Thunder_Gooch

To you as well.

Your flavor of enlightenment isn't the same as mine.

The same to you as well, I do not wish to pursue a path that doesn't lead to where I want to be. Dedicating my life doing silly things that lead no where, still dying like a dog, still being reborn, that sounds incredibly ignorant to me.

I do not consider what you are talking about to be a real meditation for my purposes, the masters you reference all still die like dogs without having broken free of rebirth. Their lives were wasted in vain. What I study is what I consider real meditation. I would suggest you stick to your form of cultivation, and topics about it.

The substances help me get relaxed and into trance faster but are not necessary, just reduce the amount of time I need to spend to hit the zone. If you think trance is a state of dullness you and I are not on the same page. I do not take 920mg of anything to meditate properly.

Substances are to help relax, not aid in focus, though I have considered adding stuff to boost norepinephrine levels to achieve better focus.

Thanks! You too.

Immortality of the spirit, not body.

Incorrect, I only have no interest in your flavor of cultivation. It does not lead where I want to go.

Nope still reading them, just giving you full answers in the order for clarity.

Bye!

Your comments are being responded to in the order they were received, please be patient.

It's the closest word I have been able to find to describe the state, it is in between waking and sleeping, and you pass through it each night when you go to sleep. Hypnagogia may also be a word that could be used but is associated with dreaming and visual images which isn't the same thing I am referring to.

See the bottom of page 8 of this thread.

See page 8 of this thread.

See page 8 of this thread.

No. It's the best word to describe the state I am referring to that I am aware of.

Not sure where you got this idea, trance is trance and focus is focus. You can do one pointed concentration quite effectively in a deep state of trance.

I really don't care what it sounds like. This is the method of cultivation I learned. If you don't like it you don't like it. Stick to the Buddhist discussion forum.

Developing an energetic carbon copy of my physical body to house my consciousness post-mortem.

No.

No.

"Good thing" is an understatement. Absolutely 100% critical is more like it. Only for this form of cultivation. There are many. If your form says different and the masters of your form of cultivation achieve the goals you are looking for then stick with them. However this thread isn't about Buddhist Samatha cultivation.

Yes way.