Sri McDonald Trump Maharaj

Rather not but I meditate anyways when I feel like shit. Shikantaza/do nothing is great for the times you are sleepy etc.

“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.” ― Ramana Maharshi “It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj “All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to decieve oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj “You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I have been experimenting with NoFap for a while and in a nutshell YES IT IS. I just relapsed and this has happend a few times. After my relapses my meditations feels so fucking creamy and dumb and lazy. But during the time I haven't relapsed I have gotten the dicipline to meditatie like 6 hours per day (I really don't have a life hehe). The monks and yogies really knows what they are doing. Celibacy really fucking works, try abstaining for about 2 weeks and meditate a lot then go back to normal and see it yourself. Of course you don't have to stop masturbaiting and feeling guilty about it dosn't help either.

I would still just wanna meditate even if it didn't give me Truth. It makes me happy!

I had been depressed tried to kill myself. Was fat, smoked played video games, drinked a lot. Things started to get better, I started to exersice and ate better. Then I started meditating... I remember that I actually took a vow before starting to meditate and it went like this: "If meditation dosn't work I'm really going to kill myself". P.S. I didn't kill myself

I was awake for almost 50 hours after an enlightenment experience. And I wasn't even tired. After being awake for about 40 hours I took a fucking run in the woods. Had to go to the hopital where I got sleeping pills. This shit can be scary but really it's hilarious when you look back on it so you shouldn't worry about this stuff. Just the ego doing its thing....

"DONT HATE! MEDITATE!"

“We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.” -Terence McKenna "The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before." -Albert Einstein

Yes! Everyone mistakes the map for the territory even in spirituallity.

Ive seen it! Looks like a nice place. They demands that you can speak a little japanese though if I'm right? Just a little warning: 2000/hours of meditation/year is only about 5,5 hours per day and the rest of the day (11 hours maybe?) you will be a little bitch to a Zen master. A funny thing about Zen monks is that the rest of the hours they develop equanimity to the harsh work/abuse. I would like to try out Japanese Zen but I'm not brave enough for it so I'll just stay here. I'm suprised by your bravery actually. AND JUST DON'T FUCKING FORGET THAT THE FINGER POINTING AT THE MOON IS NOT THE MOON!!!! That's a common mistake people do when they get into Zen.

Yes of course it worksI have been doing it mentally, write alittle on the computer. I just took a walk in nature for an hour. I think that flattend about 15 thaughts and made me relalize that I have about 1 000 000 more thaughts to flatten.

Yeah. I never do hearing meditation when I'm serious but when I am in nature I usually experiment with hearing meditation. I havent watched this video but here you go:

Meditate before... That's probably the best idea I have ever heard.

My mom thaught that I was psychotic, that I had some sort of "disoriented worldview". Friends have critisized me and tried to make me more lazy and dumb, friends have started avoiding me or compleatly stopped calling me. I have become more "weired" than I always have been. My granma reccently told me that I don't get enough nutrition because I didn't eat butter, meat and bread. I have had a lot of critics trying to pull me down during the last year, the list is really long, can't even count the numbers but it's okay it can be hard to be alone and not be mainstream at some times, but it's worth it in the long run. I'm struggling with this too and the only way I have found making things better is being honest about how you feel. If you feel hurt by colse people acting the way they do, tell them what you feel. "It is no measure of health in being well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -J Kirishnamurti “You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.” ― Shannon L. Alder

Thanks a lot! I struggle with this aswell, I'm a guy, I am quite sensitive and on my way to getting more honest about it around others.

Me: Mom! Do you know what I will do with my life? Mom: What? Me: Sit down and do nothing Mom: *no reply*

I don't know have time to think clearly but "Pursuing Consciousness" by Peter Ralston talks about this a lot, how transforming the self won't get you enlightend and how getting enlightend won't transform the self. It's one of my favourite books. But it should be read after reading "The Book of Not Knowing" by him aswell otherwise you'll be super confused.

First you think you are a self. Then you see that you are no-self. Then you see that no-self really is a cat. Then you see that the cat is actually not a cat but that it really is Yoda. Then you see that you where Yoda all along. Then you become this crazy hermit walking around with a stick trying to teach people about this "force" thing, you don't even wanna be a hermit... People just see you as a religious fundamentalist with Aspbergers so they let you be that way. Full enlightenment.

Yeah of course. Paying a lot of money to become a monk seems kinda lucrative but what I have found is that it's mostly asian Zen monestaries that are free. But remember that paying a little money for getting a place to meditate almost 2000 hours in a year is REALLY FUCKING CHEAP. Money can buy happiness if you use it right!

Keep at it!

I still live with my parents, I'm 19 but I barely talk with them. I'm still in society and school, you will probably feel like you become this meditating chimp after oing thsi for a while. They way I will sustain myself is work for 9 weeks this summer, after that I'm going to hit a Zen monestary for 10 months with the money I will get this summer. Enlightenent fucked up my already fucked up school aswell. Leaving school to enlightenm myself for 10 months and then I will get back and finnish my last year. And my self-esteem also feels kinda poor now. You are not alone in this!

I'm not that social, my self-esteem is "fine", I barely have any social status, I don't belong anywhere, not in school, not in my family, I barely spend time with them, I talk to friends like once per week or even less, I have been sick for 14 months and I meditate over 4 hours per day. It can be hard if you absolutely can't not not do it. I heard of enlightenment and I just thaught about it for about four fucking months without a second of Inquiry. I was in love with running and skiing, I had gotten rid of all my bad habits, smoking, video games, drinking and all that shit. So when I got sick it was like doing this or getting compleatly unconscious. Anyone can do this, just wean yourself off everything gradually or something like that. <3

Me four! ;D