The middle way

[LaucherJunge]

Everything is an illusion. Nothing is an illusion. Only balance is real. Balance is peace. Go the middle way to find peace. 

[LaucherJunge]

@Mighty Mouse
The extent of this insight is way deeper than that. 
By fighting shadows or evil you only strenghten them, embrace them. This is why enlightened masters don't have a morality which is good or bad, because a morality which is inherently good will only make the evil stronger, true balance, true peace is achieved by embracing both.
With meditation you shouldn't be looking for a high state of bliss, you are looking for a balanced state of peace.
Every action has a response in order to balance it out.
Taking drugs will give you high states of bliss by raising your dopamine, but then you will suffer the withdrawl.
Orgasms will give you high states of bliss by raising your dopamine aswell, but after those you will also suffer withdrawl, especially if we are talking about porn, curing the withdrawl with more orgasms will only further destroy your inner balance.
Relationships are all about balance that is the way unconscious attraction works, as an example a man who is feminine to 25% and masculine to 75% will attract and be attracted the most by a women who is feminine to 75% and masculine to 25% because they are supposed to learn from each other and achieve a balance of 50% masculine and 50% feminine. Emotions exist because they are leading you to express an imbalance inside of you in order to achieve balance.
Those are just a few examples because this basically applies to everything in some way.

[LaucherJunge]

26 minutes ago, Mighty Mouse said:

That's right. So they don't have a "middle way" morality either.

Balance is achieved when you are on neither side and embrace both, which is the middle way obviously. In fact balance is the only thing that exists. But I guess you have to grasp this yourself, explaining this is pointless.

26 minutes ago, Mighty Mouse said:

Left, right or middle, why should any way be better than any other way. Peace is not one state among many, it's when you no longer need to care about stupid shit like what state you're in.

I had a hard time putting this sentence together in a neutral way. The state of peace is the state which enlightened masters report, calling it a state is just for the sake of expressing it, no word is really 100% correct because words are very limited.
 

Edited December 28, 2017 by LaucherJunge

[snowleopard]

@LaucherJunge   Yup, much like the revelation that there aren't really two sides to a strange loop.

[LaucherJunge]

@Mighty Mouse
It is no programming, those are insights which I had trough various happenings in my life and meditation/contemplation, which I simply connected together.
@snowleopard
Exactly, the great thing was that I got to this insight without having strange loops in mind, but in the end it's all interconnected. All roads lead to Rome.

[SOUL]

10 hours ago, Mighty Mouse said:

That's like finding a middle way between getting hit by a bus and not getting hit by a bus.

Yes, it is called riding the bus.

[SOUL]

@LaucherJunge The middle way isn't just an alternative to the two sides, it's all three of them and also none of them by not perceiving them as separate, so is unity.

[LaucherJunge]

@SOUL
Exactly that is what I mean.
That is why I say balance, because the light balances out the dark and the other way around, so essentially they are both part of the balance, which is the middle way essentially. The useful thing about it though is that the more balanced your actions are the less balancing is needed afterwards, which brings peace into your being, as would of course the balancing itself just that it would have more turbulences.

[Shin]

   

 

[LaucherJunge]

@Shin
Well, guess what inspired me to this insight. I was in The Last Jedi yesterday. It is so beautiful, the play with the polarities of good and bad in that movie. I concluded that the real peace would come when there would be a being who is not a jedi nor sith but combines both, for there wouldn't have to be any force to balance it out. After the movie I was meditating and at some point I suddenly found the connections to so many different things that I recently encountered in life, from there on it became obvious how deep this actually goes.
 

[Joseph Maynor]

Flow like river.  Still like pond.

[Shin]

Me when I see glimpses of infinity ...

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Edited December 29, 2017 by Shin