Becoming A Great Sage

[Deep]

I want to share a little bit of my background. I was majoring in biology in college. I was doing a research project at a hospital. During the research, my kundalini energy was activated. I could feel it in my lower spine. I stopped doing the research and dropped out of college because I felt inspired to start a business. Now I'm thinking about going back and finishing it. Maybe I was fearful at that time. 

I think one has to experience samadhi before they're considered to be enlightened because everything before that is intellectual. During samadhi, the kundalini goes up to the cerebrum and one's awareness is expanded to infinity. Unfortunately, the journey to samadhi is not a walk in the park. It requires lots of discipline. The type of discipline that takes the fun out of life. 

The sages in the past gave us techniques to reach samadhi because they believed everyone is capable of reaching it. Otherwise they would've been like, "Fuck everyone else, we're going to keep this to ourselves. If they don't become enlightened, too bad." They probably did believe we have choice and we can choose to follow a spiritual path. 

In Jainism, they follow five tenets: truthfulness, non-violence, celibacy, non-stealing, and detachment. By doing this, they strive towards enlightenment (not everyone). The reason most people fail to experience samadhi is because they fail to do one of those things. For example, a terrorist commits violence, so his chances of enlightenment are destroyed. 

The funny thing is most people in the dream state think they're happy. They're only deluding themselves. I'm also deluding myself by choosing to remain in the dream. I think it's silly to pretend everything is okay. It's silly to pretend we love everyone. It's okay to be unhappy with the world. Most people are oblivious to their own suffering and to others' suffering. After experiencing samadhi, one's happiness becomes unconditional. 

Here is a video I found which gives a good description of how samadhi feels: 

It is literally mind blowing. 

[Joseph Maynor]

The only requirement to becoming a great sage is to help others grow because you are growing yourself — you’re just a few miles ahead of them and can swing ‘round to help them facilitate their growth.  It can be a true expression of love — evidence of the breaking down of the ego.  And it’s by helping others and teaching others that the guru achieves his or her extraordinary growth.  You ever hear the expression, “If you really want to learn something, then teach it to others?”  That’s the dynamic at work, and it’s a win-win dynamic if it comes from an authentic place.  It can manifest as an upward-spiral of synergistic energy; of love.

Be careful of the mind or the ego telling you what a sage is though.  That’s gonna be false.  A sage is a label, a distinction, a classification, a duality.  All we have is authentic Being and awareness.  A sage is just a highly-evolved, benevolent force of Nature — Nature loving and investing in itself basically.

Edited October 9, 2017 by Joseph Maynor

[Deep]

@Joseph Maynor You're trying to think from the Absolute perspective, but that doesn't help in attaining enlightenment. I'm saying it's necessary to experience the Absolute. Many sages never taught anyone but that doesn't mean they didn't love people. 

Be careful about believing everything Leo says. He is running a business, he's gotta say things to attract customers. He doesn't know what enlightenment is himself. 

Did you overcome your neuroses? What is this Being you talk about? I don't like vague definitions of enlightenment. Is your experience of the universe more intense or do you feel separation? 

I'm sorry if you didn't like what I said. 

[Joseph Maynor]

1 hour ago, Deep said:

@Joseph Maynor You're trying to think from the Absolute perspective, but that doesn't help in attaining enlightenment. I'm saying it's necessary to experience the Absolute. Many sages never taught anyone but that doesn't mean they didn't love people. 

Be careful about believing everything Leo says. He is running a business, he's gotta say things to attract customers. He doesn't know what enlightenment is himself. 

Did you overcome your neuroses? What is this Being you talk about? I don't like vague definitions of enlightenment. Is your experience of the universe more intense or do you feel separation? 

I'm sorry if you didn't like what I said. 

@Deep Sometimes what you’re seeking dissolves right before your eyes.  The mind can help and it can hinder — the trick is to know when one or the other is happening, to have that keen awareness.  There is no gap-closing to be had; there is no real problem.  The problem is the mind, and the mind is false.  I don’t know what Leo has to do with my posts — my aim in all my posts is authenticity.   I don’t even know in advance what I’m gonna write, it just flows out.

Edited October 10, 2017 by Joseph Maynor

[Deep]

19 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

 The problem is the mind, and the mind is false.  

Once the mind holds still, you experience yourself as God. I understand that's not everyone's goal. From now on I'll just keep it to myself. 

Edited October 10, 2017 by Deep