|
deff
just love everyone
Registered: 05/01/04
Posts: 9,425
Loc: clarity
Last seen: 31 minutes, 30 seconds
|
we are all enlightened
#3775378 - 02/13/05 06:18 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
now let's stop deceiving ourself, ok?
--------------------
|
Droz
Love of Life
Registered: 10/15/00
Posts: 2,746
Loc: Floorida
Last seen: 8 years, 7 months
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: deff]
#3775476 - 02/13/05 06:40 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
will do, Deff.
-------------------- Evolution of Time.
|
MAGnum
veteran
Registered: 07/08/04
Posts: 2,421
Last seen: 12 years, 3 months
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: Droz]
#3775573 - 02/13/05 07:05 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Agreed!
-------------------- Agent 727 7
|
deff
just love everyone
Registered: 05/01/04
Posts: 9,425
Loc: clarity
Last seen: 31 minutes, 30 seconds
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: MAGnum]
#3775587 - 02/13/05 07:09 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
splendid!
--------------------
|
CaptainJailew
Apathetic and Idon't care
Registered: 11/10/04
Posts: 398
Loc: Central Texas
Last seen: 18 years, 10 months
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: deff]
#3775807 - 02/13/05 08:13 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I knew it!
-------------------- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein
|
Sclorch
Clyster
Registered: 07/12/99
Posts: 4,805
Loc: On the Brink of Madness
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: deff]
#3775880 - 02/13/05 08:31 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
deff said: we are all enlightened
Don't include me in such generalizations.
-------------------- Note: In desperate need of a cure...
|
Swami
Eggshell Walker
Registered: 01/18/00
Posts: 15,413
Loc: In the hen house
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: deff]
#3775981 - 02/13/05 08:49 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Some of us are more enlightened than others. *beams*.
-------------------- The proof is in the pudding.
|
deff
just love everyone
Registered: 05/01/04
Posts: 9,425
Loc: clarity
Last seen: 31 minutes, 30 seconds
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: Swami]
#3777560 - 02/14/05 06:45 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
yes swami, your noodle artwork this week was well above the level of the other students
--------------------
|
Ego Death
Justadropofwaterinanendlesssea
Registered: 04/27/03
Posts: 10,447
Loc: The War Machine
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: deff]
#3777646 - 02/14/05 07:41 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Yeah dude!
Looking at it from a less mystical point of view:
I mean when we are children we are like a self-programming computer, ready to program our minds.
We make negative and positive associations (over-simplification).
I think as we get older we become less motivated/able to re-program our old bug ridden routines (anxiety, paranoia, errors in perception are all just faulty programs/code routines).
The deciet: We become stubborn and believe we cannot alter ourselves, so we look to doctors, hypnotists and other physical methods for changing the within. Maybe its because we think its easier that way thus more efficiant. But o'course us enlightened peeps know that mind power is more efficient?
Edited by danoEoboy (02/14/05 07:50 AM)
|
deff
just love everyone
Registered: 05/01/04
Posts: 9,425
Loc: clarity
Last seen: 31 minutes, 30 seconds
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: Ego Death]
#3777741 - 02/14/05 08:20 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
exactly!
we are born enlightened and it is doubt and conditioning that steers our awareness away from it
which is why, the sooner one starts deconditioning (meditation is especially good for this), the easier it is
us saying that enlightenment is impossible will make it an impossibility for us
and anyways, enlightenment is the full knowledge of oneself. it has no prerequisites, no course guidelines, no rules of conduct, and no expectations. no one can convince you that you are or are not 'enlightened' (the word sucks due to how much we've made of it)
there should be no doubt and no shame, just content existence
(and everything lies within)
--------------------
|
Seuss
Error: divide byzero
Registered: 04/27/01
Posts: 23,480
Loc: Caribbean
Last seen: 1 month, 18 days
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: deff]
#3778352 - 02/14/05 11:09 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
> we are born enlightened
Then why does a newborn cry when hungry?
