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@Shakazulu experiencing nirvana is a simple (not complex) and hard (not easy) task. it's so simple that we struggle with it because the typical mind is conditioned to chew complexity. nirvana cannot be experienced with struggle because it's an effortless state. you can't get there. you can only allow it to manifest itself. you need to allow yourself to have moments of contentment and unconditional acceptance of everything. if you look carefully, the life of a buddha is a life of humility and renunciation. why is it so?

@Shakazulu drop all steps! it cannot be achieved. it can only be noticed.

@Marks199 what the hell are you doing to yourself? these symptoms don't come out of nowhere.

bingo! what do you really want for your life? what do you REALLY want? if money can afford it, be careful.

very good! humility is the golden key.

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you can't. society is not ready to understand the depth of a human being yet. meditation is not making you angry. it's making you conscious of the anger that you've been building inside of you and that affects the way you think, speak and act. what would i do? i would be completely self-responsible and stop seeing a therapist. what i recommend that you do: search for another therapist. look for one who can perform a more humanized approach. look for a therapist who can listen to what you feel without judging you.

@Patrique so, tell me more. what's not part of the real world? how can you be so sure about your definition of reality? haven't you seen those wonderful paintings made by enlightened zen masters? do you think they want to deceive people? art touches me deeply. it makes me experience some rare feelings. i am grateful for the work those artists. i am even going to marry an artist! if you have an investigative psychedelic experience someday, you'll know better what you should mean by the word "real"

no it's not that. it's a mystical experience. zen practitioners spend years cultivating the kind of life in which these experiences arise in their meditative practices. i'm talking about moments of true not knowing. no thinking. just presence. it's not philosophical as you stated, it's deeply experiential.

@Lynnel you hold those beliefs because you believe that the world would be a better place without that kind of people. this is what i did to overcome negative beliefs about some people: i became close to them. and during the time we talked, i was constantly observing my body and relaxing every muscle. i didn't want to make any point. i didn't even want to understand them better. i was simply getting used to their presence and to letting them be. do you know anyone you'd call feminazi? are you ready to watch your abdomen, shoulders, throat, forehead and hips get really tense?

@Lynnel give up on trying to fix the world when you can barely fix yourself. if you're still living internal wars, how can you improve the world? that's an immature and hypocritical behavior.

oh that's a hellish life. i am stable in the middle way. neither positive nor negative. if i am to experience joy, i fully experience it and then it vanishes. same thing with sadness. no attachment and no aversion is the practice that suits me the best.

@dead man walking how would you attain complete ignorance? when i was a child, this question really intrigued me. how can i think of nothing? i asked myself many many times. have you implemented a meditation routine yet?

this is a HUGE misconception. HUUUUUGE! if i have to choose between laptop/books and real difficulties, i'd choose real difficulties 9999 times out of 10000. auxiliary material goods aren't worth shit compared to freedom. in the end, i'll be the one experiencing my deathbed.

@The Monk you underestimate your power. right now there are thousands of people living with much less education baggage than you. have you searched for self-sustainable communities that implement permaculture practices? have you searched for buddhist communities? your parents are blindfolded by their own suffering. are you willing to trade unhealthy comfort for freedom? quit this "i'm only 18" baby BS. in some families, the parents push their sons to go live up on their own at your age, but it seems like you've been trained to think like a little child.

@The Monk if you ask me to be completely sincere, i'd get the fuck out of the place you live. have you ever watched into the wild? i'd do the same thing except that i wouldn't go to alaska. in fact, that's what i did.

@How to be wise focus on your breath and notice your thoughts go away. at that moment, you're neither good nor evil; you have no past and no future; you have no personality, no friends and no enemies. at that moment, it doesn't matter what you are because in fact there's nothing to be. be eternally free. live in meditation and you'll know the benefits of enlightenment. you'll know because you'll experience it, not because some dude told you on the internetz.

if you guys want to make it happen, i recommend finding a good event like a mindfulness workshop. it'd make it easier for everyone. nobody would need to plan anything else.

@Max Hafner @Fredrik Andersson

why not? free yourself. you owe me nothing.

Truth speaks through me. it's impossible to be happy and stop happiness from reaching people around me. the other way around works the same way: it's impossible to stop suffering from reaching people around me if i'm suffering.

because nobody gives a shit about growth. it is too painful. we become serious about doing the work and enjoying it by "accident".

if your addictions aren't part of your core values, then yes. you have to replace your mental content. you need to give in to learning something new.

@PetarKa you tell us experience it for a couple of months and see if it works.

@The White Belt you gotta sit on the tip of the zafu with your sacrum. your hip should lean forward, making your spine line up more easily.