Dhana Choko

How do you know Buddha got enlightened through meditation?

Pain does not necessarily wake people up. We have seen that countless times as well. There are SO many people suffering but it does not make them anymore enlightened or aware.

As a general rule I would say that the more the person or teacher teaches about how to attain things in this world, the less likely they are enlightened

In my Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology we did one course in human expressions and this consisted one hour of talking a little bit about usual signs that someone is lying. This was one hours in 5 years. I am pretty sure you can learn more about that in Youtube right now.

http://freefromharm.org/photo-galleries/9-reasons-your-canine-teeth-dont-make-you-a-meat-eater/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/shattering-the-meat-myth_b_214390.html Here's something to start with

I recommend finding more information about this subject yourself. This is a diverse topic and most people have so much resistance, addictions and closed-minded beliefs about their eating (it is one of the hardest things for most people to change cause most people medicate themselves with food so much) that I am not about to use my time to change anyone's beliefs without getting paid for it. It is too labour-intensive and includes so much banging head against the wall and because I do not enjoy pain, I will not do it. I just recommend sources that you can use if you are actually interested in your health and personal development. Netflix has a lot of good documentaries, for example Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, Cowspiracy, Food inc, Fed Up, GMO OMG and of course beautiful documentaries about our planet, like BBC Planet Earth.

I personally think there is one diet for humans and it is a vegan diet. All cats and dogs eat basically the same type of diet (with some variation of course), so there must be an ideal diet for human race as well. This Western culture has just brain-washed people so deeply that it is very hard for the ego to think anything else but the burger it is addicted to. I recommend watching some documentaries. You can just watch them open minded and not make any decisions right now. All change starts small. - Forks over Knives (about health and no gross details) - Food inc (How food is produced and marketing and health as well) - Cowspiracy (about milk production and meat industry)

I am studying to become a Psychologist and here are my few cents about it. I will just warn you that most Psychology degrees nowadays are science-based and the basic studies from 1-5 years consist VERY little to any philosophical or deeper questioning of life. For example, my first 4 years of studies consisted mostly studying of the different brain lobes, vision and the biology of eyes, hearing and ears and some information about how different types of anti-depressant medications affect different parts of brains. I had to really work my way though it and now after that I have been able to get into a private cognitive therapy counselling degree where we go a BIT deeper into the real issues people face and how to help them. However, it is very practical and very little theory or analysis of why people have mental illness or what is causing them or any philosophical or even biological reasoning on why that is. To me this has been quite hard, since to me, choosing to study psychology, was to be able to understand people and the human mind better. However, very early on in the studies you will find out that no one knows much about that and the whole field is concerned with tangible problems like fixing hearing loss or problems with eye-sight or finding tools to help people with schizophrenia or autism etc. So if that is something you are interested in, then go for it It can be very interesting and many people like it. However, in if you are looking for answers or deep understanding about human psyche, you are probably going to be disapointed. If you are interested in reading countless studies about hearing, vision or brain lobes and are willing to do coursework with fMRI machines and a lot of tedious mathematical calculations on computer, then I can highly recommend it. If you are into psychology and counseling, then I have to talk about that a little bit as well, since it is important to understand that counseling is not about giving people advice. Even if you would have the greatest ideas about life and even if you would see from day 1 how to fix someone's life, you are not supposed to do that. It takes a lot of determination to sit hours and hours with someone and not say anything. You are supposed to let the person talk 90% of the time and let me tell you, that can be very hard! I know it sounds crazy, but it takes a lot of will power to just listen there full day on about how someone's life sucks and just be with them and not advice them on anything. Maybe it is easier for someone else, but for me, it is difficult. It is a road that can definitely make you grow, that is for sure, but as you might find from my text as well, for me it has been a slight disappointment and a difficult road. If you have any further questions, I would be happy to go through them.

It is basically that the energy centers of your body and energetic body get aligned due to correct use of meditation and body posture and because of this, you get connected better to the eternal source of All, that is the energy of this universe that you are part of. Some people find that having this type of experience changes them forever in some way, other people go along their lives and it might stay as something that just happened to them once. It is spontaneous phenomenon and one should not try to have that type of experiences since you cannot control them at will. It is a nice experience, a nice blessing that can help to have further understanding about the life around you and the energy that is behind everything.

