have you ever experienced something like a badtrip while meditating?
I usually meditate after going to bed because I love the state when I concentrate on controlling my breathing, I drift off and am half asleep. Tonight I had a terrible situation, I couldn't concentrate on my thoughts, I just kept getting some imaginary astral figures in my head and one of them told me a sentence that I don't even remember now but it was strange af.

Anyway I gave up and tried to sleep, when I succeeded I dreamt one of the most f***ed up nightmares in my life. As soon as I woke up I ran to smoke a cigarette in the kitchen and had to sit on the floor.
I never even thought that meditating could do something like this to me and I'm wondering if I should take a few days break

Meditation can bring up some dark ass s*** in ur psyche thats been buried in there bro fr. So i believe you. if it happens again, just examine that feeling, thru examination, you expose it.

Good thing is, once you expose it, you learn alot about yourself. I had an unbelievably dark meditation experience once. But it jus gave me insight to who i was as a person. But if its some wild ass s***, maybe take a lil break

Heres a good quote by jon kabatt zinn about the feeling of darkness thru meditation

“ We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.”

i find do nothing style meditations (shikantaza/mahamudra) much more effective for myself. I can easily sit a long time and keep an awareness.

where as with shamatha/mindfulness I hav e ahard time keeping focus and fall into dullness pretty easily

Finally got back to it, systemic, it really is slow progress

what is transcendental meditation, anybody here whos into it?

It’s a mantra meditation
Your teacher gives you a vibrational word and then you close your eyes and repeat it in your head, letting your breath and thoughts come and go

Even 5 minutes in the morning is powerful. Sometimes I do 30 seconds if I’m short on time

@op
jayarava.org/texts/Katyayana-Gotra-Sutra.pdf
Found a great sutra. 3 pages

Why do I need a 'teacher'

I’m not advocating it I’m just explaining what it is. That’s the system of transcendental meditation.

However, the master/disciple in ascetic/enlightenment practices predates history. There’s other reasons to have a teacher besides them giving you a “vibrational word”

Had to go inside to realize my purpose is outside

Ain't that some s***

tomkenyon.com/music-sound-healing

These are really nice if anyone is interested

Does the type of meditation I do particularly matter? Like if I want to get more experience with astral projection should I exclusively (or mainly) do pineal meditations, or is a general mediation sufficient? What does transcendental meditation focus on? From the name I'd think metaphysics, but then is that or pineal mediations more effective in that regard?

I remember like a year ago I meditated everyday for like a week straight and I could literally control which thoughts that I could hold on too
I was swiping left/right with the thoughts that came up like I was on tinder it was the first time I experienced that

just got back into it today but with a longer term plan

sounds like you take well to mindfulness. lean into that and see where it takes you

real.

I think I'm going to try meditating on the shower 🚿🚿 🤔

How do I get started with this?

had a really fantastic session just now, guided on the breath, but about halfway through i just became enamored and so lost in my closed eye visuals. like i was flying in a sea of dark sunshine. it was breathtaking.

Just completed a 10 day vipassana course. Would 100% recommend to anyone that wants to get deeper into their practice. So amazing

sum wonderful non-duality meditation this morning and this line from Hamlet just kept bouncing around

nothing either good nor bad but thinking makes it so

How do you find a good one

Dhamma.org

And search your area. Inshallah you have one nearby