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@Hero in progress do you find it helpful to stretch before formal meditation?

Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard -- From the lyrics of "You've Got Time" - the intro of "Orange is the new black".

To be honest this is how I started meditating before I was so deep into the subject - I used to put on a guided meditation from M. Sealey (Youtube) and just felt free of all the worries of the day, falling asleep to it. I was very stressed and anxious because of work and uncertainty and this was the only way I was meditating - laying down. I told my friend who was into Buddhism and with whom we were having countless arguments of theism vs atheism ( I was on side of atheism) and free will vs no free will ( I was on the side of no free will ) and he told me that this is not meditation I bet if I meet him now I'll be completely new person to him. It was just a year and a half ago...

Maybe soul = 21 and ego = 21 soul + ego = 42 boooom mind blown we're all enlightenment

Already did yesterday, I found myself twitching at one point, it was like my mind was rebelling as to what was going on

@Toby This was a really powerful inquiry! @Revolutionary Think I have this link with Free Content from SoundsTrue

Mooji's guided meditation is really good. But I haven't done many. Right now I am going to do the one Toby linked. Basically any guided meditation by a reputable enlightenment master is supposed to be good. And free!

No, first time I hear. That's why I do my guided meditations as @Toby suggests. We no longer need real life, we have the internet

I know, but he was making fun of our informed diet choice. He needs to be checked and wrecked! He is a meateater - everyone knows that meat refers to dick!

You misunderstood, he was not asking about the vegetarian diet. Vegetarian is vegetarian Vaginatarian is something else

I call and I raise you earplugs! PS: The way you explained this *stuff is super clear and amazing tnx

I would agree that we have the quite necessary illusion of free will. I read "The illusion of free will" back when I was calling myself an Atheist. I loved it. This video is a short version. Before I saw Sam Harris from the point of view of an Atheist. Now I see that he actually sounds more like a spiritual teacher than an atheist. It's amazing how I understand his words so much better now. @Snick if we think about it - if there is free will that means you are not consciousness / the eternal witness. How can there be a witness that does . Witness witnesses, and we are witnessing the spontaneous happening of life. <3 Which is fu**ing amazing because it feels like we actually do have free will - this is a blessing. "The best movie ever"

I do not believe that anyone can tell the future, even if they have been to the so called 'Akashic records' or whatever. The simple reason is that life is spontaneous. There is no free will, but life is also not pre-determined. It is a spontaneous happening, how do you predict where the pieces will fall after an explosion? You can't. This is life, one continuous explosion of spontaneous happening. Akashic records may hold a lot, but every iteration is completely new and fresh. That being said,

Frode is great at giving book reviews and explains them so freakin well, I've learned a lot from Frode's videos. He's not abusing this section, he is making a great contribution to this section. Much love @Frode <3

And then there were two

I think he is. I think he went too much to the right hemisphere, and we need to aim for the golden middle

@electroBeam @cetus56 we have established we know that it's always the present moment That's something

Are you? Source : Adyashanti

@electroBeam A new answer came to me, which might be satisfactory: When one is enlightened, serving anyone is the same as serving oneself. It's like looking at the body: within it there are enlightened entities, which work for the good of the entire organism, and unenlightened ones - the ones which destroy the organism they are a part of. The enlightened being has realized the bigger picture and transforms from ego (division, disease) to a helpful entity (oneness, unity, love, serving for the higher good). To conclude, the enlightened is always serving themselves

There was one time on this forum someone said something genius among the lines of: 70% of the time people use statistics, they are pulled out of their a**

Indeed I cannot critisize what you're saying, but I am not taking competition to mean enemy. In my earlier days, when I was one of the top mathematicians my age in my country, I couldn't have reached that level, if it wasn't for one of my best friends and the joyful competitive spirit between us. I think you're throwing the baby with the water here. I agree that aggressive competition where you have enemies is not very great indeed. Constructive competition on the other hand is no different than cooperation.

Yes, I fully agree with this 100%, I think it's one of the most important things to know on the path. There cannot be competition in oneness, but that's because oneness is pervading even competition. Let me explain further what I mean: As you said enlightenment is the loss of identification with any form, any delusion. Loss of Ego lets say. Competition is in the realm of the dream, growth of any type, including spiritual growth is also in the realm of dreams. Competition is opposition between one view and another, dont you think if there were no opposing views, and we all circlejerked around any delusion can be removed? Buddha was in competition with suffering. It was his enemy, it made him grow into the spiritual master he became. It's my point of view.

Isn't spiritual progress still something material? I mean just like we call thoughts a form, we can call that spirit which can grow and progress form too. Cause isn't the true nature of all that which is unchanging? That never competes, but individual souls are not that. For me spirituality is not about anything other than That one, the unchanging.

I wouldn't say competition is pointless, it makes both parties work harder and improve, grow more than they would if they didn't have each other's opposition, rivalry. Competition is a beautiful thing. I agree with the spontaneous bit. Why must we overthink what an enlightened being would do? Where's the freedom if they are ought to act a certain way? hehe

Who knew God and the son of God enjoyed idle talk and no action, I guess I trully am made in his image hehe. From where I'm sitting it looks like a bunch of delusions, but who cares, im a simple soul.