Carl-Richard

Sit in an upright relaxed posture whereever feels best (on a pillow on the floor, with or without back support, or a comfortable chair), first body scan from toes to face, then down again. Then watch/feel your breath, watch your thoughts, hear sounds in the room, feel feelings in the body, tensions, let them dissolve/relax. When you lose track / get lost in thought, return to breath and watching thoughts/feelings/sensations. Other times just sit and do nothing. Other times try to track the origins of thoughts and relax their root, free up whatever is causing them to come back. Track down emotions, feel them, engage in them. Feel energy moving thoughout your body, in the spine, in the head. Play games with yourself, imagine that there is no tomorrow or there is nothing you have to do tomorrow, imagine that you're not alive, that you're a rock, try to not move, try to feel what is the natural flow of movement in the body, imagine you're trying to disappear, imagine that you don't have a physical body, imagine that you have no mind and that thoughts can just disappear and there is just complete silence, try falling asleep. Intelligence and creativity is not a hindrance towards meditation. It's a benefit.

I prefer making an explicit distinction between transpersonal and personal self. Regardless, my experiences of "solipsism" were interpreted as my ego reacting to the non-dual experience and focusing in on one previously held notion that was found to be untrue (that others are real). Another such notion is that you (the personal self) are real. Both are in truth notions. It's just that your ego can react to different notions it holds being challenged and it tends to do it one at a time (your symbolic cognition is limited like that). In reality, there is no such distinction. But if you are actively entertaining the notion that you are real (or the non-dual state is not making that abundantly clear for you that you're not real), enlightenment is not the case.

@Sugarcoat In other psychic news, there is currently a big ass fire in our country that has taken over a 100 homes and it's the biggest fire in over a hundred years, and last night I dreamt that I was hanging out with Joe Rogan and he was playing with RPGs and he fired a couple of missiles straight above my old house and one of them hit the roof and exploded in a big fireball and the house caught fire extremely fast and was essentially beyond saving before any firemen had arrived (they seemingly never did). I do admit reading about it before going to sleep, but I opened the news and read about it again and it struck me that I was probably picking up on something anyway because 1. why would I dream about that and not something else?, and 2. it was rather dramatic of course and I can feel when a dream is more of the dramatic kind and not just a normal dream (follows the usual psychic pattern), 3. it's the most significant event of that kind in a long time (also follows the pattern).

If you talk about other people being unreal but not yourself being unreal, you're not quite there yet.

I feel little girls before they feel it themselves 🥸

Wut

I was about to say it looks like Leo but I'm the one with the brownish beard and nearly bald so it's a toss up.

The few people I consider enlightened tend to talk about very specific points where everything is let go of and where "there is no me" anymore. None of them happen to be currently posting AMAs on this forum, currently in their early 20s, or posting about other people being "NPCs".

Is this emotion I'm registering? 🤔

Alien Dickenlargement™ is what I'm waiting for.

Actually I'm 7ft4 tall and my dick is 128 inches long.

I'm a 5ft11 nearly bald guy dreaming up a 6ft bald guy dreaming up mice, telling the 5ft11 nearly bald guy that the mice are absolute truth, when the 5ft11 nearly bald guy thinks that mice are relative manifestations inside the dream of the 6ft bald guy, not absolute truth, any more than the dream of the 6ft bald guy being in the configuation of no mice manifesting being absolute truth. I'm actually 5ft10.5 but it's mathematically sound to round up 0.5 to 1. And isn't the bald guy 6ft2-3?

Depends on the type of bipolar. A bipolar type 1 person is essentially a schizotypal person with OCD tendencies that goes through boom-and-bust cycles of obsessive highs-and-lows due to low stress tolerance / emotional regulation problems. The psychotic symptoms in the manic state is essentially the schizotypal traits thrown into a higher energy environment. Mania is like if you have a problem/obsession and you can't seem to calm down or find a solution or change your focus/perspective/strategy so you just spiral into a hyper-charged state of elevated energy/stress. And after that, they experience a downregulation of their state as their obsession/problem diminishes or they find a way to regulate their emotions (or whatever cause of stress diminishes). When they're not stressed/elevated, they're still a little eccentric. See Connor's "Mandibleus Zygomidus" video. When you dial down the schizotypalness, you get bipolar type 2 (mania without psychotic symptoms). When you dial up the schizotypalness even more, you get schizoaffective disorder. When you keep the schizotypalness high but dial down the obsessive traits, you get schizophrenia.

I bet half a non-dual backflipping mouse that this is incorrect.

Sri Tortellini alla bolognese. (Aummmm)Yummmm.

Niagaradastii -> Nisargadatta. Not even close. Why should we take anything you say seriously if you can't even put 3 seconds of care into getting somebody's name right in the title of your thread?

Why Messi is Messi is a confluence of especially two things: high IQ meaning pattern recognition and high processing speed, and short legs that are quickly maneuverable. Together, they create a person who can create the lines that seem impossible, because he has the IQ to process them and the speed/maneuverability to perform them.

It seems to me you may have experienced an awakening and that there is more to go for enlightenment. How long was this entire process? Do you meditate at all? Regularly?

Don't want to become a liberal use case of the ban button?

Why did you de-mod yourself?

So it's not constant? Which attachments were one of the last ones you had to let go of? Is your sense of self completely dissolved? Does it fluctuate throughout the day? What is the state of your ego identification?

How is the state of non-doership? Experience of time. Experience of thoughts (are they active when at rest, are you thinking about stuff when at rest, and if so, what are you thinking about?). Was there a process of letting go of attachments, of shedding identification? Was there a point of dissolution of self and/or cessation of sensory phenomena? How would you describe your experience of objects in your visual sensory field before and after the enlightenment?

I mean, you can dissuade them if you don't want them to commit suicide. But pointing to very general and abstract individual beliefs they hold to explain their proximity to suicide is a game of statistical whack-a-mole. Is the belief in an afterlife causing suicides? What about the belief that nothing happens after you die and it's just a blank nothingness? What about reincarnation? What about "everything is love"?