Preetom

@kieranperez Yeah I think the most important component for you right now would be developing an attitude of unconditional surrender and trust in the process/god/reality along with relinquishing the obsessive need to nitpick and figure out every single bit that is going on. When we update an app, we have no idea what is being crunched in the background. Similarly you can relax in the knowledge that you don't have to worry or consciously ''figure out'' how, why, when this process is happening. You can't! So if I was in your case, I'd let these processes and episodes do their thing without trying to butt in by staying relaxed and focusing on the techniques that works. All the best.

Yeah. These are signs of changes in psyche at a deep level. These things might continue more or less until the psyche gets used to undergoing initial restructuring

An experience of subtle/astral body without the gross body. Aka an experience which is dreamlike

"I trusted my Guru, he told me to concentrate on ‘I am’ – I did. He told me that I am beyond all that is perceivable and conceivable – I believed. Although I had to work to keep my family alive, I gave my heart and soul, my entire attention and whole of my spare time to the Sadhana (practice)." " I simply followed the instruction of my Guru, which was to focus the mind on pure being, ‘I am’ and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the ‘I am’ in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it, all disappeared – myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence." These quotes are from Pradeep Apte's I Am compilation. The specific time frame 4-5 hours was mentioned somewhere in the original big book I Am That. So i'm unable to find it again and quote from there. Getting enlightened seems easier than reading that book again lol

@Eonwe5 Every single element you listed has its pros and cons. They all develop various facets and modes of attention like being alert to small details, honing attention on one thing for extended periods, hooking and unhooking attention quickly from a thing to another. In other words they build the 2 functions of attention more or less which is the ability to turn attention from place to place and the ability to hold attention at one place. So if you are into playing with this attention game, i'd recommend you try out each setting individually for 1 week. Then move on to the next element in the list. But stick to only one thing for that week. After 5 weeks, you can extend the period to 2 weeks for each element..so on and so forth..for the rest of your life as long as you walk. But if you are interested in enlightenment, there is another mode of attention. Which is consistently trying shift attention towards that one who pays attention. All the best. Enjoy your upcoming good life and flowstates from the practices you've listed

That strategy sounds good. Nisargadatta Maharaj got enlightened in 3 years through this strategy. He used to sit in deep self inquiry meditation for 3-5 hours everyday after he took care of all household acts. Soon within months self inquiry or being cognition kept on happening on its own throughout even the activities and the final blow came about 3 years later. Done. Extinction. The most important component is consistency, sticking to only one technique that gets most traction to get deeper and deeper, sticking to only few important reading materials and videos over and over again for motivation and gaining deeper intellectual clarity instead of dabbling through multiple routines, techniques, teachers, videos and texts. And last but not the least, its better to choose a direct technique like self inquiry. I wouldn't bet normal concentration meditations like watching the breath to yield enlightenment fast. They usually require inhuman levels of hours in months/years long hardcore retreat like setting to have some sort of sticking breakthrough. And if you choose self inquiry as your primary technique, make sure you really UNDERSTAND what the damn thing is. Your message seems like you are heavily caught up in things like contemplation, thinking, deliberately being confused by pondering about abstract things, the person being frozen seeing the fault lines of personality and trying to figure stuff out by brute force and you are sort of calling that self inquiry and pursuing enlightenment. But those things are OPPOSITE of self inquiry. Its merely about watching/following the I feeling and keep on gently pondering on the Self that notices that I feeling without falling asleep and giving in to contrary thoughts and impulses. All the best

