Why meditate?

[NoSelfSelf]

Why meditate(actively) after you reached enlightement when you are 98% of the time in no mind....

[Zigzag Idiot]

Leaving aside any claim of enlightenment,,,, Maintenance.

If I don't boss my Automaton into sitting still in Centering Prayer twice a day, it has a runaway.

[Bluff]

because of the 2%?

only you will be able to answer this. or try to find a statement of a person who achieved this living. 

[Forestluv]

These speculative questions about “what’s it like after enlightenment?” are not particularly helpful because they can feed an “enlightenment story” that can become a distraction. 

One doesn't need to speculate and get immersed in storytelling about what enlightenment would be like.  One can do self exploration and find out right now in one’s own direct experience.

 

[Bluff]

@Serotoninluv yep

[NoSelfSelf]

Thats not what im asking why they continue to meditate after enlightement if they are in no mind...im saying they because saying i have no mind has a bad rep

[Bluff]

@NoSelfSelf

what???

[NoSelfSelf]

@Bluff whats here so hard to understand?

[Bluff]

the grammar

[lmfao]

@NoSelfSelf idk maybe they just mediate for the lols. Maybe the mediate because they're bored and there are perhaps few things more enjoyable. A passionate , master level athlete will keep doing his craft for fun even if he won't make progress and even if he can't enter any competitions . 

[YaNanNallari]

Enlightenment is not the end all be all in terms of progress. With mind you can go even deeper. There is a difference between someone who has been enlightened and no mind for 1 year and between enlightened and no mind and still practicing for 20 years, as you might guess

Edited December 21, 2018 by YaNanNallari

[VioletFlame]

I believe that even once one becomes "Enlightened" it would only be wise and only natural to continue these practices simply because we love doing them and because we do it out of passion and eternal self-exploration. Each time is always a new, refreshing & illuminating experience, no matter how "Enlightened" one gets...

Perhaps it would even sustain your 98% results.

Even the "Enlightened one" continues to have fresh insights & epiphanies until their departure arrives.

There are countless forms of meditations to experiment with or to master as well.

It's wonderful to consider meditation as a lifelong journey and endless learning expedition rather than something you no longer need once you reached a certain level. One is always learning and gaining more wisdom.

Edited December 22, 2018 by VioletFlame

[Bobby]

well first off there are different kinds of meditation.

not all meditation practices are designed for attaining enlightenment!

after enlightenment yo may  stop doing the meditations geared for attaining enlightenment (generally these are your self inquiry and vipassana), but you may take up the ones which develop emotional mastery and release traumas, for instance 

or you may find those vipassana meditations have other uses

something about the spiritual path to realize is that it never ends. 

Edited December 22, 2018 by Bobby

[VioletFlame]

@Serotoninluv ? ♥

[Tony 845]

@YaNanNallari  very interesting, it's like they say the rabbit hole of enlightenment goes very deeeeeep...

[ground]

One shouldn't get obsessed with meditation. Meditation is only a primer for the 'I'.

Edited December 22, 2018 by ground