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It's totally possible, @Recursoinominado . You are totally loved in every moment, as you say it is just about opening up to it - dropping the resistance. Look up loving-kindness meditation and practice it. It might seem like you are not getting anywhere, but practice, practice. Soon love will engulf all your life. Read this book. Read it with your heart, feel it more than you read it. It is designed to open you up to love You are loved and you can open up to it. Good luck. Lots of love ❤️

@pluto Thank you for this. It was amazing. Just watching this was some heavy shadow work for me. It moved more energy in my body than I can remember.

@lacsativ I am glad you liked it. Thanks for the comment

I think he mentioned shamanism before. He also has a book about it on his book list. It's a real dimension of consciousness, I think he will talk about it sooner or later.

Mastering meditation is mastering the mind. Mastering the mind is seeing through the mind. That is no easy task, as the mind does not want to be seen through. For a long time I did not appreciate just how intelligent the ego-mind is. It is cunning, deceptive, very sneaky. If you have an ego-mind, you have the greatest villain of all times inside of you, working against you. He is so smart, you probably have little idea of his presence, or at least of his magnitude. Leo really nailed it by calling him the Devil. It fits very well. I want to write about some of the experiences I have been having: No meaning. There is no meaning to anything. No thing has a name. No thing is anything. There is no thing. It's just a one giant blaaaaab! Even though stuff is recognized, named and explained by the mind, I am beyond and see that it means nothing at all. "I repeat to you that all phenomena are devoid of distinctions of form." - Huang Po I had this experience when reading this quote. I understood it and experienced it as no boundaries between one object and another. No boundary between a sound and a sight. Just one giant blaaaaaab! This automatically results in no meaning. This experience is very peaceful, as there is nothing here. That means, nothing to disturb me. No self. The body is moving by itself. The mind is thinking by itself. All is the same, but as I am looking at the place where I expected to see my self, I see nothing. Consequently, there is no problem. There is nobody to have a problem. There is no mistake. There is nobody to judge it so. This can be experienced in various depths. Everything is being born and dying now. This moment was never here before. This moment will never be here again. It is being created and destroyed at the same time. It is seen to be most valuable and beautiful. It's like a very subtle orgasm. It cannot be seen as good or bad, it's just an explosion. It is here and it is gone. No time to judge. It is amazing to see people in this state. Everyone is acting like they will be here forever, yet I clearly see that they are already dying. The need to pursue anything or to look into the future for anything at all, is absurd. The one who would do the looking is already dying, so what is the purpose? There is only this magnificent explosion. This bittersweet symphony, that's life. Everything is made of stillness. All matter is very real. Very still. Suspended in this incredible space. Space of existence. All perception is the same. Very real, very still. Movement is very still. It is a still universe, so anything that manifests is still. ...all of these are the same experience really, but seen differently. I don't understand it myself. I just know, that see in these ways, brings great joy, peace and love. I know this is right, and writing about it makes me see it again.

I just watched a lot of Mooji with fresh eyes and changed my opinion. Mooji is a genius.

I remember Leo listing Mooji as an example of a turquoise person. But is he really? That would imply that he went through the yellow stage, that he embodied systemic and complex thinking? I might be wrong, but watching some interviews with him and so on, he seems like quite a simple guy, only he is also significantly awake and can point at our nature really well. What are your thoughts?

"Believing the voice in your head is insanity." - that's what my voice just said

It's very similar to regular LSD. I cannot tell the difference in the subjective effects.

Rick Archer and his 'Buddha at the Gas Pump' series.

Yeah, I see what you are saying. But for a serious seeker, a program like 'Take DMT once a week for a year with an enlightened master' could be pretty successful

If someone would ask me what life is about, I'd play this:

Every cell in my body is happy Every cell in my body is well I am so happy, every little cell In my body is happy and well

To me, this quote seems to be a how-to on embodiment. Let's say we become suddenly become conscious of impermanence. We see that all is being born, all is dying in this split second. This experience opened up the doors to this truth for us, now our job is to go back again and again, until it becomes something we are conscious of basically constantly. Yes?

We talk a lot about embodying our mystical experiences, embodying psychedelics... What does embodiment mean to you? What does an 'embodied person' look like?

@Truth Addict Cool perspective. According to him, embodiment is the person being erased. Being colonized by awakeness. From this perspective, the only thing we have to do to embody our awakenings is to not stand in the way. Be willing to stay with the awakening even though it eats us alive

5-Meo-DMT and nn-DMT is stuff with hell of a potential. We seriously need some highly enlightened masters to test it out and speak about it publicly. Just imagine Rupert Spira, Adyashanti, Mooji, Sadghuru etc. giving this a shot and seriously considering the consequences of these substances. It's basically yoga in a pill. Imagine retreats where you do 5-MeO for a couple of days (weeks) and are guided by some serious non-dualist. He/She helps you ground the experience right after the trip. This would wake up almost anyone, I think.

The second time I watched it: your body was glowing with light all over, your face morphing into different faces subtle tingle all over my body the mind going more quiet than usual at some moments, thus becoming more present some emotional reaction when you opened your hands to the camera Throughout I was thinking about how I can report back what I was experiencing, which was not helpful Thank you. Your presence is a gift!

I can really relate to this. For a long time this has been my escape also. In the past 2 years it became really bad. I was binging almost every night and my physical health really took the blows. I tried it all. Fasting, dieting, mindful eating, praying, journaling.... oh man... I was suffering so much, I didn't even know it. For about 6 months now, I stopped. How? I don't know, I guess all my effort finally culminated and enough was enough. Also I was always very much into consciousness work and it seems that at some point the ego that was fed by the binging died. The thoughts of binging still habitually come up every now and then, but there is no place inside of me for them to stick to. The person that was attached to these thoughts is gone. My advice: Hold on to your intention to stop! Whatever happens! It might take months or years to stop it completely, but don't give up! Have faith! Be loving to yourself. For me the most destructive part of this whole cycle was the guilt and shame I was indulging in. Love yourself. Check out Matt Kahn or start doing loving-kindness meditation. Do shadow work. These binges are hiding one big shadow. Find it, get to know it, love it to death. I recommend Byron Katies work. It will help you see how you judge others when they overeat and how that relates directly to your problem. Mindful eating. Eat mindfully and lovingly. Be gentle on yourself, not too strict but aware. Really, love is the key here. Check out Shinzen's guide to mindful eating. As you see, from my point of view, as corny as it might sound, love is the key here. That is what you are truly hungry for Patience and faith, @fryingLotus !

Buddhists practice Maraṇasati in order to prepare for real physical death. Check it out.

There is a lot to go through, in my opinion. And once you go through all your personal stuff, there is always the collective unconscious to work on.

@ivory I've been doing it more or less like this for about a year. It's second nature now.

The Zen Teachings of Huang Po https://terebess.hu/zen/Huangpo.pdf

15min hygiene 30min stretching/yoga 30min do-nothing 10min loving-kindness 10min contemplating nondual texts