The devil has safely channeled and deranged the most potent tools to wake up from this matrix. It's like devil's primary job is to nullify the doors that lead one outside the matrix. And in most cases, it is not by obviousness or brute force but by misdirection and deception, by convincing everyone that the escape doors are not doors at all and the real doors lie somewhere else. It's ingenious! Here are some examples on how devil perfectly painted the facade of wall over the escape doors. 1) Psychedelics and potent herbs. Devil turned this one of the most potent tools into the worldwide taboo against 'drugs'. It would take maybe 500 years more (if ever!) to correct the mainstream notions and view towards 'drugs'. 2) The 'I', keen scrutiny of this 'I' with intense interest which is the direct and immediate doorway into infinity; Devil turned this into petty self agenda, self aggrandizement and selfishness which is the default state of everyone. Everyone is caught up full time in 'I', 'me' and 'mine'; but alas in a completely wrong way. 3) Religions! Whose ONLY business is supposed to wake deluded pigs up in mass scale. Devil instead turned it into a tool to make more deluded pigs; with a failure rate over 99.999999% at it's original business of waking people up. Is it any coincidence that the very makers and preachers of the idea of 'God' are in fact the most deluded in the understanding of God? 4) Desires and Lack- the primal human drive and operating system. The original message behind this movement is an innate desire to connect to 'Yugen'. To connect with God, be God, having a 'spiritual' connection. Devil has successfully deranged this everyday primal message into materialism and promise of fulfillment through chasing hedonic material goods. The devil turned this message as, ''No! You are not really craving for a spiritual connection. There is no such thing! What you want is the next cookie, house, lover, money, success, career, sex, goods, entertainment, security, fame, knowledge!'' 5) Subjectivity and the infallibility of subjective 'experience'. There is absolutely nothing outside one's own experience. Even science cannot help but explaining experience and the entire world through pure subjectivity. You don't see an object, you see the reflected light from that object. You don't hear sounds, you simply hear a subjective experience of reactions to vibrations so on and so forth. This so called entire material, solid world is nothing but a purely subjective rendering inside you. But devil must shut this door asap or else all sense of separation and hedonic treadmill will eventually collapse. Thus devil gives us modern science! 6) The religious masters, the science masters, intellectuals, politicians, public figures and spokespersons ; people who are supposed to be the living embodiment and messengers of Truth in order to elevate collective consciousness are usually the most deluded and against consciousness. Devil has turned them first and foremost into her biggest and most obedient hand puppets It's ingenious! It's bleak We are screwed but convinced that we are building heaven and goodness And of course it is Devil typing this, deciphering devil. How else do I know this stuff?

Enjoy

What starts with controversy, ends with controversy. Who notices this controversy? Is there any controversy about that? ?

Go home! You've drunk too much non dual wine ?

Man goes to heaven after reading the holy book 1000 times ?

The ''middle path" sure sucks as hell! ?

I used to think like that before as well. But growing up, I'm seeing things actually happening otherwise. An old generation perishes. But they breed and pass on most of their 'virus' to offsprings before that. One day, pretty much all of us turn into our moms and dads after our rebellious, youthful glory days are over; having the same struggles, fighting the same battles. There is a funny saying that by the time a young man realizes that he should have listened to his fathers advice early on, he is burdened with couple of kids that dont listen to him. But who knows, things can be different. After all, the primary quality of this era is acceleration. So things might happen a lot faster

One of the perks of associating with devil hehe Turning yoga into bootyfest was like another day at the office for devil

Now when will you start worshipping devil?

He just reflects all your ideas and notions of mastery back at you. Enjoy your feast

Even if someone MET him, there is no way to know shit about him. Not really. Most married couples remain alien and strangers to each other in spite of living together for 40 years; whereas ideally they are supposed to become one soul and all that good stuff Edit: A very easy question. How much do your parents 'understand' and know you? You've lived like 20 years with them and yet they probably dont know even 2% about you.

The devil in pon pon earrings ?

Ahh..what started out as something good turned into this serious project of justifying and saving one's ass by shooting down others ?

The entire cult problems arise due to misunderstanding whose business is what. Actualized.org is Leo Gura's business, not ours. When instead of focusing on our own lives, actualized.org becomes a greater priority to us then that acts as the root of all seeming problems here. This hampers both Leo and us from our respective sides

I mean the entirety of your subjective life from the minute thoughts to your concrete establishments in life. It's like a glass of pure water. That is something you would drink yourself and also won't hesitate to give it to someone another glass of that pure water. Similarly, I ask you, would you share or give or wish your entire life as it is to someone? Or is it a burden you'd wish upon no one? Please answer this in yes or no format first. Then feel free to elaborate if you want. Thank you.

Yeah like there are stories in many ancient religions and cultures where people used to live 500++ years. They were physically giants as well

Exactly! You just proved Osho's point

Well what else can you expect from the unenlightened deluded fools? Of course the ego needs to fabricate stories that supports its survival