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@teraflu I suggest not focusing too much on a content of psychedelic experience (the witch, dragons, spells etc.) but to the realizations regarding reality, mind and your daily conscious experience. Get to the root of the matter prior to exploring consciousness. Also, keep in mind that all dragons and spells are just as much a construct of your mind as the couch and the coffee table. So is your entire sense of being a self both as a witch and a human. Much love,

If you wait until 'old age', you'll find yourself too static, full of bad habits and overall with lack of energy to change these deeply ingrained egoic habits. Playing the 'I'll do it later' game is a surefire formula to fail in spirituality. Also, you dont need 'balls to the wall' masculinity to face life, be successful, influence people and pick up chicks. You just need a balance which will be granted to you with a deep spiritual practice RIGHT NOW in your 20s or 30s. Inıtially, you might be extremely disoriented depending on how shocking awakening is seen by your mind. But then you auto adjust. Whatever masculinity or femininity needed in whatever circumstance will be provided by your mind and mental habits. Spirituality is not started in your 60s+. It is way too late by then. You've wasted the most productive years of your life on the 'ego' mode and you'll never truly generate enough traction if you get serious from this point onwards. If you are 60s, do your best to practice. This advice is for people in their 20s and 30s. Waiting and/or distracting yourself with 'stuff' is basically the default position of every human. In hero's journey, this is like rejecting the call to action. Be brave and trust in the process that whatever issues arise from 'femininity' or 'spiritual lovey dovey', you'll have the resources to deal with circumstances. Accept the call to action and start the practice right now and stick to it every day regardless of what activities you do in daily life.

@Consilience Great stuff man! Have you worked with Peter Ralston? How would you describe his style and what did you learn from him?

Well, I've done countless psychedelics myself. I only use Buddhism as a framework to communicate with people. I have zero attachment for tools I use. All of them are flawed compared to actual insights. All these truths you've seen apply to this psychedelic session you described to us. Dont assume there is any special wisdom within this experience and doesnt apply here right now as you are looking at this screen. You are just overly dependent on using the substance. I used to be like you. Just integrate more and if you are on the psychedelic path, it is your style. I'm totally fine with it and I understand why you feel that way. You are just unnecessarily in a state of falsehood and delusion for the remaining 99% of your day.Keep that in mind.

I achieved that 'state' years ago with stream entry. You dont lose it. That word is misleading. My mind works differently and changed its deepest programming permanently. My mind no longer creates craving towards its constructions. Well, to be precise, it reduced its tendency to generate craving and self-perception significantly. I'm still practicing and developing each day When the self goes away, your life will actually change. Psychedelics are still great but I can do the work sober. Im in a psychedelic state while writing this naturally. I can see the core insights regardless.

@Leo Gura Cool but now it is time to see all of that was a construct of your mind. No different than sitting on the couch watching TV as a human. Dont ascribe more 'profundity' to this experience. And more importantly, your sense of self didnt 'become' a mouse. You identified and constructed that experience of becoming a mouse. Any sense of self or locality in space is an illusion your mind generates to function and express itself. Being an object or a sentient/non-sentient being is playing the same 'I' game in the formless realms. This is subtler illusion compared to your human illusion now. But the same illusion nonetheless. All constructs of this experience you just described is empty of any profound meaning you ascribe to them apart from what your mind decides to ascribe. You've experienced 'bombastic' and intense mind stuff. That wont imbue the rest of your life in wisdom and understanding and you certainly wont be able to bask in its wisdom, explore it further unti you replicate the same experience with the same frame of mind and intentions. (using psychedelics again in this particular case)

Meditate very deeply for long hours back to back until the self you think you are evaporates. Only then will thoughts will cease and no mind will become the default state. 1 hour a day by itself is insufficient. You need to see this truth not only in meditation but also in daily activities

