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- Getting high taught me how to meditate and meditation taught me how to get high
- What I Learned from 3 Days Meditating in a Closet
- Motivation comes and goes, it's not a good thing to base your actions around. How do you guys stay disciplined when motivation is fleeting?
- Those who possessed the Tao in the highest degree sought not to show it. Those who possessed the Tao in the lowest degree sought not to lose it.
- Rumi’s life changed when he met a man called Shams
- Disabled guy who lets my elderly, emotionally-abusive father live with me. Meditating as a means of self-preservation.
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- How do I meditate? New to meditation here.
- 7 weeks meditation, I don't want to stop
- Thank you
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- Sudden awareness of my REAL location
- This pain is not to make you sad, remember. That's where people go on missing... This pain is just to make you more alert – because people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they don't become alert.
- Hour long meditations let me see my late-grandma
- I saw this quote in a meditation book I’m reading and thought it was a good analogy
- What body positioning / posture to use during meditation?
- What is your favorite meditation music? Is it silence?
- Searching for help - cant calm down for 2 days
- How to get myself to start mediating in the morning?
- Rumi's Untold Story
- How to let go and also kill my ego?
- Numbness and pressure at the forehead
- feeling nauseous after meditation
- Breathwork and losing consciousness
- Drifting in and out of falling asleep while meditating?
| Getting high taught me how to meditate and meditation taught me how to get high Posted: 17 Jul 2020 05:13 PM PDT I noticed for the first time how to access this bliss like state while doing MDMA when I was 18. I chased that high for awhile but then the Molly stopped doing it for me. Tried a bunch of other stuff...Then when I was about 25 I took some mushrooms and accessed this sustained bliss state for like a week after the mushroom adventure. I tried mushrooms a few times after that but it was always hit or miss if I got that sustained bliss state. Then one pandemic someone on here mentioned to me to try meditation and I've been able to tap into that sustained bliss state...without getting high. boom. I wish I could go back and tell all the pot heads back in middle school I found something cheaper/safer than whippets. Chill out and plug yourself into the universe. [link] [comments] |
| What I Learned from 3 Days Meditating in a Closet Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:26 AM PDT Inspired by a Hafiz poem, I spent 72 hours in the darkness without food in my friend's closet. It transformed my mind. I wrote about the experience here if you're interested. And this is the poem that inspired me. "A ruby is buried here." FOR THREE DAYS Not many teachers in this world As sitting all alone, for three days, This means not leaving. And no reading in there or writing poems, This sitting alone, though, is If you are normally Or have ever been under doctor's Dear one, A ruby is buried [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 04:50 PM PDT I have a hard time staying disciplined and practicing meditation when motivation escapes me, which I acknowledge is silly because it's impossible to stay motivated 24/7 whether the task at hand is meditation or any practice more broadly. I want to be able to complete my goals regardless of whether or not I'm feeling motivated at the time which is seemingly arbitrary and not a strong basis for action. What is your personal advice for staying focused? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
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| Rumi’s life changed when he met a man called Shams Posted: 17 Jul 2020 10:39 PM PDT Rumi is a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose love for another man inspired some of the world's best poems and led to the creation of a new religious order, the Whirling Dervishes. He was born Sept. 30, 1207 in Afghanistan.With sensuous beauty and deep spiritual insight, Rumi writes about the sacred presence in ordinary experiences. His poetry is widely admired around the world and he is one of the most popular poets in America.Rumi's life changed when he met a man called ShamsRumi was born Sept. 30, 1207 in Afghanistan, which was then part of the Persian Empire. His father, a Muslim scholar and mystic, moved the family to Roman Anatolia (present-day Turkey) to escape Mongol invaders when Rumi was a child. Rumi lived most of his life in this region and used it as the basis of his chosen name, which means "Roman." His full name is Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi.His father died when Rumi was 25 and he inherited a position as teacher at a madrassa (Islamic school). He continued studying Shariah (Islamic law), eventually issuing his own fatwas (legal opinions) and giving sermons in the local mosques. Rumi also practiced the basics of Sufi mysticism in a community of dervishes, who are Muslim ascetics similar to mendicant friars in Christianity. On Nov. 15, 1244 Rumi met the man who would change his life: a wandering dervish named Shams of Tabriz (Shams-e-Tabrizi or Shams al-Din Muhammad). He came from the city of Tabriz in present-day Iranian Azerbaijan. It is said that Shams had traveled throughout the Middle East asking Allah to help him find a friend who could "endure" his companionship. A voice in a vision sent him to the place where Rumi lived.Rumi, a respected scholar in his thirties, was riding a donkey home from work when an elderly stranger in ragged clothes approached. It was Shams. He grasped the reins and started a theological debate. Some say that Rumi was so overwhelmed that he fainted and fell off the donkey.Rumi and Shams soon became inseparable. They spent months together, lost in a kind of ecstatic mystical communion known as "sobhet" — conversing and gazing at each other until a deeper conversation occurred without words. They forgot about human needs and ignored Rumi's students, who became jealous. When conflict arose in the community, Shams disappeared as unexpectedly as he had arrived.Rumi's loneliness at their separation led him to begin the activities for which he is still remembered. He poured out his soul in poetry and mystical whirling dances of the spirit.Eventually Rumi found out that Shams had gone to Damascus. He wrote letters begging Shams to return. Legends tell of a dramatic reunion. The two sages fell at each other's feet. In the past they were like a disciple and teacher, but now they loved each other as equals. One account says, "No one knew who was lover and who the beloved." Both men were married to women, but they resumed their intense relationship with each other, merged in mystic communion. Jealousies arose again and some men began plotting to get rid of Shams.One winter night, when he was with Rumi, Shams answered a knock at the back door. He disappeared and was never seen again. Many believe that he was murdered.Rumi grieved when Shams disappearedRumi grieved deeply. He searched in vain for his friend and lost himself in whirling dances of mourning. One of his poems hints at the his emotions:Dance, when you're broken open.Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.Dance in the middle of the fighting.Dance in your blood.Dance, when you're perfectly free.Rumi danced, mourned and wrote poems until the pressure forged a new consciousness. "The wound is the place where the Light enters you," he once wrote. His soul fused with his beloved. They became One: Rumi, Shams and God. He wrote:Why should I seek? I am the same as he.His essence speaks through me.I have been looking for myself.After this breakthrough, waves of profound poetry flowed out of Rumi. He attributed more and more of his writings to Shams. Soon his followers founded the Mevlevi Order, known as the whirling dervishes because of the dances they do in devotion to God.[link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 03:16 PM PDT Hi, thanks for reading. I (32m) am a disabled guy, I own my own home but let my 80-year-old father live with me. He actually helped me pay off the mortgage, back when he was working - he's now retired and on a pension. I am currently unable to work and rely on government assistance, something I'm not proud of. It's barely enough to live on but I won't look a gift horse in the mouth. I have good qualifications and apply for lots of jobs but I think my disability puts many potential employers off. Plus with COVID people are getting made redundant, not hired. I'm in the middle of writing my first book, so hopefully writing will become a source of income for me. My father owns a share portfolio worth $350k which he plans to leave to me when he dies. In the meantime, by pooling our income (my Disability Allowance, his pension, and the dividends from his shares) we are able to live fairly comfortably. Problem is, my father is a rude, aggressive, emotionally-abusive POS. Yes he does wonderful things (helps me pay off lots of debts etc) but is not a wonderful human being. He's pretty much devoted his whole life to inflicting misery on anyone who comes into contact with him. He even writes rude letters in my name, which makes me look like the bad one, and when I ask him not to he sulks for days. He has short-term memory loss but it's not bad enough to go into a rest-home (and even if it were, he'd refuse to go). I suffer from depression and stomach aches every day as a direct result of living with him! I can't ask him to move out because he has nowhere to go, and the property market is so expensive (whether renting or buying). It would be like saying, "Ok, you helped me pay off my mortgage, now you can leave." And, as I said, his memory's not great. I've even thought about going flatting and letting him keep the house, but the house is in my name which means I'd be paying rates on a place I wasn't living in! Plus with my disability I can't just go flatting anywhere, I'd need home modifications etc. So for the moment I'm just spending my days out of the house as much as possible. Also doing lots of meditation and being kind to myself, trying not to let dad get to me so much. So that's my situation. Any support or advice you can offer would be helpful. