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I totally get there is a language problem, and that at the end of the day you see the need to communicate something that you are bound to communicate imperfectly when you do, because it simply can't be communicated. I was looking more for the implications of this on reality. Is there anything significant to the fact that we can't use the word non-dual. In a sense, does that mean reality CAN be categorized, or partially, or neither is accurate to say? On the note of incommunicable, how does one decide something is incommunicable vs. they just haven't tried enough. Do you just "know" right when you experience something, or do you try for some amount of months or years and give up? How am I supposed to differentiate incommunicable from really really really really hard to communicate? I know this is subtle, but it seems dangerous to me to label something incommunicable/unspeakable etc. without being absolutely sure it isn't, and I'm wondering where you make that distinction. Anyways, thanks for the reply, love your videos, I don't think i'd have had nearly as religious of acid trips if not for you, certainly gave experiences I never expected to have! Much love Leo

Hey everyone! Started to take my meditation a bit more seriously recently, and I just had some questions so if you could answer any of them, I will read your responses and thoughtfully consider them so of course feel free to write as much or as little of a novel, I'll appreciate what I can get. 1. I've increased my meditation habit from about one our a day to three hours a day and it started out a bit rough but now I could almost consider it enjoyable. It ebbs and flows but if I'm not dealing with a particularly negative emotion bubbling up, the baseline could be considered lightly enjoyable. Anyways, that seems like it's a great sign of progress and as happy as I am about that, I'm afraid that my progress is going to slow. Can I really be deeply benefiting from an experience that I consider largely enjoyable? Is it wrong for me to assume that a lot of the progress I am receiving comes through dealing with and accepting negative emotions, and now that I just don't have as many negative emotions popping up, I shouldn't expect the same level of progress? Should I increase difficulty to something like SDS? I'm going to leave it at that for this one, but if you have a good point that isn't related to one of the questions I asked please type it out for me! 2. During meditation I get deep senses of peace and happiness and really all sorts of emotions. When something seemingly mystical comes up, should I keep the same mindset of accepting my thoughts and feelings and letting them go, or should I be deeply investigating these feelings? I'm not always sure whether to pull out my magnifying glass and look deeply into the nature of some of these feelings vs. just kind of feeling/accepting/letting go. 3. Is there something to be gained from doing one twelve hour meditation, vs three four hour meditations vs. twelve one hour meditations. Does splitting it up and taking breaks strongly or weakly effect the results of the meditation assuming all twelve hours are completed? I'll spare you guys more questions for now, but I was impressed with some of the thoughtfulness that you guys put into my first question(s), so thank you!

1) Yeah, I've tried them they were certainly rough but if it's noticeably more effective I would be willing to do it for an hour a day. 2) I think I'm probably on the right track here then. 3) I wonder if the opposite extreme would be even more productive, like have a buzzer go off every single minute to mark that you should be refocusing on your meditation.

Yeah, I'm going to mix it up during meditation then. As far as time wise Ill just do the maximum I can until I feel like the quality of my meditation is becoming questionable and just split it up so I can refocus. Thanks for the reply!

I've been chugging away at the puzzle of life over the last few years at a decent pace, I'm wondering if anyone decently far into the puzzle has any recommendations on how seriously and fast I should be running through this. Should I be putting the pedal to the medal and try to take this super super seriously, or is it okay to take it on at my own pace and kind of smell the flowers? Or is the idea that I might be allowed to smell flowers just a maze that I haven't gotten out of? Also onto the actual title, should I be chasing after help from other people, or if I think I can solve this by myself to a large degree is that more rewarding in anyone's experience?

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Great post, thanks for linking that. Unrelated question though, if you could undo some of your progress and kind of reset to a lower level of self awareness, would you redo the journey so to say, or if you could would you stay at the absolute highest level of self-awareness possible/that you feel you've achieved?

Yeah I think you hit some good points, thanks for the response!