When you become a stream enterer, along with self-perceptıon, these 2 will be fully eliminated. Doubt in the path:The experience of stream entry is such that afterwards, it's pretty clear that there is a path to some kind of freedom, and that the path works. You start to see clear patterns in dharma teachings, and see what the patterns point to. It can be more or less vivid depending on the person experiencing it, but the idea that might is all just be a waste of time and that nobody can get results is lost. Magical Luck based Thinking: You stop believing that you can get results without establishing the causes, and that you can avoid results for which you have created the causes. This is often explained as the loss of the belief in rites and rituals; the point there is not that you no longer believe that any rite or ritual could produce a result, but you no longer think that the result is magic: there is a reason why it works, and as a practitioner you are responsible for doing the work to bring about the result. --- I understand the challenge and convincing aspect of your current life. But permanent AND deep transformation is possible Much love

First of all, these are the reasons you are not awake permanently right now. (among other things obviously) The sort of dissatisfaction, delusion, lack of love and suffering you experience right now is on a humongous scale. It is so for everyone. It is the human condition. And you can see through this RIGHT NOW. I did read your trip report. Whatever power these experiences have over you right now is a function of your mind. I have done countless psychedelics. The first paragraph is my effortless daily conscious experience of awakening. For the remaning, I would need to meditate for long periods of time. But thats not important because my mind no longer works like before. I have these insights regardless of having these profound experiences. You become a different being. Let me break down the elephant in the room. Masters dont talk about these stuff as they are not the core of this path. These experiences generate desire and aversion which 100% guarantees you'll never have them. Your desire to have such bombastic experiences are no longer so important post awakening. All experiences have the same qualities of truth. Imagine that. All the emotions of love, experiences, bliss and 'becoming god creating multi universes' was a construct of your mind. Your 'imaginations' in other words. All the insights you attained (true love, no self, interconnectedness of all phenomena, emptiness, seeing through why you suffer as a 'human' impermanence etc) are NOT the construct of your mind. Simple as that. I have no problem with psychedelics personally and I recommend them with judicious use along with meditation. Much love

I understand why people have the tendency to downplay it. We are all very attached beings. Accepting that psychedelic experiences and insights (however profound) are something that you can access RIGHT NOW is a bitter pill to swallow. The inability to access this wisdom right now, spending many hours in delusion and normal states of suffering and ALL these negative habits one has been reinforcing unconsciously, you attach to psychedelics as your savior and find yourself at a dead end. Decades can pass if you are not careful and just like '20 years of meditation and has nothing to show for it' -like mistaken argument becomes your own reality. Psychedelics, if used, should be practiced judiciously. Not out of context bashing meditation AS IF these are in some sort of a competition When people here actually start to get some nice traction and development from their meditation practice, then they will actually go signifcantly deeper in their psychedelic sessions IF they choose to do it.You actually wont even have a craving for having any experience in particular post-awakening. The suffering that motivated you to get some relief with psychedelics is not quite there anymore. By not committing to awake permanently and not practicing meditation as if your hair is on fire, people have NO IDEA what sort of a mistake they are doing. Everyone's vibe here would be significantly different if they were stream enterers.(which is only the first stage of awakening. And life changing if I might add) The dead end of 'chasing experiences and wisdom in psychedelics' must be overcome as soon as possible. Much love

No spiritually advanced meditator would have ANY problems taking 100 ug LSD. That is usually their permanent state and is not even that high of a dose. Everyone is so knee deep in suffering is that you may not see that whatever 'after glow' of 5 meo dmt might persist, the self did coagulate and craving has reared its head 100%. You are back in duality and delusion once again. After glow is not something you should attach your practice with. Unless you do DEEP insight practice while the after glow persists. The same work you could be doing RIGHT NOW reading these words. Unless insight penetrates and changes the deepest recesses of your psyche, you'll never permanently awaken. Psychedelics unfortunately fail to effect on the deepest level. But you should use these incredibly profound experiences to inform your current state of consciousness RIGHT NOW and integrate it to the deepest level. Meditation is the anti-thesis of control. Dont misunderstand what this practice is all about. If vipassana teachers told you that they either meant something different (like training attention or concentration) or it is your current experience in meditation which you can work on in your next session. Much love,

