Practical Questions

[egoless]

1) is it ok to do self inquiry while laying in the bed? I find that the main reason why I sometimes skip this practice is because I'mlazy to get up from the bed when I wake up and use the 20 min gap I have before I go to uni for inquiry while sitting.

2) can you achieve permanent Enlightenment? Or fake life movie will always suck you back to illusion after a while?

3) when I do self inquiry should I focus on present moment and start looking for myself with the silence of the mind or ask question: "who am I" in my mind?

4) which is the most effective self inquiry method you have found?

 

[Nahm]

26 minutes ago, egoless said:

1) is it ok to do self inquiry while laying in the bed? I find that the main reason why I sometimes skip this practice is because I'mlazy to get up from the bed when I wake up and use the 20 min gap I have before I go to uni for inquiry while sitting.

2) can you achieve permanent Enlightenment? Or fake life movie will always suck you back to illusion after a while?

3) when I do self inquiry should I focus on present moment and start looking for myself with the silence of the mind or ask question: "who am I" in my mind?

4) which is the most effective self inquiry method you have found?

 

Self inquiry - I think it's to be done 24 7. I'm always at a loss as to why people don't think of physics and quantum mechanics as self inquiry. 

2) I don't see how there is non-permanent enlightenment. How could somone unsee what they're seen and no know to be the truth?  I think (and I would love someone to help me get this more nuanced in plain words)  that there's three 'categories':

Enlightenment: Seeing for yourself what 'reality' actually is, and therefore experiencing what you actually are. Unforgettable. Un-unseeable. 

Mental / thinking / thought patterns: mood / attitude. Simply a product of the momentum of it's own process. 

Body: Basically, food & exercise (or lack of) determine how we feel in terms of energy.

This is my dichotomy anyways. Would love to hear from everyone about this. 

[egoless]

Does reality disappear if I close my eyes? If so why can I still touch a chair with my eyes closed?

[Nahm]

@egoless you're not actually touching a chair, anymore than you're seeing anything with your eyes open or closed. It's electromagnetic field and exchange of electrical charge, and below that it's everything & everywhere until you touch it, then it's part of your experience, and 'there'. And it's all not anything, even the experiencer.