Nathalie

It often seems to me that a lot of people are doing everything they can in order to encounter the complete stillness in their head.. As if it was an end in it self.. Do you think so ? Once you have recognize where the thoughts come from meanwhile meditating, don't you have a great opportunity to take all this stuff a little less seriously and that for, be more present, more open ? In my opinion nobody has to make it perfectly, every step can be enjoyable... Am I wrong ? Does anybody out there feel a similar way ?

@DrMatthewsausage Maybe you're just to severe ? How would it be if you loved yourself a little more and listen your inner voice telling you the way that fits to you ? If you love and enjoy yourself I can imagine that the power will flow..

@DrMatthewsausage Maybe you're just to severe ? How would it be if you loved yourself a little more and listen your inner voice telling you the way that fits to you ? If you love and enjoy yourself I can imagine that the power will flow..

@Wini Interessing, I've never meditate this way. I can't remember that I ever asked myself why something happened to me.. As long as I can recall, I had always seen a reason or at least, thought that there must be one.. It helps me to grow.. But if somebody made a whole book about this, maybe I miss the point..

@WelcometoReality I thought you meant something more agressif with "smash".. So, no war, only liberation.. Right ?

@Fer Lazo seems interessing, but I've found a few books which B. Blanton has written.. Is it : "radical honesty, how to transform your life by telling the truth" ?

@TruthSeeker Maybe that's it : until one didn't experience that there is no self, it seems as unsane to say there is no I, no free will etc as to claim the opposit. Nobody has to believe anything, but to stay open for an infinity of changing possibilities. That makes live so lively, so to speak.

@WelcometoReality Ok.. and could you tell me how to smash it, just in case one doesn't want to dissipate as usual ?

@WelcometoReality Are you sure you have to smash them ? Isn't it enough to look at them ? I've experienced that when they can't stay hidden in the dark where they habitually like to act from, they weaken and dissolve without any effort..

@Bronsoval Good question, I'm kind of struggling with this as well.. Superficially it seems quite easy, but if you look at it nearly.. Already by an simple question like : What do you think about ? I must admit, I'm not that honest

@DreamSpirit ..well, I wrote this after reading several messages in there persons described how regulary and straight they train this issue and that one has to exercise for years in order to get a result, a few meant that it's useless.. Other meant they try so hart and they get to nowhere... So, maybe I should have given them directly a feedback, but I liked to know how other persons in the community think about it.. For me, since I have restart meditating regulary (thank you, Leo ), I can say that it cleared and still clear my mind step by step. It's so liberating. I feel quite new meanwhile :-) Still thinking.. So what ? It's a good possibility to see and feel what happens inside.. What kind of reactions come up ? Are old pattern coming through? What happens by changing some of them? There's so much interessing work to do with it during the day, isn't it ? And it frees, doesn't it ? Matt Kahn put it like this : "your thoughts don't have any problem with you, so why do you have some with them?" We can observe them without following them blindly. Of course I guess, the gaps between the thoughts are really enjoyable and they enable to experience everything in an complete different way, so much more intense... I hope I could clarify it a little..

Yes I do, even better as before

I think the book is great but his youtube videos are even better

For almost 20 years, I was so ill that everybody thought I would die and I felt the same. I must say that, in this moment, it didn't impressed me at all, it was ok, I was really quiet. I was in a hospital and they gave me so many medicaments that I can't exactly remember what happend, but one evening I felt good and I had too much energy to fall asleep so I put a walkman (it's long ago..) on my ears and heard music through the night, imagining I was flying over the mountains, diving in the sea, dancing on the Piazza Navona in Roma and so on.. The next day I felt deeply that I was healthy. SInce this time the death doesn't scare me anymore. When I think back, it seems to me that what let me stay alive was surely the medicaments, but also the mix of a profound surrender and the deep joy I felt, from this special night on, toward all the things that reminded to be experienced. Hope that you understand what I've tried to express and that will help you anyhow..

Thank you so much for sharing. It feels like a further wunderful step in this journey.