Hello, beautiful people! I've been on the path to awakening or something like that for quite some, not really sure what is it that I'm after. And I am bit stuck at the moment - not really sure what move to make next. I had a VERY strong spiritual experience after a day of nothing but silent meditation, but that's been it. It's proven to me a 100% that there exists something amazing that is beyond our usual perception. I can't really afford to recreate it right now, because life is busy, though I probably will some day. So I come here to ask for advice. What shoud I do? Do I relax myself more in my day to day? Do I do concentration exercises? Do I try to think less and stop my thoughts? I'm not really what works and what is the way, so any advice (preferably from personal experience) would be highly appreciated. Much love

On the exercise to select a characteristic (limiting) behavior I want to change, I'm not sure if I could work on the more subtle behaviors I want to change, not the more gross ones like anger, sadness, shyness. I am interested in understanding my behavior of: zoning out, distractibility, boredom, etc. These things I believe are hindrance for my growth and focus/concentration/contemplation. Do these things qualify as limiting behaviors that I can free myself from, or do I just stick to the anger, sadness, cracking a joke all the time ones? Thank you in advance.

I am reading Peters Unnecessary suffering book as well as I watched numerous of his latest Youtube talks and podcasts and I attended the recent online workshop; I keep hearing him mention the importance of controlling your thoughts. He usually explains this to mean just stop your thought. Stop doing the thought. There was one youtube video recently a month or so back where someone asked him what does he mean by that and if its like letting go of thoughts versus actually mentally stopping it and Peter said yes. Im now confused because in the book and other media he says to actually try to stop any further thoughts from popping up. To me stopping a thought and letting go of thoughts are two very different things, because the former involves me doing an activity (the stopping of a thought). and usually requires my concentration. The former results in silence for a brief second but its more mentally taxing and the thoughts can come back louder whereas the latter involves a more-so "non-doing", like in vipassana, it involves me not reacting to the thought in my head and remaining equanimous. The thought doesnt stop but sometimes i feel like im less controlled by it. Basically, I need some clarification on this topic. Thanks.

Hello, everyone. I have been doing contemplation for several months now. What is play What is relationship What is meaning What is culture Is it practical for me to contemplate on "Who/What am I?" as a start? Or shall I get good at contemplating on the "easier" ones first before I tackle the grand daddy of them all (Who am I?)? Thanks in advance.

Hello, new to the community here and looking forward to getting started! Which book would you recommend reading first? Thanks!