Patang

@Deep i would submissively accept all that reality has to offer, and according to what resonate most accurately, do whatever has to be done, or whatever you feel like.

the seed was sown and began to be absorbed in the soil, now is the time to nourish it again. this is the third dose. i just waited for the first (and the second, but not mandatory) doses to be absorbed, before i am giving you the third one. so, here you go. enlightenment is mostly perceived worldwide by the human society, as a branch in spirituality, and as an esoteric belief. spirituality is merely a belief in the dream state, when enlightenment is just outside the dream state. people got used to the idea that it was possible to make a living from spirituality, and it was a legitimate way of earning a living. the vast majority of the source of enlightenment information can not be found in the public free access domains, due to copyright ownership issue. you see, the legal owner of knowledge or content, who makes a living from it, do not want his "golden eggs" to vanish. this is a fact, not an opinion. i personally prefer that this kind of knowledge, sort of speak, would be free and accessible to all, and should not be the source for human income. livelihood is provided by a rule of the game. maybe, those who do make a living from it, do not believe that this rule ever existed, and fear crept into their hearts. but, there is room for everyone, to live and experience life, as it is perceived by each of us.

@Nahm

@Nahm you're welcome and i'm glad you loved it. and yes, the information from the past is retrieved as a thought, it cannot be perceived otherwise.

some people cannot grasp how it is to be a non-believer. how one can destroy his private human belief system completely and becomes a non-believer. well, this is not easy, but surely can be done. you see, the human belief system helps you to predict the future (the short term is much more accurate from the long term), it uses the concept of causality to explain to you, how and why things happen the way they do. when living in the now, in the precise moment when reality is perceived, not before or after, and nothing is taken for granted, you know that everything can happen next in reality, in the infinite field of possibilities, not knowing what it would be. you can look back at the preceding events and try to realize why this one happened, but you can never look ahead, and predict the future events, even the simpler ones. the past only stores information and the future does not exists.

@Nahm indeed, the gateless gate has no lock, reality is no prison cell and there are no guards ??

@tsuki indeed, it is true that we have not changed much since then, we are still the same big monkeys who strike with sticks and throw stones, and compete each other whose is bigger... we just began to believe that we were more sophisticated, but we do not really know and do not really understand, what is happening in the reality around us, we confront reality from birth to the grave. this is the living environment of human society, but that's fine.

"once i danced slowly, now i am spinning infinitely fast. swirl around me, if you dare. once i hovered lightly, now i am gliding at infinite speed. follow my lead, if you can. my pace increased when i revealed who i am. trace my footsteps and you shall find it." a hidden door that opens for you, can be surprising, unexpected and leads to a place, you did not know it ever existed. the ultimate story has never been told, will you be the one to discover it? an unprecedented event is about to unfold, will you be the one to induce it? only a handful could really get there, will you be the one to join them?

love thyself is free of charge, not to be bought nor sold

@JustinS indeed.

the ego/mind is the a self-appointment CEO of the "self". from childhood it picked up all kind of stuff from the surrounding environment; imprints and beliefs, as a core identification of the "self". yet anther stuff was created in-house by the ego/mind, based on the "self"s core identification. so, here we are, trying to get rid of all that staff, to fire the CEO and close the company, good riddance!, are not we?

no one can see through the other's eyes, no one can feel through the other's skin, no one can know through the other's mind, no one can live through the other's life.

in fact, this is a belief too.

one can choose to believe in whatever belief he chooses to believe (the belief paradox and the free will paradox, a vortex).

the one who really believes in something, also believes that he want to believe in that something, otherwise he would have dropped that belief already. for him, that something is the truth, and that's fine.

any belief that a person adopts which leads to contentment, is not useless or worthless, and if that is what he wants then so be it. and this will be the second lesson in the context of the absence of judgment, the first one was about the "no-self".

@Monkey-man yes indeed, thank you (but please leave god outside the discussion). you see, all the imprints and beliefs are merely tools the mind is using for accepting reality as it seen, not asking questions about it or trying to understand the logic behind it. imprints and beliefs are a form of automated routines, saving the need to check reality every time anew. this is why, at the beginning of his life, a human being repeatedly asks the question why. that is how the human belief system is built.

@MarkusSweden indeed!

@StephenK the only way an enlightened human being can relate to others, is by using a temporary persona of his choice, for he has no permanent one. otherwise, he would looks like a zombie.

@SOUL @Joseph Maynor of course this is true of me, because the reality in which i live is entirely subjective, and i do not know what the universal truth is, and who are everyone. this is also not about beliefs simply because i do not hold them anymore, this is what i see from here.

yes, many time i find myself using the same enlightenment cliche labels again and again.... oops... i am sure i already used that very same sentence once... interesting @Echoes thank you. @AuthenticFella You are very welcome. mmmm. do not believe everything you hear, see or think.

you're probably experiencing a deja vu. read this one, it explains everything about it gotcha!

@SOUL the "self" is not the one who is doing the journey to enlightenment, he is the one you are getting rid of during the journey.

@SOUL "my self", i nearly forgot all about it and yes, it's really that simple, and cannot be simpler.

we agree not to agree and that is just fine.