Adam M

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I wouldn't take a break from meditating You can do a different technique that is new and exciting for you You can decrease or time or split your 30 minutes into 2x15 minute sits You can understand that your resistance to meditation is precisely what is making you grow. When you are lifting a heavy weight, if it is not laborious for you then you need to either do more reps or more weight otherwise you are not going to grow. Keep meditating...does the ENTIRE meditation feel laborious? There are certainly periods of calmness and tranquility during your meditations. Keep it up! DON'T QUIT instead try to change it up

@Source_Mystic thanks a ton friend Your words are a great help!

@Max_V I love hiphop especially slim shady swearing and killing and all...it is so motivating to see his level of mastery when it comes to rapping on a beat

You're gonna kill yourself. Hypothermia is a real thing. Wim Hoff uses breathing techniques to maintain his inner body temp. Start with small steps. First do ice cold showers/baths. I am no expert about wim Hoff method but you should research this more before you do anything too extreme

@Danielle i think you're right. I have been extrinsically motivated to meditate. Would reading books about the benefits of meditation help or would that be a distraction as well?

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How do you measure progress in meditation? That's like trying to measure the weather with a ruler.

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Looks very interesting...

Just did my first self inquiry for 30 minutes I'll keep this brief. Background: I've practiced vipassana for 1 year daily for 1-2 hours and have been on 2 retreats. I've done shrooms alone twice. Start: I believe that I'm the body...this troubles me immensely because many people that I respect say that I am not the body...If I am not the body, then what the fuck could I be? - noticing that I can't be a sensation because they are impermanent - noticing that the body constantly changes - noticing that I'm not the thoughts - it seems like I am the one having the thoughts - noticing that the one having the thoughts can't be located in my field - noticing that the one that is noticing cannot be noticed - monkey mind focuses all of the attention on the inquiry - weird body sensations such as tingling and shivers when I question whether or not I am the body - lots of time spent trying to "disprove" why I can't be the body...but after I seem to have concluded that I CANNOT be the body I still identify with the body (lol) - frustration - very slight headache - excitement/fear - "who is the one perceiving?" - YOURE A COMPLETE IDIOT FOR BELIEVING THAT YOU'RE THE BODY THE BODY ISNT THERE WHEN YOU ARE IN DEEP SLEEP BUT YOU DONT STOP EXISTING (etc.) - coming back to the present moment over and over again with a deep breath Overall a pleasantly challenging experience, I would recommend it after 1 hour after mindfulness with labelling (vipassana in my case) What do you think? If you're a newbie like me, how did your inquiry go? Edit: I forgot a good one - What is constant? If everything changes then how can I exist as an experience? If I'm not an experience then WHAT THE FUCK .... - I try not to do philosophy, I try to always look for the answer in the present moment - "nothing is hidden"

@Nahm Hey, my last inquiry was hard...there were many distracting thoughts and I was only able to focus for maybe 10-15 minutes... During that time I discovered that my present identification is that I am the body and the thoughts and that reality is outside of me...It is interesting to see that there is still identification with the body and the mind even though I have undermined that possibility many times in a Neti-Neti style of inquiry. Even though I have no proof that suggests my identification to be correct, I still believe it like a SUCKER! Lol. Going to continue practicing! thank you for me helping me!

@Ether wow I wanna hear it...get on that!!!

@Ether I'm a big Kendrick fan... "Levitate levitate levitate levitate" Untitled 07 has reference to "being vs doing" He says stuff like "drugs/sex/money/church won't get you high like this (meditation/being) Love Kendrick..conscious rap is no different from poetry

True! I'm going to inquire again and see how it goes...thanks!

Hey guys, I've only done self inquiry for 5 days and I just have a quick question about some of the symptoms I'm getting during my sits... My sits are VERY intense and I experience lots of body sensations that I can't control...I just would like to know if Self-inquiry is usually this violent... I experience: - full body spasms towards the end (like a mini seizure) - cross-eyes/ blurry vision when I'm trying to focus - heightened heart rate and heavy breathing - strong chills in all parts of my body - clammy hands and sweating - hyper focus, sometimes it seems as though the inquiry is doing itself...questions just spew out and my body gets extremely rigid and defensive - seems like a fight or flight response... I just assume that I'm doing a good job because it seems like I am having a physical reaction to my ruthless questioning... I can literally feel my sense of "I" getting very defensive and trying to distract the inquiry with body sensations. Again, I know that I'm still a n00b but I'm just getting excited because my sits are very intense... Hopefully this motivates people to start doing self inquiry and also, are these symptoms normal? Thanks :):):)

@ArasH This is just an educated guess based on what I saw in an interview. I think that he had an enlightenment experience but it was not a permanent enlightenment. This experience motivated him to dive head first into spirituality.

@Power If you get lost in thoughts you are not "wasting time.". You can't really help it...don't beat yourself up over something you can't control. If you are lost in thoughts for 5 minutes...notice it, let it go including your frustration and judgements, and go back to the breath . Yesterday I was meditating for 1 hour and I must have spent 30 minutes lost in thoughts....sometimes I sit down to meditate and I fall asleep! But I don't judge, I just notice and go back to the breath.

@sweater you'll feel good for 15 minutes then you'll feel "permafried", tired, pleasure seeking, and stupid for the next day...I used to smoke everyday....that's the way the cookie crumbles

@Power you will get better with practice. The more you practice the more you will understand. All I can say to guide you is this: Come back to the present. If you are worried/confused/anxious about your meditation, then you are lost in thoughts. There are no problems in the present moment. Keep practicing!

@Joel3102 Yes! I was completely beside myself with some of the insights in this book... Towards the beginning, he relates mystical experiences with reduced brain activity. Kastrup explains that the brain filters and localizes your perceptions and that when the filter is not working properly (ex. during suffocation), there is a higher chance of non-local/mystical experiences This idea interested me so much and it has changed my entire paradigm about the role the brain plays in our consciousness'. I'm definitely planning on reading "more than allegory"

DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT ITS FUCKING AMAZING IVE DONE 2 RETREATS AND I CANT WAIT TO DO MORE

@Max_V I understand u entirely...... But I am talking about BEING AWARE of the present Everything always happens in the now but when we get lost in the content of our thoughts we lose touch with this truth... Right?

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