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@HereToLearn Qigong

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Thinking long term, you will have many partners and leaning experiences.

Lol, I edited the wrong thread.

@RMQualtrough Ahaha, the looks I get doing Qigong sometimes

@Ferretab There are a lot of factors that go into making life beautiful. Brain wave state is one factor, but there are many more. Like your beliefs, ability to inner smile and your Qi flow and quality. The whole nervous system needs to be address not just the brain waves. Like, doing things you enjoy, developing healthy relationships and taking yourself on dates or adventures to find the beauty in life. I like reading Howard Vernon for this reason. I recommend his book "There is a way out". Tasty short nuggets of wisdom.

People are paranoid and there is so many information streams and people spreading fear and misinformation. Be really careful when you use things like "Content vs Structure" to justify your world views or ignorance. Chances are, we are actually mislead and confused about the content and the structure and are bending reality to make things fit our own personal, paranoid, conspiratory mind. If you read that fact checking page, imo its pretty grounded and making key distinctions people need to know. In the age of information when everyone can share whatever they think regardless of qualification we need fact checkers. Instead of shitting on them, look into the structure of information. Believing emotional uneducated people on social media, or believing specialist and doctors from around the world? Or, if you aren't sure why not step into a radical not knowing from an unattached view so you can contemplate, observe and make judgements over time. It's not easy for any of us to know what is really going on. Instead of 'thinking I know the truth' and defending my own narrative, I observe and become a collector of goodies. Collecting information from different people over time and creating a map of probability. Personally, I think my government is doing a good job with Covid and I am very grateful. I don't think there are any conspiracies going on. This is something a globalized world must go through to mature I think.

Ahaha, Yes. Leo is love!

I needed to hear this too. Also getting a therapist. They are amazing, the of the most powerful yet overlooked tools I wonder Leo is like, big picture map, so you get a bunch of tools and ideas to feed your growth and then a therapist is like one of the tools that fits into the map. There are so many tools. Become a collector of goodies.

@catcat69123 Yeah, I've been through waves of this. I found that: 1. Getting a therapist online and having someone to talk to really helps me. I am pretty alone at this time in my life and having someone to talk to, and being able to share with her my thoughts, getting worksheets to develop, having a sense of accountability etc is great. Not even necessarily talking to her, but even just KNOWING I am taking action on my mental health helps. Having someone in real time I can be relatively radically open, and seen in the vulnerability helps me accept myself more too. 2. Focusing only on my locus on control. This whole "I need to save the planet thing" Can take a rest. I can only focus on my own life. By sinking my roots deep in over the next 5-10 years in developing my mind, body, mental models, skills, habits, beliefs, intuition, wisdom, practices, business, financial psychology and financial health etc life become a game of mastery and not this hopeless scary thing. 3. Starting to imagine that I am like a tree. Movement is an illusion. I am developing deep roots focusing on life mastery and, cleaning up how I feel etc and THEN real opportunities to help the planet will arise. And lastly.. Imagine if actually just take 30 minutes and chill, relax, lay on the floor, permission to feel okay. Right now. You actually can't feel okay even if the world didn't have climate change because of your current state. That is the issue. Don't trust you mind, trust your state. Relax, find inner compassion, love. Lay on the floor and do a body scan, breathing comfortably relax every muscle in your body. The everything now is always this everything now. This strange perception of experience in this void. Chilllllll, You Got this. You Got this!

I don't know, I've never felt the need to pay for porn. Don't beat yourself up. Take an hour to openly journal and contemplate about it, and any surrounding issues. Use love here. No reason to feel guilty, but acknowledge it and move forward. More love awaits you on the other side of this. Every realization of incongruence with our values is a diamond if we use it correctly.

@Waken Yeah, I sense a bit something going on. People seem to enjoy his retreats. They seem okay. I can't tell yet if he is very conscious. He is definitely not completely a Zen devil but I am not sure.

@impulse9 Yeah, I think he was into shamanism, he was a psychonaut and he was interested in inner alchemy, botany, nature, etc

There are many facets of your psyche and spirit to work on. Keep going! Reading, practicing meditation and inner smile etc.

Well, he actually does have this video where he mentions these things as possibilities of awakening I think it's simple that Terrence was not a non-dualist. Though, he had similar ideas he was very much into of duality imo.

Realizing our addictions is good! Good going.

You are consciousness. Collapse all the duality and what is left? I get that these conversation happen, but they are also annoying. I'd like us to recognize the difference between relative and absolute truth and the difference between pointing to something and what I am pointing to. I realize that there is a lot of work for all of us to make these distinctions and to be mature about them. "The tao that can be spoken is not the eternal tao" should be like, fundamental to talking about truth. paradoxically ahah I won't reply to any more dualistic jokes or whatever on this thread ahaha

Accept every part of you as divine (:

I started reading Osho and I have some books on the way. I am amazed by his ideas and his understanding of Yoga and Tantra. I really resonate with Tantra and I've gone to like 5 tantric festivals in the past year and I've only just touched the surface of this realm of mastery and spiritual explanation. What are you favourtie Osho books or lectures? Share them here!

@This You aren't the finger I point with either...

Yes, I am getting the Tantric bug. Working on integrating Yoga, Tantra, Taosim, Qigong, Reiki and shamanism and non-duality. I liked his description in the book of secrets of Yoga and Tantra being a yin and yang of sorts.

You are consciousness.

Through contemplation, you are basically using your spot light of awareness and mind to actually think about things. To ask questions, find answers, feel how you think about something. When we are not writing down thoughts we tend to just repeat the same thoughts again, and again and again. Anyone else have parents or know people who have had the same problem or argument line for line for the past 20 years? I see this in my parents. This is why we do this work I think in part. Not only to realize we are God and to take back our sovereignty but to break free from the mechanical prison that is the thought loops of people who never used their minds. Most people are mechanical because they never even bothered to question "am I a machine? How so?" By contemplating we create space and room for our thoughts to explore, problem solve. We are actually literally increasing our consciousness through deliberate practice. Each question we ask, each list we make, each source we reflect on.. We grow wiser, deeper and build out thinking muscles. We develop new ideas, have catharsis etc. When we think things through ourselves we come up against emotional labour. This is a sure sign we are doing something right. When we think things through ourselves, using our own words, ideas, feelings etc we are building new neural connections that are stronger, more robust and prone to creating new creative and deeper insights.

Okay, I understand his history a little more. He was looking for love. Sounds like psychedelics had some positive affect on his addictive behaviour. He started smoking tabacco, weed, and drinking chronically from ages 16-25ish. Sounds like he abused MDMA too. MDMA 2-3 times a week? Insanity. Interesting. He isn't even sure it is MDMA. Also addicted to Kratom, which he seems to have used recently. Strange.