You are not getting the 'same thing'. With meditation, you are permanently awakening the deepest recesses of the unconscious mind. Not 1% deeply awake and wise in a psychedelic session and 99% of the day spent in abject suffering and absolute delusion. You are currently not conscious looking at this screen, in a state of crude duality, suffering and self perception. See, 'easy' is a cop out. Combine psychedelics with industry strength levels of meditation. Or find a balance that works for you. But you can't 'escape' from confronting your delusions. Take the bullet and start practicing ;)) Much love,

@Matthew85 You will be skeptical if a permanent shift is possible until you actually start to get to stream entry or get tantanalizingly close to it. Mechanistic meditation which many people do wont get you there. It is not mere numbers game as well. You need to unlock and get certain things in meditation and repeat these experience over and over again to drill in the message so that the deepest recesses of your psyche changes their worldview and structure. One hour a day wont cut it. You gotta commit. Here is my latest post on a strategy you can use:

@Leo GuraEthan is actually telling everyone a very foundational and basic insight of spirituality. Its not some Buddhist exclusive teaching. First of all, many people here are in this illusion that the objects, feelings, thoughts and perceptual 3D environment EXISTS independent of mind and IS absolute truth. There is also this 'You are HERE. Look around you. THIS is it!'. First of all, there is no 'you' that is God or 'here'. In true God consciousness, there is zero location or person or any whiff of duality. Horrible way of actually describing this insight. No-self insinuates non-duality unlike 'You are GOD!'. If there is actually a tiny bit of 'you' duality in there (doesnt matter how subtle in formless realms), the insight is not even true. If you are 'everything' then it is the same experience as 'no self'. There is no in between. If you think these are 2 separate insights (etc one is deeper than the other), then I suggest contemplating that because it will be shown to you to be false. The insight into impermanence is the realization that there is only flux. Arising and passing away dissolves into meaningless and you are left with the creation moment of conscious experience. Solidity is merely function of how mind operates and exists. Never have been anything that resembles even a slight bit of solidity. All solidity you experience EVER is a construct of your mind. It is the engine of this illusion you generate. Which basically dovetails with emptiness. I wouldnt call it the easiest insight to experience. But many people here not only not understand how crucial impermanence is. But also conflict the constructs of their minds with 'truth'. People would be shocked out of their minds if they truly understood 100s of 5 meo dmt sessions they did were constructs of their minds just as much as their 'sober' life and their current attachment to those 'temporary glimpses' are what is getting in the way of their spiritual development RIGHT NOW. Using these beautiful psychedelic substances in all the wrong ways. You gotta use these substances very judiciously. Realize how profound impermanence is. Basically telling you your modus operandi of perceiving life is FALSE and is a construction. Which also connects and forms a whole picture with no self, emptiness, interconnectedness of all phenomena, suffering-craving. I'm a non dualist. Suffering in any way means you are CURRENTLY in duality. It means there is self. And there is craving. Doesnt matter if you had this profound experience of GOD yesterday night using this or that substance. Use that experience you have to guide your current highly deluded state of consciousness and bring the truth to conscious experience RIGHT NOW. Unfortunately, this process just doesnt compute without industry strength level of meditation. If you wanna live the rest of your life with temporary glimpses and spend the rest of 99% of your day in falsehood and abject suffering, then just do psycedelics. But you can actually use psychedelics WITH meditation to permanently awaken and break this bondage and suffering of 'I need 5 meo dmt right now to re-connect with truth or explore consciousness'. Hope you realize that is a form of VERY crude craving and suffering. Become conscious of that. This state of delusion is the reason why someone is on the spiritual path for 20 years and has nothing to show for it. Not because they do meditation or psychedelics. These are all tools you use to explore truth, realize these fundamental insights and see through the illusions of life and death. Dont play favourites. It is pointless. Just do the work and awaken deeper and deeper. If while looking at this monitor or screen, you are not DEEPLY and EFFORTLESSLY conscious that there is no self (which is the 1st stage of awakening 'stream entry'), you are not even 1% conscious of what is ultimately possible. Much love,

