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I have noticed that there are people in my life that hate to look at me, just because I have different values and live different life than most of the people. People don't want their beliefs changed. If they believe in the American dream lifestyle, they would hate to learn that they have to meditate daily, start valuing the truth of life and spend a lot of time seeking than just having a good carrier, family, house and good status in the society. It will not fulfill them. Deep down they know it, but they rather be depressed for decades than accept the values of someone they hate. I can feel the projection "What kind of a man am I, why I am also not married etc.etc." Well, I am that kind of a man who cultivates deep acceptance of my circumstances and seeks the wellbeing and truth wherever it is and will not settle with comfortable ideas everyone around me accepts. Deep down I can have absolutely nothing and be fulfilled. It's hard for me to accept, but it's the truth. The hatred lasts until they reform and find some way to reflect that suits for them. Why people deny spirituality? It's aginst their belief system; It's corrupted; It's unpopular and misunderestood in it's purest forms; Pursuit of spirituality will take most of your time and life. The people who are up the pyramid in society don't want you to be spiritual. Because then you will come up with an alternative as to how people should be governed.

Yes, because energy is something distinctly different like the energy of Tejas, Ojas, Blisfulness. You can be blisfull for not reason or take a drug and feel ectasy while "feelings" are more commonly associated with emotion and belief which creates the emotion hearing a lie and believing it. I think feelings may not be part of the model because that's not my point of focus. I am looking to get rid of this body and bodies once for all. So the point of my investigation is different. Just whatever man, I don't even want to engage in this anymore, I feel this is a waste of time.

I think this thread will make it worse for you @Judy2. Just pick one and do with the intention to see what meditation has for you, accepting the process and desire for truth.

Wrong. Energy that a sadhu or a monk radiates or consecrated item or a place radiates, energy that a siddha or a guru radiates is something that will make you feel something before you know it and influence the way you cognize and behave. What you are talking about is how a good enough lie will make you feel. There are orders of magnitude between each other. The latter is really ineffective and delusional, harmful and the first one is actual in frastructrucure to augment human consciousness and initiation into something completely else beyond the senses. Super irresponsible to conclude that these two are the same.

There are limits to contemplation. As good as it maybe. I just do my meditation and the magic happens. "How could feelings be just about survival and nothing else?" I don't resonate with this question in any meaningful way. I don't know why I exist. I don't know why something exists. I don't know where is the line between your survival as a mammal and the deeper truth that you are not anything that you see, hear, feel, cognize, yet you are everything that ever existed and will ever exist. I don't know what quality my feelings have outside of the quality of the feeling itself experienced by me. I don't need to contemplate any of that. I am waiting for the death of this body and I will break the cycle of birth and death with the continuous practice of radiating what I really am. Somehow I find many of these contemplation topics and Leo's style, similar to J.Krishnamurti not very appealing. I just do the technique, and it works. I am exhausted to think about it too much, it's impractical for me.

Completion process, nirbhaya dhyaana, shadow work, guided meditation. Sitting by yourself for extended periods of time is absolutely the hardest thing to do, but if you feel good doing it, then you have the grace and sufficient infrastructure to experience life existentially.

I didn't underestand what what is about, but that is super cool.

I have had moments of clairvoyance, audience or feeling. It only happens when I meditate for extended amounts. For example I will just know that there is a person standing behind a corner just to see that they are there as I am walking closer. Sometimes I can anticipate danger, that something is not right and I can feel the vibe of people I am going to interact with. It's very unreliable though, so I don't interact with it too much. I wonder how is it different from yours. I can also feel a vibe coming of a person. Some people are so light and nice to be around, some people are so egoistic and "empty" i just can't sit with them. I can also project a space around me I have noticed, especially when I am thinking about and desiring anything to do with musical ability or creativity or meditation. I have huge bias for musicians though, I just like to sit near them, they don't even have to say anything. Thanks for sharing. Do you abilities increase with meditation or other methods?

Yes. My father kept drinking and it kills him. All he talks is about USSR army. My mom tho has gotten a lot smarter.

