deep_thinker said:

Everything you are, and you experience now, is all there ever is.

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deep_thinker said:

Everything you are, and you experience now, is all there ever is.

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This is a good beautiful lesson for us. Saving us from that 500 days of sitting meditations . One can still meditate with fully open eyes and walking to the here and Now and i find fasting still of beneficial for us aswell for others.

deep_thinker said:

I want to pre-text my post by saying I never never done psychedelics and I don't have any mental illness in my family. I have done almost 12,000 hours of comitted meditation, and slowly given up all of my human weaknesses. I have completed 40 day fasts, gone without sex for 3 years, etc...all in the search for "enlightenement". I has dawned that I am probably "enlightened" by now. It is grim.

Which leads me on to...true enlightenment is simply the realization that life is suffering itself.

I feel envious for the 2010 me. The 2010 was ignorant AF. The 2010 me lived in the moment, from one peak to the next, with no troughs. The 2010 me feels like how EVERYONE describes their life. The 2010 didn't give a shit about spirituality. That was for losers. The 2010 me got buried and replaced, over 9 years.

When you give everything up, you are left with TRUTH.

Truth is...suffering. That's alll there is. Suffering until death. But you realize that suicide is not an end to suffering, therefore making suicide pointless. I have no proof that suicide is pointless just pure intuition. At this level intuition is all there is.

I am aware this whole post sounds ludicrious, just as any post about enlightenment does, yet I feel I am supposed to sacrifice my "reputation" just to make it, because truth hurts. It hurts peoples fragile egos. And I have a message: stop searching for enlightenment. it is disappointment.

They say when unenlightened - chop wood carry water.

When enlightened - chop wood, carry water.

But its more like when not having seen truth - chop wood, carry water, with the hope there is more to it.

When enlightened, it's chop wood- carry water, with tho knowledge that life will only ever consist of chopping wood and carrying water.

That's it. There's no bucket of gold waiting for you at the end. Everything you are, and you experience now, is all there ever is.

It's pathetic, tbh.

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I have good news for you: You're not.

You're not enlightened.


Enlightenment is the lifting of your earthly burdens as you have tasted Divinity and have looked Divinity into the eyes.

Everything you write is testament to that you have not achieved this.

On the contrary, rather that lifted, your earthly burden is increased by your corrent state as opposed to your pre-meditation state.

So, rejoice!

You took a wrong turn and accepted a nihilist dystopia as the Highest Truth.

Shake it off.

Make yourself empty of that notion too.

That, too, shall fade.


The proof of the pudding is in that the pudding is distasteful.


Don't worry, you took a wrong turn but are likely near. This may be one of the last valleys before the moonshot so make the most of it.

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true enlightenment is simply the realization that life is suffering itself suffering (and life) is illusory.

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There is a reason why the concept of Enlightenment/Realization/Christ Consciousness etc has survived for thousands of years. I doubt very much it’s because it makes people consider suicide, unless that “suicide” is Mahasamadhi

“The essential proof of Self-realization—of God's consciousness in you—is to be truly and unconditionally happy. If you are receiving more and more joy in meditation, without cessation, you may know that God is making manifest His presence in you.” - Paramahansa Yogananda

It does sounds like you are going through a dark night of the soul period. I’ve been there too, and it can seem very bleak, but fear not, like all material things, it too is impermanent and will pass. Without the darkness we would not recognise the light.

You got this. Keep going. Something wonderful is waiting for you

filmoee said:

True suffering would be if time froze....

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timespace is infinitum, time-space being relative is just an illusion of the mind.

Asante said:

On the contrary, rather that lifted, your earthly burden is increased by your corrent state as opposed to your pre-meditation state.

So, rejoice!

You took a wrong turn and accepted a nihilist dystopia as the Highest Truth.

Shake it off.

Make yourself empty of that notion too.

That, too, shall fade.

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PocketLady said:

It does sounds like you are going through a dark night of the soul period. I’ve been there too, and it can seem very bleak, but fear not, like all material things, it too is impermanent and will pass. Without the darkness we would not recognise the light.

You got this. Keep going. Something wonderful is waiting for you

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This will be my reference aswell as i consider myself not fully there yet.
& I find this words Enlightening. That Once nihilist dystopia outlook is overcomed Later comes the bloom where God's conciousness will start to flow. Thereby experiencing cumulative joy in meditation as the light conquers the dark. Consumed by the light comes the meditation state of walking the here & now with open eyes full of joy.

pacmanbreed said:

One can still constantly meditate with fully open eyes while walking to the here and Now

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deep_thinker said:

Which leads me on to...true enlightenment is simply the realization that life is suffering itself.

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