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But whats the difference between yoga and concentrating during sports, work or when playing a video game? Obviously these things dont raise your consciousness, but why?

@Outer thanks!

@Nahm thats not really a satisfying answer. I just cant see the connection between body postures and awareness.

@Your place at Heart Its mostly ranting and being angry at women for rejecting them their whole life. This is the result of going through your 20s without having even one good experience with a girl. However, the ideology at its core is based around legit scientific studies as well as anecdotal evidence like 80% of girls going for the top 20% of men or the harsh dating disadvantages of short and ethnic men. Also there are online dating expierments done by the community demonstrating that open racists and even child rapists who are good looking have a much higher chance of getting laid then average guys.

@Leo Gura could you make a blog post and say something about incels or the manosphere in general? Funnily enough there are spiritual people on the Incel forum. I saw some stickied post that said you cant get enlightened as an incel because good looking guys know from experience sleeping with tons of girls wont make them happy, an unattractive guy cant prove this for himself and will therefore always suffer and be attached to intimacy. Spirituality and Religion is also seen as a way to cope with not having a romantic life, thats at least partially true for me. If I had no problems attracting girl I wouldnt ended up here.

@Leo Gura There might be a big picture plan for why it plays out as it plays out by an infinite intelligence. But from my limited point of view it might as well be random. There certainly are spiritual people suffering of some disease and then dying before starting any meaningful work. I dont know if I'm destined to be one of those people or not, therefore its random from my point of view.

If life is just soulless atoms bouncing around randomly in a box your outlook on life will seem pointless and suffering cruel and without purpose. If we are all one consciousness its the same. Even if its all engineered by a higher intelligence and we are god it makes no difference. If god wanted to know what its like to be burned in a third world country and thats your life thats it. If god wanted to know what its like to live a mediocre life of suffering that might be you. If god wanted to know what its like be someone who pursues true spirituality, meditates for 10 years and then dies in a car crash that could be you. What if you god engineered your life to send you lesson after lesson of suffering to motivate you to become the best version of yourself and then gives you cancer. Stuff like that happens, and you may be deceived to life out this cruel joke of a life. Its equally as random, and its destined to play out as it plays out. Same cruel randomness. If you are enlightened you will just know for sure if its this or that sort of randomness.

@Leo Gura Maybe there is a difference with how you deal with the shit that its thrown at you, and enlightened master will certainly feel less emotional pain. I'm talking about the fact that shit is thrown at you randomly regardless. And some of that shit is bigger than you, If I go to some enlightened guy with a gun and pull the trigger than its over for him. Then I was that shit coming his way.

@mkrksms Its a research chemical, but its not one of the variations of 2-CB that Shulgin described in PHIKAL. Its a variation made by shady people to get around legal laws, so nobody knows what it really does to your body. Chances are its simmilar to 2-CB but its ultimately unpredictable.

a lot to say about this

@Leo Gura You are not wrong but you talk about death and then always emphasize how you mean that literal and stuff like that. There are tons of newbies reading that please make a sticky thread or something where you go deeper into what you mean with that, because there are always suicide threads coming up here.

Too bad this routine goes completely against the book. It says not to do Supreme Fire as a beginner and also Yoni Mudra only once per day.

These threads arent good for actualized.org

@Leo Gura Excellent job, too bad this will be dismissed by the people its targetted at simply for the length.

@denydritz yes as a cathartic process, I often feel down for hours during the day and it seems like there is nothing I can do about it. Thanks for all the answers I think I will have to deal with this one alone.

How do you resolve this paradox? If I'm with friends and I had no alcohol I'm always the quiet one at the table. My friends are always confident, joking around and easily get the girls attention. I do talk but I'm not this hyper active over the top guy and I often dont know what to say and I like to listen more. On one hand I know that this is who I truly am and everything else is a role I play. On the other hand I hate myself for it because I will never get a girlfriend if I keep behaving like this. So should I be comfortable being myself (and stop hating myself if I once more had nothing to say, or some awkward moment happened) or should I work on being more extroverted and active, I dont know. How have others resolved this?

@Feel Good definitely, I think its time to take a step backwards and get off this forum for a while

@Mikael89 I have the exact same line of thinking!

If you start a daily kriya practice which kind of "results" should start to happen for you, and how long will it take? I found nothing about this at all other that maybe some experiences should happen after the practice.

Can we get the topic to do some research on our own in advance?

If you suffer from depression not thinking "stupid thoughts" it not a simple choice but feels like swimming up against a river. You may do well for a while but then you simply give up and give in to self pity. Thats what my reality feels like at times. The positive side of it that without suffering I wouldnt give a shit about spirituality, in the times I feel the lowest meditation seems natural and comes easy, when Im happy and excited its almost impossible and I tend to cut my sessions short. I think its supposed to work like that, but who knows.

Don't snort!! There is a reason MDMA is pressed into pills, its way better orally.

I'm a slightly depressed person and I just started getting serious with my Kriya Routine after 1 year of daily meditation. But everywhere I research I see people like sadhguru warning against this kind of thing. I dont think Leo has enough experience with it to simply recommend these techniques to people. The bottom line is I want to grow and not make my mental state worse. How safe is it really? I mean on one hand its ridiculous why should sitting or breathing in a certain way would be dangerous but why all these warnings then?

why does it matter to you if he does or not.