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Maybe in the shorter time span, but considering the last few centuries, we are more united than ever before in human history.

Like I said earlier, enlightenment here equals awakening for you, whereas it's something else for me or some others. Many describe it being something different. But like you have said, I agree that you can only help wake other people. You cannot enlighten them. It's a personal journey in my opinion and may even vary for each individual. I myself earlier was confused with the definitions of what means what, but I always believe both of the words are not the same.

I think science goes a bit further than this pic with the explanation on evolution of peanuts.

What you are describing is a state of equanimity. Enlightenment may or may not be a suitable word to describe that, since different people have different definitions for Enlightenment. For example, enlightenment for me means when there are no questions or doubts or conflicts arising in your mind regarding reality or who you are. Some people describe awakening, which is an experience of ego dissolution, as a source of enlightenment, although I would describe it more or less as a pointer to Enlightenment. Equanimity could also be a result of awakening, or could be a cause, although it's not the only way to achieve it. Also, I believe enlightenment is not a permanent or a fixed state of mind, so a person enlightened today may not be enlightened tomorrow or a person who was born enlightened may not grow up enlightened. So, instead of searching for enlightened people, I would suggest you to search for enlightened thoughts, which you maybe find across internet and the world, including this forum.

The thing is, there are many who are passionate about chess, since it's an entertaining game and you don't have to break your bones, so automatically the competition becomes very high. But teaching others chess (either part time or full time if you are extremely good at it) is a good idea, since teaching itself is a satisfying job for many, as it involves serving a community and also there are many who wants to learn chess as a hobby.

Those monks might have never heard of Osho. As per my research, Jain monks don't wear clothes simply to show that they don't possess anything other than their body, including clothes.

Many people clinging to science believe that most experiences termed mystic by spiritual people are delusions. Many people clinging to spirituality believe that most scientists are deluded because of their logical thinking. Some people clinging to awakening believe that everyone else other than them are deluded. The ones who don't cling to anything don't care about delusions at all and experience their life, no matter what the experience is.

Great definition. I think reaction could otherwise be termed as an emotionally charged instantaneous response.

Oops!? Let it serve as a reminder that English could never become my first language.

Sounds true. Sometimes the best reaction within is no reaction, and it's the best all the time if we wish to be peaceful.

Wow! ( Only world of warcraft comes to my mind)

Without evil, most of the movies today won't exist. Can that count as a purpose?

I believe it's a her. Maybe that's the reason why feminism exists.

It does influence in subtle ways though.

In absolutely relative sense, my belief is that anything which affects other people in a negative way is immoral, although it's extremely difficult to calculate. The intention behind the action also adds enormous weight. The universe does that calculation and some call it karma.

Devilry is when chasing pleasure affects others around you negatively. Otherwise pleasure mostly gets balanced by pain.

If the mind is in tune at present with what we experience, any experience is balanced for us. But when thoughts fill up the mind with past and future, the experience looks not as good as it actually is. Although I believe everything gets balanced at the end, including thoughts.

It is possible to not care, but your beliefs have to be very strong. For that, you have to experience and understand life even stronger. Many people don't care about anything in life during their teens due to their weak beliefs ( like living doesn't matter, working hard is futile, we can enjoy life only now, misunderstanding living in the present) , but start caring about life more later due to their beliefs getting shattered with further experiences. This also leads to feeling of missing out in life.

Sounds like a good idea, especially to understand the bigger picture. But we also have to make sure we are not zoomed out all the time.

Instead of thinking that it's a dream, it's wise to acknowledge that as long as you haven't experienced such bad things or been there in a similar situation yourself , you can't judge how much degree to which they are suffering due to it.

Maybe that's why Krishna tells Arjuna to do your work and expect nothing in return, which will in turn provide a greater reward.

Sadness is created from happiness, and happiness is created from sadness. A starving kid in Africa would feel tremendously happy when she got a loaf of bread at the same levels as you would feel happy when you eat at a seven star hotel. For most of us, it is not possible. Those who claim to make us as such are mostly marketing gimmicks. You can ask the enlightened ones here, but I can guarantee no one would tell they are blissful all the time. But I believe it is possible to be blissful must of the time when you meditate all the time while giving up any desire. There will come a point close to having no desire to do anything, not even to live. At this point, your baseline state of happiness will tremendously increase, due to practicing a combination of meditation and selflessness , and this state will be sustained without peaks and valleys because of your equanimous nature.

