How to be wise

@star ark I do yoga as well, and a main part of yoga is concentrating towards samadhi. Whichever path to enlightenment you choose, there is no escaping meditation.

@Leo Gura I can see what you’re saying makes sense due to some people making stupid threads. What about sagehood? If everyone on the planet was a sage, will there be peace in your opinion?

@Leo Gura I guess that’s the dark side of psychedelics. It shows enlightenment to someone who hasn’t worked for it, and they end up discarding it. This wouldn’t have happened with the old school self inquiry or yoga path.

With enlightenment being this universal god-like experience, it is, in the end of the day, just a brain function. So is it possible to ‘lose’ your enlightenment in some kind of an accident just like how people lose their memory or other functions of their head? Also, other self-actualized attainments like emotional mastery and being ecstasic all the time. Can you lose them if your have a certain brain injury?

Yoga is not about awareness. It’s about controlling your life energy. Yoga is a whole science. Whilst meditation focuses on awareness to reach enlightenment, yoga focuses on raising your energies from the base of the spine to the topmost chakra: sahasrara. Yoga is about tapping to the fullest potential of the human body and mind. Watch these videos:

@Gustav there are many different paths to enlightenment. Question is, which one is right for you. You can only know that by reading a vast number of perspectives towards enlightenment, and then seeing which one suits your priorities. Because some of the techniques give more than just ‘enlightenment’.

There’s only one way of ‘finding it out for myself’ you fool. Yes you say that a short but good life is better than a long and miserable one. True. But it’s not better than a long and good life. Sadhguru didn’t state the fact about early death for no reason. Did you read the article? He was talking about the importance of learning yoga to control your life energies. If you master your energy or ‘prana’, then you can live passionately without having to die young. Yoga is more important than meditation.

Yogis like Paramahansa Yogananda and others on the path of Kriya yoga talk about the star of kutasha. I’m not going to dismiss the idea of the star of kutasha. Books where written by different yogi masters but they all describe the star of kutasha as the same, same colours same everything. As for why Buddhist meditators haven’t seen it, it’s because Kriya yoga is more advanced than vipassana. The star of kutasha is the doorway to all of enlightenment, and by attaining it, you will have the highest experience of non-duality possible. Btw everything I’m saying I paraphrased from yogiraj, who is a Kriya yoga master.

According to Kriya yoga, if you concentrate on the point between your eyebrows (called bhrumadiya) long enough, you will see a white star in a blue circle surrounded by an orange flame (called the star of kutasha). That is the doorway of all of consciousness. The strange thing is that they claim every single human being will see the same white star in blue circle inside orange flame. How is that possible? And why is it only being talked about in yoga? If this star of kutasha meant something big, why aren’t Buddhists and zen masters talking about this? Why don’t you see it when you’re tripping on psychedelics?

If sadhguru gets in a motorbike accident, is there any chance he will identify with his body when he wakes up in the hospital?

@Nahm so what’s your answer to the brain damage vs enlightenment question? Does there exist any type of injury to the brain that can negate your enlightenment?

@Joseph Maynor that learning to control your energy is essential if I’m to be passionate.

We’re trying to talk about if brain damage can unenlighten you please don’t bring enlightenment and strange loops in this.

@egoless if you want to learn Kriya yoga properly, check out this guy:

So I’m currently practicing Kriya yoga, and there are some techniques that require you to inhale for 10-15 seconds. The max that I can inhale is 5 seconds. Does anyone have any tips on how to considerably increase inhalation time? Thanks.

I understand enlightenment quite well. But I’m speaking practically here. If sadhguru was in a motorbike accident and loses his memory, will he still be enlightened? Enlightenment is a phenomenon of the brain. It’s quite hard to have this conversation because enlightenment doesn’t occur anywhere and the brain doesn’t exist and so on. But, just like snorting some psychedelics up your brain can give you an enlightenment experience, there can be things that happen to the brain that can lose your enlightenment. Stop being so ‘new age’ here. I’m not disagreeing with you when you say that the brain doesn’t cause our reality. But what I’m saying is that your perception of reality can change if the structure of your brain changes.

@Markus it’s not as simple as it sounds

Thanks man! How do I breathe through my lower abdomen?

@brovakhiin yes I know that nothing exists. But let’s be a little practical and relative here. Sadhguru is a master of energy and when he says that people who have passion die young, it must mean something.

Why not become an ascetic? Leo always says that in order to become a sage, you need at least 10,000 hours of meditation. If you stay in a city, that’ll take more than a decade. If you move to the mountains, forest, jungle, etc, you can spend 20 hours a day meditating and 4 hours sleeping and begging for food (yes, that’s how most ascetics get food). If you do that for three years, you will have far surpassed someone in the city who meditates for two hours a day for 20 years. Ascetism is a catalyst just like psychedelics.

@Shin this is serious shit man. Leo is convincing people to live more passionate lives. But by doing that, they will lose a lot of their life energies and eventually die young. If you want to live a long life, start yoga now. People ask whether they should start with life purpose or spirituality. The answer is spirituality. Your life depends on it.

@Ocean read the article if you want to know about passion and dying young. Read my posts if you want to know what to do about it. I can’t repeat everything just for you.

Listen. I’m not saying that it’s absolutely true. Stop bringing enlightenment and consciousness to a discussion about health. We are talking in terms of relative truth. If you are very passionate you will die young because you lose too much energy. Or in other words you release more energy than you receive. You need to learn to control those energies to live longer.

You’ll die young when your passion is consistently sustained. If you want to live a passionate life without dying young you better learn to control your life energies.

Sadhguru said that he supports trump. If you don’t believe me watch this video: