Common Traps on The Path

[Fearless_Bum]

I wanted to share some quick traps that one can run into on the path, feel free to ask for any clarification on said traps:

-Thinking that the spiritual world and the world of fools is separate.

-Messianic thinking.

-The impulse to throw it all away and become a yogi on the street. 

-Adopting concepts from teachers and repeating them without having real-ized yourself. 

-The divinity reveals itself, but you say it is "you". 

-Thinking that you gotta climb a spiritual ladder, to reach a higher state. 

-Forcing yourself to act like how you think an enlightened being would act, confusing the character for the truth. 

-Misunderstanding of pointer words such as consciousness, god, etc. and using them as ego blankets instead. 

-Trying to save everyone you meet, not real-izing that they have always been saved.

-Confusing the psychedelic experience for enlightenment, rather than just another transient experience. Enlightenment is in all "states", but when you attribute enlightenment to just one, then you're actually latching to it for dear life. 

Edited November 2, 2021 by Fearless_Bum

[Flyboy]

 - Not listening to your heart

 - Not listening to your intuition

 - Not loving your ego / small-s self (goes hand in hand with integrating your shadows)

 - Using guilt / blame on yourself or others in any way (inherently dualistic and dividing)

 - Pursuing Truth but not Love, or Love but not Truth (they spiral around each other until the very end)

 - Implicitly weaving models into your "understanding" (great example is Leo talking about states of consciousness and consciousness going up / down - this is a model and creates a ground to stand on and excuses NOT doing the nitty-gritty work)

 - Accepting ANY ground to stand on

 - Psychedelics are fine, but the reality is that until the self/Self are totally undone permanently and utterly, you literally CANNOT perceive ultimate truth without a filter... even the most transcendent 5-MeO state will still be seen from the subtle ground you stand on, resulting in some warped views on Self

 - Not doing the nitty-gritty work because you want the mystical states.  When you see, is there a seer?  When you hear is there a hearer?  When you think is there a thinker?  This is SUPER subtle work and requires much time and delicacy.  This last layer of subtlety collapses co-dependently at the very end of the path... don't lie to yourself that you are there, because you probably aren't.  This is swiss watch repair, and psychedelics are a sledge hammer.  This can only really be done in meditation or contemplation, sober.

 - Not letting go of the mind.  What you're looking for is beyond the mind.  Thoughts are fine, but as long as there is any identification with them, the Truth won't find you.  If you can speak of it, it isn't IT.

[Nahm]

Believing thoughts.

 

[Fearless_Bum]

@Nahm I don't believe you.

[WokeBloke]

-The divinity reveals itself, but you say it is "you". 

 

there's one

you created separation between yourself and God. oops.