Prolonged stillness & finding awesomeness
After the state of stillness/samadhi, our very nature of filling the void from past samskaras and present life society's way of living slowly eradicates its beauty. My advice to seekers is to practice the way which may not be pleasant to the mind / the present way of living, that is not to obey the mind's want to fill the void. Instead, perform your day to day activities with full involvement. This makes me clear the idea of why monasteries have the practice to perform a lot of cleaning and works. This will help the voidness to be prolonged. Karma yoga & bhakti yoga makes sense now, those will allow you to submit yourself either to work / to the divine. Even the tantra / sexual act is beautiful, that is to surrender yourself to your partner until the mind intervenes. In the act of sex, we are filling our desires instead of submitting ourselves to love, that's why we are never get satisfied. After the beautiful state of samadhi, the mind comes into the picture and tries...