How to be wise

@luqqzr Exactly my problem too. In my work, 80-90% of the time I’m sitting and doing nothing. I work at an evening tuition for kids, and there are two other teachers with me in the classroom. The other two teachers manage to do all the work by themselves whilst I just sit in a chair and scratch my beard. I thought I would be fired right away when they saw they didn’t need me, but it’s been a year and they seem just fine keeping me doing nothing. I guess this is more of an emotional problem rather than a physical one.

@Leo Gura I also agree that brain type is an important factor to this work. But we can’t move forward without first resolving this mystery: why so few of their relatives are also not awake. You mentioned upbringing, but siblings get very similar upbringing. Usually they go to the same school, same schedule, etc. Lack of knowledge about awakening is also not an answer, because the chances are high that after one of them gets enlightened, the others will find out what happened to him. Whether they agree with spirituality or not is a different matter, but they will find out about it nonetheless. So how do you explain the severe rarity of family members: siblings, children, parents following along?

@Leo Gura It took Byron Katie one evening to turn from a suicidle depressed woman to an enlightened person who was basking in nothingness and love. That experience stayed with her 33 years as of now. Sure she did three years of integration work, but her initial experience was permanent. Could the brain rewire itself that quickly? Plus, from (1), your points are true, but it’s just so rare to find relatives enlightened at the same time. 90% of those gifted teachers do not have enlightened relatives. Doesn’t that say something about the correlation between enlightened teachers having gifted genes.

@Leo Gura I generally agree with what you’re saying, but there are two problems. 1) If those sages were genetically gifted why aren’t their siblings and parents also spirituality gifted, after all they have the closest resembling genes. Sadhguru was the youngest of thirteen children, yet I hear none of his other siblings are gurus. His parents? Ramana had a brother, what about him? Was he also gifted spiritually? 2) Overall, talking about the link between the neural system and awakening leaves a huge problem. What about spontaneous awakening that happened in the past many times. Those took only a few moments, and yet left a permanent awakening experience and a radical new state of consciousness. How did the entire neural system rewire itself in only a matter of a few moments? Because the person often goes from an unconscious depressed, hugely egoic person to an enlightened master in a couple of minutes.

That’s just a matter of how much mastery you have over your mind. The deepest sages who have completely detached from their minds (but still using it of course) have no concept of survival in their dictionaries.

@Leo Gura Many sages have given their lives to other people. So your theory is wrong.

@ivankiss She’s all about the end of suffering.

But some meditation techniques connect you to Love, and loving everything, including all of your shadow aspects. Surely stages of development are not needed if you have that.

@ivankiss “All pain is either anticipated or remembered.” Byron Katie.

@Anton_Pierre Thank you.

Lol.

I hear it from spiritual teachers.

The question ‘why is creation like this’ comes because your ego imagines something else it should’ve been. That’s just the ego’s imagination. Without it, there would be no contrast to reality, hence no question as to why creation came to be this way.

Lol. Your parents have all the buttons!

Wow man. How old are you? What country do you live in?

Ramana Maharishi: “Physical pain is a thought.” How do you explain this if you say that raw sensations are different from concepts.

That assumes that there is something seeking. Which of course there isn’t.

Like what?

Everyone has a culture, that’s just how the mind works. Question is, how attached are they to the culture. Will they get angry if the culture is attacked?

@Wyatt tyt fan huh.

Pick a specific moment in time when you were suffering from that thought, and Work on that. That’s good, but the Work is meditation. Are you meditating on this? Each question, spend a few minutes really meditating on your answers. But more importantly, you have to realise that you won’t get total freedom from just one worksheet. The ego structure causes your suffering, and that is what The Work is dismantling. Don’t expect the really good results until like 3-4 months into your daily practice. When you finish this worksheet, pick another disturbing situation in your past and get to Work on that one. Then the next. And so on. As you do many worksheets, you will get massive relief from negative emotions, but not in the way you are expecting. If you do this Work long enough, it wakes up inside you. You will notice that your mind is undoing beliefs all by itself! Until the entire belief structure collapses and eternal peace and bliss is reached. Don’t stop till you get there! Good luck my friend.

Today, a massive shift has happened to me. Whilst I was doing inquiry (The Work of Byron Katie), a huge force came from within me and stopped me from “doing the inquiry”. Instead, the force was itself doing the inquiry, and wanted me to just follow it. And I did. It was far easier than my usual sessions, and much less daydreaming. It was like getting on a roller coaster that is now moving without my action. To be honest, I wasn’t too surprised when this happened. Katie had always said: “If you do this Work for a while, it ends up doing you.” And this is how my inquiry sessions will go from now onwards. It will be me allowing my heart to show me the truth, without doing anything. Let me know if you know anything about this shift.

So, for the past few weeks I reduced wheat intake a lot to lose weight. But then, today, I saw in my kitchen cupboard an organic bread, which I never heard of before. Does that also cause obesity? Is it the same as normal bread?

But you said that yourself. 26:46. Did you change your mind?

Can you elaborate please.