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 07:48 PM PDT It is necessary to practice meditation frequently and regularly until the condition induced becomes habitual and permanent throughout the day. Therefore, meditate! You lost sight of the bliss because your meditative attitude had not become natural and because of the recurrence of latent tendencies of the mind. When you become habitually reflective, the enjoyment of spiritual beatitude becomes a matter of natural experience. It is not by the single realisation of "I am not the body" that the goal of Self is reached. Do we become royalty by seeing a king once? One must constantly enter samadhi [absorption in the Self] and realise one's Self, and completely blot out the old tendencies and the mind, before one becomes the Self. Meditation on the Self is our natural state. It is only because we find it hard that we imagine it to be an arbitrary and extraordinary state. We are all unnatural. The mind resting in the Self is its natural condition, but instead of that, our minds are resting on outward objects. Meditation helps to remove the illusion that the Self must be seen. How do you see the "I" now? Do you hold a mirror in front of yourself to know your own being? The awareness is the "I". Realise That: It is the Truth. Withdrawing all thoughts from sense objects one should remain fixed in steady non-objective enquiry. See the self by meditation in this manner. Trace every thought to its origin. Never allow thought to run on. If you do, it will be unending. Take it back to its starting place and the mind will die of inaction. Go back by the question, "Who am I?" No meditation on any kind of object is helpful. In meditating on an object, whether concrete or abstract, you are destroying the sense of Oneness and creating duality. Meditate on what you are, in reality. Obviously the seer is more real, true and important than the seen, since the seen is dependent on it. So, turn your attention to the Seer, who is the Source of your "I", and realise That. Up to now, you have been studying the object, not the subject. Now, find out what the word "I" stands for. All kinds of thoughts arise in meditation – unless they rise up, how can they be destroyed? They rise up spontaneously in order to be extinguished in due course. The Self is realised with a mind that is turned inward. When the mind sees its own Source it becomes That. By Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi [link] [comments] |
| How do I meditate? New to meditation here. Posted: 18 Jul 2020 12:39 AM PDT I know this seems like a dumb question but how should I meditate? I tried the beginning course of headspace but now that it's done I don't know what to do. I don't want to pay for anything. YouTube 10 minute meditation? Start a timer on my phone? Any free and lasting resources that I can make a schedule out of are appreciated. Thanks guys. [link] [comments] |
| 7 weeks meditation, I don't want to stop Posted: 18 Jul 2020 01:30 AM PDT 7 years ago I listened to a talk by Dr Jon kabat zinn on meditation and I was hooked on the idea. Over those years I tried it but could never make the decision to do it consistently. Now in 2020 with the lockdown I took it as an opportunity to get my life in order. I quit medication, nicotine, caffeine, video games and recently taking a break from cannabis. I've meditated nearly most of the past 7 weeks currently on 24 days in a row. I started at 10 minutes in the morning for the first month and I noticed the benefits. I had more executive control over my decisions and emotions although life wasn't perfect. I'm now up to 20 minutes in the morning and before bed and all the benefits I'm experiencing keep getting better. The ability to transition from thoughts to the present is easier and more frequent, I can dissect a task before doing it and zone in on it when doing it, social anxiety is down and I can maintain eye contact and even smile. I'm still off medication and other substances and I also go running and bodyweight exercises. I've taken drugs like LSD and mdma in the past and they were eye opening, but I've had hellish experiences also. I've learned to appreciate the simple ability to focus on the present moment and feel emotions as they arise and let them go, I can also have really bad intrusive thoughts (OCD) but have them not affect me and they have lessened by 50%. I could go on a lot longer but I wont, I just wanted to share the positive impact meditation has had on me. It's morning time here and I'm about to have my usual 20 minutes. Yesterday I even worked 10 hours on minimal sleep (cannabis withdrawal) and still worked my butt off. Anyways I'm going to take executive control and stop typing I hope you all have a great Saturday! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:58 PM PDT I'm grateful for my life and ive loved every experience thank you for being in my life. SINCERELY , from the whole of my heart and soul THANK YOU , life is hard there's a lot of sad things in it and you know what they are to you but there's also happy moments and you know those as well! I think about all those moments I've had with you alot like as I type this im thinking of them and im so grateful that I chose to experience this life with you im blessed to have made it to the egg first and survive the birthing process im blessed to have actually made it to the point in my life to meet you and I love every moment we had so THANK YOU to my Family Friends Enemies and Strangers and Passerbys I've met and haven't met yet Thank You for making my life incredible and beautiful, I'm gonna make this world even more amazing for you your kids their kids and all of our descendants, it sounds crazy but its what I feel I was born to do ! Of course I'll gladly accept any help or ideas haha but thank you again. July 17th 2020 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 11:32 AM PDT "Be grateful to everyone, because everybody is creating a space for you to be transformed – even those who think they are obstructing you, even those whom you think are enemies. Your friends, your enemies, good people and bad people, favorable circumstances, unfavorable circumstances – all together they are creating the context in which you can be transformed and become a buddha. Be grateful to all. To those who have helped, to those who have hindered, to those who have been indifferent. Be grateful to all, because all together they are creating the context in which buddhas are born, in which you can become a buddha." Osho, The Book of Wisdom, Talk #5 [link] [comments] |
