ajasatya

awesome topic! congratulations for your healing. i wish you true happiness!!!

the first step usually requires some planning and courage. i had to leave my parents and start a life based on minimalism so i could focus completely on the path. a sudden leap of faith... the old self murder.

try everything else. for real. sooner or later you'll see that true happiness comes from not needing external things. self-development is finding that freedom.

sit quietly and try to reach the core of this pain you're feeling. go for it and stop running away. this pain comes from the fallen pieces of your egoic armor. let go of your pride completely and come back to humility. it's the most mature way to live on.

how's it like to live leo's life one day?

coming down to the conclusion that there's nothing to do, which is a proper pointer to people who have been meditating for quite a while. but the guy himself recognized that he still has work to do in order to discipline his monkey mind, so the "do nothing" teaching is useless at this point. instead, i recommend this.

@Ether then disbelief this very one:

no. towards complete responsibility for one's own health.

@Sri McDonald Trump Maharaj, can you help @mikeyy?

@OnceMore it looks like one of those rare cases of a broken pride. it's time to come back and review your reasons. have you experienced Love in the last few years? not intimate love. not attachment. i mean real Love.

@tarek1945 sure. we're welcome! i wish you the best of Life. with love,

@tarek1945 people will come up with crazy ideas about enlightenment, but the core work is purification. observe how you create your own suffering by being egoist and use meditation to let go of craving, possession, control, anger, jealously, impatience, avarice and luxury. these impulses are strengthened by thoughts of an undisciplined mind. life will feel very pleasant after your purification. this is enlightenment: true peace of heart. of course, enlightenment is not something you do in your bedroom. it requires a complete shift of lifestyle, as you'll see in a few months from now.

@mikeyy ask them. they know better. tell them your intentions. they might be able to help you.

Life's already what you want. dealing with anxiety dealing with remorse/guilt dealing with sexual desire dealing with your eating habit dealing with your parents dealing with your friends dealing with your intimate lover dealing with your children etc those are the fields. study hard but be careful... they're 90% practical and there's no teacher to tell you that you've passed or failed.

@Marianitozz that's what i did. but if you're interested in what "others" think about it, then you're not ready yet. just start by living like a monk. becoming an ordered monk is something else.

@mikeyy check this out. please give us feedback about what you find out!

@Marianitozz why do you want to hear our opinions?

@Preetom i like to talk to people and to listen. i like to know what makes them happy and sad. i like to look at their eyes and be able to really see them. i like to see children running and playing around. i like to see people healing themselves and shining like the big old sun. i like to dance and i like it when people dance with me. i did write a short journal. you can find it here. during my transformation i tried to write a book but i wasn't able to catch up. recently i've written a short book. it's in portuguese, though. about the 24/7 mindfulness practice, go for it. it's the best gift you can give to yourself and mainly to everyone around you :). pura graça.pdf

keep looking keep searching as if there was something to be understood some superior knowledge to attain so you can feel special so you can feel different so you can feel better so much of you. my dear brother, there has never been anything to comprehend. we keep on running away but eventually we understand that there's no need for anything else but to be kind. kindness, my dear brother. kind words. can you love me? because i don't want to play your game of being better than... i don't want to run. i'm getting older. i rather walk and smile. i rather be kind, gentle. all i would want from you is that you can feel complete, content, present.

@stevegan928 no. on mondays i started to practice zazen in a sangha only at night. then, after a few weeks, i started to remember the intention to practice meditation in random moments. these moments became more and more frequent so i started to meditate while doing other things. and then there was one point where the meditative state was my natural state and i was able to reach celibacy very easily.

@TBurg82 hello! i had the same problem. practicing yoga, zazen and biodance healed me. but it took a while. it requires patience and consistency. nothing else could heal me. i had to do it.

yes it's extremely challenging. but it's also extremely exciting because you're doing it for your own health. i recommend (because thats how i began) finding a sangha to practice with. for me it was every monday at 8pm. then mondays became the best day of the week. and then i carried the practice with me throughout the day. so choose one day of the week and organize yourself in a way that you won't miss it. constancy is more important than spending many hours in one meditation session every month.

why would you tell people they can't do something? how is that inspiring? the guy is motivated to engage in a 24/7 mindfulness practice so let him master his own life. when people ask for help, it's usually because they already have enough people around them saying stuff like you just said.

less than 1 year. in the beginning i would practice mindfulness intentionally 24/7. it required a lot of effort to stay present. but after a few months, the practice started to live in me and i wasn't doing it anymore. it was doing me. and it became completely effortless until this very moment. be careful not to fool yourself for an enlightened one works happily for his own living. i am a mathematician and i could be anything else. chop wood, carry water. be more sincere towards what you want. and by being sincere i mean go for it. if you want to live like a monk then do it. if you want to program then do it. as long as you don't practice any kind of violence, mastering nonduality has nothing to do with the role you play. it's exactly the opposite: knowing that you're not the role you play. when a man embodies truth, the result is the practice of all virtues. ask yourself if you're not letting yourself be filled with laziness.

@nick96 try this http://www.zen-azi.org/