Nahm

Generally speaking here....meditation and a little beyond, in terms of what usually comes up. The ‘standard’ I’d recommend for quieting the mind is consciously breathing from the stomach, gently retuning attention from thoughts to the stomach as needed, while relaxing over and over from head to toe. The key here is one goes from a voluntary thinking paradigm, to no mind, or peace / clarity, experiencing arising insights, instead of any incessant thinking or rumination. This brings any emotional suppression up, which I’ve found the emotional scale to be the most simple & effective tool for understanding and processing. Beyond that, this list of meditations is intended to be an intuitive list, if you will. Such that one could look over the list each morning and naturally one of these will catch that attention and bring to presence peace of mind, emotional equanimity, and or the goodness that is. Here’s some newly added tools, intended to ‘tap into’ & remain at the higher end of the emotional scale. Anything one enjoys could work just as well, and what one’s unique gift is would be most ideal, but I’ve had requests for these. Hope some of this is helpful to no one. ?? @Heart of Space Not at all my man. ??

@Vlad_ I hear ya. Won’t know without direct experience though. If you want to know that is.

Subtle avoidance of meditation. (Jk ?)

Trips on Zero. Also, getting rid of addiction is a tough mindset and path, as the focus is on avoidance (of the addiction). Much much easier and more successful to focus on what you do want and be filled with the inspiration of it, than the resistance of avoiding something.

Yes, as all is love said, there are no enlightened people. That which is ‘just sitting and enjoying’ is being, or if it helps communicatively...Being. And yes, exactly. There is no “unenlightened person” either. “People” and or “person” is only a thought, regardless of the changes in context. One never experiences a “person”. Ever. One has to believe one is an “enlightened person”...to believe there are “unenlightened people”. Most confusion with this is in the misunderstanding of what experience is, or, what is experienced in the apparent sense. The ‘point’ of meditation is allowing the activity of mind to settle.

@EmptyVase Roger that.

Are you stalking about psychic powers like mind reading, clairvoyance, etc... or siddhis, oriented in healing?

Of course not.

@roopepa I agree, thanks.

@Waken That felt great. Thank you.

Appreciation. Hard to judge & appreciate simultaneously.

@meow_meow Without the thoughts, the ‘story about you’...could there even be...’fear’...? Notice just how sneaky the thought story can be...‘did I experience a glimpse of ego death’...’my enlightenment stats’...’I’ll enter higher levels’. Awareness is seeking to realize there is no separate self...while literally telling a story about a separate self. It’s quite possible that what is sought is feeling without the thought narrative of a me....and what’s being missed in the thought narrative is about feeling. See how thought is ‘hijacking’ feeling’ here? An alternative, let’s say... instead of ‘self inquiry’, or meditation, or any practice....would be to just check perception now. Do you see or hear that “I” which did or didn’t, does or doesn’t, experience an ego death...or a glimpse? Essentially...when you are talking about this one...who, what, are you actually talking about? “...it was not targeted or was not occuring so to speak towards the feeling for me, the feeling just wasnt there, empty.....It frightened the living shit out of me...” Feeling was clearly present there...it was just not resonating at all with those thoughts about yourself. Put anther way, for consideration sake...thought is ‘saying’ ego, death, etc...while feeling is saying “nonsense”, “doesn’t resonate”. And the thoughts are being believed, and the feeling is being ignored, and this experience is then being labeled “fear” or “ego” “death”. Fear, ego, and death... you’ve zero direct experience of. Feeling, is present absolutely. Why listen to thoughts about what isn’t even actual...while feeling is actual? What if you listen to feeling? And recognize what you’re thinking does not resonate....? Why not listen to the Infinite intelligence, unconditional love, peacefulness, ever presence, of feeling...and let thoughts which feel terrible go...thus simply...being Happiness...?

No...not related to you...without the story about you, at all.

@Someone here Thanks. ??

@Gabith Yep. ? I was just guessing At numbers and figures Pulling the puzzles apart Questions of science Science and progress Do not speak as loud as my heart Tell me you love me Come back and haunt me Oh, and I rush to the start Running in circles Chasing our tails Coming back as we are

@zeroISinfinity ? omg yeah. The cosmic punchline of no mind.

@Someone here Seems like plenty of space to me.

@meow_meow How is feeling / sensation, without this story about the you?

Listen to how you feel, not thoughts.

If there were a hundred thousand paintings on earth, would you find it odd that there are a hundred thousand paintings on earth, and none in direct experience anywhere else? Direct experience seems kinda, obvious and normal in this way, no?

@Brahman By appearing as the spheres of the word & lens, awareness refers to the experience of it’s creation which is itself, as ‘focus’. You might say, the relevance of focus, in creating the life you want to create, is that there are no objects. Similarly, turning the channel from 2 to 4 on a tv (analogy for thoughts & the breath) doesn’t require disidentifying with channel 2. With focus upon channel 4, there is no channel 2.

I know right?!

Ya. Sometimes it like looking at the gd sun.

@blackchair Not recognizing there is a dream within you to manifest and experience in the flesh, is insanity my man.

Expressing emotion is understanding emotion. Use the emotional scale, let me know how it goes, if you get ‘stuck’. Pm if you like too. Yes, there is not two. Consciousness is unconditional, raising it is conditional. It’s essentially believing you’re not enough as you are. It also reinforcing the illusion of the separate self, which is not consciousness, but has consciousness, and “needs to”, or “could”, raise it. What is “needed”, relative to finding relief from the thoughts already going on, is emotional understanding, and letting conditions upon the love & happiness you truly are...go. This is just how I’ve come to understand myself ‘ reality btw. It’s a ‘rip’ or ‘cut’ on anyone else.