Salvijus

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.

Spiritual debates be like

I think you're describing a state of samadhi or no-mind. The buddhist's definition of cessation is when all experience dissapears not just the conceptual mind. No experience means no experience. No sounds, no smell, taste, sights, feelings. Nothing. I don't even know if you're still conscious there.

End of beingness is the final cessation I think. There's utter nothingness. Then there's beingness/presence/consciousness. Then out of that consciousness creation happens. That's the explanation given by mooji. I hope I got it right ?

Yeah, sounds like a typical budhhist definition of cessation. Where all experience dissapears. A dip into a nibbana. In some schools they say one doesn't even have to go through god to enter nibbana. It's possible to skip it and go straight to nothingness. Or you can use god as a stepping stone to go to nirvana. Just adding some thoughs here

Dope So it sounds a bit like total cessation or nirvana experience to me. No?

One doesn't mean same.

People should replace the word sinner with stupid and unconscious. And then pray: "Lord, forgive me for being unconscious, forgive me for being ignorant, forgive for doing stupid things every day. I'm a stupid guy, and deserve the consiquences that come with that. Please all the forces in the universe pray for me and help me overcome my stupidness/ ego/ignorant/arrogant/sinnful nature" I think it's a very powerful prayer, makes you humble, invokes a desire to improve yourself and overcome your unconscious stupidness, and fills you with enourmous love if done genuinly. Acceptence of your stupidness(sinnfulness) is the first step towards overcoming it. It's an essential step. Without admitting that you have flaws, progress is impossible. I used to dislike this model before and argue against it like many. It took me a lot of time to see the wisdom and beauty of the whole thing. Amen

Just ask the facilitators if it's okey. If it's actually no big deal then there's no reason to hide yourself and then invent phylosophies to feel better about it. Vipassana is a high integrity place, if you start doing shady buiseness before you even entered the retreat, that's already starting of the wrong foot. Without a solid foundation of honesty and truth nobody attains to anything significant in spirituality.

Lol, all that complaning and venting about not having a gf is starting to pay off I see ? gg

I wish I had a paper and pencil with me when I watched it. I wonder if I had drawn the same thing.

"Silence is beyond creation and Creator" ~Sadhguru I wonder if this video in lign with what you're saying?@johnlocke18

? mind blowing.

I've heard this before, Sadhguru sayed also that the creator is not the end, nothingness goes beyond the creator even. But I still struggle to understand it fully. I've heard mooji say things like, everything comes from consciousness and there's is something beyond consciousness, absolute nothingness or smth. It's hard to wrap my mind around it honestly. It's like consciousness itself is appearing in something that is unspeakable. I share the same view also. I like what you're saying on this thread. Regards ?

@Gregory1 ?

The rule of not getting warning points is to not get triggered ?