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The ego's version of failure The failure of ego is a given, but the way we RELATE to that failure is crucial. True understanding of ego starts with the simple observation that the ego makes a mess of practically everything. Duh! But even so, ego is hard-pressed to give up on itself. And consequently, as a general rule, human beings find failure to be more UPSETTING than ENLIGHTENING. We tend to feel like victims when our attempts fail. For example, we try to follow some recommendation or achieve some goal, but when the attempt doesn't yield total success, we blame others, life, or God: "I tried so hard and it didn't work. Everyone's against me!" Or "Things never work. Life isn't fair!" To react with blame to our failures simply reflects unwillingness to accept the reality of failure, and to give up the ego that causes the failure. Another of ego's survival strategies, when faith in ego starts to break down, is the tendency to construe our ego's failure as our personal failure. That's almost inevitable, because during the time of transition, we still strongly IDENTIFY with the ego. So we will think, "I am a failure." That thought leaves us too depressed to do effective battle with the ego. Who we REALLY are cannot and will not fail. But enlightenment is the fundamental recognition that the person we THINK OF as "I" or "me" is ALWAYS failing, even when it thinks it succeeds. Enlightenment depends on the deep recognition that the ego-I is bound to fail ultimately, completely. That recognition is the ego's Undoing -- if it leads us to release our affinity for the ego, our identification with it, along with our tendency to live AS it. More here: http://www.soulprogress.com/html/ArticlesFolder/Articles/EnlightenmentFailure.shtml

I found this, I think it may be a good thing to share here. I don't know the author. "We look for success, but in spiritual life, the pot of gold is at the other end of the rainbow -- the failure end. The instant the soul conclusively recognizes ego's failure, Truth takes over, and life becomes a better story. Such is the story of enlightenment. Enlightenment is not the condition that many people picture -- a personal triumph, achieved by getting "on top of" more and more things. It is not a skill you acquire in the midst of infinity. Closer to the truth, enlightenment is a failure. "

This is everything!!!!

@99th_monkey Everything is whatever it is...

No questions ... just enjoying life. And when I say enjoy I mean suffering and happiness. Everything is just Ok.

@Dodoster Maybe you already have it, send me the money!

I have some "instant delivery"... you don't even have to wait.

Because there's no choice?

It depends how much money you pay... if you pay a lot you get instant "enlightenment"...

I think there's something that is really "truth", the only problem is we can't grasp it. IMO there's people who know the truth, the problem is that when they try to explain it they have to do it with our language, limitations so it will never be the truth. It will be "pointers" to us. Because we will interpret their words in our own idea of reality. It's like if you are in the Matrix, Neo will have to talk to you getting into it and telling you that there's something outside the matrix, but you can't see it because you are in it. Right now I am not sure about anything so take my comments as "pointers" to or throw them to the garbage. LoL

Thanks! @Nunzia

“The fact that man produces a concept “I” besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything.” Einstein

So, if there's no self... how can there be "free will"? Whe "think" we choose, but there's no chooser. Because the fact that we think we choose doesn't change that when we choose we have no options. There's just a thought that we have options, but once we think we have decided to do something we just do it. Our thought make us appear that is "us" who choose, but there's no "us" to be found. The idea of self is an illusion, there's not a separated entity out there choosing anything.

I just wanted to quote Metzinger about this: "This experience is a naive realism. If mobile organisms were privy to all of the countless neural and other “internal and external” interactive processes that occurred with the act of walking for instance, they could never function. Immeasurably complex events had to be reduced to representational images in order to make sense to the mobile organism. These representational images would of necessity, include a unified and independent subject perceiving a world separate from and external to itself. The feeling of looking directly into the world from the vantage point of a perceiving and cognizant me or self, is a neural-representational process that is most convincing. We are not aware of this duality as an adaptive function, but view it as reality. Because we are unaware of the immeasurable neuronal activity involved in the production of an image-based reality, Metzinger refers to this opacity as a tunnel." More here: https://emptinessteachings.com/2013/04/14/the-myth-of-the-self-neurology-weighs-in/

What are your opinions about Kabbalah? I'm about to begin an online course and I was interested to know if someone knows about it. Thanks in advance!

Thanks @KabbalahAdvisors

I found the next @Leo Gura project... :-P

There was a time when I was teenager that I was like having doubts about "God" And I decided to become Atheist I decided there was no God But I wasn't sure about that because I had the idea that there should be something or some "happening" who or which made everything appear So I decided that I couldn't have a way to know that, so I heard that some people were agnostic, that meant that they think that the idea of God is beyond our understanding, so they don't take a position. They don't believe but they don't "not believe" either. They say it's beyond comprehension, so better not think about it. So I decided that I was agnostic, and I was agnostic for a long time. Alan Watts likes a lot to talk about the origin of words So he explained that long time ago there was a Persian priest called Dionysius the Areopagite. And this guy wrote that we can reach God by Agnosis The word Gnosis means Knowledge in greek (I think) So A-Gnosis is the negation of knowledge So me, by being Agnostic in fact , was denying knowledge without "me" being aware of it Lol :-P Words meaning are distorted by our reality. Agnosis or Agnostic doesn't mean what most people thinks it means.

Love you Ayla!!! Thanks! I will be posting something soon about some synchronicities that happened! :-)

Lol!!!

That's awesome @Sky this is how synchronicity works. You are confirming me something. Why? Because you are me, we are all ONE. I began to watch Rupert Spira like two or three days ago, I watched him before and I wasn't interested. But I watched him again and I began to understand things that I didn't understand before! Good to know that self-inquiry is working!!! I am happy for you. Thanks, brother!!! :-)

Right & Wrong When Bankei held his seclusion-weeks of meditation, pupils from many parts of Japan came to attend. During one of these gatherings a pupil was caught stealing. The matter was reported to Bankei with the request that the culprit be expelled. Bankei ignored the case. Later the pupil was caught in a similar act, and again Bankei disregarded the matter. This angered the other pupils, who drew up a petition asking for the dismissal of the thief, stating that otherwise they would leave in a body. When Bankei had read the petition he called everyone before him. "You are wise brothers," he told them. "You know what is right and what is not right. You may somewhere else to study if you wish, but this poor brother does not even know right from wrong. Who will teach him if I do not? I am going to keep him here even if all the rest of you leave." A torrent of tears cleansed the face of the brother who had stolen. All desire to steal had vanished.

Everything Is Best When Banzan was walking through a market he overheard a conversation between a butcher and his customer. "Give me the best piece of meat you have," said the customer. "Everything in my shop is the best," replied the butcher. "You cannot find here any piece of meat that is not the best." At these words Banzan became enlightened.