Concepts and enlightenment

[How to be wise]

@Leo Gura You once said that being conceptual was your greatest obstacle of being enlightened. Does that mean that reading a science book or some other conceptfull book will slow down our path to enlightenment, because we’re filling our heads with more concepts.

[Leo Gura]

Yes

The exception being that you will need some degree of conceptual understanding to avoid the traps common to the spiritual path.

Concepts are both your key out of the prison, and they are the prison itself.

[How to be wise]

@Leo Gura does that mean that stage yellow is moving us away from enlightenment, because it is full of concepts. Stage yellow is more conceptual than stage green, so does that mean it’s harder to become enlightened as a stage yellow guy than a stage green guy?

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4 hours ago, How to be wise said:

@Leo Gura does that mean that stage yellow is moving us away from enlightenment, because it is full of concepts. Stage yellow is more conceptual than stage green, so does that mean it’s harder to become enlightened as a stage yellow guy than a stage green guy?

If stage yellow is not seeking enlightenment he will not find it. 

Serious seeking of enlightenment plays a bigger role.

[Leo Gura]

6 hours ago, How to be wise said:

@Leo Gura does that mean that stage yellow is moving us away from enlightenment, because it is full of concepts. Stage yellow is more conceptual than stage green, so does that mean it’s harder to become enlightened as a stage yellow guy than a stage green guy?

No. Like I said, certain kinds of concepts are very useful for avoiding traps. Green falls into many spiritual traps.

Yellow is in a better position to pursue enlightenment than Green. Green is still way too tribal and Tier 1.

You can pursue enlightenment at any stage.