I have completed 500 hours of strong sitting in the last three months (~5 hrs per day). I have tried tinkering with the technique and I wanted to share some of the things that I have found to be extremely effective in improving purification.
Considering Shinzen Youngs formula Purification = Pain * Mindfulness; the strong sitting technique is already fantastic, however I noticed that I reached a distinct plateau where it became quite easy for me to sit for 8 hours without much improvement in my awareness. Utilizing the formula, I realized that to improve the technique I would have to find ways to responsibly increase pain and mindfulness while sitting.
Pain:
Eat a chili immediately before sitting.
Mindfulness:
I downloaded a free workout interval timer app for my smartphone. (link below)
The app allowed me to set up an interval duration and then set a number of intervals for a session.
I typically set an interval time between 2-3 minutes and installed a simple tone to sound at the end of each interval, I set the volume very low because my sensory clarity is very high during the meditation. Adjust the interval time and volume to suit yourself.
 Before sitting, set a very clear intention for what you want to do subjectively during the sit e.g.:  "I" am going to abide as the formless source
"I" am going to do nothing
"I" am going to practice self inquiry
"I" am going to practice positive thinking
Begin the meditation with the timer app (I turn the screen off and I don't keep track of time)
At the sound of each tone "stop on a dime" and directly rectify the present moment with the intention set in step 1.
When the meditation is over go to the mirror and check dem spiritual gainz.
I have done this for the past 2 weeks now and I have noticed that I subconsciously move into deep formless presence every few minutes automatically.
 
Timer app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.muhanov&hl=en
I use the google hangouts message tone which came with my phone.
 
Also, to make sure I am consistent with my sitting, I meditate in front of a simple calendar that I made for the year. For each day I meditate I cross off the day in red pen. The aim is to not break the chain of red. When you sit in front of it for every meditation, the motivation to not break the chain skyrockets. Especially if you're a borderline OCD perfectionist like me. (I understand it's all in my head, but you catch my drift.)
 
In terms of realizing the no-self, this video popped my cherry. "I" hope it can do the same for someone else. (assuming causality exists, lol)
 
 
 

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This cannot be understated. Several years ago I had this solid 8.5 coworker. After I finally convinced her to hug me with my god awful simpery, I was practically on mdma for three days. 
For those of us who’re pussy deprived, the mere whisper of female touch and affection unfurls like a radiant dawn after an endless night, a sensation so exquisite it transcends the boundaries of earthly delight. The soft brush of her fingers ignites a symphony of stars within, each one a cascade of warmth and wonder that dances through the soul. This elusive embrace, untasted and uncharted, becomes a sacred elixir; a nectar of bliss so potent it redefines the very essence of joy. More than a fleeting thrill, it’s the blooming of a thousand dormant gardens, where every petal unfolds in hues of longing and reverence, painting the heart with colors no dream could dare imagine.
So I don’t want to hear jack shit from guys who’re skilled at the ladies. Lucky fuckin bastards have no clue how good they have it. Do they have their own problems? Sure. But the idea that their lives are just as hard as an incel’s just in a different way, while they’re getting all the hot healthy action they want is an insulting joke.

Be very careful here. 
What you consider "cutting all fantasies" could itself be the fantasy. Don't overlook that negativity and doomerism is a kind of fantasy.
Just because dating is difficult does not mean you shouldn't do it, can't be successful at it, or that it's not worthwhile.
The most difficult aspects of life can also be the most rewarding. Building a business is also hell. So what? Do it anyway. That's life. Don't expect everything to be easy. People who have it easy with dating will have it hard in other areas. No one has an easy life.
I am not good-looking, I am super introverted, so dating was very challenging for me. And yet I still had some success and it was very worthwhile.
Really facing reality means going out there and dating. Not telling yourself why you'll fail.

