zunnyman

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  1. Wow I had no idea any of that was possible doing SDS, I'll definitely check out that video! And for the fast heart beat thing, how exactly do I practice surrender? Is that the same thing as acceptance?
  2. @Joseph Maynor If you're not experiencing much yet, maybe you haven't been doing it for enough time yet, or you are moving here and there. I'm sure if you do it for enough months you will. You can sort of test certain things techniques and see which one works for you and do that long term: (These are just some things I do, none of which are "official") 1) Try to imagine that everything in ur visual senses is "nonsense" or "nothing" and just completely try to let go. Especially with your breath. Are you breathing voluntarily or involuntarily? 2) Accept everything in the present moment. Everything. Have a calm smile on ur face. Imagine acceptance 3) Increase the length of your sit. This one could work like magic. The moments you feel like stopping the sit, just keep persisting. 4) Do nothing technique to calm your mind down. Essentially you will reach deeper and deeper states the more calm and present you get. So maybe focus on calming down. 5) Draw your awareness to the body, if you think a lot. Thinking is logical, body awareness is experience. I try more and more to be in experience, unless I am doing "do nothing". I think this is pretty effective. I highly recommend Leo's video "Part 3: Creating an experience of no-self". Its a guided meditation, and you can use the techniques in that video in this meditation and definitely experience crazt shit. I tend to experiment a lot in SDS. I even tried imagining death and just letting go of everything like im about to die and that even helps. You could also just experiment with techniques. Maybe even recall and be with painful thoughts?
  3. I've been doing strong determination sitting now for 3 months now atleast, and wow I can see myself going places with this technique. I do 1 hour a day, sometimes 40 or 50 minutes. Past 4 days now have been very interesting. This started after implementing one hack. The months before that I had maybe 3-4 interesting days also with deep meditative experiences but I didn't have control over which day I would have a powerful session. But I think I have figured out, atleast for myself, how to consistently have a powerful session. Right before doing SDS + do nothing I splash my face with really cold water to stay very alert and fresh during the session. Because I have fatigue issues this really helps with my meditation. I have a feeling though others can try it as a hack. Past 4 days have been experiencing very meditative experiences, shaking, purging, and one intense crying episode I feel being alert during meditation is important because if you are tired I don't see how you can get very far. This goes back to leo's point that most people don't get far with spirituality because their diets are shit. If your diet is shit and your tired or you just want to be more alert try the cold water hack.
  4. @Alii I think you are not only referring to the apparent quality of his presentation, but more importantly the true value that is his content. I will admit, that the videos that he produces now are much deeper, and more genius level than the videos in his life purpose course. So far I have only gotten to video 50/90 but I can tell you from a very practical level that there are some series of exercises in this course, such as his values series, and strengths series that I would pay 1000 dollars for. If you really want to understand yourself, and know yourself on a deeper fundamental level you really should take this course. He has about 45 videos of exercises that will really help with that.
  5. I never said that ... I meant spend less time doing stupid shit and more time on the things that matter @Azrael Its all good Im sure you've been through a lot.
  6. @wavydude I can definitely see how the process can be neurotic. However, theoretically wouldn't it be nice to be enlightened 3 years from now then 7 years from now with patient strategic planning. And so my point is, strategically I want to make this my top priority, and if it really is the only real thing that matters I don't see why this shouldn't be top priority or atleast high priority. I guess I mean the least time I can waste the better, and the more time I can bask in the experience of enlightenment the better, strategically getting to that point of course
  7. @Azrael Hey, this might seem like a dumb question. I think you said something along the lines of this in the past "My whole life was a nasty lie" and then you cried after learning this. Can you expand on this? When you said this it really stuck with me, but I really want to know what that means. Does that mean one should get enlightened as soon as possible rather than wait for a lot of other goals to be accomplished, or that everything that you had done prior to enlightenment is a huge waste of time and life? Thanks
  8. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. It definitely is a good idea to follow maslow's hierarchy as a map towards attaining enlightenment. Once the wholes in the swiss cheese are filled up, it will probably be a lot easier to transcend this ego. I guess more patience and slowing down is required for people like me who just want it all in the most time efficient manner. Not everyone is as hardcore as Peter Ralston. I still don't see why both can't be done as a lot of people are doing it, but obviously the focus and attention has to be on one path, while the other path is gonna be a side hustle for some time. Maybe when one is handled, the focus can shift to the other path.