Salvijus

"Whatever makes you sleep well at night"

Good probably. "Do whatever makes you sleep well at night" - a wise saying.

I think you should take a brake from this nonsense spirituality phylosophy, escpesially nonduality ? Include meditation in your routine. It will keep you sober and grounded will rise your awareness, make you more inteligent. This way, through meditation one day you will achieve real recognition of no self instead of this nondual mental masturbation ? self inquiry used by nondual teachers is supposed to be a meditative practice btw not a mental intellectual gymnastics. ?

Another simple answer without going into any phylosophy. Probably no. I feel you're not very satisfied with the situation and how things turned out. Wisdom was lacking in you actions and behaviour imo. I could be projecting sorry. ? Authentic true action usually brings things into harmony. Actions that cause more disharmony are not authentic

You have to understand what being authentic means then. Authentic means true. Being true to yourself has many degrees. The highest degree of being true to yourself and being authentic is to be nondual god ? but we don't need to go that far. We are always authentic to a degree. The more self-aware you are and more truthful about how you feel you are the more authentic your actions will be. Simple answer Yes. Everybody is authentic always. But in different degrees. More aware = more honest = more true = more authentic.

There are feelings and interpretations of feelings. A state of mind that does not interpret anything sees everything as pure love and beauty. It's called samadhi. A mind that interprets things is always wrong. All interpretations are distortions of reality. Thus disharmony comes into being. (Apparant disharmony) Ultimately there's only nondual love and harmony. Ego-mind's interpretations of reality is a distortion that causes suffering and appareat disharmony which is not real ultimately.

Mechanics are very simple. If one is in lign with the truth, natural joy is there. If one is in delusion and ignorance, suffering and disharmony is there. Ultimately there's only harmony and love. Love has no opposite really. But it appears that there is an opposite because of ignorance. Ignorance has a power to cause suffering and disharmony.

Best thing you can do is to observe yourself and how this situation makes you feel. That's what being authentic and truthful means. You don't deny or supress anything that feel. Just allow yourself to experience it fully. After that an appropriate action will manifest by itself. That action will be much more authentic and true.

Yes it is baked into the body. When somebody is in harmony with everything. Every cell in the body is dancing Hallelujah. And it sings the opposite when somebody does something that is not in accordance with truth and love.

Also the word "burning through karma" has a different meaning here I think then the original meaning. Original meaning of burning through karma is the end of desire. It's impossible to burn through desire by indulging in pleasures. It's actually creates an opposite effect. It's gathering more and more karma this way. More and more unsatisfaction and cravings. The more you chase pleaures more karma gets acquired. Real burning of karma means, end of cravings. That is only possible through some spiritual dicipline or path. By the practice of awareness and purification and selfless activity/seva. It's the opposite of indulgance. It's total abstainance of pleaures combined with awareness and spiritual dicipline. This leads to liberation and the end of karma in the original meaning of the word. People are misusing this word for something else here i think.

I think most you can achieve by indulging in pleasures is disillusionment that they won't bring happyness. And then the real burning of karma starts. It's called a spiritual path ? You can chase money, sex, fame, pleaures etc..etc. believing it will make you happy. After you do all those things. It's possible that a realization will happen that all these things won't make me happy. And then a person turns spiritual. But it's a dumb stupid way of doing things. If you’re smart, you can see through the nonsense of worldy pleaures and jump over it on a spiritual path without going through all that drama. That's how I see it at least. It's true tho that many people are so blind that if you tell them wordly pleasures won't make them happy. They will not comprehend this and deny it. So these type of people need to struggle in the world a bit. Play the rat race games. Chase after their fantasies. Pursue all kinds of pleasures etc. After they do all that for long enough wisdom is supposed to come. That these things are not going to make me happy. But if you're smart, all this is irrelevent. This advise to indulge in pleasures is for stupid people who have no vision at all. ?

The way I see it. Either you feel harmonious or disharmonious. If you feel disharmonious, you must be doing something wrong. Simple ? Sorry, i know it's probably not what you asked in your question. I'm not fully grasping what you write, or what is the problem here ?

Yes!!!! That's precisely why. Thank you, very good point ?

When you dissolve your ego, you become hallow like a cave samadhi. If something can be dissolved obviously it has an existence of its own. It's a tangable reality that can come and go. And you can become concious of it. That's how you dissolve your ego. By putting your awareness on it and burning it.

Ego is all over the body really. But mostly it is in the face region. It's a tangable thing not an illusion. It can be dissolved and it can be expanded and it could change forms. It's almost physical even. Ego is not your essential nature as pure awareness. That's why it is sayed world is not real including your person. Because all of it is impermenant even your ego is impermenant. But it still exists as a tangable thing. It's not just a concept. It's almost a physical thing in your psyche.

Your selfishness. A constructed psychological sense of self. A psychological identity. Your psychic self image. Your I feeling. When you say I, it points to the ego 99% of the time. If you do "I watching" meditation you can become aware of your ego as a tangable thing. Perhaps these are of some value pointers. ?

There's your answer.

There's a small chance psychedelics will improve your daily life. Could even make it worse likely. Burning through karma by indulging in cravings is very questionable attitude imo.

Meditate before sleep and take a shower. Shower is number 1 thing to do. Meditation is also great.

There's a saying "do whatever makes you sleep well at night" . Spot on imo. This is how to tell a good action from a bad action. You don't even need to wait for sleep. It can be felt at any moment.

Just feel which actions create harmony and what actions create disharmony. Good and bad are concepts. But harmony and disharmony are existencial states. It takes a lot of self-awareness and sensitivity to feel this properly, that's just how it is.. Sometimes it's obvious tho, just do something hurtful to somebody and feel the disharmony that it causes in you. And do something positive to somebody and feel the love and harmony that comes in. That's a simple example to make it more clear.

I wish I had a room like that.

Maybe your breathing practice is improper. Breathing practices if done wrong can make one mentally mad and damage the system in many ways. I would do rather do breathing kriya practices only from a safe authentic reliable sources. Not second hand half invented shady sources. Or it could be something to do dmt post effects. Idk. ?

Good question really. I have no idea what's the answer tho ? Sometimes a person who doesn't even know any meditation just sweeps the floor and doesn't wish anybody harm is more advanced then a yogi pumping air in the mountains. That's why it's so hard to tell where people actually are. It can be very counter-intuitive. But I think there's a way of measuring this somehow. By how empty you are. And how much god/truth do you embody. Your actions usually tell if it's an action of god or ego. To what degree your actions are aligned with truth, that high is your development imo. But only one who is very developed himself can measure other people. One who is not developed in truth yet has no way of knowing who is who imo. Undeveloped people tend to measure things very backwards often lol. Most enlightened people just look at you once and they know your state of development just like that.

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