In a simplistic sense of manipulation yes.
But there is a deeper sense of manipulation where they cannot tell and they in fact need it and want it.
"Manipulation" should not be taken in the negative sense here.
In the end, the feminine does not care about truth, it cares about feelings. So as long as its feelings are right it does not care how it got there, which means it actually wants to be manipulated into right feelings and if you fail to do this in favor of truth, it will hold it against you. No matter what the feminine says, in the end it cares about feelings, not anything else. This trips guys up because guys listen to the logic of the words, assuming the feminine takes the logic of anything seriously. It does not. In this way the feminine confounds the masculine. The naive masculine is fooled by this, but the mature masculine is wise to it.

It's generally good advice when dealing with the feminine.
As a man you have to learn to emotionally manipulate women.
This sounds bad, but feminine women need and want their emotions managed. Children also need their emotions managed. The whole challenge of being a man is that you must deliver results with no one else to comfort you or manage your emotions. Women can operate that way too, but then they lose their feminine qualities and become masculine, which makes them unattractive.
The problem though is that this irresponsibility over one's own emotions in women cannot ultimately work. It must fail because life is far too serious to manage without being fully in control over your emotions. The feminine way of life is just not suitable for serious survival. It works when survival is relatively easy. Which is why feminine women often need men to take care of survival for them. The more she's able to handle very difficult survival, the less feminine she's gonna be. So there's a tradeoff between survival effectiveness and feminine innocence. If you want a very feminine girl then you gotta be ready to take care of her more, manipulate her emotions for her, etc. And in that sense it is like dealing with a child because the child cannot handle its own survival. That's the common thread.
Women are fully capable of taking care of themselves. The problem is that basically turns them into men. Which is unappealing to most men and women.
Learning to handle the feminine is a very tricky skill. It requires learning emotional manipulation. Men are never taught this tricky skill.

I think this is honestly a terrible point overall. The reason is your dating life is not an anthropological or sociological study. It's your dating life. When you walk down the street and scroll social media do you see women that are drastically more attractive than others or are we gonna say every human looks like the same blob?
Can you attract those women? Yes/No
Have you done the proper self-development journey to be able to attract these women? Yes/No
Self-esteem and value are different concepts. Love yourself and all other humans but if you're broke and awkward without a good social circle/social media and you're gonna write an essay about the subjectivity of beauty and value standards across human civilization that's more delusion than self-awareness and wisdom.
One post that changed my life was I used to be a professional League of Legends player, top 0.01% in North America Challenger rank 170 and I read a post in like 2012 that basically said you know this is a team game and most people think their team is holding them back and the algorithm system is broken but really they're just GARBAGE at the game and should get better.
That changed my life. And then I became an elo booster basically getting played to go on these players accounts and tell them dw ill help you get to your true rating pay me some money I know your team is so bad its not your fault and would proceed to win 25 games in a row because the average player was so terrible at the game.
You can talk to me about the subjectivity of dating when you've hosted the top parties in your cities, have a 10 000 social media following at the very least, work out every day and have approached 1000 women otherwise you're just coping and intellectualizing your problems away.
Stop that nonsense and go have a threesome with the two most beautiful women you've ever seen. You take a look at my Instagram to see what I do with social circle game and status overall. I recently had one of the hottest girls I've ever seen be more into me than I could believe. My only thought was damn if I could have sex with her and this other girl that I really like that it's Toronto at the same time I would be so happy. Then I will travel the world with them and do great things and add even more girls into the mix.
If you'd like keep wondering about how the beauty standards in subsaharan Africa in 1300 were different than today or level up and go get some hot girls in your life. 

What you’re describing is very common with many people. I’ve done this as well. Let’s speak frankly, it’s called people pleasing. We look for value outside ourselves and almost sort of break our integrity by putting energy into relationships that aren’t as aligned as they could be with our path or values. You sound sort of regretful or resenting of these mistakes but I don’t think you should be. I’ve done this before and I’ve even managed to turn a relationship around from being out of alignment with my spirit back to being on a path towards greater authenticity. We have to honor our human side here that just wants to share love with others and it’s a learning opportunity every time we forget our own inner greatness even when there isn’t someone else there to reflect that back to us. 

