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Yeah I have noticed this too. I was laughing for a good 5 minutes after my session today. Who needs drugs when you can do yoga?

I'm using the one on Leo's book list.

@Seeker10304 Attain the 4th jhana or whatever highest jhana you can, come out of it and start your insight practice. Tune into the impermanent, unsatisfactory, and selfless nature of all the sensations in your sensory field. An easy way to do this is to pay attention to the arising and passing away of body sensations, feelings, thoughts etc. Once you gain enough mindfulness, you will be able to clearly see the three characteristics that make up all of reality. With enough practice that should lead to enlightenment. Might take several years though.

@Leo Gura Should you do Maha Mudra with closed eyes?

@Pallero Glad to hear. I'm curious about what everyone is going to report.

I have had a lot of crazy experiences like this. I don't know what would have happened; you should have just stuck with it. Try not to label or categorize these experiences. They are just phenomena. Think of these experiences like checkpoints you have to go through in order to reach deeper levels of awareness. Your mind will throw all sorts of crazy things at you to see if you will react. The trick is to remain equanimous and unaffected during these types of experiences. Fully open yourself up and surrender to these experiences. Don't try to fight or resist them. They will pass.

I am a month in. All I can say is this stuff works! It greatly calms and silences my mind down. After one session it felt like my mind completely turned off for awhile, which was nice. I can see the light it says to focus on, so I have been focusing on that, which just brings me into a very deep state of concentration. I don't know if you would call it samadhi, but I certainly feel blissed out afterwards. I can't really remember anything when I am in it though. I can now see the potential of this stuff making one crazy

Why won't you be able to practice? I believe you can do the techniques silently.

I just use the joints of my fingers. I put my thumb and pointer finger together to count for 1. Then for 2 I move my thumb down to the first joint of my finger etc. I just use all 4 fingers, which lets you count up to 12.

Will you post a progress report as well?

Also when doing mental kriya, it says to focus on Bindu. Are they referring to a specific point or Bindu? Or can I just pick any of the 5 Bindus they listed in the book.

Doing this practice really aggravates my kundalini symptoms, like when I am doing the techniques sometimes by body will swing around on its own and do all these mudras. It definitely distracts me from executing Kriya properly. Feels like my body is worshiping the universe lol. Is this what they mean by the inner guru? Should I try to stop this stuff from happening and just carry on with the techniques or?

Would you ever consider having your own ashram?

Wait is there a higher state then Sahaja? Or is that the highest.

What do you think mental illness actually is? Would you ever consider doing a video on it?

The book says to have your hands folded in your lap. Is the location of your hands important?

In what way can you distinguish between someone who is mentally ill vs someone who is going through the spiritual purification process?

How has doing a lot of consciousness work changed your sexuality? Would you consider yourself straight? Would you be open to have sex with a guy?

Is there some legitimate psychics online? Or are they just scams? I was just curious because I don't seem to have any local psychics in my area.

Anyone know of a good book on shadow work?

After a long meditation session lol:

Here are some options: Get good at pickup/dating and have sex with lots of women. Tinder/online dating Keep watching porn. Maybe get a sex doll or some male sex toys to make it seem more realistic. Become a hardcore yogi and master your sex drive, so you never have to be a slave to your sexual desires again.

@Leo Gura Do you focus on the third eye at all while doing Kriya yoga?

What are the logistics of living in a cave? Say I wanted to devote myself full time to enlightenment. There isn't exactly a tutorial on youtube for how to do this. Where do I find a cave? Where do I get my food? Water? What to do about bugs or animals? How to make it work? etc.... We need a video on this! lol