ajasatya

@john5170 there are many enjoyable meditative practices to achieve a mindful lifestyle. these are the ones that i've incorporated in my life so i can have a huge variability of possibilities without overdoing any of them: zazen kin'hin silent contemplation hatha yoga bhakti yoga biodance ayahuasca trips

@The Monk notice the alignment of your health with the planet's health and you'll be fine. right now, the production of beef and its convenience for consumption are raping this beautiful planet. so are the extensive practices of mono-agriculture. this is one of the causes of our diseases as a whole Living Being. we become ill as earth becomes ill.

then drop your laziness and train your mind to be present and accept Reality just the way it is already. we grow out of the mud by cultivating the attitude of fixing our posture a bazillion times in a day. open your chest and watch your breath. self destructive thoughts will arise. then you observe them and fix your posture once more. walk with dignity throughout the day. allow the top of your head to touch the blue sky. there is no freedom without discipline.

this is why Truth is so devastating. not being here is actually impossible. welcome to Eternity.

@AlldayLoop if you can bear your ignorance about your true nature, go ahead. i couldn't.

@LaucherJunge the needier you are, the more "others" will reject you. this happens because, very intimately, you're already rejecting yourself.

@Pristinemn you've probably been consistently living bad habits everyday, without skipping a single one. that's why they stick. good or bad habits. destructive or constructive habits. it doesn't matter. make good use of your brain's neuroplasticity.

how can you be so sure? be more assertive and sincere. if you choose to move your arm, you can do it right now unless you're quadriplegic. still, you'd be able to blink your eyes and communicate with them. this will sound silly. to the ground. 10 pushups right now. do it. seriously. do it. you want distance from Truth because you can't take it yet. and you're right. become healthy and functional first.

to men: there is no friendzone. you're just too needy. to women: there are no assholes. you're just too needy.

no @Wouter, he is right. you think that there's a deeper issue, but this is the very issue itself: you heal overthinking by doing something that completely breaks your pattern. and the body is a straightforward key. the mind goes with the flow of your daily activities. become free of mind agitating tasks like porn addiction, masturbation addiction, video games, animes, loud music and become friends with Silence. listen to the naturally beautiful sound of your breath touching your throat. go watch the sea and listen to it. do something completely different and keep on breaking your patterns.

@kieranperez i can relate to this. i used to imagine myself beating the shit outta people. the mental visualizations got really ugly. i felt so violent inside. i got over it by understanding that i was responsible for myself even when i was a little child. but i was too ignorant and vulnerable so i let too much shit in. as i grew up, i noticed that i really hated myself. the hatred was so big that it felt like i hated everyone around me. this is the key: you're responsible for yourself and you ALWAYS WERE and you ALWAYS WILL BE. the problem is not people. it doesn't matter what they do... it will always feel like they're doing whatever just to irritate you. but this is the true essence of the teachings of no-self/no-others: it's your fault. it may feel like you hate others, but you actually hate Life Itself. to be more precise, there isn't even an you to hate Life. there's just intense hatred being experienced. shut up. sit down, close your eyes and observe all that hatred. find it in your body. let go of its reasons and just stay with the emotional/physical sensation. this is important: let go of the reasons and just stay with the physical sensation. everytime you come up with a reason, you're feeding the hatred within you. feel it very deeply. make it very intimate. BECOME IT. and then you'll be free.

@egoless there you go keep it up until it starts to keep you up.

@The Monk go slowly. drop one bad habit and stay clean for at least 2 years. we come back to bad habits when we cannot connect deeply with the good ones. it takes time. the motivation is stronger if you understand that you're not doing it just for yourself. of course it's your life that will improve first, but by purifying ourselves we are building a better world as well.

no you haven't. you've never tasted freedom from future, otherwise you wouldn't be feeling the way you are right now. you have to learn how to love yourself regardless of the situation. nobody else will do it for you.

