purerogue

Then it is more of a problem of defining mediation, i though we are talking here about just sitting mediation, if you implement it in your daily life then sure it can work.

But does your peace of mind work when you go out of your comfort zone, into world, interact with people? It is easy to sit and be at peace relaxed, way more difficult when you have to interact with world, not saying it can not help , maybe it does for some.

It does not matter, mind , or no mind, objective, or not objective, transcend , or not, if you are something, you already are the soup and belief that there can be no soup is already soup.

I am well aware where you are , I had same problem, I even knew how easy it is to change my emotional state to fell more happy, but I simply did not see meaning in doing it , felt that there is no point of doing any of it as they are just emotions and they will not solve my core problems, which is in a way true, it is hard to be happy when you are questioning meaning of all of it.

What I mean by outcome will be the same , is that always falls back in to soup , no matter what, no matter what progress you make, in the end it all boils down to the soup, you can increase your conscious state, maybe even leave this body and explore other realities, but it all falls back to the soup.

It does not really matter what way you look at it , digging, or not digging, outcome will be the same,

Cena maybe try to just live in moment for one day, do not think about there being meaning , or not being meaning, just throw it out of your head and interact with your daily life.

The funny thing with truth is that it is any truth , but none truth at the same time, so you can say there is no truth when there is actually truth., but there isn't at the same time. and I do not see any way to escape this paradigm, just as Ralston said , as if falling back into same soup of consciousness.

I mean everything.

Because it thinks that there is some kind of magical information that will let it be free, running in endless circles, not noticing that he was always at truth, he was just running in loop all the time not noticing it.

There is escape of it, you come in peace with everything and after that you kill your thoughts, so you stop questioning if it is right thing to do,or not and give up on searching further. It is not that suffering is necessary, you do not suffer every time you take in new information , do you? Suffering comes from changes in ego that it does not like, or information that threatens ego, you can as well take same information and not suffer, it is when we get emotionally attached when we suffer. Is there ego death , I do not know , but I know how I can find that out, it is more of a matter if you want to step that boundary to see for yourself, there are people who say that there is , I will take that as yes, but what exactly changing one existence to another changes for me?

My left leg can lift 200 kg , should I go for Enlightenment now , or I should train my right leg to lift 200 kg too?

State of Bliss does not mean Enlightenment , it is state you can get when you are at peace with everything that happens around you .

Nah , it is all just a conspiracy, people in this forum know it all.

This video is just funny, love when he start to talk about ignorance.

Have never taken any retreats, only reason i would consider it is if I need time to deal with something that is causing problem in my development,feeling lost and think that it will help me get back on track. Lets put it this way, mediation has its own benefits, but you do not need to mediate to do self inquire, experience different states, you can do it at any time of the day. You are putting roadblocks on yourself when you think that you need specific settings to do any kind of development.

Did you step outside of it when you wrote it?

They are not more , or less real, how can one dream can be less real then another, you can say that this dream has wider spectrum of colors , feelings, people there are more entertaining, or have more interesting personalities that make them look more perfect, real, but does it make them more real?

I could not focus on anything that I did not find entertaining, even if I knew that it is good for me , or I should do it , my mind automatically switched to something else and it felt that there is nothing I can do about it , as it happened on its own, also I was extremely shy to the point I could not talk to anyone I did not know well, I was so shy I was afraid to go to talk to people if I needed something up 23 years , or something like that, also I was extremely exhausted most of the time, I would wake up and still fell tired, sometimes skipping school just to go sleep again.

Don't give up , it takes practice and determination, there is something in your brain that does not allow you to experience it, but I believe it is possible , I have overcome things that I thought are impossible, I am sure you will too , just understand it takes time and will not happen overnight.

I am just guessing , but I think that problem is not that you can not experience visual dreams, but that you forget them and only feelings remain, that is why semi dream state might help you, also try to recall every dream you experience, every day , they might become more clear every time and you will remember visual too.

It is hard to tell if you can experience dreams like everyone, you can try to lie down and try to be in semi sleep state where you are still awake, but you can experience dreams, and try to imagine colors, be relaxed, maybe put some music on or something to not be distracted by surrounding sounds. Yes some people can not experience lucid dreaming, as blind people can not experience visual dreams, only feelings, they can not experience visual spectrum as they have never come in contact with it.

Maybe his ego died , no more videos for us! I hope he stays strong with his ego! ^.^

It is hard to say , reaching point where you can get Enlightened is very easy , problem is that to overcome that point you must be ready to let go of ego, or your ego must be ready to let- go of itself, you will not be able to cross that point if you run away every time you have opportunity to cross that point, also it can bring in depression if your ego has no experience in any of this, he will be scared shitless.

There is nothing to be ready for, you either want want to change and feel better or you don 't, you want to explore , or you do not want to, Enlightenment is not some kind of magic place , where you can live rest of eternity as you please, Enlightenment is place where you get when you want to escape this world, take it as you want.