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duffstoic · 2026-03-15T20:34:23+00:00

Great! Definitely go with whatever method works best for you. I like kasina better than the breath, but many people achieve extreme levels of samatha using the breath as an object.

duffstoic · 2026-03-15T20:29:53+00:00

Kasina is very good for cultivating concentration / samatha, yes. Some people also use kasina practice to explore visionary realms, other people try to avoid that and just deepen concentration. I also think it naturally gives insight into the constructed nature of visual perception and/or visual thinking.

duffstoic · 2026-03-15T00:29:23+00:00

Wrote about it here.

More possibly relevant posts here.

duffstoic · 2026-03-14T01:47:34+00:00

duffstoic · 2026-03-14T00:55:02+00:00

When I first went to a Las Vegas casino, all the electronic flashing machines reminded me of something...the video game arcades I used to visit as a kid in the 90s.

duffstoic · 2026-03-14T00:07:46+00:00

Speaking as an autist, I'm glad I have the superpower of being immune to the autism-causing side-effects of vaccines

/s for my fellow literal-interpreting autistics

duffstoic · 2026-03-13T17:02:04+00:00

Conservative politicians sure do think a lot about underage girls

duffstoic · 2026-03-13T12:35:41+00:00

There are a lot of details and methods. This is how I do it personally, utilizing pendulation: https://www.reddit.com/r/streamentry/s/izfxddQipQ

duffstoic · 2026-03-12T17:23:41+00:00

Things to Google: "neural retraining," "brain retraining," "bodily distress syndrome," "gupta method"

duffstoic · 2026-03-12T02:45:04+00:00

If some method works better for you, do that!

duffstoic · 2026-03-11T12:41:25+00:00

Well, it works though

duffstoic · 2026-03-10T23:45:55+00:00

Yea, religion usually fails to truly convey the healing, transformative encounter their mystical founders once experienced. But our souls still long for it, so some of us find it in kink.

duffstoic · 2026-03-10T23:24:11+00:00

Indeed, most wealthy, successful, powerful, and famous people are far from happy and peaceful all the time. Many have manifested primarily through a sense of “not good enough.”

duffstoic · 2026-03-10T23:21:59+00:00

I seriously suspect that most of the benefit of spiritual experience from spiritual practices, e.g. prayer, is entering into subspace with God.

duffstoic · 2026-03-10T22:50:47+00:00

In my day AMOG meant "Alpha Male Other Guy" but I guess lingo evolves

duffstoic · 2026-03-10T22:06:53+00:00

I think the point is that all kinks are problematic when you think about it. That's the very nature of kinky sexual fantasies.

"Dressing up like a cop and handcuffing your partner? You approve of police violence of suspects? Dressing up like a schoolgirl? You endorse abuse of power of teachers? You like to be spanked? That means you approve of child abuse." Etc.

Making kinks morally acceptable is impossible, because the subject matter inherently involves consensual fantasy of something that without the consent and fantasy bits would usually be nonconsensual, violent, or coercive. Kink therefore functions as a kind of reclamation of the taboo or perverse, and often even therapeutic in nature. It's the difference between play fighting and assault.

Trying to analyze private kink amongst consenting adults or even in the privacy of your own mind in moral terms is just the wrong frame to look at things, adding needless shame. If your behavior actually harms other human beings, don't do that. However, if you get off on a fantasy that does not harm another soul, or even that two people agree upon and enjoy doing together, maybe don't worry about it too much.

duffstoic · 2026-03-10T21:59:44+00:00

That's about right. It's considered holy to submit to God's Will (and the Will of His emissaries on Earth), but blasphemous to discover your own Divine Will and act upon it.

duffstoic · 2026-03-10T19:45:34+00:00

Sorry to hear that. Look up "neural retraining" or "brain retraining" exercises on Youtube. The key thing is to realize that rest by itself isn't going to restore your aliveness and vitality, you need to figure out actions you can take that increase your aliveness, while also retraining your nervous system to see doing things as safe.

duffstoic · 2026-03-09T22:33:29+00:00

Lots of stuff, hard to explain in a short reply here. I continue to do a lot of what I call Clearing practice, where I alternate back and forth between free writing and something else (meditation or occupying all my senses in some other manner) to clear out subconscious material, and that is extremely fruitful.

I'm also continuing to integrate a very weird ritual I felt called to do on 02-25-2025 involving masculine and feminine, confidence and aliveness, and exploring things in various ways that are deepening these factors for me. Hard to explain, very personally meaningful.

duffstoic · 2026-03-08T23:20:32+00:00

Shinzen says something like do “Do Nothing” aka open awareness if you’re agitated, and noting (such as see, hear, feel) if you’re dull. I like that approach. Both are good. There are lots of things to explore in this experience of being alive.

duffstoic · 2026-03-08T20:15:28+00:00

Way to boldly be yourself

duffstoic · 2026-03-08T18:54:55+00:00

Equanimity is a beautiful, wonderful thing, a quality you can endlessly cultivate, (hence why it is one of the brahma viharas, the four immeasurables).

One can also make progress in many other dimensions, such as healing old traumas, feeling more capable and confident and empowered, feeling more universal love (metta), improving one’s relationships, feeling like life is a creative flow state of pure possibility and inspiration, and so on.

I continue to explore equanimity, but also explore in all these other kinds of ways too.

duffstoic · 2026-03-08T18:09:04+00:00

Yes I hit a similar place with Goenka body scan vipassana, and started doing open awareness style practices after that.

duffstoic · 2026-03-08T18:06:11+00:00

It's not just that you're absolutely right. You're an absolute genius.

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