ajasatya

@Life Coach you gave me the perfect opportunity to explain a bit more about my own life. i'll do it with simplicity for i'm not going to be judgmental about others. i live in brazil, a country that lacks education. so i'm working my ass off in my academic career (teachers/professors are poorly paid here btw) in order to be able to change the educating system in some critical aspects. our public education is precarious. you can do your own research about the brazilian public education to see what i'm talking about. but! i do ALL this with peace in my heart. i work from a place of contentment and compassion for everyone around me. i don't open my mouth to criticize others. i work hard with peace and consistency. i live a simple life. i don't give my money to big companies because they suck our country's resources. i have a tiny set of clothes. i consume cheap and healthy food (meat is expensive). i don't give my money to the agriculturalists, who own HUGE lands and explore them to produce meat... they're drying our precious water and destroying our trees QUICKLY. you can check it out as well. am i going to feel sad? hopeless? am i going to waste my life instead of being loving and caring? no. i'm getting married soon and if everything goes well i'll have kids just like everyone else does. and i'll work towards guiding my family within a simple and healthy lifestyle. and it's also true that i, as this avatar, cannot control everything. the situation in brazil is becoming more complicated each day. so i DO have my last hope to live on from a state of peace, which is becoming a monk and producing my own food with my own hands. the human race is full of flaws. please forgive us. i apologize for every spiritual teacher that charges for his teachings. i apologize for pedophile priests. i apologize for our corrupt government. i apologize for my lack of wisdom for i was born and i'm going to die eventually and i'm trying to do my best in between those moments, just like everyone. please forgive me because i love you, truly.

i stopped using weed because i started to realize how retarded i would become after smoking it.

@Lynnel hopelessness for what? human future? your future? anyway, i simply visualize what society needs the most. i also have a backup plan. if everything goes wrong, i'll be content with simply going to live in a monastery and becoming a zen monk.

I LOVE YOU ALL! try it without the need for explanation within parenthesis. it's even more liberating!

@username this is an old and common theme. you're seeing this in reality because this is how you've been seeing yourself.

@Gladius let it go. it's a fantasy. get healthy. presence is fundamental. be present in your own life first.

@spicy_pickles do it. you're the worst person on the face of the earth because you're hurting yourself. you can't go anywhere if you're lacking self love because all you'll be able to do is either demand satisfaction or try to be a people pleaser. both are destructive patterns.

@rush start organizing your life. there's nothing else to say about it.

@Kevster are you using meditation to inflate your ego? meditation challenge... what the hack does that even mean? seek instructions for a meditation technique called zazen. start a meditation routine. after each meditation session, read a chapter from zen mind, beginner's mind. learn the proper way to train your mind.

the love i experience is an intense happiness due to the fact that i am alive right now. it's impossible to experience it if you haven't subjected your mind to a training process yet because the unconsciously conditioned mind is attached to the past and/or the future. thus you experience neediness, loneliness, remorse, fear and anxiety. if the mind is consciously conditioned to pay attention to what you are right now, then you will be content and peaceful. anger will be transformed into tenderness and neediness will be transformed into contemplation. if you ask me what to do, the best thing i can do is tell you what i did. i subjected myself to a rigorous zen training. meditation (zazen) routine, present mind practice throughout the day, lots of zen readings and retreats. thanks, @Loreena. suffering + pointers like the ones i'm giving saved my life.

you want me to list things that i should expect from a relationship and that's the problem because i don't expect anything. i just want to express how affectionate i can be. i don't want to get anything FROM it. i don't even NEED a relationship. it's a bonus in my life because i'm already complete. in fact, everyone is already complete but people are convinced otherwise.

insanely beautiful words.

my relationships, including my intimate one of course, are means to my deepest expression of Love, which goes beyond thinking and words, reaching gestures and acts. relationships as means to reach Love are egoistic and entail suffering. Love must be the ground foundation and relationships arise from it.

@Rebecc yes it can be lonely for a while until you learn how to be your best company. then loneliness transforms into solitude, which is the ground foundation for peace, emotional maturity and deeper learning.

@TJM1959 we're here to invite you to master yourself without attachment to your self. it's normal to feel anxiety everytime we notice things that we're better off dropping.

i mean work on YOUR OWN happiness. the best thing you can do is being an example. maybe an inspiration.

@AlexB wake up completely.

@Life Coach it's not for me lol when people i know get closer to me and start to see how my daily happiness flows, they become inspired to engage in a meditation habit and work towards liberation themselves. we can't say that studying the daily practice of someone else works for everyone but it does work for many people.

@blacksapp ask things you ask yourself and things you want to know about her. ask then listen. ask then listen.

@Psychonaut it happens because you're not practicing mindfulness properly yet. you'd have to be able to appreciate every moment with complete delight. expand your meditation practice.

@tyy personally i don't think it helps in any way towards liberation. when i practiced it, the mind tried to associate its egoic patterns (my personality) with the behavior of some wild animal, which is just another form of attachment to a limited identity. you see, the whole problem comes down to calming the mind's activities. and this is all you really need in order to find peace and compassion. i'd recommend zazen instead, which is solely about experiencing no-mind. my ultimate suggestion is that you find a zen sangha where you live, because zen practitioners actually know what they're doing. i've checked your profile and it says "ontario". ready to follow the trail?

@OhHiMark you're still carrying the attitude of a people pleaser with you. you're always trying to attract or please "others" and this desire/discontentment entails tensions. this constant discomfort about yourself can be sensed by "others". it sounds like you have a lot of work to do towards liberation from narcissism and pride. i wish you the best.

anatomy and yoga iyengar's guide for yoga practice (no pictures) pdf for iyengar's book (with pictures)

@Alex K this is what i did: i threw myself into the pool of yoga. asanas, ayurveda diet, ancient scriptures, singing mantras with hare krishna devotees, studying anatomy and the science of hatha yoga. now i'm a healthy person.