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Yes, and also as well a Mentor or Guru, they know what is needed for the Individual, some need a certain type of Sadhana, while other need little of it. People cannot do what they think they need to do or like to do, they need to do what is needed, the Guru or third person view of things is wise at this point if one wants to go all the way on the Spiritual path, which is Liberation or Moksha!

In Martial Arts, Bruce Lee is a legend, he developed the concept of Jeet Kune Do, the Way of the Intercepting fist. its not a Technique, but more of a Philosophy of Fighting, It basically says that one should be "naturally unnatural", if one is too bound by a particular Style of Martial Art, they become like a Robot, too mechanical, trying to "Look" a certain way, maintain a certain stance, punch or kick in a certain structure or pattern, this will make You too slow, too thought out. The counter point is that if one is too Natural, they do no training at all, their technique will be too unscientific, too inefficient, not connected or proper grounded. So its a blending of the two, one learns the style, masters it, then lets it go, totally drops any idea of it, with the hopes that the Training made their fighting more effective, efficient in the process compared to no training at all.. Bruce Lee at the end of his life was Anti Style, he didn't believe in it at all, but he already went thru the process, if it wasn't for his training in various Styles, he wouldn't have had the skills he had! Sadhana is like this, one doesn't need it, but then one may not be able to get Realization at all, but if one gets too attached to Sadhana then it will stop all Realization as well...

Agreed, but that point has to be reached, Sadhana is about reaching that point of constant witnessing...Until that happens, if its doesn't come naturally, Sadhana is needed!

Yes this is true, in basic essence everything can be a sadhana, but there are Specific Sadhana for certain purposes, for example, one will not have deep Realizations of Truth/Reality/Life without their Energies become more intense and active, doing present moment awareness won't make or help that too happen, it will calm things down, it will allow stress not too happen, bring one to more peace in life, that is a baseline point, peace is baseline, if Your not in peace, forget spiritual path, its like being starving hungry, do not talk or think Spiritual stuff when starving hungry, it won't work.. So for baseline starting point, present moment awareness is great! For more ontop of that, we need Energies to move, clear blockages, and other things have to happen, Specific Sadhana is needed for this...Yoga is the science of Sadhana imo...

Agreed, that is why Non Duality is half right and half wrong, when they say nothing is happeing, nothing is needed, so it a way this sort of teaching is dangerous, anything that is incomplete is dangerous. The complete way is to see the whole reality, we are here with a Body and Mind, and duality/materialism to deal with, and an identification probelm, ego situation, karma and so forth, its not so simple, and not Mind Made up stuffs. its Real.. But we can live above all this stuff, but we need to seek it for most of Us, not all but most.. Seeking is where Sadhana come in, forget Enlightenment if You are not already naturally Peaceful/blissful everyday, every moment!

So someone puts up a video on Utube and they become an authority? Anyone can say anything about anything, why put value or credit too it.. Lets see, Yoga and Hinduism, Tao/Daoism, Buddhism, and many others, have been around for maybe 10,000yrs in some cases (some say Yoga alone is more than 80,000yrs old), and it doesn't work or isn't needed?? Some can realize the Truth/Reality with no effort, why is this? They went thru it before, came into this LIfe this way, that is why, Others are "New Souls", they need Sadhana, Meditation, Yoga, to help them become Peaceful within, then from that Peaceful Experience Realization happens naturally.. One does not need Sadhana, but can they do it without it? Do I need a Car? No, but work is 25kms away one way, it makes my life easier, rather than walking to work, working 9hrs and walking home in the snow.. So I choose to use Sadhana to get to Realization within this lifetime. Choose not to use it, and it may take many lifetimes, that is the choice we are given while here as Humans!

well if Your at that stage You describe in the OP, then there is no Karma to deal with, its basically dissolved, that is what the process towards Enlightenment is about, without Karma there is no You, Me, the Earth, my family, your family, this entire Universe, its our dual level material existence here, set up so that Absolute can experience itself, so karma is there for that IMO, so we come from being Blind to then Seeing, from Untruth to Truth, unRealization to Realization.. Osho was here to help this along, otherwise why Osho..