Yes. The initial sense of 'commiting to a schedule' or 'I'm disciplining myself. I have to do this' sort of intentions will be completely gone as you observe how suffering is reduced, self-clinging is reduced, the truth is more clear and delusion of craving is going away. You'll be way more joyful, tranquil and happy which will positively reinforce this process and ultimately turn it into a habit. Then it won't feel like 'work' but an indispendible fun and joyful process you choose to partake in :)) Spirituality will shave away its entire aversion component as a result of successful practice and completely merge with your entire life

I've been implementing this new habitual practice with 5 of my students. After seeing the results for myself, I wanted to share it with all of you. Basically, all 5 of my students' spiritual development has turbocharged in a very observable and predictable way. However, there are some requirements and caveats for reaping such radical benefits. 1- The more you are skilled at meditation and know what we mean by 'reducing craving, dissatisfaction and self-clinging', the more benefit you'll get from this practice. If you are somebody who sits down in meditation and dont know exactly what you are doing and trying to have particular experiences, the less you'll be motivated to start this practice, let alone maintain it. As a proof of this, 1 out of 5 of my students reaped the greatest benefit (by actually attaining stream entry) compared to the other 4. He was the most skilled in meditation compared to the rest because we've been working longer with him than my other students. Your understanding of what meditation entails and your tangible skills of actualizing that understanding will help you reap the benefits of this practice. It is not luck based or random chance. 2- You need to maintain this regime of practice until you feel this organic and natural inclination to meditate multiple times a day. Yes, there is no particular time frame for when you'll conclude this practice. In fact, that is sort of the idea. You want to completely rework your mind to perceive 'meditation' as a natural, organic and indispensable part of your life. You'll continue this practice until there is no reason for me to tell you to meditate after each daily activity. You'll have this organic inclination to do it. You'll prioritize it until you arrive at the moment where the 'intentional activity' turns an actual 'habit'. ----- Awakening in Daily Life: Practice Instructions What to actually do? - This practice asks you to meditate each time after you conclude an activity throughout the day. The meditation practice has to tangibly and directly reduce self clinging, dissatisfaction, delusion and craving. Otherwise, you can't succeed in this practice. (I'll explain the details below) Understanding the Schedule: - Here is an example of how to execute these instructions: 1- Waking up in the morning 2- Starting your 45 mins- 2 hour long formal meditation practice. Regardless of how busy you are, you'll start the day with a lengthy and deep meditation practice that chips a large chunk of your neurosis, self-perception and craving away. This is also the time to cultivate jhanic factors like joy, satisfaction and happiness. 3- Having your breakfast. Intend for your meditative practice to reduce craving as you are bringing the spoon towards your mouth. Dont focus on the actual movements of eating. Be aware of how your reacts with craving and generates self-clinging in the background as you are eating. Once you become aware of it, release it as you did so in the morning meditation. You'll maintain this lightness of meditation continue and lack of egoic tension-striving will get apparent. 4- Meditate for 5-15 mins. This is the first meditation after an activity (eating food). In this time frame, you'll do 3 things back to back quickly: ---- Briefly reflect on how well you've maintained reduction of craving and self-clinging in the prior activity. ---- Reduce craving, increase satisfaction and enhance your state of mindfulness further ---- Plan how you'll bring this state of mind to the next activity. 5- School work or business 6- Meditate for 5-15 mins. 7-Playing video games 8-Meditate for 5-15 mins. 9- Playing the guitar 10-Meditate for 5-15 mins. 11- Hang out with family and friends 12- Meditate for 5-15 mins. ....... This is the gist of how you'll schedule your day. How to reduce craving, dissatisfaction and self-clinging in Meditation? This is the crux of the practice. Unfortunately, you cant reliably do these things if you are a complete beginner in meditation. And such unpredictability will make this entire practice too challenging to do, let alone maintain. I'd highly recommend you to read my prior forum posts on meditation and start your spiritual development right away. Keep a consistent practice and get a feel for where I'm trying to lead you towards. After you do get some skill and have a sense of what we mean by reducing craving, now it is time to do it in short bursts and observe their effects. Whenever you reduce craving (wanting things to be different than what they are), you are reducing this sense of being a separate self in a world of separate objects. However, this illusory perception rears its head back into your life when you start to do an activity. As you are eating food, the sense of self coagulates back and you are completely lost in the delusion once again. Due to strong intentional mindfulness cultivation after each activity, you slowly realize there is no need to coagulate a self. The self only gets in the way and generates suffering. You observe that and stop this unconscious cycle a little bit. Then the activity ends and you formally meditate for a few minutes to reinforce this understanding and move on to the next activity of your day. In a state of relaxation, intentionality, alertness and consciousness. --- Thats how you do the practice. It is a commitment for sure. It has a steep learning curve. It can be too much of a 'shock' to the system. Regardless of how you may feel initially, start slowly integrating this practice. Over a periods of mere weeks and months, your life is going to change in magnificent ways. Much love, Arda

