Salvijus

This one good. "The power of now" is probably the most beginner friendly spiritual book. And it's very powerful at the same time. Or give him a christian book if he's a christian. After all it's Christ-mas day.

I think you can infuse your spirit and energy into art. That's what makes great art great art. Like for example you can read a spiritual book written by some spiritual master and you can feel the presence and the energy behind those words. The vibration of those words are alive almost. And can even transport you to that place of consciouness where those words were coming from. A book like that have a power beyond the superficial wording only. I think a maschine will never be able to do this. Because a machanice is just data, art is energy and expression of a certain state of consciouness. You can replicate the words but you can't replicate the spirit.

Life is to serve god. Life is to be of service to all life and to be a veichle for god to function and create more love in the world. That's the only real happyness. Selfish life is misery. Very poetic this one ?

@Knowledge Hoarder you're making statements but no arguments to back up those statements. for example some people are really suffering that they can't afford a 10k clock on their wrist. People are capable of suffering all kinds of nonsense that are socialy promoted to be valuable. Sex feels such a exaggerated thing. There's really nothing to it. But it creates this illusion that without it you're nothing. The sex drive is there I don't deny it. But I think uou can easily just masturbate your way out of it and be okey. The rest of the pain is coming probably from social conditioning. Idk, maybe I'm wrong. Im not sex expert. I don't know how I even got here ? I'll stop replaying now. Regards ?

@bloomer yeah but the topic I thought was about virginity as a social status not about sexual desires driving people mad. Btw can't you satisfy your sex drive by masturbating? Is there any difference between sex and masturbation?

What?! ?? how do people even come up with such phylosophies? ? nvm... I think sex urge when it is not satisfied it can get painful, I guess? Idk. But in having no sex itself inherently there's nothing wrong or painful about it. Only if there's a great longing for it than yeah, that unsatisfied desire can burn probably (like every other desire). But if there's no desire for it. It's really nothing at all. It's probably more as a social pressure that if you never had sex people will look at you as a noob or smth. That's where the problem is. It's like sometimes when a person says, I have never smoked a cigarette, there are groups of people who will see him as utter noob and lame person. Tho there's nothing wrong in never having smoked a cigarette. It's the same thing with sex. The moment you say I'm a virgin. That label is more painful than the actually of it. And that's just stupid ?

Having no intercourse is fine. Feeling bad about it is utterly stupid. That's where the real problem is.

Life is to be lived, lived totally. In max intensity. So max that you go mahasamadhi ?

Ram dass video on reincarnation popped on my youtube screen just now, might be a synchronisity.

Yeah, I wasn't trying to prove anything. I don't know anything myself what happens after death just some theories that make sense to me.

@Chris365 no need to be so demeaning.

@SelfHelpGuy nice examples ? I think if some people can remeber what they did yesterday, and some people can remember what they did in the previous lifetime, there is not much difference. Well I don't have a full understanding on this but what buddha or Jesus would say is that ego doesn't die after death. It takes another form. It could take an eartly body, or some other body, or go to heavenly realm or to hell. Where you go depends on how much evolution of the soul has been made here on earth. I don't even myself understand it fully so... but ego survives bodily death according to almost all if not 100% of all religions and spiritual traditions in the world even in advaita studies nobody denies reincarnation. Only "expert nondualists" on this forum have funny ways of disproving everything that they don’t like. ? I think reincarnation is like taking all the data and all the softwares from one computer and uploading it to another computer. If you want ego death, all data has to be obliterated through spiritual practice or antivirus self deleting program killing a computer won't kill the data inside it. When a body dies, I think the personality and the karmic substance and all data of the ego can float around in the energy body in the space or take another womb. The personality and the karmic substance is recorded in the energy body. This energy that carries the information and data of the personality is called the soul. The soul's energy and universe's energy is ultimately the same but it is being seperated by the ego and karmic substance. Like a bubble in the air. Air inside the bubble and air outside the bubble is the same air but a bubble is formed becouce of the ego mass around the energy and appareat seperation of individual soul happens. Dissolving the bubble or the karmic structure makes the bubble dissapear and the soul energy reunites with the cosmos energy. Aka, mahasamadhi. If you dissolve the ego bubble fully, the energy that carries the person's data will no longer be entrapped by the personality and just unites with infinity. Like the bubble bursting and air joining the cosmos.