Spiritual practices, thousands of way to get rid of the binds and mind stuff that get in the way of just BEING, and able to do nothing..

It all comes down to Realization, some like Ramana M are already there, their Karma is that they are born at a higher level of Realization, they don't need much or any Sadhana to Realize it, others are not this way, they need tons of Sadhana to Realize, that is why Sadhana was invented and is their, and why there are many paths, not just one...As Javfly said, there are levels to this stuff! To deny levels is too deny why we are here...

I think Osho was sort of a Jhnana Yogi, Intellectually realized, and he had a attractive way to communicate that appealed to many ppl, plus he was smart, he was Realized for sure, but not like someone like Sadhguru (whom ppl compare the two all the time), Sadhguru is realized on all sorts of levels, he can consecreate a temple, initiate ppl from afar and tell a good joke, he's got all the levels covered..

Agreed, in actuality its really simple, but there is always a but lol. Karma is in play that has to be dealt with, Karma is not the mind playing tricks, its a whole bunch of things, if not dealt with, the simple becomes complex.. Osho and the others, like Sadhguru, SRi M, Eckhart Tolle, they are all here to help us on this not doing anything stuff, getting to that point. If one deny's the Karma, and what has to be dealt with, then it will lead to suffering, to more Mind identification and such.. First we don't even think about Enlightenment, just be at Peace Naturally, no matter what is happening around You, within You, Your at Peace with it, Acceptance is Natural, then things will start to shift and transform, Baby steps, not one big giant step is the way for most ppl...

Yeah it sounded like she had a real awakening.. The main point is there is too much thinking, too much self centeredness,, When doing Spiritual work and going into temples, one has to be devoted, or devoid of self, if Your anxious then Your not devoid of self, same with fear... As a piece of Life, all life naturally want to live to its highest Potential and Possibility, just let this sort of Awareness come into Your life, identify with being a piece of Life (Life is God/Absolute), not a person or personality with all these fears and such...Devotion is about this sort of thing I think!

yes this lady had no idea of what the Dhyanalinga was about, and she was anxious and full of expectation on entering the temple, but then something shifted

Yes, but the question is can You do Nothing, no thinking, no wanting, no needing, no desire, no dreaming, no anything other than breathing and heart beating? If not then sadhana is needed, the sadhana is about these things, not about the result, its about bring You back to natural ways of being, not what we are today with all our goals, burning desires, dopamaine hits and such disabilities, we have to get rid of all of that first then we can do nothing..

I was watching some guy, can't remember his name but he's well known from the 70's to 90's, an economist guy, and he was promoting how capitalism has taken more ppl out of poverty than any other economic system, so anything can be logically justified, but in the end it still doesn't work well for the masses, the rich get richer the poor get poorer!!

Compared to Us here in the west anyways, all of Us have ego, and there's plenty of examples of Huge Ego's from every culture, just relating what the person told me, its was more about helping the family and making sure they were all doing well, rather than buying big trucks and trying to look good to others, which seems to be the theme in the west, but of course ppl here too care about their families, different cultures, different sort of ego's...

Yes he's correct. Goals, Purpose, Meaning are future orientation Failure, Bitterness, Anger is past orientation Life is NOW orientation Life is all the really Exists If that is realized then Your there, if not sadhana is needed, sadhana is not about Life but about getting rid of goals and failure and all that other bs we have in our heads.

