Enlightenment

[Breakingthewall]

Enlightenment is something very simple yet very difficult. It is the dissolution of the inner boundaries of the psyche. Boundaries are defenses, created by evolution given the reality of life in general and human life in particular. 

These defenses are especially subtle and powerful in the social game, where acceptance equates to life and rejection to death (when humans were tribal). Their force is enormous, and facing them head-on without fear or avoidance is a challenge. 

The barriers of the psyche are not thoughts; rather, thoughts emanate from them. They are real neurological structures that activate when they connect with the situations for which they were created. Behind them lies the primordial barrier: the fear of death, the need to remain. Gazing into the great abyss of total dissolution and opening oneself to it is the ultimate challenge.

 Enlightenment is not about knowing things, realizing what you are, being consciousness, etc., but about opening your energetic configuration by releasing all barriers and being without limits. only for a moment at first, gradually building up to sustain that openness until it becomes your reality

 

[gettoefl]

For me it is as follows. There is nothing bad that can hurt me and nothing good that can help me. I look around with forgiveness and disenchantment, the former means don't worry about something because it's all good and latter means don't hope for anything because it's all bad. The world is a passing dance of mist on water. Nice enough, nothing special. Engaging the world with this mindset allows one to be unstoppable, untouchable and unmovable. Allied to this one sees one is not a doer, a chooser, a thinker, a feeler though doing, choosing, thinking, feeling happen naturally and smartly. I don't take credit. I enjoy the fruit, the wine, the song, the dance. The following nicely encapsulates such a mood. Forgive the typos needless to say.

 

 

Edited yesterday at 10:59 AM by gettoefl

[Opulence]

Great thanks.

 

 

[emil1234]

@Breakingthewall im kind of curious since i dont believe i've heard you talk about this; how do you rank your own level of realization, do you consider yourself enlightened (Baseline, not just peak experiences)

and how long have you had spiritual practice? 

Edited 22 hours ago by emil1234

[Breakingthewall]

19 hours ago, emil1234 said:

@Breakingthewall im kind of curious since i dont believe i've heard you talk about this; how do you rank your own level of realization, do you consider yourself enlightened (Baseline, not just peak experiences)

and how long have you had spiritual practice? 

I don't know what Enlightenment is like for others or what levels there are. For me, it's about achieving the complete dissolution of emotional contraction and the total dissolution of mental structures during moments of meditation.

The essential difference is between never having done this and doing it once. Your entire mental/emotional configuration changes, but the change doesn't happen in a single moment; rather, it initiates a chain reaction. The human mental-emotional system is dynamic, constantly changing, and experiences of openness direct that change toward openness.

At first, having a moment of total openness is very challenging, brief, and strange, a mystical experience. Later, it becomes normal, but that doesn't mean pain doesn't hurt, business doesn't worry, or conflicts don't destabilize. The difference is that nothing is seen as essential, not even life itself, so emotional intensity becomes manageable. Identification weakens until it becomes irrelevant, self-image takes a back seat, human relationships become deeper, and new fields of perception open up. 

The point is that living in a closed state is very limited because there are a lot of dark points, you can't really face death, you absolutely need acceptance, , then your system construct a lot of barriers , projections, identities, that encloses the perception, makes it superficial. 

About the baseline, its usually limited, but the limits are perceived as relative, just something to operate. It's relatively easy to have a moment of openess, but if there are stressing circumstances i get absorbed in the emotional reaction. It's something programmed, I don't see the point in becoming a monk that doesn't suffer. There is no problem with suffering, it's just a human impulse to move forward. 

About practices, I did a lot of meditation, psychedelics, but the point is not what you do but understanding what you have to do, what is the change that you are looking for. It's not about knowing, realizing, having mystical experiences, samadhi, anything. It's about removing barriers, and for this you have to see those barriers, understand what they are. Its difficult when you are inside them.

Edited 2 hours ago by Breakingthewall