I don't spend much time with them, but yes. They weren't terrible to me and my mom has gotten smarter. I don't have much compassion for my grandparents, but they are a product of USSR. I love them in a sense that they gave me the gift of bringing me up and that I can have jeevan mukthi in this life, it's kinda all I needed. As dysfunctional as it was at times. And I love them for not interfering in my life too much. It took distance and good amount of self-reflection to let the accumulated pain to subside.

Porn... I mean, NO! I use it for dietary advice, health troubleshooting and contemplation, self-reflection.

It's OK when Leo does it.

I don't want to discourage you also! Just listen to your body when you do it. If it hurts, might aswell pause. When somebody lays out a technique, try to do as they said or you can over do it etc. etc. It's dangerous BECAUSE it's potent and life altering. I am a testimony of that, but I haven't even scratched the surface I feel. I wish you to find the bliss and experience something new trough a good technique, transmission from the Guru, deity or other happening. What I am saying is not new or original, Leo talks about it aswell and few other people I know.

It can absolutely have bad side effects. Just focusing on your ajna or third eye chakra (or other chakras) can destroy your sleep/waking cycle, make psychological imbalances, physiological imbalances, feeling of dread, confusion, dark night of the soul, depression, disconnection from reality, wishing you never started, over-focusing your energies into something, concentrating too much or jumping too high into higher states of consciousness with the physical and psychological health you have. Mixing drugs with yogic practices is just madness and irresponsible. You are lucky if nothing happens to you. You can also open dimensions that you are not ready for, don't know how to close in every day and destroy your social status completely, because something happened. Maybe what happened is true - grounded in reality, but you might be not ready to integrate. Same thing with kundalini awakening. You can lose the sense of reality, sense of self, alter some of your body physiology that you can't reverse and believe something that doesn't exist. A lot of traps are there in general that I have heard of and felt of. Why do you need hypnosis? Meditation and kriya yoga is enough. Make sure the master teaching is qualified and the technique is based in a scripture like shiva sutras or a permutation of that etc. Don't just believe anybody who teaches kriya yoga. If it's yoga it's written somewhere in hindu texts and meant to be thought as is. No need to mix meditation with weed. You will have disturbed results.

Here's more! @Jannes I can't see the video. =(

Guys, I love watching this sport!

Thumbs up!

@Judy2 I have had this issue when trying to finish musical ideas. Alot! What I would do is to try to write something, a sketch of what the main ideas of your thesis are. Right now don't bother about the outcome, wether it will make the maximum possible sense or not. A lot will be figured in the process. You can always re-arrange as it's in a word document. Then over time you add things, refine them and you are done. Judge it only after you have wrote a thesis as it is necessary. Start from hypothesis, intro about the problem with stats and studies, write the study of what was planned to do, what was done and how does it make your hypothesis look, you will naturally add sources here and there and paragraphs and pages will grow. Present the data, explain them and write a conclusion. That's how I would write. I write many protocols and reports in my job and my BC work was bad. Not terrible, but bad, haha. Just make sure you and the supervisors are on point regarding what you are presenting in the doc.

Could awaken deep passion for politics, history, language, literatre, philosophy or art. I did music, but not in university, however I made music that is at least Bachelors degree worth of music education. It changed and keeps changing me for the better. Rich ppl send their children to study in humanitarian sector and Leo has read many books, most of them are of libertarian nature! The curriculum could be a grind and bit dry tho.

He's pro no-fap, just like me

Thanks for sharing. My experiences have been different and more mild I guess. The sadhana never impacted my body in such a way.

Nah, he is a very hard nut. x) Maybe. If I will have a sex life. Maybe in 10 years I will be in some ashram in India. But yes, I hated that I had to do the act compulsively, because it made me so powerless and desireful for some fantasy I could never have, and it projected to every woman I met in my life. I just didn't need that. Now I don't really desire anybody sexually that much.

Yes, the yoga namaskar is what I have done. The thing with Isha yoga, if you want something more advanced, you have to go and get trained in one of the Isha centers or classes. I heard their hatha yoga teacher training is pretty good, but there is a lot of discipline needed to live that lifestyle and to do the asanas correctly. Yeah, Nithyananda yoga looks like a complete system with references to the original sutras. I may give it a shot someday. Just a note. I don't think LSD is intended together with yoga, but you do your own thing. Thanks for sharing!