Open Question: Are there any boddhisattvas that can help me?

In the past, secret groups of people went
into the mountains and worked on enlightenment.

I’m trying to decide if buying a house is absolutely necessary,
or if I should go to another country and live in the forest with other monks?

I can double the amount of meditation time.

My other question is: will other monks notice if I have demons attack me?
I know. I threw out my TV, but is a house necessary versus living in a shack?
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Open Question: Is it healthy to want time apart from your boyfriend sometimes?

I love my boyfriend of two years, but sometimes I enjoy having time apart from him.
When I stay at his place simple things like not having a TV or not having my stuff around can bother me a bit.
But more importantly I like to have time to myself sometimes. When I was younger I wanted to spend every waking second with my significant other, but now, at 24, I like some time for reflection and meditation and doing my own thing.
When I tell people this they say I must not be that in love with him. I feel I love him very much, perhaps more so than previous relationships, but that doesn’t take away the fact that I like some “me” time.
So, is it healthy to want some time by yourself? Or is there something I’m missing?
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Open Question: How to get rid of sound pollution?

Hii, I would like to know how to control myself from getting irritated from sound pollution? There is a coaching near my house, it becomes v uncomfortable when the class starts and ends. When I am at home, my siblings watch TV whole day or play games on computer with almost breaking the keyboard keys. TV sound is v horrible to me and it goes on till late night. It’s in living room from where it reaches all rooms. I can’t lock myself in a room or can’t stay out the whole day. Tv can’t be shifted. My parents are not understanding my problem. They say, no one else is having any problem except you. There is no time of TV. My parents are overlooking the behaviour of my siblings because of love. Am I wrong in taking out the faults in others or If the sounds are unbearable to me, Am I suffering from any disease? I tried meditation but of no much help as I see no difference in my anger when TV/ Radio is on. I hate TV. Each and every day I am getting more and more disturbed and depressed. I am scared I will lose my concentration soon or become destructive as I feel like throwing TV OUT.
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Open Question: What Sign or dominant planet does my writing sound like just curious?

This is my attempt at writing a novel here is an except since yahoo wont let me just copy all I have written lol as it says too many characters: She sighed and day dreamed of a great banquet lovingly made for a king her and people she had yet to know. In her mind she was eating at the table adorned with gold and silver. The domestic structure provided for her a sense or warmth and serenity inside and she was known for great things. In her mind she knew it was a fantasy yet it was a beautiful thing to dream. With beautiful serene fantasy she knew in her mind she could break the chains of this mundane world that had become quite boring to her.
As the red and black colored Microwave that she had thought was so unique beeped she pulled out the TV dinner and looked at the Peas and the texture of the Chicken Animal Biproduct as it said on the side of the box. She stared at it going over the detail of the mystery meat and gravy which provided for her in her great imagination the illusion that she had been cooked a meal by someone who felt deeply for her. As she sat down to eat the TV dinner she sang softly the song she had seen in the commercials “the best peas are show peas that come in a TV dinner”. As she picked up her fork and put it to her mouth to chew she realized the taste was repulsive, yet as familiar to her as the dreary surroundings that had penitrated her heart for quite some time. In her mind she thought why bother making a meal fit for a queen with no one by her side to enjoy it with.
Today was Grocery day she found her cubbords to be quite devoid of much substance that she could nourish herself with. As she was getting ready to leave she realized she lacked a certain piece of metal that she put in her car to start it and she could not find the metallic structure of atoms that came togehter to form something she called in her native tounge car keys. Wheres my fucking keys she exclaimed in a frustrated voice! Gettting up from the table she first looked under the coushins of her green sofa realizing the familiar metal structure did not materialize before her eyes as she lifted the coushins. She dug into the crevaces feeling the rough surface to be somewhat painful and tight for her fingers to fit into not feeling the cool smooth surface of her keys. She got up and went to the bedroom of her small one bedroom apartment that had provided shelter for her all these years. Searching through her laundry she heard a jingle that sounded like her keys and the metallic structure that she had become accustomed to holding in her hands whenever she left her abode fell out onto the floor.
She picked up her keys and walked towards the front door. As she opened it she walked through the hall to the light of a beautiful spiring day. As she walked toward her car Alyssa felt the warm beautiful energy outside which in her meditations and spiritual practices she had helped create. She noticed how today the very trees looked more vital than yesterday. Alyssa for many years had meditated to awaken her charkas giving her the ability to sense both beautiful and dreadful things that she wondered why most people in the world neglected to care about. The flowers lining her building flourished in a beautiful and touching way and she looked to the sky noticing the whisps of clouds in the sky. In her mind she felt a cleaner energy. Deep within her soul she wanted to release the dark fear energy that so permiated her native home a pale blue dot in a vast cosmic ocean known as Earth. As she unlocked and opened the car door she invisioned a paradise where dark people did not have a stranglehold and everyone could know the serenity she knew. Why cannot everyone live in peace she thought a sense of community able to interact in a way that is not riddled with ego and social manners expectations duty needless agression and all number of things that were added on in modern times. She thought out loud with a sigh too much is to prove everyone is better than everyone else or a concept of Self Value that is way out of proportion.
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Open Question: Getting freedom from Habit of Mastubration?

Hello Experts

I am 28 years old male and never had sex.

