Hello this is Nate. I did some deep meditation which did help me cultivate inner silence or the best way I could explain it, it’s not “nothing” but it’s what’s not effected by anything, like things exist within it. Well deep meditation is great and all but the limitation is the technique itself. Now there is a “meditator” experiencing “pure awareness” because it’s still “me” meditating everyday. I took lsd which was a great experience and I felt the same way about the witness expect there was no more witness, no more meditator, just pureness nonduality is the best way I can describe it, all and nothing. How can I maintain this state?
I did use THC for a while and here is my take on it. Like most psychedelics it has the potential to give you a truly amazing spiritual experience… once. If you try it again the next day it wont work, and it wont work the next day either nor the next time. It is the nature of drugs, ask anyone, you will get high everytime you try it but you wont get the experience that you seek. The only thing that is sure is that you will built an habit that you will eventually wich you hadn't. If you only use pot you will be able to stop with only a bit of side effects, if you use hard drugh you are screwed. It will be a painful experience. As for me, after years of AYP I get a really nice experience that is not quite comparable to psychedelic, but it is one of union, pure awareness and non duality, and that is everytime, I say again “EVERYTIME” I sit for my practices without any side effects. And that is how you can maintain the state you are looking for. Of course that is me, and this is my experience. Lets hear what others have to say.
Hello Nate. I am an AYP meditator of a dozen plus years and can report unequivocally states of pureness and ecstasy within, and at times outside of, sitting practice. These are states beyond body awareness, states of communion, of unity with what we are beyond flesh (my guess). We cannot maintain the meditative or the psychedelic state as we live, love, and learn in full body awareness here on Earth. These episodes of unity are meant to prepare us for the possibility of non duality, of knowing liberation in this lifetime. Earth and its inhabitants need all the love, compassion, and knowledge we can provide.
Once a practitioner has the ability to fall silent and open up, to simply follow the mantra while the neurobiology does what it will, discipline becomes easy because of the pleasure the body provides as inner winds blow. Perhaps you need more time in DM.
You should check out some Ram Dass lectures on YouTube. He encountered the same problem. Drugs can give you glimpses of the supreme state but cannot help you to cultivate it in your nervous system. Meditation does.
Thank you Alain, yes I agree the more you use a substance the more u get accustomed to that state, i appreciate your experience regarding dm. The one though is I want to be able to have a experience of nonduality regardless if I meditate for that day because I don’t think it’s full liberation if I’m still dependent on techniques to produce it, while they may be useful in the beginning like a boat to get to the other side I believe we must eventually hop off the boat
