Ayham

You need to have faith in the process of your life, why would you get rid of that? Having faith makes you not give up and preserve towards your vision which is necessary. Until your vision is actualized, you will need faith. If you are talking in regards to enlightenment, yes you should still have faith, you should have a strong desire to awaken in the beginning, contrary to what most teachers say, until at some point you won't need that desire and it will naturally disappear.

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

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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