ajasatya

follow your intuition. if what leo (or anybody else) says doesn't ring a bell for you, then let go of it.

after? there's no after. just live with it. get used to it. you call it darkness but it's just a relative judgment. darkness or lightness, it doesn't matter. it feels uncomfortable because it's unusual.

@harisankartj then go meditate and try to stop existence. get it over with already. you don't have to label yourself as a "monk" for that. you can just sit down and do it right now. if you try to escape this task, anxiety will grow stronger. you've reached a point of no return.

@Ilya self inquiry gets you to an uncomfortable state of uncertainty in which there's no words left to be said. get used to that state. stay with it until you become comfortable with silence.

@emind so much ego! so much pride! give up already. we don't have to be better than anyone else to be happy. happiness is something else. if you're not willing to stop feeding your ego, don't even get started. the way of ego is an endless hole of agony and unsatisfactory.

@carlos flores

@How to be wise observe your state of being throughout the day. are you taken away to horrendous trips by thoughts of regret or fear? if your answer is either "i cannot observe myself that much" or "yes", then you lack concentration.

@PetarKa i dare you to die

@Lorcan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_system binary system: 0, 1 hexadecimal system: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F when we state a mathematical truth like a²+b²=c², it doesn't depend on the numerical system. it will be true no matter what basis you use to represent the numbers you plug in the formula. so calculus, geometry, linear algebra etc do still work.

@ParanoidAndroid if you want enlightenment to get something out of it, you won't make it. enlightenment is the very absence of egoistic desires. enlightenment is living each moment for its own sake.

don't rush. it's about loving yourself. it's impossible to release repressed emotions fast and comfortably. jeez, it's actually impossible to do it comfortably, slowly or fast. why don't you go on a slow and purposeless walk? visit the sea or a river. fill up your being with some loving experiences. have you ever tried singing the mahamantra with krishna devotees? it feels awesome!

@Charl when she said that "your political view is one of the most important things in your life and is the most effective thing concerning impact (through voting, demonstrating, etc)", she was talking about herself. instead of arguing, just listen. it's a richer way to know the other person. and when you talk about what you think, make it clear that you're talking about your way of thinking. don't try to dismantle the other person.

@Hardkill your problem is very typical and i've been there. ask yourself again about trying to use others. you want to meet girls just to get laid and because of that, you suffer greatly. if you want to heal yourself, then be truly interested about the other person. what does she like? what are her strange habits? what kind of suffering does she go through? why does she turn her eyes to the right before smiling? how did she get that small scar near the ear? what's she scared of? open your heart to childlike curiosity.

@Hardkill you still need to go through a LOT of suffering until you decide to stop using people. stop being a vulture. stop being a vampire. meditate more. reach your deepest pain.

@egoless @Shin, do you look like shia labeouf in real life?

@egoless they are rare and so are we. do you think that interesting girls are in a better situation than we are? stop thinking too little of you. this is straightforward bullshit. i am an introverted too. the difference between us related to this aspect is the fact that i did throw myself in new scenarios. i didn't just stay still and cry about the amount of uninteresting girls out there and how uninteresting they are. i went to yoga events, cookery events, religious events, spiritual conferences, retreats, naturalist events, holistic events, ayahuasca events. dude, there's a whole universe full of interesting human beings. and even after finding a woman to live with, i still do those things. i didn't do it to find a girl. i am expanding my life. getting to know interesting women wasn't even that great compared to the wholeness of life that i experienced and still experience. grow bigger. listen to thousands of people.

make deep eye contact with her. both of you'll be so present that it can be a little scary. but if you do so, there will be no rushing thoughts arising. i put a lot of effort to get used to it. make deep eye contact and scan your body. relax shoulders, face muscles, abdomen, hips, arms and legs. it goes so deep that it can feel like samadhi. that's how i met my future wife and a lot of women before her.

@egoless deep eye contact

@Echoes the baghavad gita talks about it. some people need mental images for the practice of bhakti yoga. the baghavad gita teaches krishna devotees to think of a blue human being that plays flute, even though krishna is the absolute infinity itself. the reason for this practice is a good subject for contemplation. you're going in the right direction.

@nick96 i'm going to use practical terms. you know you're neurotic when: you meet people to get something from them (social approval, sex, money etc) you can't simply stay still and do nothing... you feel impatient for no reason you worry about what people think of you you live to satisfy your senses, usually depending on porn, excessive food, loud music and/or other forms of excitement you live in a cycle of attempts to purchase happiness spiritual practices exist to help us getting rid of those by inviting us to look inside and find the root cause of our sense of poverty. we become healthy when we extinguish the cause of those symptoms. ignore spiritual terms like ego, self etc. just do the job of looking inside and finding the source of your suffering. why can't you just be? why can't you be at peace at this moment? be radically and brutally honest. there's nothing else to do.

@egoless there's a zen story with a man who wanted to be a disciple of the zen master bodhidharma. he asked bodhidharma to pacify his mind and bodhidharma said show me your mind and i will pacify it. the guy said i can't find it. bodhidharma then said there, i pacified it.

that's an impossible task. how does your tail feel?

it is relieving because it's an endless dance. atoms collide, babies are born and then die someday. volcanoes explode and kill thousands of people. stars implode/explode and destroy planets around them. galaxies blow up and entirely new zones in the universe are being created right now. if i witness a murder, i'll be sad for a while. sadness is part of the endless dance. your attempt to go moral and judge the act of others won't get you anywhere. take care of your own suffering. dance with me.

as you read these words, the universe is reading itself. as you think about what i say, the universe is thinking about what it just said to itself. when person A kills person B, the universe kills itself. i, ajasatya, typed this message. you received a message from the universe. and right now you're the universe reading its own message.

@egoless when i feel sad, the universe is feeling sadness through me. why is it wrong? i don't find sadness a bad thing. suffering comes from resisting to sadness. fear of sadness is a nightmare. if you find some teaching useless, if it doesn't touch your heart, then throw it away. just be sincere. teachings are not absolute. some people may need to listen to that teaching of no evil/good to become free of some useless feeling of guilt. in fact, we're not evil nor good. we can be ignorant. we're born ignorant and then we learn to live as we grow. we start to notice how we hurt ourselves and others and then we stop doing it. or at least we minimize it. that's all.