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@Leo Gura yeah , i will get back into actuality , i just want to ask two question about the practise . so when i am looking at my hand and i am somewhat conscious of my hand , my hand that is all that is actual and the thoughts and beliefs like "this is my hand " , "this is brown/brown/white " etc .. these are just beliefs and imaginations right ?? and in the beginning of the video you said , it is actual when you hit the moment where you become hyperconscious of "hand" , so what if i am just looking at it blankly without being hyperconscious of it , is that also actual or is that also imagination? can you please clarify? , because i want to the practise right By the way , Thanks for the help.

@nistake THANKS , i will get to it and be smart about the choices i make @Leo Gura i will see the video and get back to you .. Thanks! @soos_mite_ah sure thanks , but rather than thinking , it will be better to know @remember haha , but i think people around me at least must know something , but i think i dont know anything . otherwise why will they be so confident about the stuff they say ...? (or who knows , even they are deluded by beliefs and ideologies)

@Himanshu thanks , yeah of course sd and enlightenment are different , i just wanted to discuss what could be a plausible correlation between previous life karma and sd.

nail your life purpose ... pursue spirituality after you have mastered survival

Now , it has been a week or two weeks since I have started a strong practice of do nothing and strong determination sitting. I think if we do this daily , our mind is become calmer and calmer and become less chaotic , isn’t it ? But the exact opposite is happening with me ....instead I am getting more and more thoughts and insights . Whilst sitting there I come up with many theories about the world and keep connecting the dots ..and come up sorta half baked epiphanies ..... why is this sort of backfiring happening . I have watched the videos a couple of times and I am sure that I am doing the practices right .but instead of mind becoming finer and finer , it’s contemplating more and more things . Questions , past traumas , situations come up suddenly, sometimes I feel negative emotions very deeply and sometimes I become very happy thinking about things .sometimes it feels like I know everything in the universe , 5 seconds later it’s like everybody else seems to know everything I am the only one who knows nothing . What am I actually doing wrong and how should I work to calm the mind ?

@Vipassana well I am a Sikh too . We never cut our hair .though I have never understood the significance and always questioned why. But when I got internet , I started researching about it.it took different analogies and kind of made by own analogy and that is : To cut hair is painless , because hair may be used a tool for spiritual purposes, as when one shaves his head life energy tends to move towards the head. But hair may be kept long if we look at yogananda’s philosophy who said “The spinal cord is like an upturned tree, with man’s hair as its roots, and afferent and efferent nerves as branches.” Elsewhere Yogananda explains: “Like an upturned plant, man similarly absorbs through his hair electric currents helpful to the body.”———ABOY Basically hair maybe used as a spiritual weapon if you know how to use it . But that will help if you follow path of hardcore yoga or Buddhist meditation .

@StarStruck I actually make notes of his advices , not very long though , of course . I have also organised his videos in a private playlist on YouTube .you can also hear to his podcast on spotify... it is same as videos , but more efficient to work with .

Hey guys ,fellow INTP here , I am having a problem. During this quarantine, since there is so much free time , I can’t bring myself to do my school stuff and am really lacking discipline. I keep on saying ‘ok , now I will do this!’ Or ‘now I will do that‘ but in reality nothing gets done. I am mostly lost in my head and whole day I am watching self help / meditation, consciousness YouTube videos and literally it has become an addiction . Whenever I try to do my school assignments etc , I become too distracted and start thinking about consciousness, self help , success etc . And the worst part is that after not being able to do what I want to do , I go to YouTube and search ‘how to be disciplined’ or ‘how to be hard working’ etc . Which wastes even more time . I keep making plans but never actually implementing that ...and when I cannot do what I planned , I just say ‘ok , you know the school system is bad , it just wants to create robots ?’. How can I get out of this rut of watching self actualization videos and build some discipline? Please help .

@nistake thanks , i guess that distracting myself with self help was better video games.....

@K VIL man its basically school stuff like : 1. practice calculus question 2.do chemistry theory etc.

@Leo Gura thanks man ! i watch so many videos of yours , yet i forgot the point that there is no magic pill(which you said both in the big picture of self actualization and 40 tips) and today i will watch overcoming addiction. The vision will motivate me . i have a nice sorta vision but not the perfect one , because i have not bought the Life Purpose course yet!!!(i have been saving money right now) , but yeah thanks , i will not guilt myself....

@Recursoinominado i read the book , thanks it is great !! cool!

@Recursoinominado ?Thanks ! Did it help you? Are you now self disciplined?

It is a compulsive act , I become conscious of it after I did it .

What does this mean? And how I do this?

@Oliver Saavedra dude I make lots of lists , I’m fucking up on the “doing” part.....

When you realise everything is just your own imagination

@Leo Gura what do you think of the meditation Which is taught in the east where access concentration states are reached (samadhi) and by changing objects of meditation during the course of meditation to finer aspects of the mind to reach higher levels of consciousness?? i think that shit requires a seriously strong mind ....

even if you do not have million of dollars , you must know the Truth ..... the millions of dollars do not give satisfaction and you further Enter into a never ending cycle Of chasing . Chasing success is not bad , but you must have the big picture perspective of what you want to do . Attachments lead to more psychological ailments when they are lost or have gone out your controls . Real Spiritual Gurus are not rapist . They are closed minded to certain aspects of modern world , but that does not mean They do not know the stuff they are talking about . All athletes and celebrities are mostly fucking unconscious people with a lot of distractions in their life . They have psychological ailments , depression , drinking problems .etc.if they are successful and famous it does not mean they are perfect. (Exceptions are there )You are chasing success and material enjoyment, which is only good if done up to a limit , if one day you do become really massively successful , you will realise that ... it was not worth it .

@nistake thanks for advice , that is one of the most useful things I have heard today .

I have a problem ..... I know that it is very important to self actualize but whenever I do something else other than high consciousness work or study about high conscious work (meditation,yoga etc) like practising my skills or doing basic self help and self actualisation , a fear emerges inside of me that what if I can’t awaken before I die? , what if I can’t attain enlightenment in this life ? And that distracts me from my work , now I know self actualisation is important and we should not think / get serious about enlightenment before we are at least financially independent. But there is a fear of failing to do what I want before death eats me from inside. For example , whenever something is wrong in body (even very common things) , I start thinking what if I die (and I am afraid all of a sudden ) ? . Now , I know some people will say that you are god , this body is temporary etc . But It can’t take away my fear unless I get a direct experience of that . This fear distracts me . For example , I code (and I love doing that by the way) and while I am coding there is this fear inside me all the time .this fear of death before attaining to the singularity and self realisation.Any advices and tips on how do I deal with this fear ?

?thank you

@JosephKnecht that is very insightful, but are the practical methods to release fears???

@DevOcean well I don’t want to go any therapist , that’s why I asked on the forum , I want to deal with this problem myself , as I have created it , and I think Morden therapists are more problem oriented than solution oriented. Moreover , I am Indian, and there is a stereotype in our families that whosoever goes to therapists is probably insane ?? , I just want to know if anybody else has experienced it , who can help.

@DevOcean how is this fear saving me? Now let me tell you , i try (and I try a lot)to let of a fearful thought but I don’t why can’t I get rid of this nuerosis