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Same here, people described it perfectly - you blink once and it is all done, an uninterrupted stream of consciousness, as if nothing even happened. Quite a curious experience. Explore the feeling afterwards though, it is somewhat of a disoriented, floaty feeling which might be a good position for contemplation or something else.

Really good advice, I am usually overly enthusiastic to know everything at once, so I used to hoard videos like crazy. My ego felt as if it was missing out if it had not watched the newest video of Mooji, Krishnamurti, Adyashanti, Leo, Rupert, etc, so there was barely any time to do anything else.

Mooji once said that speaking has two factors - communication and vibration. Openness to both is essential.

A lot of stories and concepts here Look to what is in direct experience.

@Bauer1977 Nope, but a friend told me that you can find it online, so you can give a quick search.

If I am the mind, then who am I asking those questions to and why can I hear them? Reminded me of this

I have no info on him, but he has set off all my bullshit alarms since I first saw him online, like 3-4 months ago. However, I have no idea, maybe the article is biased, maybe he is truly like that, who knows. Just focus on what is good as cetus said.

@ground @Haumea2018 You all need to read Thought as a System by David Bohm

If only the present moment, the NOW, exists, then there is no distinction between determinism and free will. Let's look at this example, people often say that something is random, but how does that even distinguish from something being pre-determined? Even if everything was pre-determined, the ego does not seem to know its future outcome, so it is the same as saying that everything happening is random/free will. As the ego never knows what this pre-determined course actually is, it only has what is currently happening and how it interprets it. Thus, even from an egoic perspective the duality between free will and determinism is slightly flawed, but from a non-duality perspective where only NOW exists - there is no distinction between the two as both of them require a past and a future to be considered, but their NOW, their PRESENT MOMENT, manifests in the same way. Hope I have been moderately clear of what I wanted to express. Cheers to all for this lovely thread.

Mu!

Just by looking at the variety of answers you received, you should intuit something important - there is no best method, all is relative Just try out whatever feels right and keep on with it.

Right in the center. Good one, my friend, everybody should read and integrate this - or whoever finds sense in it. Cannot be forced on everyone haha

As long as it is not neurotic, go for it. A part of life. When you are cold, put on a coat, said the monk. When you are hungry, eat. So let us extend that to - when you are horny, fuck.

Do not try to control the mind, just observe.

@Baotrader Right on, my fellow mind-body. ❤️

You do not really want help, all of your posts are always the same - tried to give you suggestions the last 2 or 3 times. You just want a medium where people can be sorry for you - victim mentality as @Tistepiste pointed out correctly. Come back when you are ready to listen to people and put it all to practice Do you notice a trend how feeling sorry for yourself is not helping - quite obvious as your posts are always identical. Think about that and see whether there is a different option you could explore - a more adequate one which could yield actual results.

Follow the Breath (starting to sound a bit like Hellspeed, oh no hahaha)

@Shin Pain kicks in at about 30-45 mins for me until it is quite annoying at around 55-60 mins. I usually stop at 60 min as the pain becomes unbearable around the knees. However, if I am sitting on a chair, then the SDS goes more smoothly (can easily go over 60 mins), but there are less 'mystical' insights in a way when I am not sitting cross-legged on the floor. By 'mystical' insights I mean feelings of nothingness, being without a location or simply kundalini type of energy flows, sorry for the sloppy use of the term 'mystical'. I have no idea whether it is a causation, a correlation, a coincidence or whatever - just sharing my experience.

Be careful, the desire for those experiences might have caught you in a loop of chasing - sneaky, sneaky ego.

Personality is the same as ego - a collection of ideas, memories and thoughts about 'you' = the ego = personality. Sadhguru explained it quite well once - Look at what you are, not what you have collected over time. In this case I would equate personality with all that is collected over time. Be careful that you do not separate thoughts and personality from ego because that is exactly what sustains the ego. The division between 'me' and thoughts is non-existent, but it is exactly what keeps one in the loop by sustaining itself through that illusory division. So ultimately personality is ego.

@kieranperez Perhaps it goes beyond humans - nature is evolving towards more complexity as well (humans are a part of nature anyway). I can only assume evolution is just this apparent increase in complexity of everything. Interesting question.

Both are fundamentally a movement of thought to complete itself with itself - which is bound to fail in the long term, but that is how the ego is perpetuated.

@Emanyalpsid No urge for explaining or arguing about it, so let's say you are right Enjoy the concept, the direct experience or whatever was found. Cheers for sharing this again anyhow. Nothing wrong with it fundamentally

@Emanyalpsid Read my comment again, stop simplifying everything to look at it again I edited out a last bit to add something.