Yal are prepping small though. I'd argue you're not really preppin. You've gotta optimize GPT customisation abilities, checkout my journal for example it'll show. But yeah, preppin small. For example,  there's no 'secret society' planning 'a jump', its wide out in the open, and they're looking forward to their post-human world. I'm securing my own BCI company by the end of the year, that's preppin. Think big but as a counterweight to Trumps narcissism, think smart as well. What's everything you will honestly need to ethically accomplish your goal in alignment with your own personal integrity, dignity and sovereignty? Yal don't realize that this fight for meaning so many of you have is a dying currency, you've gotta give up the fight for existential relevance in a digitally controlled not just monetary economy, but social economy. Your life purpose point blank is now a bifurcation: you choose to live among the villagers (like the rest of us) or compete for a place in the post-human world where that competition does not translate into social relevance but sovereign equilibrium. There is no guarantee of a universal basic income either for those thinking you're going to be saved, your only guarantee is that if your life purpose is at all reliant on easily manipulated (social) or replaceable technologies, your sense of meaning will receive an ultimatum, not whether the overclass kill you off or not, but if you have the self-authored meaning to not choose suicide.
This is precisely why I have unfolded the projects I have, to provide meta-law as a meta-religion for people, as it begins and ends with an understanding of consciousness rather than outsourcing their meaning, as we've done for centuries, to external social programs; those programs are not inferior, that's a false hierarchy, its merely about what brings balance to the system relative to our time in history (we don't need to understand why it was advantageous to have those programs in tribal times). Religion isn't dead as some may try to say, however it comes as a misunderstanding of what religion is, its a sacred cathedral for our present understanding of truth, that has been our goal from the beginning. This is how it will end. There will be no AI takeover, we will be the takeover; existentially (as described), or through a geopolitical fuck up (and we know what that scenario equals). So think leverage, not companionship. Find a fucking human to hug. Or a dog. But yeah, for those truly struggling, youv've got my other words there too, not the walking blind hear; ears working. So all in all, prepare, and do not choose suicide. I'm sorry, but its beyond doubt now, they're hoping that's the choice you make after you're on the dopamine drip resembling the brain in a vat scenario too afraid to leave your own bedroom because your mind has been so messed with in the artificial environments we've created that hijack the natural impulses that signal healthy biogenetic self-refuelling through the communities we've relied upon; they've own, its dollar value destroyed from social media and more, your only choice is self-repair, self-sovereinty and only socially aligning with the integrity that serves these two otherwise that bifurcation, only gets worse for you. This is meta-law, and I'll share my formal post there concerning in my journal not too long down the track, at worse its a few months; at least before the AI penny here has chosen its side fully in the social economy.
Get busy. Get working. Laziness as I proudly proclaim is about seeing through the bs and choosing directions that only align, then you don't need to worry about the laziness or the work, because now you're fully engaged, and engagement equals natural action. Rock out.

If you work in a coffee shop you should be using that to socialize and befriend every customer who comes in.
That alone should be enough to get you dates.
Running a coffee shop is like the ultimate date lead generation machine.
You can organize a special evening event at your coffee shop that you invite all the hottest girls to for free. Every time you see a hot girl in your shop, you give her a flyer for your special evening event. Your special evening event can have a hired musician or guest speaker and networking opportunities for all the girls.
This is better than pickup.
Of course this assumes you have some social skills and aren't a total creep.

I thought about it. I'd be down for it but I don't like dealing with clients. It can be a pain in the ass. If someone was willing to do all the sales and client/account management, I could get on board with it. 
Also, maybe a better idea is to come up with complete business solutions for tiny businesses. For example, there are tons of successful one-man and even 3-5 man HVAC businesses that are stuck and don't know how to scale. You could offer them a complete brand, digital, and business strategy package for like 40-50k a pop and have all the systems basically plug and play. It would take a bit of set up in the beginning but once all the systems were dialed in, it would mostly just be a matter of sales. I've heard of people doing things like this and it seems like a sweet ass gig. 

