After Enlightenment, Chop Wood Or Change The World?

[Juan Cruz Giusto]

I know that from the egoic perspective after enlightenment you will probably lose all motivation, I fall into this trap too quite often.. But look at Sadhguru and what he accomplished in just 1 year.. It is a real role model! 

 

Edited December 29, 2016 by Juan Cruz Giusto

[Tancrede Pouyat]

Actually, it would appear that the most enlightened masters are much more motivated than you and I. They're very powerful creative forces of nature, really. It's quite remarkable.

Also, changing the world doesn't have to be an egoic thing. If you recall Martin Ball's interview, he talked about how he gets into flow and "be in creation," where he's not doing, he's being.

[Bob84]

14 hours ago, Juan Cruz Giusto said:

I know that from the egoic perspective after enlightenment you will probably lose all motivation, I fall into this trap too quite often.. But look at Sadhguru and what he accomplished in just 1 year.. It is a real role model!

Losing all motivation is a other ego trap. People that go sit in a cave and meditate all day long and call themselves enlightened are often far from it. Ones you reach enlightenment you will have no motivation problems, you just have in a sense more control over them.

[LetTheNewDayBegin]

An enlightened person doesn't need any motivation to do great things! The video is an example of that, isn't it?

An enlightened person is rooted in presence and has no desire to change the world, chop the wood or to meditate!

Those who sit and do nothing are clearly the ones who got attached to sitting and doing nothing.

After enlightenment one notices that it's not the ego that was the problem. It was the identification with the ego that was the problem.

[Aware]

@Tancrede Pouyat @LetTheNewDayBegin

22 minutes ago, LetTheNewDayBegin said:

An enlightened person doesn't need any motivation to do great things!

I think Tancrede made a decent point on this. Its a pure motivation, a direct knowledge and expression "The adult child."

The difference is, this being is self-motivated by the result of continuously acting upon his understanding about the world that is in accordance with laws of nature (things are always unfolding, don't worry, it will go), and does not need an environment that always needs to keep give conscious impulses to let him do his duty or to live up to his full potential like many others do need in many aspects in their lives.

Edited December 30, 2016 by Aware

[Aware]

@Wormon Blatburm

16 hours ago, Wormon Blatburm said:

The ego is not going, unless you want to physically kill yourself or become one of those "enlightened" folk who do nothing but sit on their arse all day and are about as active as trees and plants

Funny how many asked me here why I am on this forum doing what I do, they wanted to put me in a pot it seems, so that people can see me as they walk by like they would when passing a tree near a road.

[AlwaysBeNice]

Ah that was really nice