparation otherwise they could actually be harmful and set you back a few years if done incorrectly Like Leo says you have to want to attain Enlightenment with every cell of your body, so much so that you kill your "self" that means you have to kill the attachment you had to your mother, your father, your teachers, everything that was dear to you, you have to let all those ideas go in order to experience Self actualisation/ Enlightenment. When it happens though for me it happened very quickly, honestly I did not even go into the last Meditation expecting Enlightenment however for years I always thought to myself that "I want to attain Enlightenment in this life because that is the highest achievement a human can accomplish while they are still alive, everything else is secondary". I think that through the law of attraction that helped to guide me to experience Enlightenment and subsequently Nirvana.

Hahaha thanks for the feedback guys, @Blissout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRliuDq9Nf0 This is the video which helped me to attain Enlightenment, Phra Mana was one of the last people I thought of before I broke through. During Meditation, I thought to myself: "Why is it that I feel closer to Phra Mana than my own Father? My own Flesh and blood? Then the realisation came: the Buddha's dhamma teachings transcend the physical world, it is timeless

Wish I could say the same about my family and friends