@K VIL the layer of lies usually contain a lot of things. that's why it's huge. the need to meet the expectations of the parents the need to hold the mask of the responsible human being when you're being responsible for a life that you don't really want the need to be admired by colleagues and professors the need to prove to someone else that you can do something when we act from those needs, we're fated to failure. and the kind of frustration that arises from lie-based failures can't be overcome by growth... only by stubbornness, which feeds the cycle of lies. when our motivation is genuine, we change drastically everytime we fail. we grow stronger and more brave. the fear of failure becomes smaller, not bigger.

@aclokay your life is too easy for your health. free yourself from excessive convenience. your motives to do what you think you want to do are built upon a huge layer of lies.

@MiracleMan @Kaity attraction to emotionally damaged partner comes from a lack of self love. since you undervalue yourself, you can't imagine yourself being valuable to a healthy partner. and then ego comes into play with the neediness for the approval of someone else. so you imagine yourself with an emotionally damaged partner because he/she is already in deep shit. "how can it get worse than that? of course i will be a positive thing in his/her life. then i'll be appreciated as a good person and loved as i want to be."

straightforward hatha yoga. some postures in particular: Urdhva Mukha Svanasana Adho Mukha Svanasana Virabhadrasana I Virabhadrasana II Ustrasana Matsyasana to perform those postures and to benefit from them, you need the guidance of a competent teacher. preferably someone who's transformed his own body with yoga before starting to teach.

i was listening to sadhguru once and something that he said hit me really hard. he said something like "i talk a lot. i teach yoga. i prepare people to teach yoga. but my real goal is to teach you to sit like this. if you only learn how to sit like this i consider my job done with you." then i observed how all of those masters sit. they're all super relaxed. relaxed face expressions. so i started to study why i wasn't able to sit like they sit. it became very practical. every time i sit, i would observe how relaxed i allow myself to be. gensho sensei was explaining about one fundamental difference between the occidental and the oriental way to learn. in the occident we want to understand before trying. in the orient they imitate, and experience how it feels first. only then they reason about it. so yes. in the beginning it's an imitation but it's the key for me to have a glimpse of what they feel. then i practice and practice until it becomes me. in zen we bow to buddha. we bow to our true nature. but it's not about devotion. it's about allowing oneself to experience true humility of heart, which is where the deepest peace comes from. if you're not humble, you will not be able to experience peace. so we bow and bow until it reaches us through our body movement. the body language is extremely powerful. when i remember maharashi's eyes, i feel his humility. his graceful way to express himself with his body. his way of wishing happiness for everybody.

you need some serious practice of yoga to open the structure of your chest.

you're doing great it's just that your priorities aren't completely aligned with Truth yet. let me explain how i did it, since you asked. there was a point from which i decided to sit like siddhartha, walk like jesus, smile like maharashi, be healthy like sharath jois, speak like adyashanti and do good like sadhguru. it's a long process but i think that's the highest potential for a human being. i am about to finish my masters, but it doesn't matter that much. my academic role is just a play. this is why i became able to meditate 24/7: i threw away the illusory roles and my mental space became very VAST. if you continue going to retreats, your priorities will shift naturally. this is why i said that you're doing great. from yogi to yogi, much love. ajasatya

why aren't you loving, caring, soft and compassionate?

there are a lot of people doing it. i am doing it. if you have these illusory barriers in your mind, it means that you simply don't want it yet. imagine yourself listing all these things to ramana maharashi and finishing your sentence with an interrogative tone just like you did. he would look at your eyes very deeply and smile in a funny way. what do you see?

you have to practice a lot, but it's like fishing. it doesn't matter how good you are at fishing, in the end it isn't you who make the fish bite the fishhook. if you want to attain domain over satori, you have to allow meditation to be the most common and intimate thing to you. you have to live in meditation 24/7 just like the masters (ramana maharashi, shinzen young, shunryo suzuki, siddhartha gautama etc). you have to become a master. do you know what it takes to be a master?

yes. we work for human prosperity (earth planet prosperity) and wellbeing.