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Lmao!

Self annihilation

Yes, I agree with that! Are all of you listening guys? Drop everything!!!!

Buddha says that the root of all suffering is our craving for something. Maybe we crave for knowledge, we want to know... that's our craving. The ego is sneaky. But you are good if you don't trust yourself, that's a good thing. And everything about enlightenment, the paradoxes, etc... is hilarious hehehe...

I think about that too very often, and I think that in some way nature uses our ego to make us "want" enlightenment. We want it for the wrong reasons, like we want a car or a house... now we want enlightenment hehehe... it is better than when we wanted material things, but it is something "we" want... and the idea of "we" doesn't exists. But I think there's some truth on that, to the idea of our ego wanting enlightenment. That's how nature or reality works. Maybe expanding consciousness. You must reach to a point where the only thing you want is to be enlightened, and when you are there... you have to drop that desire too. And you will be enlightened. In my opinion.

That's why Nisagardatta Maharaj always write on his books that if you find any contradiction it is in the words, because words don't represent truth. We can be talking here for years and years and we will be talking about the same thing (maybe) thinking that we are talking about different stuff. Who knows? We only listen to ourselves or to our understanding of what others are trying to convey. "As you are about to go through this book, please note that nothing you are about to read is true. It is merely words which represent things which do not exist." ---- Stephen H. Wolinsky, PhD (Preface to The Zen of Advaita by Nisagardatta Maharaj)

That was helpful @100rockets thanks!

One more here

The only thing that has helped me a lot to stop feeling identified with my thought and reacting to everything was the mindful meditation.

Peace

Well, I don't know that. If you want to know my opinion, I don't think that's what happens when you are enlightened. But I can be wrong. In my opinion, when you are enlightened you see what true and real in this dimension, in your actual experience. It's not possible to translate it because we are distorting reality with our concepts and thoughts. What I'm saying to you, it is impossible that you know exactly what I am meaning, because the words and everything has a different meaning for me than for you. When someone enlightened talks, he gives the words a much more deep meaning that the one that we can grasp. Because we are not mature spiritually to understand it or accept it. When I talk to you, you are listening to yourself, not me. Because you are filtering everything I say from your point of view, from your understanding and the same happen to me. I must be losing some of the deep meaning of your words... I am just listening to my self in reality... Sometimes you read something, and after some years you read it again and you understand it in a different level, that's why we can't grasp sometimes the truth, but I don't think is about a matter of dimensions.

I don't see negativity in what they say. I see genuine questions. When people walk in the way of enlightenment (I know there's no way, just to explain what I am trying to say) when you realize the true nature of things you can have feelings like that. It's normal, not negative. Negative is a concept, there's no one to be negative. Perception happens and one see it as negative others positive and others see them neutral. At the end you will realize that this is reality, reality is that way. Very real on one side and it can seem unreal on the other. That's our not acceptance of reality as is, that's why we can feel "depressed" sometimes or confused. I think Ekhart Tolle explain it here better than me: https://www.eckharttolle.com/newsletter/october-2011 "It can happen if something happens that you can’t explain away anymore, some disaster which seems to invalidate the meaning that your life had before. Really what has collapsed then is the whole conceptual framework for your life, the meaning that your mind had given it. So that results in a dark place. But people have gone into that, and then there is the possibility that you emerge out of that into a transformed state of consciousness. Life has meaning again, but it’s no longer a conceptual meaning that you can necessarily explain. Quite often it’s from there that people awaken out of their conceptual sense of reality, which has collapsed."

Maybe it's good for him, you don't have to apply everything he says. :-)

Nothing to do or say.

Maybe it was an insight. Check the section where it says Visuals: http://integrateddaniel.info/the-arising-and-passing-away/

http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/dharma-wiki/-/wiki/Main/MCTB+5.+Dissolution,+Entrance+to+the+Dark+Night

Papaji was Mooji guru , after Mooji's first enlightenment experience with a Christian Mystic he went to Papaji and Papaji finished him (his ego).

I think you should ask a doctor and if you have a lot of pain, you can meditate on a chair. That's not a big deal. https://zmm.mro.org/teachings/meditation-instructions/ There are several different positions and you have to do the one that it feels better for you. The last one is on a chair. Some people with problems in their backs say this meditation bench are good... But I never used one of them. http://www.meditationbench.com/meditationbenches/

@fanta Other have said about Ingram, I suggest him too... download his book. It's free and has a lot of info about what you are dealing with. A must have I would say... Here's the link: Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, Adobe/.pdf version, Revised 2007 version http://integrateddaniel.info/book/

Workers cooperatives is the solution. People taking action despite of the bad governments, that would be a good change. http://institute.coop/

"I don't know anything." -My imaginary self

Cool @Telepresent thanks! Ill do that... appreciated! :-)

Cool... :-)

“Make no mistake about it – enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” –Adyashanti

“Make no mistake about it – enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” –Adyashanti