Mirror

[Mercy]

What would happen if we mediated in front of a mirror for about a year or so would that get us into enlightenment quicker? Just a thought

[Jared Gregory]

Hello @Mercy to be honest i have never meditated in front of a mirror. This is very interesting to say the least, my take on this topic is this. Living in the present moment each day and doing your routine which involves meditating and asking yourself am i present now? is a good start.  I  think meditating in front of a mirror would make you more present and aware after each time you do it. Just my opinion

[LaucherJunge]

2 hours ago, Mercy said:

What would happen if we mediated in front of a mirror for about a year or so would that get us into enlightenment quicker? Just a thought

 

[Emerald]

I have occasionally experienced brief bouts of depersonalization while looking in the mirror. Like "Holy crap... is that really me... this is who I'll be for the rest of my life... and this is what I happen to look like... and my name is Emerald... weird... and I'll never be someone else?" It's a very interesting phenomenon. 

[sgn]

1 hour ago, Emerald Wilkins said:

I have occasionally experienced brief bouts of depersonalization while looking in the mirror. Like "Holy crap... is that really me... this is who I'll be for the rest of my life... and this is what I happen to look like... and my name is Emerald... weird... and I'll never be someone else?" It's a very interesting phenomenon. 

Lol. This happened to me 2 weeks ago when I just stood and stared in the mirror for a while.  A bit scary. Haven't succeeded to induce it again.
Another thing that happened maybe a week ago was that I sat at my computer reading and suddenly I'm just gone for a moment. Felt like noone was here looking. Made a thread about this. Maybe you saw.

[Xpansion]

13 hours ago, Mercy said:

What would happen if we mediated in front of a mirror for about a year or so would that get us into enlightenment quicker? Just a thought

"Enlightenment is not something to be achieved, it is just to be lived. When I say that I achieved enlightenment, I simply mean that I decided to live it......Consciousness coming back to the original source is what I call enlightenment. This blissfulness happens here and now." Osho

My suggestion is stop looking for shortcuts and quick fixes. You're wasting your time and energy focusing on some abstract future idea which you see as better than where you are. Be here now. It's all there is. Nirvana is not in the future. Not a place you are going to get to or something to achieve.   Start asking yourself why you think that so called "enlightenment"  is better than where you are now.

Our consumer society have conditioned you to believe that there is a quick solution for everything.  There isn't. They do this because it makes money. There is no quick way to get abs, shiny hair, white teeth, skinny. No pill that will make you permanently happy. No enlightenment to achieve, attain or accomplish.  Just be present and you will see that you are already that which you seek. 

For further information on this subject -

What is enlightenment

Points to consider -

...within Buddhism a teacher who assertively advertises himself as enlightened -- especially "fully enlightened" -- is to be regarded with great suspicion....

...try not to be impressed by self-proclaimed enlightened masters who perform miracles as proof. Even assuming the guy can walk on water and conjure rabbits out of hats, a great many Buddhist scriptures warn that practicing to develop magic powers is not the same thing as enlightenment. There are many stories in many sutras about monks who practiced to develop supernatural powers who then came to a bad end...

...Claims that an allegedly enlightened being has undergone some sort of bodily transformation ought to be regarded with several large grains of salt. Several years ago an American teacher in a Tibetan lineage tested positive for the AIDS virus but remained sexually active, thinking that his enlightened body would transform the virus into something harmless. Well, he died of AIDS, but not before infecting other people. Apparently he never explored the question who is the being that is enlightened deeply enough....

...The Diamond Sutra in particular is full of admonishments about claims of and attachments to individual enlightenment, attributes or merits...

...Enlightenment is the essential nature of all beings; "individual enlightenment" is an oxymoron....

...An enlightened being may be free of sickness, old age and death, but the physical body even of the Buddha succumbed to these things...

...Spiritual seekers often think of enlightenment as something we might obtain that will make our present self into something better...

 

 

Edited October 20, 2016 by Xpansion

[pluto]

There is no quicker path to Enlightenment, Enlightenment is the path.

Divine flow is ever-playing.

[Mercy]

@ Everyone that commented: i'm just saying this cause i mean like we arent the mind or body or anything for that matter so i just think observing ourselves (thoughts) and observering ourself through the mirror could be something interesting cause im mean like you observing yourself observering yourself