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InvisibleMoonshoe
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Are you striving for enlightenment? * 4
    #22453077 - 10/30/15 10:48 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

How many people actually see attaining some kind of enlightenment state as a real goal in life?

Do you believe in the possibility of enlightenment (nirvana, awakening, transcendence, ascension, liberation etc)?

Do you work towards it?

What methods do you use to attain it?

I believe it is possible. Because by living well I can change my consciousness from horrible to positive, why shouldn't it be possible to go from positive to enlightened?

A single yoga class makes me feel happy, calm and relaxed. A single session of meditation makes me feel calm and at peace.

So it makes sense to me that taking these disciplines farther, practicing them daily for decades, could indeed lead to a total tipping point, a moment where your consciousness passes a threshold into a new state- awakening.

Lately I am getting into binaural beats as a way to use brainwave entrainment as a powerful short cut to meditative absorption.

Just interested for how many people are like Buddhists or Hindus in being concerned with actually working towards a spiritual "End Goal".



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OfflineOggy
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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: Moonshoe]
    #22453083 - 10/30/15 10:49 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

No, I am not. Fornicating on everything is too much fun.


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OfflineBeanhead
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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: Moonshoe] * 2
    #22453090 - 10/30/15 10:50 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

No, i'm striving to be a functional part of society and finding the few people that make it work somehow.

I read
I write
I reflect upon that
thoughts keep expanding
:mindblown:

I'd like stance training & martial arts though.


Edited by Beanhead (10/30/15 10:51 AM)


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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: Moonshoe]
    #22453101 - 10/30/15 10:53 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

:cheers: to enlightenment ! :smile:


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OfflineSunnyD
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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: Beanhead] * 1
    #22453120 - 10/30/15 10:59 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I feel i have found my purpose and i couldnt be happier with life
And thats to improve myself and the world around  me

Good habits and good vibes, motivation, love and peace of mind
But nothings perfect i have  my flaws via mind and body
I love myself, and i love  life beyond words its truly a beautifuly amazing trip
bad and good
:heart:


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Do you like the part you are playing?
This is the time in life I am living!
And I face each day with a smile :smile:
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InvisibleMalcolm_Xtasy
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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: SunnyD]
    #22453137 - 10/30/15 11:04 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

If by enlightenment you mean thinking for yourself, then yes.


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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
    #22453144 - 10/30/15 11:06 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I think its possible but I doubt my ability to achieve such a state while maintaining a career and having a family. I'm gonna aim to get as close as I can in the circumstances anyway.


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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
    #22453159 - 10/30/15 11:10 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

That is not enlightenment, that is thinking for yourself.

@OP

Yes, I've become enamored with Zen philosophy and the way of the samurai. The martial arts are becoming a part of me and death is beginning to make sense. The profoundest mushroom experience has slowly begun to become integrated to what I am and what is occurring in this life.

I do not understand enlightenment as the Buddhists perceive it. I find the acceptance and stillness, lacking. If it is what they seek, that is.


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InvisibleMalcolm_Xtasy
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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: MoxyOx]
    #22453169 - 10/30/15 11:13 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Okay please explain to me what enlightenment is. I found your post to be full of hippie nonsense.


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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy] * 1
    #22453173 - 10/30/15 11:16 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

No. I owe you nothing. Pick up a book and read Malcolm.


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No one behind, no one ahead.
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And the other path, everyone's path,
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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: MoxyOx]
    #22453175 - 10/30/15 11:17 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

What book would you recommend?


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OfflineMoxyOx
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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
    #22453182 - 10/30/15 11:19 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Depends on what you seek. What do you seek?


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The path the ancients cleared has closed.
And the other path, everyone's path,
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InvisibleMalcolm_Xtasy
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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: MoxyOx] * 2
    #22453188 - 10/30/15 11:20 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

An explanation of what you define enlightenment to be


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I'm a loser, Enlil is a winner.
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OfflineMoxyOx
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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy] * 1
    #22453200 - 10/30/15 11:24 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I know what enlightenment is not; but as to what it is, I am still learning. It is an internal search, a journey through the self.

Thinking for yourself is an efficient tool, but it is not enlightenment.


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No one behind, no one ahead.
The path the ancients cleared has closed.
And the other path, everyone's path,
easy and wide, goes nowhere.
I am alone and find my way.


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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: Moonshoe]
    #22453205 - 10/30/15 11:25 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Im already enlightened :sun:

I'm like superman except krypton doesn't destroy me


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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: MoxyOx] * 3
    #22453214 - 10/30/15 11:27 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I've truly always been curious, how do you know you're enlightened if one becomes enlightened? Do you just say I'm enlightened and know you are? Or you don't know but other people claim you are?

The reason I ask is because both ways seem to only be the perspective of someone, who like any other human, could be wrong....I wouldn't say enlightenment is impossible, but I don't believe any human has ever been IMO

And how is anyone to know what enlightenment actually is if we don't know anyone who is and it's an internal search making "enlightenment" a subjective and possibly different thing for everyone



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InvisibleMalcolm_Xtasy
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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: SirShroomsAlott] * 3
    #22453226 - 10/30/15 11:32 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

^^^^ That's what I'm saying! Somehow my definition was shot down meaning that they obviously think there's some objective explanation. He goes on to call me uneducated and to pick up a book and then says its basically all subjective and an internal journey through oneself..


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I'm ugly, Enlil is beautiful.
I'm a loser, Enlil is a winner.
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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: MoxyOx] * 1
    #22453232 - 10/30/15 11:33 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Achieved enlightment with my super drug use power .Normal people don't know shit

:smugjerry:


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OfflineMoxyOx
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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: SirShroomsAlott]
    #22453242 - 10/30/15 11:35 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Exactly. Monks spend their entire lives devoted to its attainment. I would not claim to be even anywhere close to their position considering I've put in a fraction of time to the pursuit(or lack thereof?), but I've sought it out and not found it. I know where it is not, and what it is not.

Or maybe, I do not know what I speak of. We are all alone in our minds, you do not need my voice dictating thoughts in your head.

Neither does the voice fighting back inside your mind know either.

Ask yourself, whose voice is speaking in your mind? Is it your own? Someone else's? An integration of both?

By finding what something is not, you figure out what it is by form.


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No one behind, no one ahead.
The path the ancients cleared has closed.
And the other path, everyone's path,
easy and wide, goes nowhere.
I am alone and find my way.


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Re: Are you striving for enlightenment? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
    #22453244 - 10/30/15 11:36 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

You are hurt that I questioned you. That is fine. You take what you need from this.


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And the other path, everyone's path,
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