I masturbate daily at night before going to sleep. Sometimes i masturbate twice at night, after gap of one hour and then I sleep.

This masturbation may be due to sexual arouse when I see TV.

I masturbate even though I am not sexually arouse. I start watching porn (as though its a Habit) and then masturbate.

Please help me and let me know how get rid of this habit. I do not know when i will get married. But I want other solutions like some yoga or something, I tried meditation. But I am restless and I am unable to concentrate on meditation. Please help me with solutions.

–
Rohit
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Open Question: Fixing a sleep schedule when nothing seems to work?

For around 10 years now I haven’t been able to keep a normal sleep schedule. It’s as though my body works on a 25 or 26 hour clock, rather than the 24 hours it should. For all those years I’ve never been able to stabilize it for more than ~2 months, because all it takes is a single night to ruin it.

I constantly rotate around the clock. I can’t make plans weeks in advance because I have no idea when I’m going to be sleeping that week. I’m self-employed (freelance illustration) which is good, because I wouldn’t be able to hold a normal job with my schedule. My sleeping issues began while I was still in high school.

The time I can fall asleep usually goes forward by 1 hour a night, but it can go upwards of 6 hours at times. It never cycles backwards, it’s always forward.

Things I’ve tried:
-Melatonin (barely has an effect, and stops doing anything as soon as I stop)
-Sleeping pills (only work so long as I’m taking them, and not a good sleep)
-Many changes to diet (no effect)
-Eating certain foods that promote sleep (no effect)
-Exercising extra (actually makes me stay up later)
-Spending more time outdoors (no effect)
-Shutting down computer and no TV hours in advance of desired bedtime
(no effect but boredom)
-Eating earlier and cutting off food hours in advance of desired bedtime
(no effect but hunger)
-Herbal/vitamins (no effect)
-Changing my mattress (no effect)
-Changing my pillow (no effect)
-Reading in bed (wind up staying up later reading)
-Writing/drawing to empty mind (end up staying up later due to exploring ideas)
-Meditation (no effect)
-”Sleep music” (makes me unable to sleep)
-Decreasing the light in bedroom when sleeping (no effect)
-Going to bed at the same time (end up laying in bed for hours longer each night)
-Setting an alarm for the same specific time regardless of when I fall asleep
(end up sleeping less and less each night)
-And most recently light therapy
(no effect)

I don’t consume any caffeine. I don’t smoke or drink alcohol. I don’t eat any junk food at all (no candy, chips, desserts, high sodium foods, red meat). I exercise every single day, and I get outdoors every day.

I’m on the waiting list for a sleep clinic, but it will be months still. Is there anything not on my list that I can try in the meantime?
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Open Question: what does the word ‘tsets(a/e)ng’ mean?

I took a guided meditation on finding your spirit animal. my animal was a jaguar and did not speak to me, but I saw a flash of a still from one of my favorite TV shows (Dollhouse) of the name Tsetsang/Tsetseng, thanks in advance.
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Strength, focus and balance: Adam Levine's intense yoga workout

Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine is a media multi-tasker: rock star, budding actor, king of reality TV. How does he hold it all together? With a centered attitude and a lot of yoga
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Open Question: A place where I can always be monitored in like a room or something?

I have been having extremely high anxiety problems and panic attacks, usually everyday. I feel scared of things I was perfectly fine about a year ago, but doing normal things like eating a hot dog would cause my brain to tell me that I’m going to have an allergic reaction and die, even though I tell myself that I already know which foods I’m allergic to, and I carry the necessary medical items with me in case that does happen, but I still overly panic. And just regularly watching TV my brain will tell me that I will be murdered and this will be my last week alive, or that I’m suddenly going to have a heart attack (which I never had before in my life).

I know why this happens, though. I have a disease which symptoms involve massive depression and anxiety attacks, but I never thought it would get this bad.
Yes, I’ve tried counselors, medication, meditation, music, all that, but it still happens.

Is there a place where I could be in a small room, by myself, where people watch me with a camera in my room or something? Kind of like a psychiatric hospital? I’m not sure if this is just a stereotype made up by television or not, but I would like to be in one of those padded rooms, I think I’ll feel a lot safer, because I cannot take this anymore.

Thank you <3
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Open Question: A place where I can always be monitored in like a room or something?

I have been having extremely high anxiety problems and panic attacks, usually everyday. I feel scared of things I was perfectly fine about a year ago, but doing normal things like eating a hot dog would cause my brain to tell me that I’m going to have an allergic reaction and die, even though I tell myself that I already know which foods I’m allergic to, and I carry the necessary medical items with me in case that does happen, but I still overly panic. And just regularly watching TV my brain will tell me that I will be murdered and this will be my last week alive, or that I’m suddenly going to have a heart attack (which I never had before in my life).

I know why this happens, though. I have a disease which symptoms involve massive depression and anxiety attacks, but I never thought it would get this bad.
Yes, I’ve tried counselors, medication, meditation, music, all that, but it still happens.

Is there a place where I could be in a small room, by myself, where people watch me with a camera in my room or something? Kind of like a psychiatric hospital? I’m not sure if this is just a stereotype made up by television or not, but I would like to be in one of those padded rooms, I think I’ll feel a lot safer, because I cannot take this anymore.

Thank you <3
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