What Happens After Enlightment?

[Nahm]

@Josh2 It's up to you what happens. 

[Bob84]

@Josh2 freedom 

[Joseph Maynor]

I'll let you know in 5 years.  I got some inner work to do.  What's crazy is I have spent my entire life running from my inner life.  That's why I developed such an analytical personality.  I didn't want to deal with some tough emotions that came from some early childhood abuse.  But over the last 6 months or so I have let a lot of those demons out of hiding in my psyche.  And I feel so much lighter now.  Like I am not as emotionally on edge all the time anymore.  Leo's video on "understanding roles" is where I really started to do this work heavily.

Edited July 3, 2017 by Joseph Maynor

[Prabhaker]

@Josh2

WHAT AM I DOING AFTER ENLIGHTENMENT? I eat when I am hungry, and I sleep when I feel sleepy. I am doing exactly the same thing that you are doing, but the quality has changed, the significance has changed, my approach has changed. You also drink tea, I also drink tea; but your drinking of tea is just drinking of tea. When I am drinking tea I am drinking God -- God in the form of tea. I am sipping God.

From the outside it is the same; from the inside it is totally different.

A Zen Master is reported to have said... somebody had asked the same question: "What did you use to do when you were not enlightened?"

He said, "I used to chop wood and carry water from the well."

And the man asked, "Now what do you do since you have become enlightened?"

He said, "I chop wood! and I carry water from the well."

Naturally, the questioner was puzzled. He said, "What is the difference? I don't see any difference. Chopping wood, carrying water from the well, you were doing before, you are doing now.

And the Master laughed. He said, "Yes, before I was doing it -- now it is simply happening. Now there is no doer. I am no more. Wood is chopped, water is carried -- I am no more."

Zen people don't use the word 'God'. If it was asked of a Sufi he would say, "Now God chops the wood, God carries the water." Zen people say, "It chops the wood, it carries the water." That is their name for God; they don't personify God.

Everything remains the SAME! and yet nothing is the same.

Philosophia Perennis, Vol 1~ Osho