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Labels vs states of being. Do they correlate? Do decades of meditation practice and being a "master" correlate with enlightenment?

That may be true but if you grew up in a different time period or different part of the world, you would not think twice about it. It would just be routine, like picking apples from a tree. Hard to imagine since we've never had to do this ourselves.

This is a big fear for me too. Look deeper than music and you will find the general qualities of your life purpose. Your values, etc... Music is just the medium that you are using to express these values. It CAN be swapped if necessary. Additionally, humans are incredibly resilient. Trust your resourcefulness to cure yourself as best as you can and proceed with music, rather than clouding yourself with doubt.

challenge accepted.

Sure. I do it because I enjoy it. Similar to listening to music or eating foods I like

@Average Investor would not have seen this if it was in journal

Love Dr K. Highly recommend watching this channel. Feels like your're having therapy on yourself since a lot of these issues are not only universal but also very personal to many people on here lol. Good chance to learn about oneself and brighten your day to see others slowly solving their issues.

what about being a hitman or drug dealer

Hi, all! As far as spiritual progress is concerned, I do feel like I’ve gone fairly far. However, there is a nagging issue that plagues me: Attachment wounds from emotional neglect are still a major sticky issue for me. Spiritual Progress =/ Psychological Progress. With that in mind, how do you repair this issue. btw I lean more towards the right side of the chart, probably in-between anxious and fearful.

@Martin123 Magi is one of my favorite anime dude! And yes, even when watching the show even though Sinbad is such a rad dude you can tell he has attachment issues hahahaha

@Nahm no I agree with you. ive been using this whole psychoanalytic, attachment theory perspective for a while to figure things out and I think I’ve become less happy. The time for mourning about my past has ran its course. How many times will I keep replaying the same story over and over in my head? How many more days of my life will be lost holding onto this sadness, fear, resentment? I get it. I saw the movie enough times already to know. I started contemplating the drawbacks of feeling like this. Applying it to every thing. Every time mind creation started to make me miserable time and time again yesterday when was breaking down. When my mind became clear of all these chaotic waves, a profound bliss arose. I will continue to do so as this chapter has just begun.

100% if you reduce the sample size to one and only include me in it hehe, yea

@The Lucid Dreamer he is aware of leo.

@Leo Gura C's get degrees crew checking in.

Regarding dissociation specifically I walk a very thin line. Experientially, proper awareness feels more integrating, while dissociation masquerading as awareness has a subtle aversive quality to it that feels unnatural, forced.

@Dino D if people were living their purpose, perhaps their would not be as much need for many of those positions like medical professionals, nurses, etc... unhappiness -> illness -> more unhappy -> more illness

curious, how did you get there? dying for six months...?

@ardacigin lmao beautiful post. very helpful.

@ardacigin It has been life-debilitating for me personally. Making things much more difficult. Presumably, due to mixing in with my own psychological issues it brews the perfect storm. Additionally, yes iirc you go through a macro-cycle to reach the next path. The first path you get into after awakening is Sotāpanna aka stream-entry, where you drop the first three fetters: identity-view, ritualistic clinging, and doubt regarding the path. How to measure where we are is another story as everyone interprets differently and their own subjective experience would be impossible to know. However, ime I do feel that to jump to have a significant shift along the path, it has included this pattern of mini cycles and eventually a macro cycle. Probably could get there with more or less of either one of the two but yeah it makes sense to me.

Not something to get obsessed over for sure. I mean, it's a thing... Not too significant. For me, I can feel more energy in my third eye area just from meditating very easily since early on. Recently, a lot more in the heart area as well. Also, if I start watching porn a lot then I can feel the lower chakras become a lot more active and I feel less clarity like I would otherwise. For me, it's just about meditating to develop more awareness of how your emotions and energy is being processed and performing actions that are more conducive to me feeling good, peaceful, and clear.

I’m not sure. I think I’ve cycled through at least once entirely at a retreat. @Jordan94 all I know is I started contemplating on the impermanence of things. Noticing in everyday mundane things, my sense of self, borrowing from modern psychology concepts regarding memory as well and sort of questioning it like that. Emotions and all that too, as well as all other sensations. This brought a strong surge of anxiety that persisted for several days until I lost sensitivity from reverting back to my gluttonous tendencies being the miserable ape that I am I’ve reviewed PoI map before and even have Mahasi’s book as well as Daniel Ingrams but still don’t know how it fits whatever the heck I’ve gone through

@ardacigin thank you. I know what's ahead of me now https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iv-insight/34-the-vipassana-jhanas/ just re-aquainted myself with this

Yo, I have a tendency to fall into dark nights extremely often. Anytime, I push my meditation hard enter dark night territory. It actually becomes hard to enter jhana since it feels like I'm in some sort of fear jhana lol. My inclination this time around (happened a couple days ago again) was to regain concentration as I was feeling extremely anxious. However,I gave myself a break, went for walks and watched a bit of anime. I feel good again now. Im not sure if I made it through the purification or if exited out instead and will have to face this again in the future,

I'm not here to claim any sort of attainments and even then I hardly understand the nuance involved to properly characterize enlightenment stages. However, trying to desperately achieve these higher states through a magic bullet like psychedelics is bound to backfire since this lack of patience to try to expedite this process seems antithetical to attaining proper wisdom to me. You may get some knowledge for sure but it will be tainted since you don't understand the ins and outs fully. I forgot who said it, but its more important to know how to get to the top of the mountain, in addition to the massive perspective difference you'll have from walking all the miles to the peaks you reach. If you're placed at the top, you will get a lot of things but it will not be as useful as you think without the wisdom and perspective gained along the way. You can get fast cars, money, etc... but what was sacrificed? With psychs we're obviously dealing with a much more subtle level of this, but progression on the path and consequently acquisition of wisdom is gained by being patient, by being a human being, and not deluding yourself out of desperation to get "there" or get more "enlightened".