Salvijus

Why I'm the only one who doesnt get the joke Anyways. Here's a perfect explaination from a sage about observing thoughts from a distance

Lol pls explain what you mean by this

Just observe the activity of the mind. The thought process. Be aware of it. And then intuitively you will stand in a position as an observer that is seperate from the activity of the mind.

It depends on what kind of meditation you do. For example mindfulness meditation will not work, you'll just become more and more aware of your doubts and anxieties. You need abandonment meditation, something to drop yourself completely. Here's sadhguru on mindfulness vs mindlessness

... Too bad... But the reason you don't understand him is the same reason you're not getting self-enquiry right (maybe.. idk.) For me Mooji's self-enquiry is 180degrees different then anything else i've heard before. It's a very subtle difference but at the same time a game changing difference. But maybe it's just me.

That's why I like him so much

This is a complicated thing to explain because there're many subtle things and nuances. As you grow more and more you'll begin to understand slowly better and better First see if you can understand this amazing video about karma. It clarifies many things.

E=mc^2 But it goes deeper. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T53mmpq6ZmM

It's just a random breathing. Atleast Osho dynamic meditation is specifically designed for that purpose to release emotional blockages. Shamanic breathing is just do something long enough untill your head goes dizzy and you feel something spiritual is happening to you. Shake your head up and down, put a name "shamanic shaking" do it for 30min and you'll get the same results as shamanic breathing, probably even better results. It's just random stuff with random consiquences.

Osho dynamic meditation. Also Shoonya from sadhguru.

If it was really something that you want to do you'd have no problem doing it. I think when you meditate your desires become more authentic and in line with your natural tendencies thus you no longer feel like your old desires matter anymore. It's like you outgrown them. It happened to me many times. I used to think oh I'm gonna become this and that. Aften meditation you realize it was a stupid goal that was coming from a certain immaturity. That actually my Inner most desire is very different. Life maybe has a different plan for you but you want to push your own projections. That's the whole game here. Ultimately you'd want to surrender and follow life's tendencies but it's only rare one who listens to this advise, nobody likes to hear this kind of thing, every says keep pushing pushing :D. It's not my advise, this is what every sage would tell you.. this is how every enlightened being lives his life You're having a transitional moment between moving from mind to heart. And living by heart often means abandonment of everything that you planned for yourself because heart is playful and spontenious. Mind is always planing planing planing.

That's a nice state you're in Just stay in this "I don't know state..." and let the consiquences come. There's an incredible silence and the greatest intelligence in this I don't know.. It will guide you what is best for you and what is the most appropriate action for you. ? But honestly i don't know anything myself. I would feel the same way you do if i was in your situation

"Invitation To Freedom" - Mooji. A good book for self-enquiry. The beautiful thing is as you read the book, self-enquiry starts to happen automatically in you as if the words are facilitating and guiding you. Anyways..... My advise. You will most probably do it wrong unless you follow masters guidence. Self-inquiry is not a mental game. It's a process of looking, and observing what is true. That confusion and that voice, "but how can I get it, how can I see the perceiver" it's coming from the mind. It's also a sign that you're doing mental nonsense. If you do authentic self inquiry you should move towards silence not confusion. But i guess it's natural in the beggining to be confused don't worry about it. Just use this video next time you do self-enquiry. And let his words sink into you. It will activate authentic self-enquiry from inside. You'll see it will be totally different then doing mental gymanastics: Witness the witness, witness, witness, the witness, witness, witness... Endlessly you'll go like that with your mind.

If it was me I would find a way to educate him about all the meditation and inner technologies for wellbeing. There's so much that he could do for his wellbeing actually. But it needs to be delivered and talked into in a very careful manner, you can't just drop a bundle of information on him like ton of bricks. He will resist then. But you idk. Nobody can tell you what is best for you to do. According to your own intelligence and understanding you act. If your intentions are good it shouldn't turn out to be bad for others (I think :D)

@Aaron p feeling cool sensations is not always a good sign. "Even if the most wonderful thing happens to you, if you're not ready for it, it will be a disaster" #sadhguru Anyways. I'm happy you made the descision to tone it down. ?

