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I wasted many years of my life with Buddhism and I've lost many great opportunities that life offered to me because of putting "spirituality" in the place of the most important thing in my life. Buddhism is based on the dogmatic belief in rebirth which has NO empirical basis and CANNOT be proven apart from the hallucinations of certain individuals who claim to remember stuff. You turn to spirituality because you seek the tools to get answers... and you're given 2000 yrs old BS. Many people don't take spirituality as something important, but just as a hobby. And they are perfectly fine with Buddhism because it has very little impact on their lives. The teachings of samsara are not depressive, but they are a key element in a set of teachings that promotes escapism from reality IN ORDER TO AVOID SUFFERING which is philosophically conceived as being eternal. It turns out that if you avoid suffering and desire, you suppress your human nature itself just because some ignorant philosophers said that you're going to reincarnate. Embrace life, cultivate desire, strive to achieve goals, don't waste your precious time with meditation and GIVE a purpose to your life.

Sit in a meditation posture and perform mind maths. Start with something simple like *2 and it goes like this 1*2=2 , 2*2=4, 4*2=8, 8*2=16. With large numbers you'll develop memory as well. Main Tip --> Take your time to multiply numbers, no need to be superfast... but with time and practice you will acquire an impressive skill.

Sometimes, I feel like Mopai has shaped our expectations about spiritual practices in a very profound manner.

Forgive me for turning this thread into self-analisys stuff, but I'm a bit confused. You said in this very thread that you "don't want anything too crazy, just a slow road to superior health and happiness. No powers or siddhis, rather self control and positive mental attitude" and that's pretty much what WH method does. Then, you specify here that this is not really a cultivation system and this leads me to the next question... clear and simple cultivation of what?

A question to @thelerner I'm curious: isn't the Wim Hof method simple and clear enough? Happy, strong and Healthy?

The Cheshire Cats code prevents me from from not mentioning the Crazy Train...

Please share some Parvati porn for spiritual purposes. Thank you

Can awareness be separated from sensory inputs? yes? how? No? why?

The sooner you realize the nature of the spiritual industry, the better you will make your own judgments. When I hear stories from India or Tibet, I know that the keyword is "exaggeration" and I ask for something more than an anonymous anecdote...

I consider the possibility that Babaji is not real.

No idea, but imho his lifespan could be regarded as an objective measure of the quality of his spiritual practices. No, it doesn't. But to practice celibacy for a period of 3 months or so may have a therapeutic effect on the nervous system. It might feel like tremendous power if your nervous system has some imbalances.

Some of the greatest minds like Vivekananda had quite short lives. Sex sublimation is a fascinating concept, but I don't assume that it's real and doable just because some Indian guy said so.

I think that we should consider a few possibilities. Given that as individuals who study themselves in the realm of subjective perception, we feel to be "observers" at the most fundamental level, we should consider that: 1- identity of the one who perceives could be a cognitive process generated by the mere activity and existence of the sensory organs. To support this thesis we have the fact that we can't shut down perception and when there's no perception there's no identity. 2- it could be a mental trick, a false perception like a mirage or those images that the brain can interpret as different representation simultaneously. There are are a lot of perceptual tricks that our mind produces and we can study them trough popular images ready available online. 3-there might be a Self that observes, but we don't know any of its qualities. It could be something that dies daily, or it could be immortal. It could be supported by physiology... or not.

We haven't the tools to get to a definitive answer. We can just speculate.

Identity is the business of conceptual thinking and it takes a fraction of time to give birth to conceptual understanding. All that I can know is that perception comes first and concepts develop shortly thereafter: identity does not perceive.

There's the Buddhist answer: there's isn't an identity. There's my answer: the eye can't observe itself.

I can't find an identity in such a short interval of time. It's the old trick of the eye trying to observe itself.

Tried it. I feel like I'm someone who experiences stuff

How about antinomic oneness of phenomenal extistence? That's pretty important to grasp triality!

One should start with non-duality and antinomian oness before delving into the principle of negation of the three vectors.

Not to mention non-triality which is such a profundity that it goes even beyond the Dynkin diagram. it is said that mopai level 72 one can stabilize the mind in non-quaternality of which the classical non-duality is nothing but a special case.

Non-duality stands to fundamental truths like to accept myopia stands to actually healing your eyes. People manipulate energy, store Qi in the immortal dantian and prepare themselves for immortality. Yet, none of them is able to cure myopia. People kill imaginary giants but they can't trample the humble ant. Can you see the fundamental truth?

How many students of yours have eyesight problems (myopia, etc..) ?

You found a song that you like, I provided the name of the artist who created it ... and now youtube could help you to find more from the same artist. I like Shiva namaskara stotram