@enlightened people

[Tistepiste]

What is your constant state of mind/body?

Do you feel pure peace all the time? Are there moments when you feel more happy / better than other moments?

[Solace]

Here is your answer 

 

Edited September 18, 2018 by Solace

[Barry J]

My friend is enlightened and I just asked him. He said that enlightened people like to watch Star Trek. He was smiling when he said it but he does watch Star Trek a lot

[Tistepiste]

@Solace haha that's Eckhart not really giving an answer

[yawning_]

really no sense in asking dawg, you're already enlightened ~ just a matter of stripping away layers of illusory attachments/identifications/conceptions

 

bless

 

n͕̣̝͙̻̯̙̜͈͕̖̯͍̹͓̘̠̄͆̃̌ͮͬ̇ͅa̙̪̮̭̱͓̣͍͙̫͍̍̅̔͂̉ͩ̋ͨ̑̋ͨ̏́ͣ͛m̠̘̗̙̭̠ͩͪ̍ͤ͒͒a̠̠̲͔̹̺͉͚̘̮͖̪̬̒̎͒̔́̈́ͥ̃͐͋ͧͭͥ̌̎̀̾̉̚ṣ̗͖͇̺̣͎ͧ̿̇͒̌t͇͈̘̲̰̫̩̘̗̲̣̩̲̯͇̍̓͒̔ͦ̊̂̔͒ͦ̽̚e̗̥̮̖͕̘ͣͫ̑͐͂ͩ́ͮ̆̌͛͐̽ͬ͛̿ͣͅ

 

- yawning gap

[Hellspeed]

Enlightenment cannot be spoken nor conceptualized. 

[eputkonen]

12 hours ago, Tistepiste said:

What is your constant state of mind/body?

Do you feel pure peace all the time? Are there moments when you feel more happy / better than other moments?

 

The mind is normally silent.  I guess what you could call mood fluctuates around contentment, peace, happiness, joy, bliss, etc.  There are moments when there is a feeling of more or less bliss, but I don't demand that there is always bliss.  When I am most down (so to speak), there is contentment...which is not considered very low by most standards.  Normally, I am just happy and at peace.

I do not judge when I feel bliss as a better moment than when I don't feel bliss.  Bliss or not blissful...doesn't matter.  Just content and at peace either way.

Edited September 18, 2018 by eputkonen

[How to be wise]

@Outer Jed McKenna is far from enlightened. LOC 580. Quite shocking for me, given that his big time fan Mickey Mouse sounded quite enlightened.

[Misagh]

@Tistepiste Shiva and Shakti. Absolute unmanifest potential and dynamic creative energy. These two are really the same thing. If you are interested to understand what I say logically, try studying some Quantum-physics (which is more a theory of consciousness than physics). The world (consciousness, or YOU) is a wave function (Shiva). It becomes matter when consciousness intends to know itself (Shakti). A simpler answer is that all that there is, is blissful consciousness (Sat, Cit, Permananda), and any material manifestation is an attempt for this consciousness to know itself. 

Edited September 19, 2018 by Misagh

[Joseph Maynor]

Today I had a storm of negative thoughts and I just focused on their emptiness and illusoryness.

Edited September 19, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[Barry J]

14 hours ago, How to be wise said:

@Outer Jed McKenna is far from enlightened. LOC 580. Quite shocking for me, given that his big time fan Mickey Mouse sounded quite enlightened.

What is LOC?

[How to be wise]

@Barry J Read Ramaji’s book ‘1000’. It’s basically a model for how enlightened you are. Of course some people are enlightened, but the question comes to who is more enlightened than who. That’s what this book answers. 

[How to be wise]

@Outer LOC 768. Although I don’t agree with him.

[Joseph Maynor]

Who is assigning these numbers to people?

Edited September 19, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[Tistepiste]

@Joseph Maynor You are enlightened?

[Joseph Maynor]

Just now, Tistepiste said:

@Joseph Maynor You are enlightened?

I think so.

[Tistepiste]

@Joseph Maynor how do these negative thoughts manifest? Aren't they ego-based?

[Enlightenment]

99% of my life is like deep flow experience but of course within this flow there are "bad"/aversive moments and blissful ones

[Tistepiste]

@Enlightenment what is a bad moment? And how do you deal with it?

[Enlightenment]

1 minute ago, Tistepiste said:

@Enlightenment what is a bad moment? And how do you deal with it?

Lower back pain, occasional strong headache, a situation when I'm fatigued/have no physical energy but have to do something demanding, things like that are still "bad moments" they are part of the flow, yet can still cause suffering. I have no sense of agency, so there is really nothing I (as an agent) do, they just are.