Maybe you can try something like teaching local kids electronics for a small fee or for free. Or you can even make educational videos using YouTube. Gadgets do play an important role in our day to day life.

Many people come to a saturation point after arriving at the conclusion that they have experienced everything in life. For some people, this turns out to be good as they stop seeking new experiences and try to lead a quiet and peaceful life, by trying to live in the present and cherishing the life they already have. But many other people get bored out of life, especially when it seems like there is nothing more to experience. For such people, there are few ways you can use to find new and infinite experiences, all fresh and hot. Before knowing the ways, it's important to know how our mind gets conditioned and becomes bored easily. Our mind adapts to any experience and make it as the standard to compare to for all future experiences. While this is helpful as a survival mechanism for scientific and technological development, by helping us constantly seek out better experiences and thus better ideas, it is nowhere helpful to let us having fun with new and already available experiences. Here are some ways you can break such conditioning: 1. Recognise that your beliefs affect what experiences you can have in a tremendous way. In other words, be open minded to new experiences. People are exposed constantly to new experiences from childhood. What we are exposed to depends on various factors such as culture, family upbringing, language, religion, etc. Based on our exposure, we tend to develop a liking to a particular set of experiences and make it as hobbies or source of entertainment or even work of passion. For example, if you are in US, you are mostly exposed to Hollywood films. If you and your father watched sci-fi films together, you will further restrict yourself to Hollywood sci-fi films. If you develop a liking for a particular actor, this will further be fine down to watching Hollywood sci-fi films of that particular actor. While it's not a bad thing to have favourites, your mind might try to restrict yourself to those particular titles without giving a chance to explore others. We make a judgement that something is not good based on our conditioning without experiencing it first hand. You may never have watched a Korean horror movie, but yet have already decided that it would be bad and I wouldn't watch it at any cost.By forcing ourself to explore new experiences, by pushing ourselves beyond our comfort zone, we can find that there are many more things in life we like, and would like to experience. You don't have to watch the horror movies further if you don't like, but without watching them at all or by watching one or two movies, if you come to the conclusion that all horror movies are bad, you will be missing out a lot. The same applies to all kinds of experiences. 2. Forget what you have experienced to experience it anew Imagine eating your favourite food for everyday in a week. The food no longer gives you the same joy that you had when you first tasted it and it may even go out of your favorites list. Imagine travelling to your favourite location every day. It no longer stays your favourite as you get bored with living the same experience again and again. If you leave a good gap between such experiences, the experience would look fresh and new. So, the less often you indulge in your favourite experiences, the more joyful it would become. 3. Diversify your experiences Now, if you follow the first advice, you would have been open to enormous choices and found new and multiple experiences. Now, the trick is not to get addicted to a single thing and avoid all other experiences. Allocating some fixed free time each day for each experience or hobby is a good way to diversify your experiences, as overdoing or restricting yourself to a single experience might lead to boredom and won't give you the same happiness as having multiple experiences. There are some exceptions, especially if you can be in a flow state during the experience. For such experiences, allocating more time for them and less time for other experiences might help. This also helps you to forget, and achieves the goal of second point. 4. Start from the average ones and from the past We mostly seek out the best experiences to be had, if it's available to us through time and money. If there is very limited time available with us and if we choose the best experiences to relish during that time, it's not a bad idea. But for those with more time, seeking the best experiences right away is an ideal way to get bored. Take the example of video games. We always see the reviews of which is the best ( and there is a lot of bias within these reviews) and select the latest and the best ones. After playing all of that, when we move to less rated and old ones, we judge it comparing to the best ones or find the experience to be less satisfying or reject them. This is applicable to a variety of experiences such as movies, travel destinations, adventure activities, books, YouTube videos, forums, websites, hotels , food and many others. The best way to experience everything with equal enthusiasm is to start from the average and the oldest experiences, depending on how much time you have, and move towards the best ones. Before that, you have to forget what you had already experienced as the best by fasting yourself without that experience for a few weeks to months, depending on how good you are at forgetting. If you feel missing out the best ones, you can choose experiences randomly instead of choosing only the best ones, or you can experience the best ones once in a while. That's it, hope you find new and interesting experiences with these ideas!