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@Quanty how does one open it? I do kriya yoga, but i doubt he will, also he's kinda young for that i think

@Truth thanks, i probably really need this video, will watch it.

what are you afraid of? the only thing you can be afraid of is truth.

meditate some extra

why shouldnt one want to achieve a constant state of bliss? how does one accept any state whether it be bad or good? if accepting this moment is not wanting this moment to be different, how is accepting this moment even possible, because well always want this moment to be better.

does stuff like that actually work? rarely a youtube video changes something for me

it was random, a few days good a few bad. i dont really know if i had progress, because its really hard to measure your wokeness. last time i meditated was some more than 2 months ago so i cant say accurately. i switched for kriya after a long pause from meditation.

what do you mean by that? because I meditated for about half a year before doing kriya and stopped meditating since started. my meditations were pretty shit.

i've been doing kriya for 2 weeks every day, Im currently at om japa in the chakras, didnt start yet but I did read it. I watched some video where a guy said that I should have some experiences before continuing with the lessons. I didnt have any experiences, the practice was dull, my mind kept wandering off during the 5 minute concentration at the end. is it ok to continue with the lessons and just do the practice even though i didnt experience anything?

lmao the universe calls

@Mart what lesson are you talking about when you say "first real pranayama"?

am I wrong that the "work" is very similar to what peter ralston does in his book "the book of now knowing". its about getting rid of beliefs. Also, by this inquiry you can only get so far, because it uses the mind, which is limited, but it's very true that a spiritual practice alone isnt enough, dealing with beliefs is also extremely important. what do you think about psychedelics in regards to destructing beliefs? when you become aware of a belief on psychedelics that awareness carries to the everyday life sometimes, and then it is also destroyed, while much more violently.

sorry to break it to you but as I see it you're getting into a trap. if by "meditating" all day you mean not listening in classes, you're just too lazy to study. you're falling into the arms of the ego. dont become a zen devil. the ego likes being lazy and all spiritual and stuff. be really fucking honest with yourself and see if you're being lazy or you're being aware AND studying. "taking lessons here and there" sounds like you're complacent. that LEADS TO DEPRESSION down the road. life is not about being spiritual, it's about balance. you have to study hard, have a life purpose AND to be aware and meditate, because otherwise you're going to be a hippie, and hippies dont tend to get anywhere on the spiritual path much. all you gotta do is: 1) to have some daily spiritual practice for around 20-30 minutes, like meditation, yoga, etc. 2) to self actualize, to read books, learn how to learn, figure out your life purpose, wtf do you want to do with your life and what will make you fulfilled in life, watch 3) to try to be as aware as possible during the day. but WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AWARE? it means not to "be aware of the present moment and to barely listen to what happens in class", but to have laser concentration in class and be engaged. it means not to go to dreamland in your head, to be aware WHEN you go to dreamland and stop it. there is nothing to be done to be aware, you can only add thought stories on top of awareness to not be aware. please be honest with yourself. also dont take anything i said as a given, come to those conclusions by yourself, dont create new beliefs, come to conscious conclusions. do things by yourself, thats the only way to fulfillment and a great life.

how does this compare to kriya yoga

dont know how you meant it, but physically speaking from a perspective of an object with mass light appears to travel for example from the sun to the earth light takes ~8 minutes to travel.

@Matt8800 well, that's exactly what my reaction was, thanks.

ooooh, holy shit, i never did something like that

THIS. following techniques will never ever never ever ever make someone enlightened. in order to get enlightened you have to do your own thing, go your own way to enlightenment using intuition and higher intelligence. I say that because techniques are not truth and no spiritual path is truth, only you can know the truth.

can some explain to me please how to breathe in ujjayi pranayama? i think the author is wrong, because he says when I breathe from the diaphram my chest should expand, but the point of diaphram breathing is that the chest doesnt expand. should i force my chest somehow to expand?

yes, i was actually confused also before about that. but im sure he said somewhere not to focus too much on the bhrumadhya. afterall, we want to get to the ajna, which is on the line from the medulla to bhrumadha, so its like focus on an area you have a mild idea where it is and do that for 5 or more minutes without distraction. seems something that needs a lot of practice to perfect or to understand what is meant.

wait, arent you supposed to focus on medulla? the back of the head? the author said not to focus too much on bhrumadhya i think

wait, i dont get it. it is said later in the book that you move energy up and down the spine instead of into the belly and out when breathing. it is also said that one should expand the chest when one does ujjayi. its doesnt seem possible to get the chest full of air when you move your diaphragm down. i just breathed until now from the chest. im confused about diaphramic breathing and all that.

The pursuit shouldnt be aimed towards "killing yourself", the pursuit should be a pursuit towards wisdom and truth. when you pursue truth, you will naturally die because the ego is built upon falsehood. people i feel get caught up in "getting enlightened" like it's some goal that will bring the ego fulfillment. Im not enlightened but I dont think it's so. when the ego "gets conscious" of what enlightenment truly is it will try to run away from it. only the pursuit of Truth will push the ego over the edge.

during the concentration practice i cant feel the back of my head or my medulla, so i find it really hard to find what to concentrate on. sometimes i feel energy there and then i can concentrate on it and i feel deep peace, but that energy is on and off, when the energy is not there its as though the back of my head doesnt exist. i also have some back neck strain/pain, can that affect how i can feel that area? i also start to feel my pulse in the perineum and its distracting