@Rilles ?

Ups. Sorry than ? I'm bad at jokes probably ?

Why so pessimistic? Trying to pinpoint isness does enourmous things to me. I think you'd be surprised how powerful it is if you actually tried it.

It's really unfair to use nondual phylosophy to dismiss reincarnation. Reincarnation is like going to sleep and waking up in the morning again. Going to sleep would be equivalent to death, and waking up in the morning would be equivalent to entering a new womb. Just because everything is one and there is no seperate self doesn't disprove the fact that there is such a thing as sleep and waking up in the morning. I'm not saying reincarnation is real or unreal. I'm saying nonduality is really a poor way of disproving reincarnation. Nonduality has nothing to do with this subject at all. Nonduality only points to the absolute truth there is no such thing as death. Because consciouness can't die and was never born. But consciouness also can’t fall asleep and can't wake up. And so? Does that mean sleep doesn't exist? A hardcore nondualist would say sleep doesn't exist because there is no self to fall asleep or to wake up (or smth like that). But from a normal human relative perspective sleep and waking up is very much real phenomena we all experience every day. To use nondual phylosophy to dismiss everything is really unfair. You can say there's no such thing as eating because consciouness doesn't have a stomach. And there is no self so who is eating? You can basicly prove any kind of bullshit with this nondual phylosophy. Nondual phylosophy has it's place and is beautiful but it should not be used in every area of life. Even ramana maharshi the god of advaita and nonduality says there is reincarnation...

Define the term "is". That's the most profound one for me.

@lmfao Lol, I thought this was very funny ?

Really good video.

I see, not surprised I will say ? Initiated, yes. The element of grace is a main reason for it's effectiveness I think. I think I started noticing benefits even after the first day of doing it. Just the sense of wellbeing and improved mental balance was clear from the start. Also I think the more you grow in self inquiry and meditation the more effective yoga becomes also. I think maybe that's why it was so effective for me from the start. Basicly you are using the same awareness from your meditation but applying it to a different area now so you reap the benefits accordingly.

Traumas impurities and old emotions of the mind are in the body not it the head. Body needs to be made into pure energy and transparant. Than ego and bad thoughts will dissapear. So yoga is very effective way to purify the mind but I don't know what it was that you did in there ? yoga can change how you think and behave dramaticly if it's done properly. It works on the fundamental level of who you are. It should change even the fundamental ways of how one relates and perceives life, food, people, atmosphere. Each asana is like a statement. A healthy high conscious statement if one makes with the nessecary awareness in it everyday, it will change the entire belief system and psychological and energetic structure inside out. It can deeply transform one's personality. But it needs to be taught in a specific proper way. Only then the benefits become vivid. Isha is one of those schools that offer this possiblity. I don't if there is some other. Probably is. But I don't know where. Small personal example of mine. All my life I never were able to speak with people. I had huge blocks speaking with people was very shy etc. This is one of the resons I started meditation to overcome this. I did self inquiry for 2+ years and it still remained the same. Tho I gained lots of benefits of intelligence and awareness but the behavior patterns remained the same. Only when I started doing hatha yoga all my communication blocks went away. Today I don't ęven know how to shut up ? so it was a huge very fundamental change in me. So I'm sharing this example to testify that it works if it's a proper yoga. ?

Yes you can do it with gentle sounds also

That's not what I meant. I meant your ability to laugh at your situation and see it with detachment. That's a nice quality really.

@bloomer Lol I don't see often people call themselves like "losers" with such detachment and unseriousness and playfulness ? that's really next level humor here. Very coool ??with this level of intelligence and confidence you should be able to get any woman you want ?

Play a video of someone you like like echkart tolle or rupert spira that is 20min long. Listen and meditate as you listen. It will keep you engaged, time will go faster, and the benefits are the same. Or find some guided meditations 20min long.