How to be wise

@Daniellelu If you can’t meditate at home for 2 hours, how can you meditate somewhere else for 10 days?

@Crauli All different subjects are actually way more linked than you think. So in this case, a homo universalis could discover far more about the subjects than a specialist. I think it will feel quite good. No it’s not like being enlightened. Enlightenment is experiential knowledge. Homo universalis are still in their heads.

In his latest video, Leo said the goal is to be in no-mind for most of the day. But Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said that he usually spends days and weeks on end without a single thought. He has remained in a constant state of ecstasy and bliss for 10 or 15 years. He sleeps less than 3 hours a day, because he controls his energies so well. He understands ‘truth’ 100%. He said that if he wanted, he could sit in one seat and stay there for the rest of his life, of course with his biological needs being provided. Compare that with what Leo has as a self actualized vision. It’s nowhere near.

@Joseph Maynor Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a living miracle. Most enlightened people will never attain what he attained.

@Nahm Sri Sri was in his twenties when he gained those ‘abilities’. Leo always says that becoming a sage takes long decades. But somehow those yogis do it very quickly.

@NoSelfSelf It depends on what kind of yoga you’re doing. I’m practicing kriya yoga, and in there the sign that a chakra opens is that you will see the light of kutastha when they open. As for what the light of kutastha is, I can’t explain here. It’s quite technical.

@cle103 no problem with using psychedelics, but don’t try to run away from emotional labour. Without years of emotional labour, you’re not going to master anything. Guaranteed. If you’re trying to do yoga, you need to be very disciplined with yourself and do it everyday for many years to see results. No other way. Btw if you have Leo’s book list, make sure not to overlook the books in the success and productivity section. I’ve found them very important even with my yoga practice.

Actually it was the opposite. He got back up full of energy and vitality, and he clearly didn’t shit himself. You’re underestimating that man.

I’ve been doing kriya yoga for around two months. The goal is not to ‘open’ any chakras. Basically, there is an energy called Kundalini which is trapped in the muladhara chakra for most people. The goal of Kriya yoga is to return that energy to the sahasrara chakra. That requires opening the chakras so that the kundalini can travel through them to the sahasrara chakra. When that happens, you will get full enlightenment (sahaja samadhi), and you will be feeling blissful and ecstatic every moment of your life. You will gain 100% emotional mastery and wisdom over everything. That is where we kriyabans are aiming for. As for changes, I’m already feeling a sense of peace and calmness around my body which was definetly not there before. That’ because I’ve started to open my bhrumadhya chakra. Once the bhrumadhya chakra is fully open, you will feel very peaceful. In order to return my energy to sahasrara, I’m looking at years of yoga.

@Outer Nobody came to him. He sat there for around 2-3 weeks in meditation. No food or water. No sleep. It’s possible trust me. Especially for someone like him.

If you are lucky enough to enter samadhi, you won’t need to worry about seating positions. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said that when he entered samadhi, he would sit in the same place without moving for weeks on end.

Watch both of these videos for advantage of opening chakras. Leo’s book list has some practical books which show you how to use yoga for enlightenment and opening chakras.

Most enlightened yogis say that they live most of their days without any thoughts. Self deception is done by the mind. There is nothing to mind except thought. That means that enlightened yogis spend most of their time with zero self deception. And yet according to Professor Leo from Harvard, those enlightened yogis have 10% self deception. It doesn’t add up.

@Monkey-man and it is sadhguru who said that he spends the majority of his time without any thoughts. Usually days on end.

@Leo Gura That’s weird. He keeps harping about not-knowing and here he is not taking his own medicine.

That’s true. Just be mindful when you are doing all your habits, good or bad. Surely you’re capable of that much. That way, those habits will fall down. Just try to be mindful for as long as you can. When that much time becomes easy, extend it a bit. And so on. Within a few years you will see yourself mindful all the time.

@Buba according to sadhguru, 99% of all people who are enlightened, leave their body in the moment of enlightenment. The only people who can stay in the body after becoming enlightened are those on the path of Kriya yoga, because they understand the mechanism of the body inside out. Video of sadhguru saying it:

According to sadhguru, you can become enlightened much faster (or at least have some big mystical experience) when you are meditating next to an enlightened being. Is this true? Have any of you experienced this ‘grace’ before?

@Omni don’t build any good habits. Habit means a mindless action. In that article they claim that if everything they did was mindful, they would exert too much effort. That’s just another way of saying that they are too lazy to be mindful all the day. If you become mindful all the time (or as much as you can) all your habits -good and bad- would fall apart, because you will do everything mindfully. When you do everything mindfully, you will do only those actions that mean something to you, and that will benefit you. You will also become enlightened much faster. So end all your mindless actions (habits), and do everything mindfully.

@Faceless why not humour yourself with the actual experience. I can’t give you a description of Brahman because I’ve never experienced it before. But I meditate every day in the hopes that I will. Maybe you should too.

@Scholar If you haven’t experienced Brahman, then it’s not true for you. When other enlightened people talk about nothingness, you should just leave that. Their words are not at all the truth. Because Brahman can’t be described with words. If you want to know Brahman, go and experience it for yourself. Don’t delude yourself into thinking you know it just because you heard or know a good description of it. Because there is none.

@Nahm stop talking about non-duality here. Saying that there is no such thing as suffering will not help anyone here.

This post is about the danger of samadhi. I mean, did you watch that video. If someone is in samadhi, he can die by just hearing a handclap. Makes you wonder whether you ever want to enter it or not.

Did you know that entering a state of samadhi is very dangerous if there are people around you. According to sadhguru, if you enter samadhi, you can very easily slip out of your body accidentally (die). That’s why people who are in samadhi are kept in protected places. So much as a hand clap or pin prick can lead the mediator to accidentally slip out of the body (for good). If you don’t believe me, hear out the famous yogi for yourself:

Sadhguru talks about how people with strong visions and life purposes always die young because they can’t control their life energies. They throw away their energies too much. If you have a strong life purpose and you feel passionate you must learn how to control your life energies. That can only be done through Yoga. For more info: http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/yoga-meditation/demystifying-yoga/power-mind-making-thought-truly-powerful/