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@Solace I am glad it got through to you and you understand. I guess I placed the topic in the wrong subforum. It is not really an emotional problem as a discovery of deep compassion.

The liberating pain of compassion "Your mouth is smiling, but your face is tense. You're saying jokes, but your jaw is clenched. You try to hide it, your eyes say it all. You are hurting inside, about to fall. No need to explain, no need to be sorry. I'll hurt with you, and forget my story. There is no you, there is no me. Only the pain, which makes us see... ...we are one."

@Jamie Universe @Ether You are right. There is no use in sticking to suffering. I wrote this post when I found out about a great misfortune happening to a person close to me. I was very sad for him and even though I was not worrying about it, I was hurting with them deeply inside. This made me realize how lucky I am and how trivial my own trouble is. I wanted to remind others too.

Let go of judging. Every time you notice judgment, stop and start repeating tenderly to yourself "I love you". Give yourself that much, you deserve to be loved by yourself. Good luck

The world of pain There is pain in this world. There is violence in this reality. I see violence and it hurts me so much. I see injustice and its as if I was stabbed in my heart. It hurts so much, so much! It hurts so much to see others be the objects of injustice. They do not deserve that! Why can't violence stop? Why is there so much pain? Why do we hurt each other? How can I be so fortunate if others hurt so much?

"Shaktipat or Śaktipāta (Sanskrit, from shakti - "(psychic) energy" - and pāta, "to fall") refers in Hinduism to the conferring of spiritual "energy" upon one person by another. Shaktipat can be transmitted with a sacred word or mantra, or by a look, thought or touch – the last usually to the ajna chakra or third eye of the recipient." - Wikipedia I wanted to ask you about your experiences with shaktipat - receiving the energy of a master. Do you believe in it? Have you experienced it? What were the effects? I recently started mediating with Kip Mazuy's music. Kip claims, that he sends shakti via this music. It seems to really work for me and I can easily get into deep meditation using his music. I am still not sure if it is not just placebo though I especially like this one, it's a short mediation with his shakti music: Maybe try it out and tell us your experience?

@Dodo I'll have a look. Thanks. @Prabhaker Is that Osho?

Stress Stress is a tricky thing. The big anxiety type of stress is surprisingly the easy one to deal with. It is right here in our awareness we cannot miss it. It just gets worked through, it passes in a bit. The dangerous type of stress is the subtle one, which keeps on going and is very hard to notice. The only actual evidence of its presence is the loss of our connection to ourselves. Life experience is not as intimate as it could be. We are stuck in very subtle thought patterns and although we sort of can see that they are there, on another level we don't really realize what they are. At this point we need... we need... I guess I would call it grace. I think there is nothing the ego-self can do to get out of its own suffering. It likes to think that that there is, but there cannot be. The ego-self just does not realize, that it itself doesn't have much reality to it! It is not bad, it is not trying to hurt us deliberately, it simply cannot know. It has no power to know, since it is just a bunch of noises.

I am going to attend a Bufo Alvarius ceremony in about 2 weeks. I also wanted to do shrooms this weekend. Do you think it would lessen the bufo experience? (is there cross tolerance?) The bufo facilitator didn't recommend it. Also there is a possibility to combine the bufo with kambo and some body-work. Do you have any experience with that?

Shinzen's view on this is interesting. What he basically says is that we all exchange shakti with each other. We only see it very clearly in the presence of masters as their energy is so radically "higher" than ours. I guess that is what Matt Kahn calls his transmission and what Leo is going for, when he mentioned he wants to teach in ways of energy and not only words.

@Salvijus Wow! Sadghuru does it again! He is the boss @Dodo Glad you liked it! @pluto I totally agree. It just seems that with this music the allowance to Just Be comes especially easily.

My advice would be stick with Do-Nothing. It is the most potent one I found. Go deep into it or rather let yourself drown inside of it. There is a lot of potential in that method. This Leo's video shows well how Do-Nothing is supposed to look like I think (kind of): Or maybe try to practice 5-10 minutes of self-inquiry at the end of your meditation sessions? That also works very well for me.

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand; for all that is life." - Jiddu Krishnamurti "Your mind is all stories. Let go of thinking." - Dipa ma

Thank you dear pluto. This made my morning much, much smoother

Gon Freecss I really like this character. He is open and cheerful. He takes life with a smile on his face. He is up for any adventure and seems to be unable to give up or let anything get him down. He is innocent. He is real. He has the beginner's mind. Seriously, he has the beginner's mind! He is way to clean and pure for his world. And that is why he attracts everyone the way he does. All beings are attracted to pureness

In times of trouble, it is still here I am feeling tired. I woke up feeling tired. My legs feel heavy. I feel clumsy. Life is not always happy. Life is not always easy. Life is not always pleasurable. Fortunately there is a place here, which IS always happy, easy, pleasurable. Or maybe not. But it is still. It is very still and it holds me anchored in the darkest of times. My body can be weak. Yet it is here. My mind can be helpless. Yet it is here. The world can be cruel. Yet it stays right were it has always been! And when I forget. When I get lost in the dream again, it's ok. Because as soon as I remember, it is where it has always been. Right here. Thank you amazing whatever-you-are!

On one of my LSD comedowns I listened to this. It was very powerful for me, excellent inquiry.

Why let go of this desire? It seems very easy to fulfill. Go and hang out with them, no?

You are not alone in this. Patience with yourself, my friend!

Wow, this puts things into perspective. A video illustrating it also:

The highest mountain I was told of a certain mountain. It was told to hold the most beautiful view as it was the tallest mountain in the world. I was hooked. I must reach that mountain! And I started looking. I was looking far and wide! There were so many mountains around me! Maybe this one? No, not that high. Then is it this one? No, not this one either. It's quite small actually. I kept searching and searching. But all around me all the mountains seemed small and disappointing. How sad I was. Shouldn't it be simple to find the tallest mountain? How come everywhere I look, I look down? Why can't I find the highest spot? And then it hit me - I am standing on top of the highest mountain, that is why everything I look at looks tiny in comparison. And the view I was looking for, was what I was looking at the whole time.

In one of my psylocybin experiences I was going through what seemed like physical death. I was just willing to let go, when a thought stopped me. Mainly: "What are my parents gonna do when I die on them?" Attachment like that has to go before liberation for sure.

Bioenergetics helped me with this A LOT. Opens up the body permanently by releasing the emotional holding patterns. This one can be tough in the beginning, but helps a lot. Here Elliot shows the same at around 4 minutes:

"Easter Body, Western Mind" is a top notch book explaining chakras in terms of western psychology. I am reading it now and cannot stop my awe at what a great piece of work it is. All you need to know about chakras is in there.