Are You Already Enlightened?

[Rakesh]

Most teachers say you are, and  I was always like lol wtf I am not. This video made such statements make a bit of sense to me 

 

[kurt]

We can do nothing to become enlightened, and we cant "get there" with specific actions.  Thinking is not the problem.  The actual problem is just ignorance, a lack of education about the true nature of reality.

The "actions" we need to perform are education of the mind, on matters such as "time" and "space"

What is time anyway?  Anybody really thought about time itself? If time were real, then wouldn't everybody experience time in the same way?  How come time passes slowly when you're bored, and goes to quick when you're having fun?

What about your thoughts of the future?  Where do those thoughts happen?  They happen now along with memories of the past.  So where is time actually located in reality?

If there is not time in reality, then what else is there?  Just one big eternal happening?

Then you got to think who is experiencing this one big happening?  Can you find where you stops and your environment begins?

If you can find any actual real boundaries between things then you let me know yeah?

After contemplating this, is there still thoughts?  'Course there is!  You needed thought to think about what reality actually is, didn't you?  If you didn't have thought you would not have been able to think about what is unreal, would you?

Reality is non dual, so how can thoughts be separate from reality?  They can't.  So is it really thoughts that stop "you" from "being" "enlightened"?  No, it's ignorance. 

[ajasatya]

i think a healthier way to ask this question would be "are you conscious of your true nature?"

as leo said in a video, "the Truth has always been true", either you're aware of it or not.

i am not fully aware of my true nature yet but i'm very patient. i have a rigid meditation and self inquiry routine and i have gathered a lot of insights just from that. i am starting an ayahuasca journey and i am giving myself 1 year to see if it will provide me absolute infinity. i'm extremely sensible so it's rather wise for me to explore ayahuasca before 5-meo-dmt.

Edited October 2, 2016 by iago iriarte arhatha
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