ajasatya

@Costa7 i do apply it since i'm an yogi. it's too complex to talk about it in a few lines as i like to keep my posts short. i recommend that you find an yoga teacher and start practicing. you should experience an enormous increase in the quality of your life. instead of reading about it or asking people, experience and feel first. it's not like you're gonna take psychedelics.

Reality has no substance. it's shockingly mystical. but its mechanics, the aspects of Maya, are like shadows of an extremely complex dance performance in which there's nothing dancing at all.

@Ariel how am i supposed to achieve the perfection of an yogi if i eat on mcdonald's every saturday?

my life purpose is to get as much of life as possible every moment. most of the time, all i have to do is relax every muscle and open my ears, eyes, skin, nose, tongue and mind. life cannot go further than that. i do take part in ayahuasca ceremonies 2x per month and experience a lot of interesting stuff like ego death and raw reality. but mastering no control with the usual substances of the body feels much more liberating than those peak experiences.

not just that. go live your life before you get too old. they won't change unless they suffer enough. and that's their problem. you don't need to give them a special reason. saying anything about them may sound like an emotional blackmail. you're a strong person. you're bigger than your past. go see the world. have you ever wondered how it would feel like to walk in solitude near hindu temples in india? this is just one possibility.

@Anirban657 mindfulness retreats like sesshins or vipassana. you have to train yourself to be present. it can't just be done in one go.

no. it's not a convergent series. theres no real number L for which lim_{n->inf} sum(-1)^n = L.

i don't just agree with you but i also have something to add up to what you said. i think it's important that we understand where trash culture comes from. the so-called "artists" have been producing trash that's been largely accepted because society is drowning in spiritual poverty and suffering. it's important that we don't think we're better than them. it's actually crucial that we develop compassion for them.

it's off-topic but it's important to be spread: it is happening.

be careful here. if you want to assume that the result of that sum is 0, then you have to describe its parcels more precisely. if you mean it to sum exactly 0, then the pattern should be said explicitly: "let's add an arbitrary number of +(1-1)'s", meaning that even though the number of 1's and the number of -1's are infinite, they are equally infinite because they grow in the same speed. it completely crashes step 4 because it's impossible to replace the brackets like that. that algorithm of replacement is incompatible with the fact that the number of 1's and -1's are the equal. edit: it's impossible to break arithmetics because it's built upon solid axioms. however, it's possible to notice its incompleteness. you might want to check out Gödel's incompleteness theorems for this.

@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.

just wanted to share this piece of perfection

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.