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No, not everyone. But some extending family members, and those i don't really know. Friends who I wanted to impress and people who I don't really know. I don't really video call anyone other then my family, but i think i would get anxious. I used to suffer from it badly but it is improving. I am believe it is due to my strong perfectionism. I want the call to express myself fully. I worry about not having the perfect call which doesn't make me seem fun etc. I worry about silences and me not being at my funniest. I act like this sometimes in real life but it is know way near like my expectations that i put on myself on the phone.

Anyone here got ways to remind yourself of how soon your death and the unpredictability of your life, to make yourself liberated from fear and to make yourself hustle for accomplishing your goals. For example, the random nature of strokes.

What does the technique require you to do?

When I sit down and do doubting/self-inquiry I find it hard to go deep into my mind and find root causes of my behaviour and the foundations of my believes. The answers my mind gives are superficial. There is not structure to the process so and my mind gets easily distracted all the time (would it be better to write it down?). I find it hard to hold onto an inquiring process of a single believe. Can anyone help me with this or provide some questions which you aid me with the process. Or even give a few examples of how the process would work.

@Leo Gura You said you only know/embody 1% of self-mastry material, where are all the other 99% of material - are they from direct experience? One book from your book list you could only read in your life, which book would you choose? Would it be possible for me to come to las vegas and live and train with you (worth a shot lol), if not live then just train/self-actualise Can the deep states of awareness that can be experienced by psychedelics be the exact possibly of awareness that can be obtained permanently by doing consciousness/enlightenment work?

How can you trust the answers your mind gives you?

I remember many. I talk to none. @Leo Gura What was the point then? Was it just purely for self-development. For me now I am forgetting all the stuff and focusing on enlightenment, then I "think" relationships will be more authentic and easier.

Hey guys, Can anyone recommend good yoga lessons on youtube for example?

I recently watched this video I am wondering has anyone on here developed a practice of Yaza, a zen technique. It involves breaking your sleep cycle in the middle of the night to do a sit. Apparently it is massively effective at boosting you meditation practice. If you haven't seen this technique then watch the video. Getting back to the point, has anyone on here started this practice - if so can you leave any feedback of how it has affected you.

It had something to do with my reasoning behind this thought experiment

Yeah, I get this from my experiences from strong determination sitting. Thats why I am asking. There are points where there is a lot of pain experienced. But when you are able to be mindful over it and your thoughts ,the pain doesn't cause you to suffer. My awareness if very low and I can imagine when training your whole life and are self-liberated you can get to stages where you can bare pain unimaginable to us at the moment and it wont cause suffering.

I believe to people observing his body on the outside it looked like he was suffering. But there was no him to suffer. Him as consiousness wasn't touched.

Nope I haven't. I have heard Jesus being crucified but that is just a story. I was just asking that if it did happen would an enlightened being suffer while being tortured?

To me this work is about Truth. That is a state of being, which lies between the web of knowledge you have created and become attached to in your life. It is to question your concepts and what you believed in a very self-honest way. I found numerous techniques that are helping me do this, like deconstructing phenomena through careful observation, sitting and doing absolutely nothing and ways to become consious of consiousness - self enquiry, observing what is true in your experience. It is a way to become liberated from the human identity, which causes the suffering in your life. Then once you have become a being of consciousness you go back to people in the world and guide them to discover their true-self and to help them go through the tough times in which they experience. But I have only recently started this work this year and no way near ready to teach a guide people, becuase my ego isn't going with out a fight to say. But I am young and got years ahead.

What is there for one to "do" with their lives?

Yes, the pain will be there while being tortured. I was meant to ask wether he would suffer when going through this. It is the resistance to the pain by your identity which causes your suffering. I was wondering that with sufficient awareness, can you say to someone what I just mentioned to Charlie, who is a self-liberated being and them not to be fearful of what is about to happen. Can you still be in equanimity?

Charlie, here is a thought experiment. Imagine if I had to turn you over to torture chamber in the middle east for 6 months. Would they be able to make you suffer at all, with any method applied to you (eg blow torch, pliers etc)? Would that cause you fear or does it feel the same as say going on a picnic in nature? Can consiousness become so liberated that even though the physical body is being destroyed, from a subjective perspective nothing is touched?

Yep I certainly was a bit skeptical of those scandals to be honest initially. But that there was no free will on the matter, it was just consiousness at play.

@Leo Gura Have you tried Yaza? @Sri McDonald Trump Maharaj Yep lets do it for a week or so and post back on here,

And even some masters, like one of the most senior Zen masters Joshu Sasaki Roshi have been at the forefront of controversy. He was Shinzen Young's teacher (when Shinzen was himself a master), whom he was described the most senior Zen Roshi in the world and he was engaging in sexual misconduct with students.

Maybe my wording was off. By first hand experience I meant that you haven't experienced the brain or the neuro-receptors first hand. But as you said it doesn't matter. I just want you too eventually give up smoking and hope my advice was helpful Good luck!

You can convince your self of these beliefs, and they will only keep you addicted. You have no first hand experience of what you have just said in the first paragraph. You do have first hand experience of what arising in the present moment. I didn't say you have control over the physical sensations your body experiences when you stop smoking and same with the mind. Your mind will do its thing and do its best to draw you back to smoking and with help with the bodily sensations. They will be there. But with sufficient mindfulness you dont have to identify yourself with these phenomena. You're labeling things which are making you stuck. Your are labeling withdrawal symptoms as "discomfort". Why are they not comfortable, they are the same phenomena arising in the present moment as the sensations of you sitting down. It is only your mind which creates perspective of comfort and discomfort. With practice your can observe the sensations of withdrawal and become perfectly content with them in the present moment. Thats why meditation is useful, it is self observation, and breaks down the barrier between what I have just mentioned. With me a shift in perspective occurred because the absurdity of what I was doing to body was more significant then sensations experienced. With no external help or nicotine substitutes used. I hope you overcome this dude. Good luck

@MarkusR Masters have mentioned that true personal development only happens after your awakening.

Granted, but there are people who are at places in their psychology who's believe system about themselves and the world is so negative and they have such little awareness of the fact that they are illusions that there is massive suffering in their lives.They have associated themselves with a weak identity. Personal development is a means of replacing those believes with more "positive" believes about themselves. Yes, they will still suffer but at least it is less then before, then maybe if they want too are ready to transcend all believes. It was a very helpful reminder for people who are at sufficient stages in development to drop all this shit when they get caught up in it. And to those who are using the concepts to get them out of depression say, have in mind that eventually they will have to drop them. Thanks

Thanks Mal, a helpful reminder. A trap in which people here, including myself, fall into.