The "boringness" is probably an attribute in your own consciousness that you are blocking and not accepting to be part of yourself for some reason

You are looking someone to fulfill you outside yourself. You need to be complete first and then you will attract someone who you a) either fall so madly in love with that you are willing to work with YOURSELF to overcome the issues b) someone with whom it is very easy to be with most of the time or both of these. Hopefully both of them.

You are on a right path. Just keep going and you will attract people who match your desires for relationships. Do not settle for low quality relationships. They take time and cause drama. Why do I know? I, like most people, have learned the hard way.

No, it is not okey to take revenge. This is an opportunity for you to grow in maturity and learn first and foremost about yourself and other people in this world. It is a great thing really and you can learn so much about this situation. And it is great that you are trying to! It shows great ability to learn and understand. Maybe you have to come in terms with your own emotions. That you would LIKE to love everybody but there are LOT of people in this world who act in a way that is very hard to love, for anyone, especially for the person doing the un-loving thing, like your classmate here. To overcome this type of behaviour (remember, there is difference in behaviour and being a specific type of person), you need to rise above it. This does not mean that you should just accept everything that he throws at you or anyone else and it is okey to put boundaries on people. He seems like the type of person who might actually be wanting of you to put boundaries to him and to his actions. It seems like he is very confused and maybe his parents are not giving him advice on what is okey in the world and how to act around others and his parents might be belittling and condasending towards other people as well. It might be that on some level he knows it is not ok, but tries to look clues around other people to know what is good and what is wrong. Maybe you seem the type of person to him who knows. This is a great video for the topic:

If people would get enlightened through sex, we would have a very very different world.

I think you might have had a small kundalini rising experience.

Meditation, because in meditation you learn to understand how your mind works. In Visualization, you use your mind to create images and stories that feel good, but you don't necessarily end up understanding what the mind is, how to work with it and that you are not the mind or the thoughts in your head (which is something that meditation helps with). Many people start with visualization though cause it is easier form of meditation.

@gian You have some kind of a deeper wound in your psyche connected to intimate relationships and when you get closer to people, all your wounds activate and you feel uncomfortable. You might also have some sort of perfectionism thing with making choices - maybe your parents taught you that there is a very clear right and wrong in this world and when you are faced with a choice, you get paralyzed cause you are not sure how to make these decisions so that they are correct. It is very good that you are taking time to develop yourself and you will get past those insecurities over time. Just become aware that you have these and that you would like to live differently one day, but as long as you feel and see these reactions in you, you can just become aware of those patterns, think where they might come from and see that you are not those patterns and that you can live beyond them.

Yes, your thoughts tell only about your own mind and you can use it to examine your own mind. However, you should never confuse yourself with the mind, cause you are something far more greater than the small thoughts in your head. You cannot always think positive because that is not the default setting of the mind. You will have all sorts of thoughts throughout your life and you need to learn to be fine with that

Don't try to be some kind of an "alpha male". You will only attract fake girls and you will have a fake relationship and fake life. And that feels horrible. Develop yourself and have a real relationship.

Just don't do it. If you want to have an online business or whatever, you can have it but you always have to have a back up plan. I was in a similar situation when I was in a university and I was very close to quitting it because I was so disapointed by the quality of teaching and the teaching material (even though it was a very high level UK university). However, I ended up doing the degree and I am SO glad I did. It will help me so much and I don't understand in what kind of daze I was in thinking I would quit.

I started to look at this video and I was sure it is going to be really bad, but actually this guy is pretty good example for many guys out there So happy there are examples like this. Obviously I personally like someone like Yogananda or spiritual leaders, but I can definitely see young men getting a lot out of this in this modern and crazy society. Great.

I have not personally really tried this for long periods of time, but in Kundalini Yoga they teach to start the morning with a cold shower. There must be something to it...

Thoughts arise from the nothingness and turn into nothingness. It might look like a certain "environment" puts thoughts into your head but you really need to question that belief. It goes far deeper than that. You can be in a slum with kids with no education and you will still have magnitude of thoughts running in your head.

You can be in whatever "world", let it be business, academic, unemployed, whatever and one can be "sucked" into unawareness. It is not about what you do but how aware you can be through the experience. You can definitely be in the academic world and do spiritual/enlightenment work.

I understand and you are on your way to it. Do not worry. This is part of the process. In order to conquer something, it might get worse before its power runs out. Just keep examining yourself and your reactions abd practice patience and love towards yourself. This is a great tool for you.