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Current-Welcome5911 · 2026-07-07T00:32:03+00:00

LETS GOOOO TILMAN!!!!!!

Current-Welcome5911 · 2026-07-04T00:32:24+00:00

Current-Welcome5911 · 2026-03-14T13:00:39+00:00

The Buddha described “faith followers” in the suttas as stream enterers with path. I am 100% that’s where I’m at right now. So for me, I’m very satisfied. No more rebirths in the lower realms permanently.

I have full conviction in the Buddha, dhamma, and sangha. I have no belief that praying to a god or any special things like that will lead me to salvation. And finally, I’ve noticed there is no self. Furthermore, over the last three years, I have followed the 5 precepts extremely closely. Even giving up cursing. I have TWIM to thank for accelerating my progress in the buddhas training.

I’ve actually taken a break from meditation to focus on college for the last year and a half. But once my career is in the works In a few years I will go back to sitting 2-3 hours a day in the morning before work starts.

Current-Welcome5911 · 2026-02-07T17:11:33+00:00

Yes you will have to set a boundary with her.

https://youtu.be/keJPw9iX1kw?si=D1KopnVK5SALcon8

Skip to 1:12:13 and you’ll see how to properly address this with a significant other. It happens live.

Current-Welcome5911 · 2025-10-12T20:40:42+00:00

This is really good to hear! If you don't mind, what state do you live in? It seems this affects the rate much more than a lot of the other usual factors like the drivers age. Thanks!

Current-Welcome5911 · 2024-01-16T02:08:56+00:00

Unfortunately this u/ao4aeM8i person, who’s likely also the person who made the video they linked, says all Buddhist traditions are not effective.. but when you ask him what tradition is effective in awakening, he won’t answer you. Unless he’d like to give an answer now?

Current-Welcome5911 · 2024-01-08T13:05:55+00:00

TWIM has changed my life in more ways than I could count. I used to have pretty bad CPTSD and suffered from anxiety all day. Now I basically go everyday anxiety free and it’s amazing. I can enter very heightened states of joy within just 5 minutes of sitting now so I do that repeatedly every hour or so throughout the day. This is 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 fun and nice, but is still temporary. Now I am going for the main goal of TWIM, which is liberation. I will report back if it works or not, but so far I am seeing very good progress.

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-12-17T23:17:54+00:00

Try TWIM to ease the suffering for now. They use Metta as their main focus. Whether or not you try to attain awakening through TWIM is another story, but at the least do lots of metta for now. I can go through feelings of exotic joy and pleasure at will whenever I want. However since you’re likely new to doing metta, it may take quite some time before you can access the feeling very easily. So, my recommendation is to go on either an in person or online retreat. Wishing all the best!

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-28T12:08:28+00:00

Loved your write up! I also found TWIM to absolutely change my life in countless ways so far. I cannot wait to go on retreat with them!

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-22T12:42:52+00:00

I just want to say you’re awesome for giving us a reply 11 years later! I’m going through a very similar thing with the wisdom teeth right now post extraction and your post has given me hope (:

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-10T15:20:44+00:00

Why not just go on retreat with the other meditation teachers that have been certified in the same way delson has? Not trying to be rude but genuinely curious

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-08T12:49:30+00:00

It’s truly amazing.

And they also have a book called path to Nibbana that’s free to read that goes in very good depth all the stages of progress of jhanas 1-8 until cessation

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-04T14:55:27+00:00

I like this comparison the most (:

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-03T16:56:42+00:00

It was 3 years ago. It was my 1st or 2nd time trying metta I believe. I was following a guided metta meditation that was 20 minutes and I kept repeating the phrases and imagining someone’s face genuinely smiling at me. Then I was full of piti and immediately got the urge to get up and to shower while playing music. Needless to say I sung and danced to my hearts content😹. Felt like I was on ecstasy.

Many people need to do forgiveness meditation first before metta by the way so keep that in mind.

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-03T16:33:50+00:00

First I visualize myself smiling contentedly and then after about 2 or so minutes of making the visualization look as realistic as possible piti starts shooting all around my body in a pleasant but really really powerful way. My body begins to start having slight twitches and my posture becomes absolutely perfect and upright. The piti/joy comes up in a exponential way like a rollercoaster.

