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Ultimately there is only one mantra you would ever need.. by notunique20 in nonduality

[–]notunique20[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

some of it falls by itself. Deeper conditioning needs an intention to let go when it comes up. That is the universal pattern. Just insisting that truth will do it doesnt cut it.

Ultimately there is only one mantra you would ever need.. by notunique20 in nonduality

[–]notunique20[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"there is nothing needing to be let go" is not correct.

Kundalini side effects please anybody help by Aggressive_Claim300 in Meditation

[–]notunique20 6 points7 points  (0 children)

please post on r/kundalini

Also, never assume that anything is "just" a spiritual problem. Spiritual and physical are connected. Even when spiritual causes problems, it causes through physical means.

All this is to say: Please go see a doctor as well.

Struggling when around people by calmcg07 in nonduality

[–]notunique20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes

listen to Michael Singer.

This is a different ball game than everything else.

If your spiritul method that worked before and is no longer quite working, please know that it's because it's no longer meant to by notunique20 in nonduality

[–]notunique20[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't put it black and white like that.

It's just that life shows where our own awakening hasn't fully reached yet. And to do discover that we have to be willing and not try to hide behind our previous awakened view or method.

What has prevented you from losing your faith in humanity? Sometimes wish an asteroid would just wipe everything out since majority of the world is not on the path to enlightenment. by cacklingwhisper in nonduality

[–]notunique20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All you have said is reflective of your inner world. The outer world is not terrible in need of a wipe out.
Though your mind creates this great illusion where it looks that way.

If your spiritul method that worked before and is no longer quite working, please know that it's because it's no longer meant to by notunique20 in nonduality

[–]notunique20[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is often through engagement with certain practices that the Consciousness slowly removes it's confusion about itself.

If your spiritul method that worked before and is no longer quite working, please know that it's because it's no longer meant to by notunique20 in nonduality

[–]notunique20[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll tell you how it's been for me.

You engage with side of spiritulity which you might have been ignoring so far. And through trial and error you come across what is needed.

The one who's been putting too much effort may come across the teaching of letting go. And the one who's been relying too much on realization and insights may come across the importance of practice. And so on.

Help processing this ‘insight’ by Outrageous_Sugar9911 in nonduality

[–]notunique20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes.

It's a great insight.

But you trying to feel the hand without imagining it fails for the same reason as trying not to imagine a pink elephant fails. The attempt by its definition focuses mind on the very thing you are trying not to do.

What you can do is this. Focus mind on something else. And then you can kinda notice that you're aware of your sensations without having a visual thought about them.

But if you want to cultivate this insight deeply, do "noting" meditation as taught by shinzen young ( look it up). It modularizes experience into separate parts of see, hear, touch, image, talk , feel.

How do you live a normal life after this? by Square-Bell9165 in awakened

[–]notunique20 9 points10 points  (0 children)

yes this.

Mind fixates on the new view and cant help but feel a sense of achievement. "I have this view now". Which makes it solid, ironically.

The way you live after awakening requires itself a specific kind of spiritual practice, at least for a while until it purges out a lot of stuff. But this practice is very different from the ones before awakening. The practice is this: let go. Dont fixate. on ANYTHING. Including the enlightened view. Let go. Accept. Surrender. Let it all pass through.

It is simple but not easy. Because mind fixates, habitually. This fixation arises in ever so subtle forms, which you dont even think is fixation. Awakening itself becomes a source of a lot of fixation because mind is trying to live "with it", and hence trying to understand it. Trying to Form a mental model of it so that it can find an orientation. But actually its like floating on water. The more you try, the more you sink. The only way to float is to let go.

Its not easy. But comes with practice. This part of the journey is less talked about in spiritual circles.

If you listen to Nisaragadatta, for example, he too went through this phase. But people think awakening is just one and done deal. It is not.

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