blueemu wrote:
One does not search for enlightenment.
One waits for it.
So meditation is basically just waiting then?
Makes sense.🤭
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Read, study and ponder more, and make fixed conclusions, talk and write less. This idea that you have (and any other fixed one) is just a blind end of one of the many possible mind paths for you to walk on, in a path tree of thought. Many people who explore these trees tend to make a fixed conclusion on the path they are on at the moment, thus ending their journey altogether, thinking "I get it". No, you don't. The answer is that there is no final conclusion to anything. Everything is connected and is ever changing, morphing, and can change more rapidly at any given moment for any reason, or just change at such a slow rate that it is not noticeable. Making a fixed conclusion while path walking is thus wrong, you should just remain like an open book as long as you can, keep studying more stuff that is available in this world and fight off the urge to put things into finite boxes. There is so many things to study. We tend to make finite conclusions when we want to make our surroundings more simple to handle. We want to put things into some labeled drawers in our heads, to make them easy to handle in our lives where we need to keep ourselves organized to survive. We say this thing is "good", and that thing is "bad". Done, that was easy, moving on. This person is 4/10, and that one is 7/10. Piece of cake. But enlightenment knows no drawers, no boundaries. Thats why it is hard to explore all the possibilities when the time we have in this shape is finite, and you need to keep yourself organized to survive. You need the drawers to survive, but drawers are the blocking boundaries of enlightenment. There are some people even on this forums, who got stuck on their paths, made a finite conclusion and never recovered from it. That is very dangerous and makes a person appear insane. Never get stuck on one path, never make a finite conclusion, never be proud or think that you are smart, that you know what someone does not. Its a trap.
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May 26, 2020
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Hey! I've inherited a thread!
The OP must have deleted his initial post.
What should I do with it?
Discuss.
May 26, 2020
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jk_2017 wrote:
Read, study and ponder more, and make fixed conclusions, talk and write less. This idea that you have (and any other fixed one) is just a blind end of one of the many possible mind paths for you to walk on, in a path tree of thought. Many people who explore these trees tend to make a fixed conclusion on the path they are on at the moment, thus ending their journey altogether, thinking "I get it". No, you don't. The answer is that there is no final conclusion to anything. Everything is connected and is ever changing, morphing, and can change more rapidly at any given moment for any reason, or just change at such a slow rate that it is not noticeable. Making a fixed conclusion while path walking is thus wrong, you should just remain like an open book as long as you can, keep studying more stuff that is available in this world and fight off the urge to put things into finite boxes. There is so many things to study. We tend to make finite conclusions when we want to make our surroundings more simple to handle. We want to put things into some labeled drawers in our heads, to make them easy to handle in our lives where we need to keep ourselves organized to survive. We say this thing is "good", and that thing is "bad". Done, that was easy, moving on. This person is 4/10, and that one is 7/10. Piece of cake. But enlightenment knows no drawers, no boundaries. Thats why it is hard to explore all the possibilities when the time we have in this shape is finite, and you need to keep yourself organized to survive. You need the drawers to survive, but drawers are the blocking boundaries of enlightenment. There are some people even on this forums, who got stuck on their paths, made a finite conclusion and never recovered from it. That is very dangerous and makes a person appear insane. Never get stuck on one path, never make a finite conclusion, never be proud or think that you are smart, that you know what someone does not. Its a trap.
Yes, open up your mind to anything and everything.
don't be fooled into thinking you will not die. "you surely will not die" - Hmmmm, where have we heard that before?
Do not be fooled that gravity exists - jump out of a 30 story building and don't be constrained by such thinking. Don't be fooled that fire will burn you. Take a nap in a fire - become one with it and don't be constrained by what others think. Submerge yourself underwater for 2 hours - don't be constrained by the false belief you will drown - that is just an outdated, archaic idea from one of those closed minded, racsist, prejudice, ------phobic (fill in the blank), idealists out there that want to shut you down.
Be free. Be free. Be free my child.
One does not search for enlightenment.
One waits for it.