How Do I Fit All These Techniques In 1 Day???

[kieranperez]

I'm in the homestretch of completing 30 days of consistent daily 20 min meditation of Do-Nothing and 2 min Concentration Practice. I've meditating off and on though for 2 years now though. I reduced my meditation time down to 20 min because I got so tired of being all over the place in my commitment to daily meditation no matter what so this way I felt a motivation to keep going because I know 20 min is beyond doable. This has proven to be quite successful. I know no matter what I'm going to get my 20 minutes in. 

However, I've been jerking my mind off on enlightenment for way too damn long now. I KNOW that this is possible and is real. I've been wasting so many months and years that I've kinda just had enough and want to start this path and never get off. At the same time though, I don't want to tackle more than I can handle by taking on so many daily practices that I burnout. I want to start a Self-Inquiry practice, additional Mindfulness Meditation practice but I don't know... My development is still really low and especially my Concentration. I actually successfully completed my taper off all 6 of my psych medications which included 16-17 years of taking prescribed ADHD medication. However, because of that, I'm discovering just how absolute atrocious my concentration is. I've been stuck at 2 min of Concentration practice for close to 30 days and have not even come close to hitting access concentration. Due to this, I'm nervous of how much I can take on in this enlightenment work given my current development.

What's your advice on where I can go from here? I want to take this path seriously and stop fucking around but I want to make sure I'm not putting too much on my plate all at once. 

@Leo Gura

[herghly]

11 minutes ago, kieranperez said:

What's your advice on where I can go from here? I want to take this path seriously and stop fucking around but I want to make sure I'm not putting too much on my plate all at once. 

@Leo Gura

Attend a 10 day Vipassana retreat. You will learn how to meditate properly and it will change the way you look at meditation.

For myself now after completing the 10 day course my daily meditation practice of 1 hour is nothing. Before the retreat i had trouble sitting for 30 minutes, but now after completing 10 hours meditation for 10 days 1 hour does not seem long to me anymore

[kieranperez]

@herghly can’t afford that at all right now not any time soon. 

[Aimblack]

Stop beating yourself up, you are on the right path, being able to safely stop taking one psych medicine and do as well as you do while taking it is already a great feat that most people will never accomplish and you did that with 6. You are a beast. Whatever you have been doing has clearly worked so just keep doing that more consistently for a longer period of time.

Edited March 31, 2018 by Aimblack

[Faceless]

9 hours ago, kieranperez said:

I'm in the homestretch of completing 30 days of consistent daily 20 min meditation of Do-Nothing and 2 min Concentration Practice. I've meditating off and on though for 2 years now though. I reduced my meditation time down to 20 min because I got so tired of being all over the place in my commitment to daily meditation no matter what so this way I felt a motivation to keep going because I know 20 min is beyond doable. This has proven to be quite successful. I know no matter what I'm going to get my 20 minutes in. 

However, I've been jerking my mind off on enlightenment for way too damn long now. I KNOW that this is possible and is real. I've been wasting so many months and years that I've kinda just had enough and want to start this path and never get off. At the same time though, I don't want to tackle more than I can handle by taking on so many daily practices that I burnout. I want to start a Self-Inquiry practice, additional Mindfulness Meditation practice but I don't know... My development is still really low and especially my Concentration. I actually successfully completed my taper off all 6 of my psych medications which included 16-17 years of taking prescribed ADHD medication. However, because of that, I'm discovering just how absolute atrocious my concentration is. I've been stuck at 2 min of Concentration practice for close to 30 days and have not even come close to hitting access concentration. Due to this, I'm nervous of how much I can take on in this enlightenment work given my current development.

What's your advice on where I can go from here? I want to take this path seriously and stop fucking around but I want to make sure I'm not putting too much on my plate all at once. 

@Leo Gura

Why do you think u need to do all those techniques for liberation? 

How do you know that those lead to freedom?

How fo you know enlightenment exsist? 

 

It’s important to known that freedom from seeking freedom is not a matter of time ‘years of experience’.. nor does this freedom from the desire to be free come about by the movement of volition. 

This is an instant action that takes place. 

 

Dont play the it takes time/years of experience game. This is utterly false. If this happens to someone its because they were using time ‘movment of becoming’ or  ‘thought’ as means of entering a timeless realm. ‘ action free of thought projection, motive or volition’ 

The approach is everything. 

 

 

 

Edited March 31, 2018 by Faceless

[kieranperez]

21 minutes ago, Aimblack said:

Stop beating yourself up, you are on the right path, being able to safely stop taking one psych medicine and do as well as you do while taking it is already a great feat that most people will never accomplish and you did that with 6. You are a beast. Whatever you have been doing has clearly worked so just keep doing that more consistently for a longer period of time.

Thanks man! Yeah I guess I’m just getting impatient. One piece at a time. 

[blazed]

Schedule your days and make a routine that works for your life style.

If you have work, studies,  commitments make sure you do those before spiritual work,  enlightenment or not, you don't want to be sleeping on  the streets... hungry.

Do not take more than you can comfortably do. Build it up slowly.

If you have hectic days allow yourself off with a sustaining 5 min meditation.

Try not to burn yourself out.

[Berjohansen]

13 hours ago, kieranperez said:

I'm in the homestretch of completing 30 days of consistent daily 20 min meditation of Do-Nothing and 2 min Concentration Practice. I've meditating off and on though for 2 years now though. I reduced my meditation time down to 20 min because I got so tired of being all over the place in my commitment to daily meditation no matter what so this way I felt a motivation to keep going because I know 20 min is beyond doable. This has proven to be quite successful. I know no matter what I'm going to get my 20 minutes in. 

However, I've been jerking my mind off on enlightenment for way too damn long now. I KNOW that this is possible and is real. I've been wasting so many months and years that I've kinda just had enough and want to start this path and never get off. At the same time though, I don't want to tackle more than I can handle by taking on so many daily practices that I burnout. I want to start a Self-Inquiry practice, additional Mindfulness Meditation practice but I don't know... My development is still really low and especially my Concentration. I actually successfully completed my taper off all 6 of my psych medications which included 16-17 years of taking prescribed ADHD medication. However, because of that, I'm discovering just how absolute atrocious my concentration is. I've been stuck at 2 min of Concentration practice for close to 30 days and have not even come close to hitting access concentration. Due to this, I'm nervous of how much I can take on in this enlightenment work given my current development.

What's your advice on where I can go from here? I want to take this path seriously and stop fucking around but I want to make sure I'm not putting too much on my plate all at once. 

@Leo Gura

Remember that 20min without those meds is like 10 hours with them. Your doing great just keep at it?? Whats happening now is your abit overactive mind (wich some call adhd) is playing trix on you overanalyzing everything. Energetically gifted people like you have abit longer way to go. Set goals you know you can reach. In a while you train your ego to do as you planned, then increase ammount. Sticking to a plan also will be very beneficial. 

much love ??