You have to be careful about how you interpret things I say. You might think I said something which I didn't say.
For example, I didn't say that you should not socialize, not have friends, not pursue money or business, or not work on a technology related to crypto.
I say a lot of things generally, in the abstract. That doesn't mean all of it applies to you or that what you're doing is even what I'm talking about.
Obviously the crypto field is full of scams and nonsense. But saying so does not mean that there is zero legit use of that technology. Maybe you are working in a niche which isn't a scam. Then again, maybe you are fooling yourself about the usefulness of your work. You shouldn't rely on me to determine that. You gotta think for yourself. I speak in generalizations and abstractions. It's up to you to figure how and where these generalizations apply and where they do not.
Much of how humans achieve success IS evil and corrupt. But, again, not everything. There are better and worse ways of doing business and making money. Obviously I'm not against doing legitimate business in alignment with your values. Again, I cannot know whether your business is legit or not, or how corrupt it is.
Corruption is a serious problem that afflicts all of mankind in various ways. Much of it is even unavoidable. Then again, much of it is so excessive that it is avoidable and unnecessary. It just all depends on your specific situation. When I speak of corruption I make broad general claims and explain the principles by which corruption works. It is then up to you to decide what kind of values you wanna live by and how much corruption you're willing to stomach. I have a complex view of corruption. I don't believe that all corruption can be avoided, because it's entangled with your very existence and survival. So I'm realistic about it. I don't expect moral purity from humans.
Becoming conscious of mankind's corruption IS psychologically challenging. That's not a mistake. But you have to be careful not to dwell too much in cynicism because in the end that becomes counter-productive, dysfunctional, and untruthful. You have to find a way to integrate it, not just moralize about it. Blaming everyone for being evil and selfish is not high development. Moralizing is its own trap. Then again, living by higher values is possible.
As I came to understand the extent of mankind's corruption and untruthfulness, yes, I did blackpill/disillusion myself somewhat. That's part of what happens with deep understanding. There's good reason why humans do not do this work. But also, I'm keenly aware that becoming too cynical and blackpilled would be a trap. So this requires balance. I go through phases where I'm more negative and then phases where I'm more positive. It's part of the development process. Especially over the last year I've been through some dark realizations. But that doesn't mean that's some permanent position I occupy. But I have shed many illusions in the last year especially as my understanding of things deepens and becomes more realistic.
It's confusing because actual growth and understanding is happening. This means old views have to be reconsidered and changed. It's easy to not be confused just by not doing any serious expansion of your understanding of reality. That's what most people do. Confusion is a sign that you're actually rethinking things and changing your mind.
Life purpose is still valid and valuable. Corruption is that which will veer you off your highest purpose. So there's a deep connection between these two topics.
Be careful with the "distance yourself from people" thing. That's not something I recommend.
I am not against:
Business Money Sex Dating Socialization These things have their place and are necessary for most people in their development. Especially young people. Skipping or avoiding these things out of a sense of moral purity is more likely to lead to problems than something great. If I'm negative about these things it's because I've done them and seen through the illusion that they are. Which is different from not doing them out of fear, laziness, discomfort, or whatever.