Leo's video on the topic is great and I recommend everyone to watch it. Here are some additional recommendations of mine while actualizing this potential in spirituality. Awakening by itself will help you fall in love with life but prior to such deep transformation, there are tangible steps into going in that direction. The key principle you need to follow is the acute sense of ease, joy and attention you pay towards your mental state moment by moment in daily life. Now obviously such behaviour and mentality change is not possible to cultivate on a consistent basis prior to making some progress in meditation skills. To aid in your journey, keep in mind to never grip towards your life goals and day to day activities too tightly. See, life goals regarding attaining certain things, wanting a 'better' life, looking forward to doing something at 5 pm and spending the morning hours in a state of anticipation - these are all certain mental habits we all fall into. But the more you imbue your life, goals and activities with a sense of profound ease, joy and presence (thanks to your spiritual practice), your life will slowly enhance itself. You will FEEL much more conscious than your usual states. Behaviors will change on a micro basis as your mental skills develop in meditation. This becomes a feedback loop and informs your 'unconscious' aspects of your psyche to revise their worldview. When you become obsessively focused on a goal or an activity of any kind, just be aware of how you are losing the joy of 'the process'. The actual day to day moments while we do our hobbies can be enhanced radically. There is so much craving, seriousness and resistance to your favourite hobby that it only becomes obvious how wrong you've approached this whole life business after you make some progress. You'll read this post in different times of your life. Wherever you feel you are in your life, there is more wisdom you can sprinkle to your life. Turning this into a daily practice is what all Zen masters are doing each time they sit in meditation and intend to maintain wisdom in daily life. Make this process as enjoyable as possible. Don't strain and grip for goals and activities. Your 'to do list' should relax its handles on you. Enjoy these activities while staying present and joyful in the process. Be very careful not to get swept away by life so that you can actually be present for it. However much 'fun' you think you are having. Always curb your urges and desires with the wisdom spirituality imbues you with. And intend to integrate this perception to all life activities as much as possible. Hope this gives inspiration and hope for what is possible for you! Much love, Arda

I've just seen this post. I apologize for answering so late. 'Be aware of awareness' is basically the same as 'concentrating at the mind'. Attention and awareness fuses into each other. The polar of its qualities are extremely strong where each becomes indistinguishable from the other. It is an advanced* stage in the practice. Don't mistake this sentence as vague sensations of attention and awareness fusing in a state of subtle dullnes. Attention doesnt turn to ANY physical form (Body, emotions, feelings, thoughts etc) and only remains at the mind sense along with awareness (activities of the mind, the sense of separateness and the act of perception) which is just a fancy way of saying 'self enquiry' in samatha terms. Hope this helps a little!

Develop awareness of sensations and the knowing of where attention is while doing this technique. Keep everything open and inclusive. Eventually you want to inquire towards the self who is looking and experiencing WHILE doing this process. Then it will be really powerful and 'good' experience.

