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I examine various spirutual practices from a scientific point of view. Kundalini yoga: Seems like getting your nervous systems in perfect sync. The orgiastic state experienced by practioners sounds very much like sex. The chakras sound like mini brains. Vipassana: Cravings and aversion sound like neuroplasticity issue. IMO, Buddha was the first neuroscientist. Meditation and yoga : Nervous system manipulation Chanting: Vibrations etc. affecting nervous system. People probably figured out mantras similar to how scientists figured out science. Saints can be considered scientists. Prayer: Psychological aspects More and more I have started to feel that this whole enlightenment thing is not worth it. There may be something but the probabilty seems very low. There does seem to be collective consciousness but perhaps this can also be scientifically explained.  In conclusion, just being is the simplest way of living a good life and avoiding suffering. Engage in hedonism in good time...

Should it affect our way of living if this world is a simulation? Why does it matter if we are pure consciousness or something else? Why should the objective of life be to realize the fact that we are pure consciousness? We experience suffering due to our hardwiring.  If we suffer, eliminate the causes of suffering. Whatever makes us comfortable should be the objective of our life. People say enlightenment reduces suffering. If we are not enlightened, j ust being is the solution. Just being is the closest thing to enlightenment. My friends there is no objective of human life. Liberation can be objective according to Hindu mythology and Buddha's process of becoming.

Will try to clear the air about meditation. There is too much garbage swirling out there. A reconciliation is important. Work out your value system first. This will reduce your thoughts automatically. Thoughts will keep coming. Rationalise them. You will keep suffering. Keep rationalizing. Keep compartmentalizing. Just be. Then start meditation. Half of your work is already done. You don't really need meditation. You are meditation. Understand this. This will bear fruit in the long term.

I am trying to reconcile various ideologies. The objective is to find the essence, simplify things,  and find common ground in order to create more acceptance of each other.  A head to head comparison should be useful. This exercise is not really for me. I have more or less figured out my life path. It is kin d of intellectual masturbation. Do the same fields and energies that make a stone make living things? Is it simply an exchange of fields and energies? Everything is an energy or field (including thoughts) and leaves an imprint in some form on the overall energies and fields. IMO there is pattern in the randomness. I will refrain from calling it intelligent design. Can we explain karma, ghosts, supernatural powers etc using these fields and energies? I think we can. This is probably what spiritual masters call body mind illusion. It is seeing through the gross body and experiencing it as fields and energies. How does physical and mental transformation occur? ...

Elaborating dependent origination theory. 1. If ignorance arises, reaction occurs 2. If reaction arises, consciousness occurs 3. If consciousness arises, mind and matter occur 4. If mind and matter arise, The six senses occur 5. If six senses arise, contact occurs 6. If contact arises, sensation occurs 7. If sensations arise, craving and aversion occur 8. If craving and aversion arise, attachment occurs 9. If attachment arises, process of becoming occurs 10. If process of becoming arises, birth occurs 11. If birth arises, decay and death occur, together with sorrow, lamentation, physical and mental suffering 12. Thus arises the entire mass of suffering I think the top ones are some kind of fields. Arising of one causes another. Like a rotating electric field and magnetic field. Consciousness maybe the field which permeates all the fields;all the fields have consciousness as the base field.

In my quest of reconciling various ideologies I come across many weird ideas. These ideas should be taken with a pinch of salt as they are a layman's interpretation of various theories. In various enlightenment stories people talk about timelessness. How to interpret the seeming weirdness? Imagine there are two dimensions x and y.  An object can move along the x axis and not move along the y axis at all. Similarly if there is an extra dimension beyond space and time you can move along that dimension and not move in time at all. But the counterintutiveness lies in the fact that we can easily understand that one can move along one dimension and not move along another but with time it is altogether different. Space-time fabric, relativity etc can provide some answers.

Most of us are driven by survival instinct. What is survival instinct? Survival instinct is the hardwiring which enables a person to survive. IMO both survival of the fittest and collective survival instinct are at play. Once collective survival instinct need is fulfilled, survival of the fittest comes into play. This is basic human nature. Survival instinct manifests in different ways. Our brain circuits or pathways are wired for different types of  pleasures and pains. Pleasure circuits are activated in case of actions favoring survival whereas pain circuits are activated in the opposite case. In animals there are limited options for activating these pathways. However, in humans the pleasure pathways (even actions which are not good for survival such as drugs) can be activated by different mechanisms. This is the essence of manifestation of survival instinct. But is survival instinct our only nature? Our true nature is pure consciousness.Survival instinct is maya. We need to s...

Just being is awareness. It is having  no attributes. It is having no desires, no aversions, no cravings. It is living in the moment. It is equanimity. It is meditation. It is compartmentalizing. It is every moment is important. It is pulling the strings on the harp with the right tension. Niether too tight nor too loose. Just being is the closest thing to enlightenment. Just being is engaged nonduality. When you are aware you can do an objective analysis. Otherwise the automated/conditioned programming kicks in.  Some ways of just being. One is to gradually remove distractions and train the mind. Opening the heart will help significantly. Other is to directly get started living in the moment; distractions will gradually disappear. From a neurobiological point of view, just being activates the pre-frontal cortex which allows us to overcome the hardwiring. 

IMO no one is omniscient. Whatever the spiritual masters taught were their own experiences. You can see overlap in their ideas. There are multiple ways to practice spirituality. Hence it is not fair to say one is right and other is wrong. Buddha's goal was end of suffering. He answered the question:What should be done to achieve end of suffering? He probably did not go much further once he realized dependent origination and uncreate. He did not feel the need to understand uncreate since he had uncovered the answers to his question. I have always felt disconnected with Hindu mythology. I think I understand some of it now. I think the saints went a step ahead to understand the nature of uncreate. Why so much confusion? How to explain uncreate to someone who only understands creation? It cannot be done. Thus sprung various mythological figures and all sorts of human stories were attributed to them. Just to somehow explain uncreate to someone who only understands creation . UG Krish...