High Yield Enlightenment Techniques

[Flicker_boy]

Hey actualized! Today's video really inspired me to research and share the best enlightenment techniques. Please share the most effective techniques you have found so far. Love.

 

[Flicker_boy]

For my part I've found two really interesting ones. Neti neti meditation consists of: "what I can perceive is not me", so you sit down and whatever shows up(thoughts, emotions, body sensations, external objects, etc, etc) you disidentify from. Second is resting as awareness, best explaneid by adya here 

 

[Azrael]

2 hours ago, Lorenzo Engel said:

Please share the most effective techniques you have found so far.

For me personally it surely is strong determination sitting. I did self-inquiry for a few month, also combined with strong determination sits but I noticed that I had to shut up my mind completely and just look. I tend to over-think and analyze so this is the key. I did strong determination sittings with "Do Nothing" like 5-7 month, sometimes trying new stuff but basically as I said, and this brought me the best results because I managed to completely dis-identify incrementally from my thoughts to a point where I have a thought while not having the sensation of thinking. When this happened, from there on it took me to complete new levels. Really a no-return.

A few weeks ago I started doing zazen, or let's say one form of it, counting the out-breaths from 1 to 10 repeatedly while focusing on the belly to shift your awareness from thinking to feeling and sensing. I do this with strong determination sits and this blasted my meditation even deeper. Like nuts, really.

For me this works because now I hang on so much to the breath that I go totally out of my head - which is doing its counting - and I can begin to see what really is in front of me. Game-changing for me. I also tend to do that a lot during the day, while walking, waiting, cooking ...

The point here being is the following: What Leo said in his video today is the important key. I have found my method - strong determination sits - and nuanced it with various other ones - as said above - to really find something that fits to me personally. I went with every method mentioned a few months and am applying zazen for a few weeks now. All the intellectual stuff and thought about this journey comes together in this daily habit to open my eyes.

So, this is my game. For now. Check it out if you like, but more importantly find one that does the trick for you best. 

Edited April 10, 2016 by Arik

[Nature]

"Let go of the effort to control and manipulate our experience" (-Adya) is one of the most effective techniques that I've used.

[Toby]

Be still. Self-inquiry. Grace. Love.