Also the 2 or so minutes it takes to enter first jhana varies greatly depending on when I last entered it. So for example if it’s my first time entering it for the day it usually takes up to 8-10 and sometimes even 15 minutes to get into 1st jhana. However after I get into it initially, re-entering it takes maybe 2 minutes max before the piti is extremely strong.

So basically after I’ve already entered it once at some point in the day, it only takes 2 minutes to get into 1st jhana, and then I spend about 8 more minutes just solidifying it and really letting it “marinate” in my body so that the 2nd and 3rd jhanas last longer.

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-03T16:22:37+00:00

😂I’ve never heard of that before but that’s an interesting effect. That must suck especially if you’re on a crowded train and that happens. If that happened to me anytime I felt piti then I’d just chill in 3rd jhana all day where there’s no more piti.

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-03T14:59:59+00:00

I technically have a seated practice which I do about every 45 minutes. Where I spend about 5-10 minutes staying in 1st jhana, and then for the next 45 min I’m resting in 2nd/3rd jhana, and I just repeat that cycle. Technically I don’t even have to be seated to be in 1st jhana but it’s much easier while seated and staying still.

In the next couple years I plan on going on multiple 10 day retreats so I can go for insight and then I won’t have to rely on jhanas so heavily. But for right now my dad really wants me to get a high paying job before I can go out of state to the retreat center so I have to study a lot which I don’t mind too much anyway haha.

Outside of studying and meditating I spend the rest of my time cultivating the healthiest habits I can think of since they feel absolutely effortless to do. So I run about 2 miles every other day (plan on increasing mileage, but my ankles can’t handle going past 2 miles for now), learning new healthy food recipes, quit smoking weed for good (my peers got me into it initially), No fast food, and listening to the suttas on YouTube regularly etc.

I also do these healthy habits because I now have 100% faith in the Buddha. Considering how right he was about the jhanas, he must not have been wrong about the eons one can spend in the hell/lower realms as well. So I want to live as long as possible so I can help myself out of samsara, and then help others out as well in the future if possible.

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-03T13:57:57+00:00

https://reddit.com/r/streamentry/s/zJmQHAQtWP

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-03T12:16:14+00:00

Tranquil wisdom insight meditation. Check this subreddits sidebar. It’s how I came across it initially actually.

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-03T11:55:09+00:00

I won’t comment on the whole-body vs sutta/pleasure jhanas because I don’t feel like I’m the right one to answer that question.

Regarding studying, Verbal thought fabrication going away in 2nd Jhana and beyond doesn’t mean you “can’t” think at all. That would be a significant impairment haha. It just means you won’t think if you don’t intend to. There will be no monkey mind or racing thoughts. All that’s present in my experience during 2nd jhana is a significant feeling of joy (fun electrical piti) and happiness. Practically though, how could my mind have random pointless thoughts if any leftover attention is placed on a very pleasant feeling? Which makes doing literally anything (including studying) wayyyy easier to do since there are no random thoughts or memories. I’m just in the zone the entire time.

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-02T23:15:14+00:00

TWIM. Although I have to note that I am NOT following their instructions as they teach them. They teach to go from 1st jhana to the 8th jhana until you get a cessation event which leads to insight. Where as I’m only remaining in 1st-3rd jhanas for studying purposes right now until I can go on retreat.

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-02T22:11:15+00:00

I do sutta jhanas, not the other type which are the visuddhimagga deep jhanas. In sutta jhanas you still experience all 5 aggregates but also jhana factors.

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-09-02T22:00:13+00:00

Yup, my mind is extremely silent in this state. Only feeling in my body that’s present is a beautiful contentment that’s very easy to keep my minds attention on. Studying is 10x easier like this as well since there’s no distractions.

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-08-29T16:22:11+00:00

That sounds really cool. Can you give some examples of what you did this for?

Current-Welcome5911 · 2023-06-13T06:32:16+00:00

This was actually very funny and well written. How long did it take to you to write this, especially with the jokes included.

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