| Sudden awareness of my REAL location Posted: 18 Jul 2020 01:43 AM PDT I've been meditating daily for around one year or so. But so far, it was only samatha meditation, which is basically focusing on the breath and quieting the mind while keeping the body still. Today something special happened. We all know, in a rational sense, that what we are observing is not the direct outside world, but a reflection of it in our consciousness. I am trying to be as metaphysically impartial as I can be. Suppose you have no idea what is the origin of consciousness and whether there is an "outside world" or not. Even as a hardcore realist and materialist, if you are a rational person, you are rationally aware that we do not directly observe the "external world". Yet the naive realism is so engrained in our worldview, that even if you KNOW IT, you don't normally recognize it. So today, sitting in meditation, I suddenly become aware that I WAS in that internal space. My perspective shifted from mentally perceiving myself sitting in my garden meditating to being inside that thoughtless mental space of dark and quiet. So I stood there and enjoyed that inner sanctuary. And when I opened my eyes, for the first time I realized I was seeing the inside content of my own consciousness. I was looking at things within my consciousness. And as I AM my consciousness, I became very aware that I was being inside myself, looking at things within me. For the first time I looked at the world and saw myself. Was this Vipassanna meditation suddenly happening? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 11:27 PM PDT S O R R O W "This pain is not to make you sad, remember. That's where people go on missing... This pain is just to make you more alert – because people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they don't become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies, there is a possibility. When your woman leaves you alone – those dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that woman so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day she is gone. Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting: it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware... And when you are aware, misery disappears." O S H O [link] [comments] |
| Hour long meditations let me see my late-grandma Posted: 17 Jul 2020 02:41 PM PDT I'm new to meditation until I heard about the Akashic record(I know, I started off really deep). I've been doing it every few days, guided meditations to raise vibrations, access akashic record, and also past life analysis. It's really relaxing, and makes me feel calm. I think nothing more of it. Until last night. I've been dabbling in manifestation, talking to ancestors, setting intentions, and overall living a more positive life. I don't eat meat anymore, I talk to my plants, I ground myself and stay away from negative people/situations. Last week I thought nothing of it, decided to ask the universe to see my grandma that I lost in 2017. A few days went by, I forgot all about it, figured it wasn't time yet. She came to me in a dream. Not only her, but her mom too(my great-grandma) She didn't speak words, but she grabbed me and we hugged and laughed. She has only came to me in a dream once before since her death. Has anyone else been visited by family members? [link] [comments] |
| I saw this quote in a meditation book I’m reading and thought it was a good analogy Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:38 AM PDT "Tsoknyi Rinpoche said that a good analogy for using thoughts as the object of your meditation is like being the doorman in an expensive, elegant hotel. The doorman opens the door and lets the guests in. The guests come in and then go out the other side, but the doorman doesn't follow them to the bathroom." From the book How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind by Pema Chödrön [link] [comments] |
| What body positioning / posture to use during meditation? Posted: 18 Jul 2020 02:43 AM PDT |
| What is your favorite meditation music? Is it silence? Posted: 17 Jul 2020 10:41 PM PDT when did you first start your meditation? how easy or difficult was it? Do you meditate with music or without ? this is my most favourite music to meditate...what is yours? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3anGXEyMmXw [link] [comments] |
| Searching for help - cant calm down for 2 days Posted: 18 Jul 2020 02:21 AM PDT Hello guys, for 2 days I can't calm down. I can feel the adrenalin and the cortisol in my system. I guess that certain thoughts trigger this response. After that, I get anxious about my body. More thoughts come in and make it worse. I tried a lot of stuff to relax my body, including to accept the present moment as it is. It seems like nothing really changes the state I am in and now I am seeking help/advice. [link] [comments] |
