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@Lazarus93 This got me thinking of my life tendencies as well, I think I do the similar thing, but haven't experienced Awakening yet. But in my mind some stuff is paused before I get my Awakening, at least a temporal glimpse, because I think that experience will affect my life goals. Don't you have similar experience? When you say that after Awakening you now realize that you need to focus on your life goals deeper, didn't those life goals change at least to some degree after you had your understandings?

Thanks for sharing! Do you also practice some manual spiritual practices that helped with those insights or you just take psychedelics?

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That guy was arrested in Philiphines I think couple months ago for his obnoxious behaviour towards cops and then was deported to Russia, just saw it on the news couple days ago, lol.

@Leo Gura What's your suggestion then? Just practice sitting and being? How do you balance ambition and just sitting and being? Don't we need an ambition to do enough practices and work on ourselves that then later in life arrive at the insight that there was really nothing more to be done other then sitting and being?

That's just an exercise that trains your ability to locate and become familiar with the places where there supposed to be chakras. And then in KPs you go through that chakras with your attention and breath. Author suggests doing Om Japa so that you can do KPs better later. Or you can just train that ability during your pranayama practice if you want, not seperately with Om Japa.

@Leo Gura Do you have a rough idea of when that might be? like, a year, 5 years, 10 years?

@Leo Gura Yes I get that, but also the other point is that if you can awake to God with 5-Meo temporarily, it will affect your Kriya practice, if not physiologically, just by knowing that this shit is real, it will affect the way you practice it, you'll do it with more passion and intention. I haven't done psychedelics but what I imagine is that it would greatly convinse me to do some kind of manual practice. Because without that, I need months if not years to feel like the practice is going somewhere, and it's hard to stick to it when nothing is happening and you don't even know if any of this is real. I believe psychedelics would help me in that. Yup, I'll do that, I'll see how it goes.

@Leo Gura Isn't 5-Meo a faster way? Or you mean pranayamas are supposed to rewire your mind/brain permanently and slowly, but 5-Meo is just a way of waking up quickly but doesn't stick.

@Dazgwny You can just start practicing Pranayama for 10-20 minutes, and build onto that some other practices if you want after 6-12 months. You can find very practical instructions of Pranayama breathing here in the books: https://realyoga.info/ And here in articles: https://realyoga.info/posts/ You can also ask ChatGPT to give you super detailed no-bullshit instructions of how to do it, and then just do it for couple months straight as an experiment.

@Dazgwny Have you tried Kriya?

@Leo Gura Doesn't daily meditation practice hone the concentration skill slowly day by day? And then using that somewhat developed concentration ability on longer retreats? I mean, if I'm a beginner meditator and go on a retreat, without some background in a sitting practice, will it still work? I'm talking about strictly concentration meditation, the one you can measure the progress in, not some form of just sitting and daydreaming or whatever.

@ZenSwift I've been having that exact same issue for the last 7-8 years when it comes to establishing Kriya practice, and even more years with establishing meditation practice. I mean proper daily practice. I've been dabbling in those practices, weeks on and off, sometimes months but I was never serious enough to stick to it, or practice it with full intention. Now I'm starting my 30s and it dawns on me that if I don't allocate at least 6-12 months to properly religiously practice them, it won't be done ever, like, for the last couple years I've been waiting for some magical moment that will illuminate me and make me stick to practices but that doesn't come. So I will either force myself into them or practice won't occur and benefits won't be there. Even worse, zero benefits plus all the regret of not practicing all those years, double suffering. So, take that seriously, 10 years can easily pass without actually using at least 6-12 months for that. I guess psychedelic awakening would also help as Leo said, but at the moment I don't have access to that.

Happy holidays guys, let's make the best of next year 🎉

@Leo Gura What's the benefits you get from it, all the promised ones? Does it actually help you raise baseline level of consciousness?