Is Enlightnment Your Nr.1 Goal?

[Ether]

Yeesir.

[Shroomdoctor]

Nope. At the moment I am focusing on calming my thoughts and emotions, as well as creating a passionate and fulfilling life. 

Enlightenment might me tackled in a few decades.

[Girzo]

I would like it to be, but the damn work is so hard.

[Ether]

@Girzo Not really. Considering it hard is why people dont reach enlightnment. If you stop considering it hard, it just is. Just search 5 minutes a day and study it. Hard? Not at all.

[Ether]

@Girzo

 

[TimStr]

No, it isn't a goal of mine and it will never be.

Doing the work, that will get me there is my number one goal.  

[pluto]

No goal is the ultimate goal

[Swagala]

Yes and no. My real goal is to have the eye's/perspective of the world of someone's that's enlightened; I wan't to be able to enjoy life as if I was a kid again. And the no part is because of one of Eckhart Tolle's teaching that goes something like this: a goal isn't something that's possible because that's thinking in the future which doesn't exist. There's only now, you can be enlightened now.

[aurum]

@Ether

No. I never even think about enlightenment anymore.

That's not to say I'm not doing spiritual work. I just don't care if I ever reach this magical "enlightenment" point.

I don't even care if it exists.

What excites me is just getting better every day. Any mental energy I used to spend speculating about what enlightenment is like or if I was enlightened yet just seems like noise now.

[Joseph Maynor]

You better believe it!  It feels amazing.  Growth.  Your problems start to disappear.  Where doing nothing leads you to getting everything.

Edited November 17, 2017 by Joseph Maynor

[Ether]

@Joseph Maynor Nothing is everything. Everything is nothing.

[Znib94]

Nah. When I first got into the whole spirituality thing 'reaching' Enlightenment was definitely the only thing that was important. After some time I realized I had a very unhealthy way of dealing with the ego, emotions etc. So now I'm trying to properly deal with my emotions, ego and all of it's stroies in a healthy way (being accepting and non-judgemental about the way I feel, being observant and mindful of the kind of bullshit my Ego is trying to convince me, accepting and integrating my shadow side, learning more about myself and why I react to certain things in a certain way and so on)

I think my awakening will happen when it happens. I don't stress about it anymore, I rather focusing on doing whatever I can do right in the moment.