ajasatya

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a human being, when embodying Truth - a true master -, acts naturally according to what is called "good" in the relative level, even though he doesn't label "good" or "bad" with thinking processes. why is that? because he feels in his bones the fact that we're ONE BEING. then how to attain mastery? we start by practicing oneness with effort to break through our egoic resistances. after a while, we become so tender that oneness practices itself through us. that's why a true master is always a servant of Truth. it's the happiest way of living.

@emind hello there. your suffering is legitimate. i've been there. i know how it feels to have the urge to fix the world. and i'm here to tell you this: your world is you. you need to go deep into yourself and feel all the pain you can find. you need to learn how to forgive yourself so you'll be able to have a clean life. forgiveness comes with pain. get into this inner journey for real. there's no other way. do you wanna be good at something? this is the real deal: self-mastery.

stop being lazy because nobody else will do it for you. you're still thinking about thoughts of others, afraid of rejection. you're still deeply trapped in your own self-sabotage patterns. everytime you leave the boat too soon, you'll drown in the ocean of unconscious human suffering.

@Erlend please, you and your mother, read this and this. i strongly recommend yogic pranayamas with consistency and patience. try to find the nearest genuine yoga teacher.

@PetarKa have you noticed the beauty of people around you? even the closest ones? have you attained enough concentration to walk gracefully and smile lightly? strengthen ALL virtues you can. don't worry about enumerating too many. the true value of a man is in his fluency with human virtues.

if you're smoking pot, drinking alcohol, eating sugar or inhaling/ingesting any other substance (or masturbating) to do the job of letting go for you, then you gotta be extra careful because that's not liberating. that's just an attempt to transfer responsibility. you know you're stuck when the easy escape method comes to your mind everytime you find yourself in trouble. the real work is a lot more harder, dirtier and ENORMOUSLY MORE REWARDING.

@Damir Elezi i am very happy for you due to your courage to take action. pain hurts but it's not hell yet. hell is trying to avoid necessary pain.

@Dharam this pain you feel is noble and rare. to grow out of it you need to implement a meditation habit. speaking about myself: i wouldn't have done it without zazen and hatha yoga. live fully now. transform yourself consciously now. the pain has done its job, which was to take you to this purifying state. now you can leave the pain behind and do your job. it's your turn.

you're already breathing right now. coming back to breath is just noticing the fact that you're breathing. you don't really do something that you weren't doing before. bringing your attention back to breathing is an spontaneous detachment from thoughts.

@Mert stop trying to do this or that technique. when you notice yourself doing something, just comeback to your breath. don't judge yourself. don't judge your experience. judging is also doing.

stop trying to avoid pain. look straight into her eyes and be as true as truth itself can be. learn how to be sincere for once as soon as possible. you're not hurting her. she's not hurting you. she's hurting herself and you're hurting yourself due to blind attachment. grow out of it.

@Damir Elezi both of you are suffering from attachment. nothing good can come out of it, only more attachment and suffering. when two ego driven human beings get too close they suck each other's energy. the healing path goes in the opposite direction: to a state of completeness. stop feeding her dependency. she has to feel the pain she needs to. avoiding pain is a waste of time.

@SFRL

@Durka_Durka when you meditate you're not opening up for self harassment. you're actually becoming conscious of how harassing you are to yourself all the time. ego is another word for I. stop saying that your ego hates you. you hate yourself. accept it first and feel the pain. be aware of the fact that you lack self love. once you have accepted it, then change can happen. never stop meditating and lean towards true human virtues, like humility, simplicity and compassion. let go of toxic patterns like pride, vanity and envy. these are lifetime tasks. your suffering is your fuel.

this is true. alcohol was my liberating tool in the very very beginning. i didn't even know what i was doing but i was able to experience a much less self-sabotaging ego when i was drunk. i would repeat to myself: i'm going to stop drinking when my sober self reach my drunk self. and it happened. "luckily" that phase only lasted for 3 years. then i started to practice mindfulness.

@Shin in brazilian portuguese we have a special word for it. we call it solitude. i'm not sure about its meaning in english, but in portuguese it's different from loneliness.

spiritual research is different from usual intellectual research because, in the former, knowing "things" from others won't get you anywhere. you can ask as many questions you want to whoever you want. even to enlightened beings. no matter what is said, it won't help. for this kind of research you have to realize that there's no ultimate authority except for your own direct experience. so sit down and do the work. trust nothing else. attach to no story. give up on science. give up on religion. give up on buddhas. and be patient. this process takes years. maybe decades.

@Alicja_ give up completely and just stay still. this is the most profound teaching. stop trying. just give up. watch your ego dissolve a little more. you do not owe anything to anyone, so let yourself be free.

@Dharam you can watch as many videos you want, but it won't do any good unless you get your hands dirty and sit down for good. watch your breath and let thoughts come and go. thoughts of jealously are just thoughts. as you can already see, becoming free of identification with thoughts is extremely liberating. so look for instructions for meditation. i'm sharing these ones with you.

there you go. it has been said. PS: be careful not to practice yoga just for the girls. you'd play a ridiculous role. instead, practice yoga with your heart.

some women may not suffer from being reduced to a sexual object. in fact, it may even be a fetish. but it's a particular case. even for those women it doesn't work in the long run. everyone (man or woman) likes true affection. the vast majority of the women i met appreciated the fact that i would listen to them and look at them without malice, trying to know their deepest sufferings. they felt great because it always had been extremely rare for them to talk with a friendly man in this machist society. as a result of compassionate listening, they release a lot of suffering and cry their pains out, which contain horrifying childhood traumas very often. another result is the fact that i was able to master my sexuality, of course. that's why i said what i said when the guy asked about celibacy.

poor john. by acknowledging the fact that he is special, he didn't notice the fact that everyone is equally special

@Butterflystory yes, i've done it. it's extremely liberating. body: practice yoga. one of the purposes of yogasanas is to channel sexual energy to other areas of your being. mind: practice compassion. when thinking of a woman, be aware of the fact that she suffers greatly and needs to be acknowledged as a true human being instead of simply a means for your own sexual satisfaction. try to attain this kind of look when looking at people:

these experiences are awesome but my advice is not to look for them unless you're already completely healed because the initial effort should be driven towards purification (complete shift of lifestyle to a healthier way to live) anyway, we can try to explain reality with words... we can try to judge these experiences as real or not but that's all nonsense. everything is within reality. i've been taking ayahuasca periodically twice per month (sometimes three times) and i can see clearly how much of a huge shelf of experiences reality is. open up and have fun. the human domain of conscious existence is quite vast.