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@Shiva During that time you will be doing your spiritual practices. What does a monk, a prisoner or a virgin does during that time? Some of them are even happier than people who engage in sex.

Ok so i have been practicing on & off mindfullness meditation for couple of years now & even had 2 mystical experiences while on it. But NOW i am ready to seriously commit and do meditation till the day i die so i wanna be doing it PROPERLY. So my technique is that i FOCUS on my breathing & then between the pauses of the breath i do nothing in particular. Question #1: What should i do between the pauses of the breath?? I'm very CONFUSED about this. Some ppl say focus on the space but i don't know what that is supposed to mean. Should i focus on nothing? Or maybe i shouldn't even focus at all and JUST SURRENDER? After all i am already focusing on the breathing. So why should i keep focusing on the space? There is nothing even to focus on... Question #2: When i am focusing on the breathing is it better to FOCUS on the entire breathing (air entering nostrils, lungs & stomach) or is it better to just FOCUS on the air entering the nostrils and nothing else? Is it better to focus your awareness on as lil space as possible or not? I need some help. This is very tricky stuff. Thank you .

@Austin Actualizing I totally agree.

Who thinks my thoughts? God? Nothingness? I have observed this issue for 6 months straight. In my experience thoughts appear out of nowhere. I haven't found a being who thinks or controls my thoughts. Yes i know the illusion of control & thinking your thoughts is extremely strong but with enough awareness it can be underminded. Any opinions? Has anyone done the work & concluded to some answes. I would like an answer based on personal experience & observation. Not what you think or have heard from others. This issue has boggled my mind for couple of years now. I find that i identify wih thoughts more than anything & that causes a great deal of misery. I even identify more with thoughts than my "physical" body.

@SoonHei This is deeply profound.. I want to find out who is that mysterious Power which creates my thoughts & everything. I really wanna know before i die.

@Leo Gura What does it mean that sex is a base need? Can we live happily without it?

@Aakash You have the option to choose your thoughts..? Who has the option to choose his thoughts? I wanna find that being.

@NoSelfSelf I am not trying to understand it logically. I have tried to understand it with observation. I have concluded somehwere but still i am not sure & want to go deeper. Maybe i deluded myself. I always have that on the back of my mind. Would like to listen others people conclusions aswell.

@Aakash So the Universe thinks my thoughts?

What is the logic behind all of this? Why not just focus on a single point or just focus on the entire sensation of your body?

I am a limited finite human being & i can understand that someone has to wear my shoes. But i am also Everything. Will there be a point in the Universe where i will just become everything & stop being finite? I mean that i am tired of being aware only of this small stupid self. I wanna become aware of everything. I want to become INFINITE!! I am sick & tired of being finite . Doesn't feel like GOD. I just wanna be God proper. Am i asking too much?? It should be my birthright as GOD.

@Kensho The existential crisis is an excuse for what? I am genuinely curious about the Truth. Leo is responsible for infecting me with that virus lol. I don't expect the Truth to save me or anything. It might even destroy me. It has caused problems in my life already. Pursuing Truth nowadays makes you look like a lunatic. Yup i definetely need a big change in my life & mentality. I hate suffering, pain, some groups of people. I enjoy life but at the same time i deny many aspects of reality which cause me a great deal of suffering. Many things which my limited mind can't understand, accept & love. Sleep is the best thing for me. I love it more than anything in existence. No worries, nothing, you just surrender & it takes you all the ride home.

I don't get it. You make a dinstinction between awareness & focus. How can i be aware only of the tip of the nose & at the same time be aware of the rest of the sensory experience? It doesn't compute to me.

@khalifa That is NOT my experience with low dose of shrooms.

@Inliytened1 I realised that i am a hologram with the help of psilocybin. I no longer believe in the materialist paradigm & don't hold science as the absolute truth. To be honest what i can't stomach is that i may have to live forever or that non existence doesn't exist... I always liked the idea of non-existence. It wouid be better than sleep & i love sleep more than anything.

Ok let's say that i die and i return to infinite nothingness from which i came from. Will i be conscious of infinite nothingess? It sounds like non-existence but you said non-existence is just a concept which exists...

@Phoenixx How do you know that death has no consciousness? You just assume it.

@Aakash You can escape your finite form (according to gurus) & it is always on autopilot. Your thoughts are on autopilot. How come your thoughts are not on autopilot? Explain please. My experience is that EVERYTHING i do , think , etc is on autopilot. Who is controlling it? Nobody. I still haven't found a BEING who is controlling my body.

@inFlow Man this is very inspiring to hear & i definetely will start yoga in the future. I really wanna find out what it's all about. I just feel resistance because of fear not being able to learn proper yoga from a book. But i will just do it...

@Leo Gura Because Joe Rogan is an average - low consciousness guy & full of sh*t, that's why. He even took lightly the fact that Conor McGregor slaps ppl left & right just because he has millions of dollars.

@inFlow Very interesting... Where did you learn those newbie techniques? What resources do you use in order to learn yoga? My problem is that i don't know how to get started with yoga. Please send me some links & i will start doing yoga as well.

Check this video --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlzXhiQa4mk Sadhguru claims that we have 5 different kind of bodies. After DEATH The mental body and the pranic body goes on & when karma's intensity dissipates then it finds another body. Ofcourse i don't understand ANY of that BUT i think it goes contrary to what @Leo Gura is saying. Leo says that after death you just return to the Source & Infinite Love. Sadhguru says that unless you have a mahasamadhi then you will be a godamn ghost waiting for another body...And if you died unaturally then sorry my friend but you will have to wait much longer for another body than someone who died peacefully lol. What is the mental body & pranic body? Is just another name for consciousness? I'm super confused right now... Guess i'll find out when my time comes.... Can't wait man.

@inFlow Meditation is king for me BUT i wanna learn yoga in the future for sure.

@zeroISinfinity Thank you.

I hope you make a video on reincarnation & Karma someday. Let's say that i kill 10 people and die in jail. Will my next life be hellish? Or let's say that i do very good in the world and help millions of people. Will my next life be an evolution of that? BUT All this talk that you are reborn to learn lesson from previous lifetimes doesn't make sense to me since the subject is One.