Hi everyone
This is killing me out of curiosity: how does Harrison Kramer Magic doing that finding a thought and said card cutting the deck? Is that Mnemonica or some sort of stack? But how does he shuffle the cards tho? Is that fake? He is very fast rapid and able in doing it. Where is possible to learn Mnemonica?
Since when I started practicing I felt I had two doubts and obstacles:
1 I don’t understand properly the sense of observing and staying totally present. How is this healing? When I’m present sometimes I don’t even feel i am living (and that happens in many situations)
2 I become obsessed with observing, making it another problem. I do not practice relaxed, but almost like if I had no choice. Or I observe, or I suffer. I guess that’s a psychological tendency of mine which meditation is showing me, as well also in other parts of life.
What can I do? Thank you.
Hello everybody,
I’m 19 years old. I completed my first 10-day course a little over a year ago, and since then I’ve done one 1-day course and one 1.5-day self-course.
The most recent self-course was today. I only completed half of it because I felt I couldn’t continue, but that’s not really the point—I still meditated for about 3 hours out of the planned 5.
What really caught my attention is something that keeps happening with my sleep and dreams after these courses.
During the 10-day retreat, whenever I took a nap, I had incredibly vivid and emotionally intense dreams. One was about finally coming back home (I was suffering the distance with my family during those days) after the course and talking to my brother about the experience. Another was about my sister and her boyfriend. Even though more than a year has passed, I still remember those dreams very clearly. When I woke up after these dreams, I always felt very very strange.
During my first self-course, I noticed something similar. While napping, it felt as though I was deeply asleep but at the same time somehow i wasn’t. It’s difficult to describe.
After the 1-day course with other people, I experienced that same unusual quality of sleep again.
And today it happened once more. After finishing the course and having lunch, I took a nap. I seemed to fall into a deep sleep several times, yet I would wake up at the slightest sound. Then, when I finally fell fully asleep, I had an extremely vivid dream that felt emotionally real and deeply involving. Even after waking up, I was left with a strong feeling that something about it was real—not the events themselves, but the question or emotional theme behind them; that rationally are not important to something happened in the past or in the present. It seemed just very random. Or not?
I’m someone who dreams almost every night, but these dreams feel completely different from my usual ones.
I’m a little worried, but even more curious. Is there any explanation for why this happens? Has anyone experienced something similar? Why does sleep seem to take on this unusual quality after meditation?
I remember Goenka saying that the Buddha slept only a few hours each night. Could this be related in any way?
Thank you everybody 🙏🏻
Hello. I’ve realized sometimes I fall in the bypass spiritual phase. It’s easier than I thought to fall back in escaping through consciousness of breath or sensations instead of actually using it to stay in the moment with all its difficulties.
I feel a bit strange because I thought breath was a very useful tool to handle difficult situations, but I found myself using it to escape. What am I missing?
Thank you all.
Been practicing for almost a year, and this popped up while talking with a priest of my city.
I gave my answer, but would like to hear yours too, if you will.
Thanks.
Hi guys
Found myself on a party dancing. I know some dances but I usually have an obstacle in my mind to go and letting myself fully to the dance floor. I go, but I don’t have much fun and especially I would like to talk to people. I know there is no secret if not going, but usually I am with a group of people that doesn’t do this stuff, this is so limiting. What would you say? What would you do? What can I keep in mind?
Thank you for your time
Today I've completed a one day course.
Wow. I feel strict sometime hearing Goenkaji, don't know. I'd like to try to meditate in the morning, but I study a lot, have a lot of things to do and I go to bed a bit late, and in the morning I fall asleep.
What can I do? I don't think I can go to bed earlier.
Thanks