Some people have the mistaken understanding that suffering is not contingent on 'Truth'. Or even no-self. Then, the following sentence might be too radical for you: If you are suffering even in the subtlest of forms, you are not accessing the truth. In other words: if you are sitting bored in God-Head in a psychedelic session, thinking you are so above this puny no-self insight - accessing so much depth and richness of consciousness - Well, think again! The slightest bit of craving produces suffering. And suffering reinforces self-perception. As long as there is even a taint of self-clinging, you don't truly have the insight into no-self. You are in duality. You don't have access to this 'absolute truth' many people are so extremely sure is the case. Without no-self as a basis, 'God consciousness' is already tainted by the illusion of suffering. And you need to go back to the drawing board and question what aspect of the truth do you REALLY understand. And what part of it is still filled with illusions of the mind. Don't underestimate the core insights. Keep practicing and before exploring the rich constructs of the mind, make sure you know the big picture deeply and clearly. ---- Much love, Arda

In this spiritual journey, you'll have to develop a 'no self' or 'no-I' palate for integrating spirituality in daily life. In simpler terms, this is the first time you can consciously reduce the sense of I, separation and craving levels to a noticeable degree where your state of consciousness changes. Once you feel the inklings of this transformation in your formal sessions (or daily life), I encourage you to go after it and replicate this insight experience over and over again. This is not the time to distract yourself with entertainment. Re-create the same circumstances - causes and conditions - which enabled you to reduce the sense of I looking at the world. --- How to Nurture This No-I Awareness: To reduce the shortcomings of open eyes and effectively practice, do the following: 1- Visual field strongly increases the illusion of duality and separateness. A self looking at the world. In daily life, whenever you are interacting with anything, looking at anything, allow the no-I perception to show its colors through reminding yourself the insight. You'll instantly recognize the same perception rearing its head by reducing craving, self perception and overall ease pervading your conscious experience. That is how you know you are doing it right. You'll also experience puny self-centered thoughts (planning, worrying etc) losing a lot of their pull over you. Do this each moment in daily life. Warning: This will feel quite disorienting. You might find it very challenging to walk straight or speak with people. This is the initial shock. It will get easier as the insight matures. Don't be too hard on yourself. Keep your energy levels high. Smile often to create a sense of ease. Then continue to maintain this no-I awareness each time you look at the world. This form of nurturing as a practice is absolutely essential for spiritual development. To reduce the shortcomings of closed eyes and effectively practice, do the following: 2- Make sure your body doesnt feel like a burden. Since closed eyes facilitate greater awareness of body sensations, thoughts and emotions, it is important to have enough equanimity, joy and tranquility to reduce the illusion of a self. Otherwise, closing your eyes and meditating will be more challenging than open-eye meditation. You need to nurture this awareness of no-I in both ways to experience insights. If you feel like there is not enough lubricating elements of samatha, then it is time to do more samatha prior to this insight process with closed eyes. --- Once you do this practice, slowly integrate your favorite hobbies and activities with open eyes. Be patient and do this every morning. I hope I don't have to say that you need to start your day with a strong formal session to enhance this awareness for the rest of the day If dullness or drowsiness sets in throughout the day, open your eyes and continue maintaining no-I awareness the best you can. If you are extremely fatigued, then take a nap and continue the practice. No need to force the mind to energize itself if it is too sleep-deprived. Much love,

I want you to imagine that those strong blissful sensations which occurs in your head area gets amplified to your entire body - legs, arms, torso, head - and you are in a state of joy and happiness in a state of this whole body pleasure. This is the definition of the beginning stages of Jhanas. Since you are already predisposed and mentally able to create such positive states of feelings, I suggest you practice jhanas and develop these faculties further with tranquility, joy and equanimity. I started to boost my practice with something very similar a long time ago. I had strong pleasurable sensations at the sides of my head. But this was happening consciously whenever I focused my attention to my head. After some time, the pleasure enveloped my entire body and my practice started to transform itself. Keep at it. This is a great opportunity to go deeper. Don't waste it. Strengthen those neural pathways!

