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Look into Daniel Ingram, Culadasa and Shinzen young's system. Those are like giants in meditation, I would also recommend the r/streamentry subreddit, just be aware of Buddhist dogma.

"The mind illuminated" book by culadasa, a meditation guidebook through the 10 meditation stages of shamatha. It presents techniques for every stage of practice and is very helpful. I am currently stage 3 by the book's description, but I am not sure if it is worth continuing with. My plan is currently to master all the way up to stage 7 Then switch to hardcore vipassana practice (Daniel Ingrams way) until I move through all the 16 (?) stages of insight. After doing that I will continue with 1 hour "do nothing" every day and occasional retreats (shinzen noting style) and weekly tripping balls on 5 meo, but that's far away. Have you worked with this book? is it worth it? do you know other better systems? maybe yogic systems? kundalini things? other traditions? I want something potent. Note: Psychedelics are unavailable right now and won't be for a long time because of country and age, and I also want to experience the classic enlightenment then experience god realization. Note: I am aware of all Buddhist dogma, but the maps and techniques are very useful.

I love this technique

Choose something to learn: 1. marketing 2. programming 3. making AI 4. graphic design 5. Affiliate marketing etc. While you work on developing something big related to your life purpose on the side

I would say at 29 you will have more success with it Women do like older guys and guys generally get more attractive towards mid life But regardless of that, it is a great time, so just do it

I think it does more harm than good unless you are also doing an energetic practice related to raising kundalini energy

@MAHAVATAR_-_BABAJI so what is your recommended beginner routine?

Have you guys checked out "kundalini exposed" by santatagamana? It is supposed to reach the same point as Kriya yoga, without many fancy techniques, the main techniques are basically kriya supreme fire (which you have to build up to do for a long time) and resting in post practice state in the beginning before you are able to do kriya supreme fire for long periods of times, the book has auxiliary practices, such as breath witnessing, mantra chanting and pranayamas Here are the routines recommended

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Technology. Video games. Messaging apps. Forums. Social media. Researching things continually thinking you are learning and you actually are but you could do it in a less time taking manner. Etc. So many distractions.. How do you all deal with this? I still have good habits like daily meditation, eating healthy, daily reading, keeping commonplace book, sucking dick, sometimes contemplation, sometimes journaling, sometimes exercise, etc. But it feels like everything could be 10x better if I get my technology usage under control you know Deleting apps, using blocking software, etc. those don't work in my experience How do you guys solve this?

@SOUL @Swarnim thanks for yours answers

The apology was epic wild fire, it almost made me shit my pants 10/10

@Buck Edwards I am joking don't worry

@Buck Edwards my dick is experience too

@Raze true

@r0ckyreed yet no act is intentionally evil, as much as an act seems evil, it is just someone's ego protecting itself thinking it's doing good

Probably just placebo and your feeling I don't believe in nofap personally but I currently don't fap because I am doing kundalini yoga and that helps with it

I think there could be two opinions about the why of evil 1. If you are good without your free will, you are not truly good because you don't have any other choice, freewill is what distinguishes real good from real evil, and this applies to everything like, you can't be non violent if you aren't capable of violence or if you are weak, etc. 2. I like this one more, basically the idea is that evil is a human projection, there's nothing that says killing is evil, or rape, or assault, or harm, or whatever, we created these ideas of good and evil, which is good since it helps us at a human level, but at an absolute level, it's just an illusion and everything is neutral (neither good or evil)

@Ulax Oh yes I have read that book, it is great

@Salvijus Thanks, I wish man I have been into spiritual stuff since I was 12, and personal development at around 13 and started doing practices at 14 I always feel like I am not enough however much I do so I keep trying to grow more but I never feel enough I still feel very immature in so many ways which I really hate but I am trying I guess So you say either charging the vision or changing the environment I like the first option a lot more, since spontaneous and natural good action will result from it, without "efforting" too much Good options and yes I spend lots of time indoors lol @Ulax I tried the 7 habits of highly effective people and the scheduling method in deep work by cal newport They were useful to an extent, but not much hmmm, maybe I should give them another try which one would you recommend ?

@NoSelfSelf @Sugarcoat I am trolling with the sucking dick lol, that was the whole point and I am 16 almost 17

@NoSelfSelf Insightful! very valuable thanks

@UnbornTao that's harder in practice though

@Ulax epic idea! learning martial arts, I approve

As a teenage dude (currently 16), you seem to know how to do stuff which is great, I would recommend you see what he is interested in and support him with it I personally started reading books on spirituality (started with Eckhart Tolle) at 12, I got into personal development from the productivity sphere at around 13 and started trying to read more books, and got into Leo at around 14, went through a "dark night of the soul", started daily meditation, reading and summarizing books, hitting gym at summer holidays, eating healthy, keeping a commonplace book, occasional contemplation, figured out my future and LP, etc. Despite all of this, which I still do, I am still addicted to my phone, sometimes a video game, I procrastinate a lot on school and cram everything, waste lots of time, etc. but I am moving better generally, hopefully. the point is, its hard to wean yourself off distractions much at this time, though he is young so you could keep him away, anyways here are my suggestions: Ask him what topics he is interested in, get him books (my mom did this actually) Teach him how to meditate, don't force him into it, just teach him and do it in front of him regularly, he might get interested Don't try to make him eat healthy, but provide only healthy food at home If he ever gets into relationship stuff, don't discourage him, just make sure he doesn't bend over backwards for whoever he is with too much. Tell him to avoid debt When he is older, try to encourage him to map out his future, though when he is a bit older, most teenagers at that age don't listen to their parents much and might even try to oppose them, Leo's life purpose course is great, Jordan Peterson's future authoring program is even better (I did it right after Leo's, it was better, but I don't think it would have been as good if I didn't do Leo's course first) Don't try to impose orders, discuss stuff with him, try to convince him and let him choose for himself. Oh! and he might have started jerking off or will start, so yes be aware, it is nothing wrong, just don't embarrass him about it.