That's not true. Every single human being has a desire to grow and become little more then what they are right now. Only thing is, some people are seeking this unconciously, some are seeking this consciously. Those who seek expansiveness unconciously they try to achieve that in is so many ways. All the attempt in the world to make money, to create a family, to gather knowledge, to have more and more friends, to raise your status many many things.. are just a desire to expand and become more. But it's an unconcious desire. If it becomes conscious desire to grow then the spiritual process begins. There's is a force in us that wants to become boundless. It's never satisfied until it becomes limitless. People think after I become the president or after I make this much money i will be satisfied. No. Even if you become a president you still want to become something more and something more. You will start looking at the stars, you will not be satisfied being president. Because there's something inside which will not settle for anything less then infinity. So everybody has this desire to be a little more. Only thing is they are not conscious of it. They don't understand what they want in life. They think they want money, sex, status... No actually they want to become a little more then what they are right now and that is their futile and unconcious attempt to reach infinity. Spiritual seeker meens he's trying to achieve the same thing that everybody wants to achieve but in a scientific manner. Only by dissolving your individuality can you become boundless. Everybody wants to become boundless. But many are not conscious of it. Please consider watching the video. It's a much clearer and comprehensive answer then what i gave you. I guarantee it will answer your questions completely. ?

Is your question why we chose to grow? Simple answer - it's the law of consciousness, you don't have any choice in this. Nature put this desire to grow into you involuntarily. You're basicly forced to grow, lol A more detailed and better answer:

"Do something that matters to you"

I love that guy ? He's like sadhguru to me but only from a Tao tradition.

I told you kriya is dangerous. You should never do kriya from a book. And you should never try and do your own modifications of kriya. If you're doing proper kriya practice, you'd feel 10times more balanced and peaceful everyday, not the other way around. You're just messing with your system without knowing anything about how it functions. If you do it right it can do miracles for you. If you missuse it it can be very disastrous process. If I were you i'd do a little bit of these practices. It's 100%safe, tho it's not very spiritually potent but it's very good for bringing balance in your system and mind. You could benefit from this. Do the other ones aswell it has many balancing benefits.

"No techeque. Simply inteligence of life." This is about making descisions. This is an answer to every damn situation that could happen in life ever.... And embodiment of this is enlightenmemt in many ways.. Questioner: what should we do when someone wants kill our family, should I remain a good person and stay away or shoukd I become a killer and kill the enemy. What is the right descision.? Answer: This answer applies to every descision in life.

I think you're missing something. How people chose meaning option and get away with it. See. You don't need to be happy 24h/a day. Just momemts of joy, there and there they keep you going. That's how it is most of the time. You don't need 100% solid meaning. Just some random meaningless meaning will do the trick. Some moments of happy there and there keeps you going. If life becomes and endless stream of suffering then life becomes not worthwile anymore. If there're some moments of joy that's all it takes for life to become meaningful. Second thing. Im interested why is there such a struggle with vippassana for you? What is causing so much pain? Maybe you're expecting too much, don't try to find full acceptence on first day. Maybe you should just do it without expectations, simply observe, observe, observe, equanimity.. whatever happens - happens.

"Life on fast forward" worth a watch really to understand these things I talked about

@tedens I follow Isha's path which i shared my experiences many times in this forum over and over. Isha path involves everything from creating a blissful life, health, material success, to moving into deeper states of detachment and nothingness, and then the last stage is about samyama which is purely to dissolve yourself. Once sadhguru initiates you into samyama it will unleash a lifetimes of memory to dissolve you very fast. Life will begin to roll on fast forward. "Once you sit with me, one foot of mine will always be in your life, it's heavy and it's on the throttle (laughs)"… "Life on full throttle" #sadhguru. That's his favorite quote Sadhguru'a methods are really beoynd logic. It's really an amazing path, complete path and very comprehensive path. I didn't go to the samyama program so I'm still not on the path of Mukti. I don't feel ready for this. I enjoy immensly my progress just as it is. Never grown so fast in my life. When the time comes, when i feel ready for samyama I'll go for it naturally. So i don't have anything to tell you really Sadhguru says a desire for samyama or Mukti can only come for happy people. For those people who experienced this life in great meassure and now want to go beoynd. That's the whole effort of the first programs. To create a blissfulness inside you and to live life intensly so that the desire to go beyond would arise in them. then there's the last program designed just for that purpose. "Suffering will not seek" #sadhguru

Idk why i try to explain this. I just felt like it. And when i got tyred i stopped. Maybe for someone it will ignite some new curiosity to move forward. Maybe it will make someone realize that there's much more then what you hear on Leo's videos..