| How to get myself to start mediating in the morning? Posted: 18 Jul 2020 02:20 AM PDT I always plan to meditate in the morning of the next day (cause i have 2 hours of silence during the morning) and i know that meditation is great for me. but when the time for action comes it just feels like a boring thing to do, even if i get myself to sit down there and start my mind will throw out something and i stop meditating. Does anyone relate to this? How can i fix it? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2020 10:31 PM PDT Rumi's life story is full of intrigue and high drama mixed with intense creative outbursts. Rumi was a charming, wealthy nobleman, a genius theologian, law professor and a brilliant but sober scholar, who in his late thirties met a wandering and wild holy man by the name of Shams. In Rumi's own words, after meeting Shams he was transformed from a bookish, sober scholar to an impassioned seeker of universal truth and love.Rumi and Shams stayed together for a short time, about 2 years in total, but the impact of their meeting left an everlasting impression on Rumi and his work. After Shams was extinguished by Rumi's youngest son (an honor killing), due to events that are explained further down on this page, Rumi fell into a deep state of grief and gradually out of that pain outpoured nearly 70,000 verses of poetry. These thousands of poems, which include about 2000 in quatrains, are collected in two epic books named, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi and Masnavi (Massnavi, Mathnawi).It seems that the universe brought these two opposing characters (a wealthy nobleman and a poor, wondering, wild holy man) together to remind us that it is impossible to know where your next inspiration may come from or who might aid furthering your growth. For Rumi life of mystics is a "gathering of lovers, where there is no high or low, smart or ignorant and no proper schooling required." The core explanation of Shams and Rumi's relationship is that Rumi without Shams would not have been known to history. Rumi used all his wit to keep this powerful, wandering, wild Bird in a cage for as long as possible and even tempt him with his young step daughter. And in the process Rumi becomes a major spiritual master and an artist of truly world-class stature. In the meantime, Shams achieves his dream of a "grandmaster student," and falls in love for the first and only time and pays dearly for it. A love story, a tragedy or a personal necessity? So, here we have two absolutely genuine, once in an eon bright, untarnished spirits coming together. The meeting of Shams and Rumi doesn't happen every century nor every millennium, it happens once every spiritual cycle (about 12,000 years).So instead of a slow cooker, Shams put Rumi in a microwave oven. Instead of several life times, the process of ascension was sped up to a mere several years. Rumi not only clearly understood this, but he did his absolute best to make sure no mystic ever forgot what happened between them.Here are some nitty-gritty facts about these two. Shams drank, Rumi did not. Their companionship, although short lived, was about transmission of power and high secret knowledge and it was never physical. Think about it, why else would Rumi offer him a wife if they were physically involved? Shams' powers grew while he was with Rumi. Rumi saw mysterious he never thought possible.[link] [comments] |
| How to let go and also kill my ego? Posted: 17 Jul 2020 05:23 PM PDT I'm very ego driven person. When something doesn't go according to the way i want, i get pissed. If a girl doesn't reply to my text, or ghost me - I take it personal. It hits and hurts my ego. Many times i have heard people meditating on something. Meaning meditate something away and forgive someone. How does that work? I wanna kill my ego [link] [comments] |
| Numbness and pressure at the forehead Posted: 18 Jul 2020 01:28 AM PDT I think i am overefforting . Is this sensation normal ? What do you think? [link] [comments] |
| feeling nauseous after meditation Posted: 18 Jul 2020 01:03 AM PDT i recently started meditating i'm very new to this, i have only meditated two or three times. essentially what i do is sit down and focus my mind i just let my thoughts and emotions out in my mind, but every time i do this i almost immediately feel sick and my eyelids feel heavy and i feel like vomiting i try to ignore it but the more i meditate the worse it gets does anyone know what is causing this. [link] [comments] |
| Breathwork and losing consciousness Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:52 PM PDT So I have played around with breath work from time to time and as I got to a strong-ish point with it, I sort of black out and lose consciousness for a few seconds and it is pleasurable at times but also scares me quite a bit. Is this a fear to push past to reach a new level, or is doing breath work potentially dangerous? When I reach this state of unconsciousness I CAN feel my fear in its purest form. I just feel that fear and maybe I am attaching it to the breathwork? Maybe I need to feel the fear to heal it? Or maybe it just won't ever go away? I would love some insight on this and help. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Drifting in and out of falling asleep while meditating? Posted: 17 Jul 2020 05:12 PM PDT I meditate for over an hour and a half each day. I have multiple sessions throughout the day but one of those sessions is one hour total. Lately I've been falling asleep while meditating while sitting with my legs crossed and back straight. Sometimes during the meditation I forget where I am as well. Does this mean I'm going deeper into my meditation practice or am I just falling asleep? [link] [comments] |
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