Are People in Solitary Confinement Enlightened?

[Julian gabriel]

If ur put in solitary confinement u have all the time in the world to do nothing, and ur almost always alone. 

They must live in their imaginations. 

Wouldn't this make them much more self-aware?

So why aren't they always having awakenings? 

 

[thepixelmonk]

is this a joke? solitary is one of the worst forms of psychological torture out there.

[Yarco]

It's an opportunity like lots of things, but you have to take advantage of it. If you have nothing else to do for 16 hours a day, you might as well meditate.

If you go in with some basic knowledge and a few meditations and exercises to do, then you can devote all your time to it and treat it like a several year-long meditation retreat, and you'll advance much faster than people who have jobs and other responsibilities to worry about. 

But most people don't go into solitary confinement with the basic prerequisites to think about meditating or awakening. They've never heard of such things before.

So 95% of people in solitary are living in their imaginations like you say. All day they're just stewing inside their own heads, creating stories. Thinking about the past and having regret. Or thinking about the future and what they'll do when they get out. Very unlikely they're thinking about the present.

If you have nothing else to do and you've never been taught otherwise, you'll retreat into a world of fantasy as a survival mechanism, basically creating whole netflix series in your own mind for yourself.

Maybe 1 in a million people in solitary confinement is going to be Buddha-like and enough of a genius or spiritual natural to distill advanced spiritual teachings all by themselves. If it was that easy, you'd see ordinary people having spontaneous awakenings all over the place. But instead a Ramana Maharshi or an Eckhart Tolle is a 1 in a million person, and usually a high level of innate ability that's activated by traumatic events.

[Julian gabriel]

23 minutes ago, thepixelmonk said:

is this a joke? solitary is one of the worst forms of psychological torture out there.

@thepixelmonk psychological torture sounds like a good way to awaken

[BipolarGrowth]

People often put in solitary confinement are about as low conscious as they come, and they likely have no knowledge of the practices which might awaken someone. It’s not much of a surprise that these people aren’t known for awakening.

[RMQualtrough]

9 minutes ago, BipolarGrowth said:

People often put in solitary confinement are about as low conscious as they come, and they likely have no knowledge of the practices which might awaken someone. It’s not much of a surprise that these people aren’t known for awakening.

Really nice photo.

[axiom]

4 hours ago, Julian gabriel said:

If ur put in solitary confinement u have all the time in the world to do nothing, and ur almost always alone. 

They must live in their imaginations. 

Wouldn't this make them much more self-aware?

So why aren't they always having awakenings? 

 

Likewise, cows have very little to do all day except eat grass.

Many cows are probably enlightened, then minced.

[Leo Gura]

55 minutes ago, axiom said:

Many cows are probably enlightened

No

[UnbornTao]

59 minutes ago, axiom said:

Many cows are probably enlightened, then minced.

Mu

[axiom]

53 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

No

Cows are holy animals!

[Tyler Durden]

Charles Manson talked about that

https://youtu.be/O99KPOO0JuA

[Ulax]

@Tyler Durden I reckon that he's either lying or suffering from severe dissociation when in solitary

[Jannes]

I had a similar thought. If somebody puts me in prison I am just gonna get enlightened so thank you ?

[Julian gabriel]

9 hours ago, Tyler Durden said:

Charles Manson talked about that

https://youtu.be/O99KPOO0JuA

Yeah well….  now I’m creeped out and also unsurprised, because yeah that makes sense.