This point here is correct. Many life forms like lizards, cats, dogs are simply too inflexible in their wiring to make any real dent in a spiritual development. And humans do exist in a spectrum. In theory, it is possible for life forms to appear in the future that makes any spiritual work made by humans as complete joke. However, this is merely an excuse to not do the work in the way you portray this understanding. You are thankfully not a dog and a lizard. And thankfully you don't have a mental disorder that would make this work close to impossible. The entire 'genes' between 'spiritually gifted' people debate and how this makes any valid reasons as to why anyone can't progress spiritually is not just an unproven theory but obviously a trap in the path. As someone who knows about self-deception, I'm sure you can see sinister sides within this perception you've constructed and believe in so adamantly

For any gamers out there, I'm going to recommend a very technological-based spiritual practice that will help you get an insight into how ego and personality structure is highly elusive and ultimately a mind construct. This will require some introspection in experience but also outside in meditation as well. What I'm about to explain is going to be a highly unorthodox style of practice - akin to the Vajrayana style of training. A Quick Summary of How To Set Up The VR Experience: Many of you are aware Cyberpunk is a highly anticipated game that has failed to meet a lot of the hype people had. Now the game has been out for about 1.5 years. Due to bugs, I've decided to hold off on experiencing it however; things have changed recently. 1.5 update came out and incredible progress has been made by turning Cyberpunk into a fully functional Virtual Reality game: Luke Ross's mod. First of all, you need to have a capable PC to play Cyberpunk VR. I have 5700 xt and ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB Ram. This is the bare minimum to enjoy this experience on VR. In Nvidia terms, 2070 super - rtx3060 will do the job. Use the lowest settings and 1920p resolution for 60-70 fps with this build. You also need a VR system. I use Oculus Quest 2 and it is currently the best price to performance VR system out there. After getting Cyberpunk on Steam, head over to Luke Ross's Patreon page. Purchase its subscription for 1 month, acquire the mod and you can leave the subscription afterward. The instructions on how to apply the mod is very simple and explained in his Patreon Tutorial. ------ How To Practice and Why This is So Profound? After starting the game on VR, make sure you select a character that is different from your gender. This is the key. The main character is named V. So, if you are a guy, select to play as Female V. If woman, a male V. This is important to get you to see the following: 'Oh! In a VR immersed setting, I literally become the female V, thinking like her and reacting to experiences like her. It is as if I'm in a movie and my consciousness has been transferred to another body' This gets you to see (eventually) the body is entirely irrelevant in the construction of the sense of 'I'. You CAN actually conceive of your mind and sense of 'I' in a completely different body. In fact, in an opposite gender as well. Allowing you to see gender is a part of this construction. The ego and personality structure morphs and shifts to accommodate the new body's awareness and consciousness. This becomes apparent after 7-10 hours in to the game as Cyberpunk becomes an actual movie in terms of atmosphere and quest design in VR. In Vajrayana practice, you merge the ego with a diety to get insight into how the self is a mental construct. In this technique, you are literally doing the same thing but in Cyberpunk VR. But to practice it, you need to nurture this new awareness of 'I'. This awareness will develop as you play the game and I want you to pay attention to how your ego structure gets modified with Female V in the background. After getting a sense of this realization, sit down in a formal setting in stillness and inquire about your sense of 'I'. That is the practice. ----- Final Thoughts: I've been a gamer for the majority of my life and I'm an easily content and pleased person thanks to my decades-long spiritual practice. However, things are getting to another level of profoundness after my initial 6 hours with Cyberpunk VR. I can say with absolute certainty that Cyberpunk VR is one of the greatest gaming experiences of my life. Not only does it have serious spiritual implications but also it feels like the next generation of what video games will evolve to as VR space gains momentum. Cyberpunk VR is easily 100 times better than whatever 2d vanilla version people played on a monitor. Not only the bugs have been ironed out but the experience has shifted into a different dimension. Cyberpunk VR is probably going to be an unforgettable experience for me. I was shocked at how amazing it was yesterday night. I feel sorry for people who've experienced it on a monitor 1st time playing. If you've held off on playing it like me, this is the definitive way to play. Let me know your thoughts below after experiencing it. --- Much love, Arda

Right Now imagine you actually do live in a GTA world. There is a GTA 5 VR mod that does the exact same thing. You can try that since it would be easier on the GPU. Roleplay does get you closer to this understanding but more 'merging' needs to take place in a meditative state to access the insight I'm talking about. Daily introspection is needed in formal and informal sessions to drill this into the deepest recesses of the mind system.