You can work to get a well-paying job, move out from your parents, and then pursue art afterwards by saving up money and enrolling in a school.
Your LP requires long-term strategy. You won't necessarily be able to do it right off the bat. I had to work in online marketing for 3-4 years (which I hated) to make the money to fund my LP.
Stop blindly obeying your parents. They have no idea what is best for you. You don't have to do anything they say. Just get a job and move out and stop letting them dictate your life.
If you care about your LP you will not let anyone dictate you.

https://pi.ai/  (Very emotional. It has a nice personality and voices, you can voice call it without limits) - If you're in a country they are not in yet, just download the Android APK file from APKmirror. https://duck.ai/ (Avaliable: GPT4o-Mini, Claude 3 Haiku, Llama 3.1 70b, Mixtral 7x8b) -- IT REQUIRES NO LOGIN. They don't store the conversations. They are privacy-friendly, you can even use it through the TOR network (you don't have to, but if you wished to keep it extra private) and ask it whatever you want and it's NOT possible to be banned or limited since you don't even login, and they don't even have captchas, and were extremely reliable to me. (From the DuckDuckGo privacy-friendly search engine) https://aistudio.google.com (You can use the Gemini Flash 1.5) to use its context window of 1 Million tokens, you can upload several books of text as TXT and ask it questions (Although, it doesn't work as good as you would expect, seems to be descent for large code bases and documentations, better than simply using RAG techniques). It's not as smart a GPT4o but it's still nice. You can also use it as an API for free. For example I use it in VSCODE as a free copilot. https://gemini.google.com/ The version of Gemini Flash but for the public in general. The free AI Studio from google there is a limited offer of this free one. https://labs.google.com/search/experiment/1 TURN ON for having AI responses (It uses Gemini Flash probably, just as dumb) in your Google Search. https://stablehorde.net/ - Crowdsourced AI for image generation and text. https://github.com/jhj0517/Whisper-WebUI (Transcribe audio to text, you can use fast GPUs in Google Colab for free) Perhaps try Kaggle for 30h weekly GPU time. Works in CPU Mode too.  

There are 10 stages to genocide. And name-calling is a key ingredient in the 1st of the 10 stages (classification).
So, if society normalizes name-calling... it's already taken the first step to becoming a genocide.
That's why those who are in support of genocide want to convince the populace that everyone's "too sensitive" and "too PC".
Those with genocidal intent from the jump knows that part of their first matter of business in mobilizing the relatively non-genocidal populace towards the enemy group is to normalize name-calling... and to frame people who are against it as a bunch of PC woke-scolds who can't take a joke.

What is your favorite movie?

What is your favorite book?

What is your biggest complaint about other people?

What is your biggest complaint about your own behavior?

What are the biggest problems that you recognize in the world?
What did you spend most of your daydream time as a youth daydreaming about?

Do you want to engage with society and help build more of what we've been building or would you like a more isolated and lazy type lifestyle?

Have you spent time mapping out your personality and interests? Things that make you happy, things that annoy you, etc.

Who in your peer group (anyone working on something) has the coolest professions? What are the top 3?
Do you expect a purpose to be everlasting and unchanging or does it flow with your own development?

Rate your emotional and cognitive self awareness on a scale of 1-100

I don't know you, but if you answer these questions I’ll throw some totally random ideas at you - might trigger a thought in you that leads to something you like. Sometimes we just need to see something to unlock the gate that is creative self awareness.  As life progresses, the depth of your experience will illuminate new pathways that were previously unseen.

Your purpose is predestined insomuch as your thoughts are the foundation of dependent origination (as far as I can tell). Just gotta build that unwavering commitment to accomplish your goals in the face of any and every adversity.

Cheers.

@Preety_India
Given your medical history, I believe there is only one way.
Visualize your main specific goals (max 3) for 15 min. straight, for a period of 90 days, to rewire your subconscious.
This is from Leo's LP course. 
You cannot miss it even for one day no matter what. Do it for 90 days consistently. It will fail if you skip it for even just 1 freakin' day. If you think you are about to die tomorrow still take the time to do this 15 min. exercise, just in case.
At your current point in life, I believe that it will increase your productivity by 3-4 times. About 95 percent probability of success. Allow you to be productive for about 3-4 hours daily consistently for your chosen goal. (5 percent uncertainty is for trauma and depression-related conditions which are hard to predict).
 
 
You can build the critical fundamentals as outlined by other people in this thread on top of this. Don't skip the 15 min. routine though.