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I think it has useful advice on learning to accept my non polite ego.

How can a forum with enlightened people not respond to a question I'm asking about something they have allegedly already gone through? It is because they have not passed through that process, and are just handing out advice that means jack shit that they picked up from their favorite youtube guru. Even Gura cant answer a question on something he has not yet had the time to study. This is not a real self development site, it's an ego parade.

Its not for you. It's for people who dont buy into your spiritual ego bullshit.

Stop debating and start listening to somebody who actually knows what this is about. You and your Adyashanti videos are bullshit. Pipe down and listen for once. Your 35 year journey means jack shit and you are misleading people.

@Emerald Wilkins The third eye correlates to self-inquiry, non-duality teaching. It has absolutely nothing to do with enlightenment, but you cannot see that because you are programmed to follow society, and societies pseudo "spiritual" teachings. There is a self, but it is not located behind the eyes, it is located in another realm independent of space and time. Your non duality teachings are pure nonsense

Yet you talk about "enlightenment" as a meaningful reference. You clearly dont know what you are talking about, do you? Your words contradict themselves, first you take pointers from specialists, then decide (when its convenient for you) that everyone has their own definition. Nonsense

@jjer94 So that means no, you're not enlightened. You don't even know what enlightenment is

@Piotr Did you notice that within 19 hours nobody fucking answered the question LOL Because nobody here actually knows.

@charlie2dogs I suspected that this non duality teaching is not enlightenment. It's just psychology, isn't it?

Ok smarty pants, I will give you that one... But are you able to differentiate the flavours between two different dog turds just by smelling them from 4km away? No? Well I can! So there!

@WhatAmI The question is, can you afford NOT to study Buddhism? I've heard that if you don't study Buddhism you will be reincarnated as a fox for 500 lifetimes! So, take that as a warning!

Are you saying you are "Enlightened" ?

@Scarecrow C'mon, You already know the answer to this.

Yeah, I notice myself seeing without analyzing, and it instantly says "that's not true". Like a seer of beliefs, or long held constructs, things I have been taught that were supposed to be "true". However, as this insight comes into being and I record my thought on here, I can also sense that I'm creating a new belief off the back of the new insight which just knocked an old belief out. So.. how to stop creating beliefs? Or is this just a process of growing the witness until no objects are left obscuring the view? I mean, literally just knocking belief after belief out until there is nothing left but "I"??

Actually, this is a great example of what I've been recently talking about. The ego playing the role of skeptic. How can the ego be skeptical of it's own thinking? This kind of process is a complete waste of time. The only thing that can unveil the illusion of thoughts is awareness. Real awareness. And real awareness is not another thought doubting itself. Septicism is another scam created by the ego to imagine itself in some kind of control.

I don't know jes. You have to remember I'm not enlightened, so I don't know what I'm talking about in regards to your question. I guess I just made a silly comment. I apologize

It doesn't matter, because even if you have this symptom now, meditation will get rid of it for sure. But the thing is, don't take my word for it, do the practice yourself and find out what it does for you. If you find out in 40 years time that meditation is a placebo that's fine, but you would have cured your tendency to just believe on blind faith because you went the extra mile and did the work to find out for yourself if the benefits of meditation are really true or not! LOL

@ProblemSolving I agree, just shop around for someone who actually wants liberation. Easier said than done!

It is a speculation based on moments of no self manifesting that I've had. I'm not enlightened, but I think my description is accurate based on what self-proclaimed self-realizers have told me. A general disposition caused by a deep sense of peace means that when awakened there would be nothing to hold onto in the same way we as a human identity holds onto things. Human identities hold onto grudges, pain, thoughts spinning around in our heads, values, grievances, definitions... when all that has gone, what is left but peace? And I imagine that if one is experiencing that amount of peace then happiness is surely a way of life rather than a destination or a state dependent on the pain/ pleasure principle.

@Wouter For an ego happiness is always an elusive thing, because of resistance I guess, and this preoccupation with the future. But imagine life with no ego or hardly any ego manifesting. What's left would probably be peace because of the liberation from beliefs and conditioning. Just spontaneity. Now, I don't think it will be a constant "state" of happiness, there will be emotions, and when sad things happen sadness will arise but there will not be any added meaning or story superimposed onto the sadness. It's just that there won't be an ego to cling to all this, or take it personally. So an underlying sense of peace and non resistance could translate into a general "disposition" called "happiness". Happiness not as a thing but as a way of life. The end of suffering. The end of suffering doesn't mean no emotion, it just means we don't suffer because of the resistance to emotion and life's circumstances. This ultimate way of being is "truth" the truth of who we really are.