Shin

Your body is entirely different from 5 years ago, all your cells are different. So it doesn't really make sense to say you're the body, that would imply you're always someone else, all the time, and that is not what the common assumption is when we talk about this topic. Your psychee, even without self-developement is very different from your teenage years, and from your childhood years. The same sense of "I" is present, so you're not the brain either, something else is there from the very beginning.

Scary as fuck, but necessary:

When you want to help but you're not enlightened

Does not matter what we think or not, what matters is what we experience, what you experience Learning all these concepts are a big trap that your mind plays on you to not do what is necessary, which is simply be. It is that easy, just be in a empty field, or in the forest, and stay there for hours, perhaps days if necessary. Your mind will resist this so much, it won't accept this and find all the good reasons not to do it Because it is that easy ... https://www.eckharttollenow.com/new-home-video/default.aspx?shortcode=u56dzx

Well, Jesus changed water into wine, pretty sure it's possible if you're hardcore enough :3

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Not necessarily wrong, it's just there is no way to know if it is, therefore it's pointless to have a side on it. I often use this example, and most of the time people get very pissed off, but there is no evidence that any jews were slained in WW2. I mean, there is, in books and thoughts of some people, but there is no way for you to know if it is true or not, how could you, it's just information that you can upload to your head, that's all it is.

You can see it, in their eyes.

So simple that no one believes it in the first place.

@pluto Because being enlightened is only a shift of perspective, it doesn't mean you're open minded. There was enlightened people (monks) who killed in name of their religion, don't recall the name of the wars, but it is in the "zen devil" video from Leo.

When you realize everything is alive

Yes and no. Also both and none.

Don't push out your mind, don't seek something, just be ! Just be conscious whatever happens, that's the only thing you have to "do". DON'T DO ANYTHING !!!

Cooking, cleaning, gardening, secretary work, etc.

This is the kind of situations where being funny is important.

You know that you have to work if you go to a monastery ? They don't just meditate all day, in fact they only meditate 2 hours everyday

What money ? Just ask to a master, if he sense that you're serious enough he won't make you pay anything.

Living in the moment without identification with thoughts. You kinda have, at some point, to stop the identification with thoughts, This isn't a luxury you can bypass, it is the core obstacle of your limited perceptions of what we call reality. Every single problem in your life is about your false sense of identification, the paradigm you don't even think you're locked in right now. When you truly stop the identification, and you come to follow your intuition, you start to flow with life, and there is no need for any teachings/teachers anymore. The only thing you need at this point is consistency in your meditation and mindfullness practice, and it all unfold by itself. Just remember that if you take this too seriously, it won't help, because there is only the ego to take/crave anything seriously. That doesn't mean (at all) that you should be lazy or stop striving on your goals, it only means that you should start taking these things from a distance. I can assure you that if you just increase by 5/10 minutes your meditation every months, be very mindfull of your thoughts and don't buy into them (especially negative ones), and just walk and appreciate nature for 1 hour every day, it will have a HUGE impact in your life in the upcoming months. Be disciplined about it, but don't take it seriously. I know it seems contradictory, but it isn't. The human mind is limited, and this is why there seems to be so much paradoxes with enlightenment. This is also the reason why you never have any explanation from an intuition, because it comes from an infinite intelligence that has no limit. Which leads to the fact that seeking any knowledge about enlightenment is a trap and a waste of your time, ultimately. When you'll be able to see your mind as something external to you, like any other things, you can start to see it as yourself as everything else, too. You can do this without any effort, or by using your will, either way it can only happen without any thoughts or monkey mind. At first it is almost impossible or very evasive, but the more you do it, the easier it is, and at some point it becomes natural. It won't be a mindfuck, it will feel natural.

There are good reasons why some teachers never speak of this, and I don't think saying those things on a forum where there is clearly damaged people on it is a good idea.

Facing your fears is like a cheat code to enlightenment, so there is like no reasons not to do it anyway