This is a good videos to watch, its about taking back control.. Reading Your sharing, we all go thru struggles, some of Us go thru it allot harder, but we all share it in a way.. Just observing what Your going thru, I think a path of Devotion would be something to try out.. Devotion is about being Devoid of Self. Above in the quote, You say You should focus on "myself" for awhile, I think that may not be the way to go, just sayin:) Try focusing on something that is not YOU, take You out of the equation, make something or someone else more important than YOU, and see what happens, play with it a bit. When we focus too much on ourselves, it makes us the center point of life, and if life is not going as we think it should then it may cause some suffering. If we switch our focus on to others, then this may make us realize that we are just tiny specs in this existence, we pop up then we pop out, no one will remember us in a generation or two, so the only thing to do is Enjoy it while we are here, Suffering it is tragic!

I remember a few years ago meeting someone at the airport, he asked what I do, I said I teach Kung Fu, he said he goes to China once a year for mths at a time, luv'd it there, the culture that is, he found the ppl helped one another, young generation helped older generations and medical treatment was high quality and cheap, he hated coming back to Canada and seeing ppl spend money on cars and trucks but live in a dump, and that the whole ideology here sucked.. Now I'm not saying China is great, the government and their political system maybe messed up, and from what I have researched their in for some big trouble in the near future, famines and total societal collapse, but the ppl seem okay, less egoic for sure...Americans are nationalistic, think they are the best in the world at everything, not humble generally, and their system (as I wrote earlier) is failing miserably, Canada is in hot pursuit and on the same path, we are just more Sorry about it, lol...

Raise the Level of Your Consciousness/Awareness, be the Light You want to see in the World, live it, then others see it and know its possible, it will take a few generations but maybe we can turn things around!

Well via a "High" state of Consciousness, Actions change, Intentions Change, Sex does not become a way to seek pleasure or attention, but a means to connecting with someone in an intimate and intense physical way that sometimes transcends the physicality, so that is the difference.. Porn is there to make Money (Money is low consciousness), and for the stars to seek attention and make Money (both are low consciousness attributes), so therefore Porn in and of itself is Low consciousness. Sex itself is just there to procreate, that is the most basic of Survival level, which is low low consciousness. We as Humans can have great pleasure from Sex, so when Sex goes into the Mind it become perverse/distorted, which is Low Consciousness.. We all go thru it, all these sorts of stages, as we age we realize what it is and how it relates to Life, or we should anyways, lots do not!

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@Pro24 Confidence is a false sense of Knowing.. Clarity trumps over Confidence, if You have Clarity then You will walk thru life with Ease, with Confidence You walk thru life with challenges still because You are in a dark strange room and cannot see, but if You could see then there is no challenges, and via that You are more capable of going beyond the simple desires to be known, or success/rich/ and so forth the society puts on You as Your desires, true desire is to be boundless, absolutely free, and experientially connected to all things all at once..this doesn't happen with Confidence, it starts to happen with Clarity!

I haven't watched the video's posted, but I've watched so much over the years I agree anyways with what You say. We're living in a big fantasy, our government leaders/politicians are not there because they luv the country and what's best for it/us, they do it because they luv power and personal security and control, for themselves, their image and such, so its all a lie.. Our Economic system is completely corrupt and leans towards a small group of elites, whomever they are, yes some outside this group are allowed to come in and prosper but this is for surface level appearances only, to make us think we all can do it too, but we can't there is not enough $$ in the system for everyone to be rich or so called successful, plus who would do the work to get all the shit done?? Our Education system is corrupt, it teaches us nothing about Life, but about facts that change every 10yrs, and how to be a slave to a work/economic/elite system so shit gets done.. Out Health Care system is corrupt, it keeps us alive and able but not Healthy at all, the quality of life does not improve as we age, but we are able to live longer, so they say its working when it doesn't, too many are on pharma drugs and its profitting them billions, and disabling the masses.. Our Social Systems are corrupt, they make us into Zombies, ppl stuck to their phones like its the holy grail or something fantastic, not many appreciate nature or life itself in all its Immensity, their took stuck in the phone, getting brain washed, and full of ideology that is not original to them but borrowed from a millions sources. War rules makes them tons of money and more power control over the masses, and to depopulate the world unnaturally, we need less population yes, but not via the methods of death and destruction!