Salvijus

The trick is to rise the awareness beyond the effort where effort itself becomes observable phenomena. Then being present becomes natural and effortless because u realized that effort to stay present has no impact at all on your presence which is already there prior to your intention to stay present. If that doesn't make any sense, then just meditate every day and rise your awareness little by little. Formal sitting practices are essential. Maintaining awareness in daily situations is very important as well

@Consilience I think doer does exist and that intention and the doer are one and the same imo and ime. Doer is made out of intention. When your teacher is saying find the doer who's doing the technique. Try to become aware of the intention to meditate. Or the intention to focus. And that will lead your to a doer. Doer is an observable phenomena. Once the doer is found as an observable phenomena, final insight happens that doer itself is just a sensation. Sorry for my lecturing. ?

Hi. I practice and live in the present for a couple of years now. It’s my natural state now. If u need help or support i can teach u some tricks. #Writting this while being present.

The danger is in huge ignorance about how to use psychedelics properly in today's world. I think all the wisdom of proper useage is gone. Even shamans these days have weak knowledge in that regard in my perception. People really underrestimate how complex process it is to use psychedelics for spiritual growth. Even something as simple as making traditional chinese tea is actually insanly complex and sophisticated process that would blow your mind. All those subtle elements are gone now. People are using psychedelics like cave men these days without any clue what it does to their system and what's the long term impact. Very poor attitude in that regard. This gives rise to very accidental results also and many possibilities for damaging yourself. Also (this is my personal opinion it may not be true) the violent nature of psychedelics can cause subtle damage to the energy system and that would impair ones speed of growth when it comes to sober practice. Psychedelics also drains Ojas/life energy which is a very common argument all around like ayruveda, daoism and it makes a lot of sense to me tbh. Draining Ojas creates premture aging, fatigue, slowing down of spiritual progress (because u need to cultivate ojas to grow, not drain it.) etc. Maybe there are more idk.

God is amazing. But there is a void of nothingness where no other word comes close to discribe it except Shi-va. And it's indescribable. Literally. All logic and sense making and symbolic meaning goes out the window. So stay open i would say.

I made my entire family do yoga Ye, influence is a thing.

@Raptorsin7 depends what u call as progress i guess. If healing the mind and traumas is what u call progress then maybe. If self realization is the goal then deff no. And different meditation techniques give different emphasis on self-realization vs healing the mind. Usually they converge at some point. Some focus only on self-realization like zen and leave all personality disorders/traumas away. That's actually the fastest way, ignoring all the personal bs and jumping over it. This method if done successfully will arrive a seeker towards self-realization and abiding in the state of nondual self-realization purify the mind automatically. And that’s what those guys in the video fail to understand and abiding in that state fixes all mind problems without any effory or intention. Other schools focus on purification a lot, trying to fix the person before doing the spiritual work. That's fine too. It depends on what is the state of evolution and development of a seeker. Accordingly a path is made for him/her. Healing the mind(the goal of therapy) has it's place and no spiritual tradition ever denies the significance of it. But it's just a preparatory step. And actually if purification of the mind is your goal, u can find 10× times more effective ways of doing that then therapy in spirituality. And + all therapy systems are created by ignorant people and those systems have many flaws in them which is really lame and doesn't lead anywhere ultimately. It's not the highest quality material to study from. Why study all that nonsense when u can directly learn from buddha or christ... be smart about it. It will save u lots of time and useless learning.

@Raptorsin7 the point is that their criticism is faulty. People watching and not benefiting is not echkart tolle's fault. Not everyone who reads zen becomes a zen master but at least they are listening and trying in the right direction, that's important. How much benefit each draws is upto them. But material itself is authentic and legit and valid. That's all that matters. And really Echkart Tolle is the worst example they could've chosen to make a point. His teaching literally leads to dissolution of pain body, peace of mind, freedom from addictions, self realization, enlightenment, higher wisdom, connection to god's will, impenetrable holyness, health, joy, happyness and etc. At least if they had chosen somebody like Ramana Maharsi or J.Krishnamurti who say u don't need to do anything at all to be blissed out i could understand. ?bc that's not easy to grasp. But criticism on echkart... that's really lame and weak levels of spiritual understanding.

They lack understanding in spirituality and meditation that's why the friction. The thing they both kept repeating is that meditation doesn't heal. Or that the act of observation doesn't fix the problem. Which is not true I would argue. All criticism was based on this idea alone pretty much i think. And it is a false statement. Act of observation eliminates all neaurosis and leads to purifycation of the mind. It leads to absolute health and wholeness of individual. So... I actually liked the video and their thoughts. Never heard of ifs before. They have some interesting insights. But their criticism can be easily resolved with a little bit deeper understanding of meditation and what it does and how it works.

I think desire is the root of thought. Zero desire = no mind activity = absorbtion into samadhi probably. That's why the end of desire is the end of you and enlightenment/liberation in buddhism i think.

The purpose of a flower is to blossom. The purpose of the tree is to grow and to blossom. The purpose of all life is to grow, evolve, and to blossom. By that logic enlightenment would be the purpose and the blossoming of human life i think. But not a temporary glipmse but a permemnant evolution into sagehood.

Awareness is non physical, non tangible phenomena. Aka, nothingness. Or so they say.

Aaah, close. Great blog idea of writing down the things u want. Worked on me at least. Happy boyfriend hunting and easter.

My initials are SK. So here i am. How are u? ?

It means don't get in the way of the natural flow of all things.

I think it depends on how clean your mind is. If it's full of lust you won't be able to stop wet dreams from manfesting. Purification of the mind is the key. For this there are many ways.

Okey i watched the video. It seems he's pointing to nothingness/self realization which is a bit different. I think in the death book you quoted he is referring to total dissolution.

I think he means total dissolution. A final goal in buddhism i think. Dissolution is somewhat different then self realization i think. Gonna watch the video now.

"Everybody is acting from good intentions" and "All people are acting in pursuit of happyness unless they found inner fulfilment" are two very different statements imo. I personally don't even agree with the first one unless i bend my interpretation around it heavily.

Haha nice I really like when he does these things. Would like to see him on pornhub next. ? guy has no limits. He can convert anybody into a seeker.

Wow, I can't believe he's coming even to Lithuania. I'll be damned. It's like the war isn't on his mind at all, haha.

Naaaaah ? This is something i keep trying to convey. Identity with the ego is not an assumed illusion. "As soon as look for it there's nothing there" u say. That's not true. When u look for it, doesn't fade, and it can be found. It's almost solid stuff that u can become aware of like the body. It has a psychic existence of its own. That's a big difference compared to what u sayed. At that point you can disidentify from it but even then ego doesn't fade so quickly. It is only realized to be not your true nature but is still lives on just becomes more transparant perhaps. To fully make the ego fade takes very long time to dissolve it. And there are practices to do it.

@Judy2 I wish people would chose their words more carefully. What does illusory identity even mean? Seems like a poor choice of words. Identification with body-mind is real i would say. It's just not our real nature. So it's a false identity..i think that's a better choice of words.

? But not quite. What triggers me the most is when people say sense of self is just an illusion. It doesn't exist. It's like unicorn. Just an invented concept that can't be found ever. I take that to be a lie. It's my direct experience everyday that ego is a solid thing that can be made aware of as one advances in conciousness work. This level of awareness is what causes the disidentification from ego and self realization.

@Kksd74628 would it be fair to say then when "I" disappear it is realized in that moment that it was just a sensation. Therefor it's not my real nature. Is this the same as u speak?