-------------------- Just another spore in the wind.
|
niteowl
GrandPaw
Registered: 07/01/03
Posts: 16,291
Loc:
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: Seuss]
#3778399 - 02/14/05 11:27 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Seuss said: > we are born enlightened
Then why does a newborn cry when hungry?
Duh!
To get his mothers attention to the fact that he is hungry.
|
niteowl
GrandPaw
Registered: 07/01/03
Posts: 16,291
Loc:
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: deff]
#3778405 - 02/14/05 11:29 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
deff said:... we are born enlightened and it is doubt and conditioning that steers our awareness away from it
which is why, the sooner one starts deconditioning (meditation is especially good for this), the easier it is
us saying that enlightenment is impossible will make it an impossibility for us
and anyways, enlightenment is the full knowledge of oneself. it has no prerequisites, no course guidelines, no rules of conduct, and no expectations. no one can convince you that you are or are not 'enlightened' (the word sucks due to how much we've made of it)
there should be no doubt and no shame, just content existence
(and everything lies within)
Well said
|
MAIA
World-BridgerKartikeya (DftS)
Registered: 04/27/01
Posts: 7,396
Loc: Erra - 20 Tauri - M45 Sta...
Last seen: 2 months, 16 days
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: deff]
#3778460 - 02/14/05 11:41 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Where's the enlightenment in something that chooses to grow unenlightened ? Enlightenment is an objective in some paths of life, not something you born with. Is our existence a circular path or a spiral path ?
MAIA
-------------------- Spiritual being, living a human experience ... The Shroomery Mandala Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Voltaire
|
deff
just love everyone
Registered: 05/01/04
Posts: 9,425
Loc: clarity
Last seen: 31 minutes, 30 seconds
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: MAIA]
#3778656 - 02/14/05 01:54 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Then why does a newborn cry when hungry?
I do not see how this signifies a state on unenlightenment at all really. We, as "adults", associate crying with suffering, but how many of us can say that we remember the reason we cried as newborns?
If it's to get their parents attention to feed them, then this is a necessary life-sustaining action, as their physical bodies are not at the point of providing food for themselves.
But fine, I withdraw that remark, as honestly I cannot speak for newborns either . However, I will say that I believe they experience a mindstate free of initial attachments and forms, although these things are conditioned very early on. Look at feral children, they are enlightened (but don't 'know' it)
It's almost like the more we are deceived by illusion, the stronger our wisdom of self and reality will become when we reach 'enlightenment' (ugh this term sucks )
--------------------
|
redgreenvines
irregular verb
Registered: 04/08/04
Posts: 38,061
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: deff]
#3778667 - 02/14/05 01:59 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I adore noodle art and I think the noodles adore me too
-------------------- _ 🧠_
|
deff
just love everyone
Registered: 05/01/04
Posts: 9,425
Loc: clarity
Last seen: 31 minutes, 30 seconds
|
|
*snap snap*
--------------------
|
Sinbad
Living TheMoment
Registered: 12/23/04
Posts: 2,571
Loc: Under The Bodhi Tree
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: deff]
#3778719 - 02/14/05 02:14 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
deff said: now let's stop deceiving ourself, ok?
I wish it was that simple. Self deception is extremely subtle yet evidently gross. In essence there are many methods, but lets not decieve oursleves into thinking we are all enlightened, although ultimately we are, relativly we are most certainly not.
--------------------
|
redgreenvines
irregular verb
Registered: 04/08/04
Posts: 38,061
|
Re: we are all enlightened [Re: Sinbad]
#3778741 - 02/14/05 02:18 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
hence that respectful disgust or compassion for sangsara is everywhere
-------------------- _ 🧠_
|
deff
just love everyone
Registered: 05/01/04
Posts: 9,425
Loc: clarity
Last seen: 31 minutes, 30 seconds
|
|
ugh.
i repeat, we are all enlightened, no need to fool ourselF
--------------------
|
|