Carl-Richard

Are you are able to just sit, for 1 hour, 2 hours, maybe even 6 hours? If not, why? Is it because of your thoughts? Let go of the thoughts. Is it because of something you have to do? Let go of it. If you are unable to let go of these things, why? 1. Is your attention seemingly drifting outside your awareness, back to thoughts, back to things you have to do? Focus your attention on an object (the breath counts). 2. Does your physical body hurt when sitting for that long? Learn to sit better (fix your posture, fix your seat, fix your legs, fix your breathing). Does it still hurt? Take a break; rest is important. 3. Are your thoughts sticky and associated with unresolved emotions, problems, scenarios? Fix the source, either by solving the problem or planning how you will pursue solving the problem, or drop it, give it up. To give it up, when the thoughts arise, tell yourself that whatever happens, you will be ok. Here you go, I just derived meditation for you.

I had a dream some weeks ago that followed the same trends as some of the previous ones: of my dream mirroring some outside event, me having a nightmare and waking up, and the event being "the most significant case" of that kind of event. This time, it was the biggest bombardment of Ukraine so far in the war according to the news, and I dreamt the same day (can't remember the exact time of day) that my hometown was being bombarded by high-tech missiles and I woke up in fear. Again, I very rarely have nightmares where I wake up from them.

🤢 Leo says the forum is about chill not work 😝

👍👍👍 Now deconstruct that shit. I am obsessive but I never present belief as absolute and seldom anything as the only way.

I was going to use the word "spawn", but the overly concrete people are going to dig themselves a ditch anyway.

Probably a lot of stories were made up. But sainthood is a real possibility. And if you have a true saint, there is no reason why not some of it can resonate through history. And I just believe in psychic shit, call me New Age or whatever, call me damaged goods from being in a cult near a decade ago. But connecting to a saint from long times past does not seem like an unreasonable possibility. But of course you can go bonkers with it too, but that's on you.

Think walking meditation but with all of your bodily movements and actions (picking up things, putting them down, eating, drinking, breathing, looking at things), all the time, 24/7.

Omg. I regret using the words I did earlier when speaking about pathology.

Vinson 😂

I just want women to thank me, I'm emotional that way. Sorry, I won't troll anymore.

If I didn't do active mindfulness for a week before my first sober awakening, I wouldn't have awakened after 5 minutes of sitting meditation. But if you're not able to sit, that's indicative of something.

No 😂 I just vocalize my thoughts and then I'm done.

Loud and clear but I don't have much to add to it.

I think it's a true observation.

There are awakened masters who act like pervert assholes. And then there are saints, like Jesus. One's awakening does not have to percolate very deep down into one's being, into one's karma, for it to be a legitimate awakening, but when it does percolate down, it becomes quite beautiful.

Schizophonia: *makes true observation* Natasha Tori Maru: "Thank you for making this true observation." OBEler: "I would never!"

I guess Buddha wasn't very enlightened either then...

My brotha, Jesus created a world religion. Not to shit on Ramana, but some of the awakened beings of history are unmatched in their level of realization and embodiment.

If this quote is not identical to the one above, I will welcome you to the crypto-materialist label as well:

Ultimate skepticism is "meh we can't know anything so what is the difference?". Pragmatism is when you take the step out of Peter Pan land and into the harsh reality and ask "what is the best bet?".

You gotta distinguish awakened masters from saints. If Sadhguru is the genetic equivalent of Ronnie Coleman, Jesus is the genetic equivalent of the top 10 of all the Ronnie Colemans that existed for the last 30 000 years.

Yeah.

I think a few years of university and then following up on that will do a lot for your sense of disconnection. Do you know what you will do after university?

But I'm not skeptical. Ultimate skepticism is just intellectual laziness.