You Have To Inquire Into Your Own Unconsciousness.

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Enlightenment sounds sexy to most that are interested in it. 

There's a lot of talk about omniscient beings like the Buddha & jesus and the rest. Or to put it another way there is a mystical concept around enlightenment  and naturally this is extremely appealing.  and I like it I don't think there's anything wrong with it but it gives the mind a lot to think about and for newbies this can be a trap. because we get caught up in an ideal or idea of Enlightenment and that takes you into more unconsciousness.

it's no great achievement yet many are pedestalized because of its rarity throughout history. but let's not forget it is no achievement it's simply what's true for you in your life in every moment. what exactly is your mind doing in every moment because you think continuously all the time everybody does so to enquire into that and to understand that, not by someone telling you what the mind does but rather seeing it for yourself. you just get whats True. That's it so in order for you to do that you must enquire into your experience contemplate the structures of your thought patterns and how they pull you into unconsciousness because you may have one or two enlightenment experiences but to be fully conscious as a being in other words for the awareness to live through you as a self rather than the egoic structure is a different case. in my own experience I've had several experiences and each time its deeper and you'll see that there was unconsciousness that was SO subtle that you had no idea about. I'll give you a few insights to look for but you're going to have to do the work for yourself.

first of all everything you Encounter is then interpreted by the self you have an individual perspective with your own individual worldview your own belief systems. everything is interpreted by the self. for example if as a self you are very insecure about your nose then in your experience awareness may be focused on people's noses more yet in someone else's experience it may be a different insecurity that they suffer from that is fixated on. your entire history of your life all of your experience is being brought into every single moment is being brought into the now. and if you are not aware of these interpretations of this relative perspective that you experience and have an understanding of it then you will stay unconscious. another thing is the body is continuously under tension this is something that I've noticed in my own experience that sometimes there will be unconscious frowning or an unconscious tensing in the buttocks and the more tension one has the more self centred restricted Me will be experienced so eventually you can be so loose and relaxed that there is no sense of body anymore just "being" of your experience. another thing is when you do have an enlightenment experience there may still be unconsciousness that will grab you back into egoic consciousness that only comes from the belief that the enlightenment has happened to somebody that you went to this mystical high place and then you want to tell everyone about it but in fact there's no-one for it to have happened to. It is you! so this is another trap that I fell into. 

I could go on for hours!

I could also regurgitate every master or guru that I've heard but it won't do no good the reason for this post is too bring your focus back into your intimate experience because that's where things will happen for you. but if you constantly have your head in some book or watching a video or whatever. you will only stay as you are you need to do deep enquiry for example I have done nothing but enquire every single day for the past six months. in fact this enquiry happens by itself I can't stop it even if I wanted to it grabbed hold me a long time ago, it might be the same in your case.

it's up to you what you do but it's going to take your own intuition your own authority your own questioning your own realisations not all of your answers are going to come from the outside so to speak. 

some people can meditate for 20 years and still not know what's going on you need to enquire and contemplate so much you need to be so attentive so aware.

good luck.

Find your own wisdom

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@Callum A Very good post! I would like to add that we have to fully accept the ego before it can be dissolved. The misconception people have today is that they can try to remove the ego prematurely. Then they get into trouble because they choose activities that don't serve them. I might make a post in the future about some of the misconceptions I see. 

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@Deep Thanks

And you should write a post about that it will help some out there who may be confused or haven't considered certain things yet.