how do i achieve samadhi? do i need to become a monk?
>>42231580do LSD and pot brownies
>>42231580Diligent meditation practice. First you have to achieve the jhanas and the best way for that would be to go to a retreat so that you can fully concentrate without disruption and receive guidance.>Jhana (Pali) or dhyana (Sanskrit) refers to profound states of meditative absorption and deep concentration in Buddhist practice, specifically within Theravada tradition. These are stable, trainable, and joyful mental states achieved by focusing intensely on a single object (like the breath), leading to the silencing of thoughts, the subsiding of distractions, and deep inner stillness
>>42231580>Kings such as Janaka attained perfection solely by performance of prescribed duties. Therefore, just for the sake of educating the people in general, you should perform your work.No, you dont have to be a monk. You dont need to follow some twelve step Buddhist program.You need to purify your awareness, and this can be done simply by doing your work.
>Fix attention on a single object (mantra, breath, image, etc.). Each time the mind wanders, bring it back. Mental movement is reduced by excluding everything else. Attention becomes continuous (dhyana), and eventually the object alone shines until even that dissolves into samadhi.>Whenever attention moves, return to simple being/awareness. Not focusing on anything, just remaining. Thoughts are starved by non-participation. They lose force, and what remains (already present) is samadhi.>Reject everything that appears (neti neti). Thought - not this, sensation - not this, identity - not this. The mind stops going outward and subsides, revealing samadhi. If you cling too hard to mental repetition/negation rather than recognition you just fuel the ego which is why negation includes negating negation / going beyond affirmation/negation. >Let thoughts arise and pass. Do not interfere, follow, or suppress but simply observe. Without engagement, thoughts fade on their own and the underlying stillness (samadhi) remains.While meditating you may experience visions, lights, sounds, fragrances, bliss, etc. as the mind becomes subtle and concentrated. These are to be ignored if your aim is samadhi. In meditation you may experience/feel bliss as an emotion which comes and goes but in samadhi what remains is bliss. Samadhi is basically what is there when nothing is grasped. Savikalpa feels vast, silent and still but there’s still someone aware of it. In the absence of engagement, the subtle “I” is not maintained and disappears. Without the triad of the knower, knowing and known - one then could be considered in non-dual nirvikalpa samadhi. What remains is something like pure being or self-luminous I-I. Not an object, thought, doer, position, or knower but it simply is what it is.
>>42231580almost like patanjali wrote a whole book on this that everyone studying yoga is required to analyze hint: seed syllable 'dhih'
>>42231793hey nice post!
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>>42231793>In a negative headspace because gf not giving me blowjobs>Read this >samadhi>Suck my dickFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU
>>42231793>Each time the mind wanders, bring it backthis bringing back business has caused some frictionyes sure the mind has wandered, has revealed a new emotional tendency within, why not also attend to the this newly revealed tendency without strict straight line "bring it back"? how about curved fractral exploration of this state (in a non-participatory manner, simply observing the tendency in itself)good post as said earlier yes. Do you sungaze?
