Here's a great question, can you ever become UN-ENLIGHTEND?

[Tony 845]

I believe I've heard of this before, seems kinda scary like hey your at peace for like 5 years then BAM! You start identifying with you're ego again? (Like hey I'm back! ) Thought I've read somewhere this has happend before but I could be wrong, anyone ever heard of such a thing happening before???

[FoxFoxFox]

I believe what you are talking about has to do with one type of Samadhi when the individual can be in a trance-like state of no-self but remembers his last thought when he comes out of it. Ramana Maharshi briefly talks about this in his book "Be As You Are".

[Jack River]

“You” (self/ego/time) may “become” “enlightened” but that is short lived dudes. To become implies a wave that has a beginning and an end.. Life isn’t fixed dudes. 

Self is always moving. Like a wave that has no beginning and no end. 

Edited November 29, 2018 by Jack River

[kieranperez]

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[cetus]

@Tony 845 If it's actual enlightenment than there is about the same chance Stormy Daniel will become a virgin again.

[FredFred]

4 hours ago, cetus56 said:

@Tony 845 If it's actual enlightenment than there is about the same chance Stormy Daniel will become a virgin again.

I bet she would like too after what she's been through!

[Tony 845]

@cetus56 lol

[Forestluv]

4 hours ago, cetus56 said:

 there is about the same chance Stormy Daniel will become a virgin again.

 

[Tony 845]

@FoxFoxFox ?

[Joseph Maynor]

I don't think so. 

[cetus]

1 hour ago, Tony 845 said:

@cetus56 lol

@Tony 845 All joking aside. Can one become unenlightened?  Lets say on your 18th birthday your parents sat you down and said they needed to talk to you about something very important. And they told you they were not your real parents. At that point everything you ever thought about yourself would change in an instant. There would be no going back.

[Tony 845]

@cetus56 nicely said 

[zenjen]

I've heard talk about babies being enlightened beings, if so then I guess we all became un-enlightened at some point.

[Tony 845]

@zenjen I was driving today & I was deep in neurotic thought, there was a river next us, I live in upstate NY its beautiful, he's 4 years old & he said Daddy look a pretty river, he's more enlightened then "I" am lol?

[Haumea2018]

There's a range of consciousness before one stabilizes in non-duality where you can go back and forth between ego and no-self.

Once you hit stabilization level, you're in the clear.