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what is meant by that? did you have any effects?

I think too much of anything is bad

i had 2 strange experiences so far one is when i had weird energy in the head during the concentration period, i had sexual energy all over my body. i also often have an erection in the concentration period lmao. in the second weird experience i felt my forehead filled with pressure/energy like if you pull your eyes too high up and you feel a strain, i felt it without straining all over the region. i also felt a sensation that felt like iron stillness, but only for a few seconds. i felt like i was going crosseyed.

@Stretch I also have no sign of kutastha, i dont think it comes until much later. im not the only one struggling a lot with the breathing right? in the pranayama i can only do 8 seconds of inbreath, if i do more i have to take extra breaths. also my concentration, even if its only 5 min i often get very lost in thought there.

@WaterfallMachine dont believe in enlightenment, believe in discovering the truth, by whatever means. all perspectives are false.

when you say society, where did you get information about society? news? first hand experience? people around you? where? whatever that is, its a construct that you made, you can never get the total picture because you would have to know all actions that people made in the last year or so to see the true condition of society, and even then, its open to your interpretation. @Nahm bam

holy shit thanks so much for this

yeah I noticed that too. what I do is just feel into the chakra without thinking about ksetrams and such, i just scan the area until i feel something

@pluto well some of those things point to some pretty straight forward stuff, I think I will stumble upon them on my reading journey of leo's booklist.

how does that help me eradicate my beliefs?

I know on a conceptual level at least that everything is maya, I dont believe anything, it makes sense from my own experience. I realize I apply meanings to things. I know that fundamentally everything is false except the experience, getting conscious of it is another matter. I know that in order to get to the absolute I have to go through layers, but that does not entail gaining more information, like vibrations and frequencies, but only elimination of beliefs. those are just words, if i happen to stumble upon the experiences they point to, ill let it be, but I wont add more beliefs, since it will hamper my progress.

@pluto i dont understand, why not just say humanity has to raise its consciousness or else it will annihilate itself. frequency of what? what is that supposed to mean? are you putting your whole philosophy of life on a quote of nikola tesla he said once? why not just say it in normal words so everybody would understand? is your purpose sounding emotional and fancy or giving information to other people? besides, energy is maya, frequency is maya, nikola tesla is maya, dimensions are maya, so none of that is truth

what kind of dimension are you talking about? spacial dimension? assuming there is that dimension, we should be already inside it at least partially, otherwise we wouldnt be able to access it/it wouldnt exist, so it's a matter of being aware of it. also if we would ascend to a higher dimension we would still exist in the third dimension. btw, a matrix is 2D, technically its called a tensor in 3D+, impress some people and what is it that you mean by vibration?

do you guys feel the stretch in the frenulum? after a few weeks of practice i started to feel more the strain on my tongue from using the muscle instead of the stretching of the frenulum.

i want to achieve something, so much some enlightenment some ecstatic moment some fulfillment but in order to achieve it I have to stop trying to achieve but by stopping trying to achieve it, im still trying to achieve it. I really want something to happen and i cant help but to want, so much, but in order to have it i have to drop all wants so now i want to drop all desires and in order to do so i have to drop that desire too so now i desire to drop the desire to drop the desire to infinity and beyound wtf am i supposed to do? some might say just be, dont do but doing is part of being so by doing im being some might say "dont identify with the mind" but then i identify with what doesnt identify with the mind, which is the mind. some might say "there is no time, so there's nothing to achieve in the future" that means that there is nothing at all to achieve but even though i say that i still want to achieve because even though i understand, im not conscious of it how do i become conscious of it? (another desire yada yada..)

I want to try to listen to frequencies while meditating, but there's a lot of bullshit surrounding it, so i dont know what to trust. can someone give an explanation what are they for, how they work, what they can really do, etc. also can it damage hearing? i listened to a certain gamma frequency and after i finished i still heared the sound for a few minutes

I dont live alone

lmao you must be kidding, you think you will have more free time in college than in highschool?

are you still traumatized?

in my past life? I dont recall having one, how can you be so sure?

I use the parts of my fingers to count, exactly 12 of them. it wasnt mentioned in the book that you cant do other practices, it was said that its unnecessary, which I actually disagree with, I think a rule more important than all other rules is to listen to your inner guide, if your inner guide tells you to meditate, do it, on a logical level i dont see how meditation can interfere with the yoga. I personally meditate after the yoga.

I recommend you watch https://www.actualized.org/insights/dont-half-ass-yoga

is it normal to run out of breath extremely often? when i do the pranayama im out of breath on the first two breaths and i have to take a few breaths to not suffocate and then continue. I do around 10 seconds and inbreath and outbreath, and then to 8 and 6 if i have to, but i still run out of breath. any suggestions?

is it speculative new age stuff or practical knowledge