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eNtRopY
And of course I'm referring to a Buddhist enlightenment.
Please share.
eNtRopY
Please share.
eNtRopY
Originally posted by radagast The experience included an extremely profound feeling of peace, a total cessation of mind chatter, a degree of clarity not even close to experienced prior or since, an extreme feeling of both contentment and painfully strong feeling of calm centeredness, and the strong intuitive understanding that all the divisions we tend to think of as real (me vs you, me vs the floor, etc.), which tend to separate us, were artificial. There was an intense intimacy of experience - hard to describe, but it was as if all experience prior and since was from behind a thick pane of glass and at a distance, and that experience was without any separation from the senses. There was no sense of 'me' present. I had been in a distinct amount of physical discomfort. Though the pain was still there, it just didn't matter any more. As if it were of no more concern than the color of the walls. It was probably the only time in my life I've lived completely in the moment, with no worries or concerns from the past or fears, anticipations about the future having any emotional effect on the present.
Yea, I think I used to do that type of meditation back in my late teens and twenties.Originally posted by megashawn
Man, you guys try to hard. All you need is a 2 liter, a 3 liter, and, uhh, well, email me for details.
But I mean if your expecting something magical to happen when you sit in a dark, quiet room with your eyes closed and almost in a dream state, and it does, whoopy doo. How are you so certain it is a connection to some supreme master and not just a more solid connection to your deeper mind? Are you sure its a real expieriance, or merely a half awake, half asleep expieriance?
Originally posted by Andy
Dont Drink and Drive, Smoke and FLY!
(SLOW DOWN!)
Originally posted by Andy
Who said anything about speeding, this is another thread where you have taken a comment far too seriously, And just where do you derive that from? I merely mentioned to "slow down" because of the related experience that I have, posted above, the WINTER driving experiance, that has shown me, (Very clearly I might add) that most people get into trouble driving in the winter BECAUSE THEY DO NOT SLOW DOWN! and what was wrong with that comment anyway? "dont drink and drive (fine so far) smoke and fly!" what's wrong with smoking a bit of weed to get yourself high, obviously don't smoke and drive either. No, because it is similar in nature to drinking and driving, adulteration of the senses, differently, but none the less adulteration. responce time is important in driving. As for the obviousness of anything about me, well, you don't know, and time is an important factor in life, sooooo...
Originally posted by Andy
If youve got no money, how comes you can still drive, surely if you had no money then you wouldn't be able to afford the petrol (gas)?
Originally posted by Andy
I'm Enlightened! you must be a bit rusty though if you haven't driven for 4 years, especially being as old as you are.
Originally posted by Me, Mr. Robin Parsons
But I still drove for a living, after that, company vehicules, trucks, heavy equipment, etc.
Originally posted by pace
I won't say I've felt any particularly religious enlightment.
But I do think I sometime feel enlightment about certain things, and I think it's one of the best feelings, cause it both touches my rationale and my affects. Thus my whole body.
Originally posted by Mr. Robin Parsons
That seems, to me, to be a fairly apt description of what occurs sometimes, othertimes, (I have found) it is (sorta) the "absence of feeling" that acknowledges that moment of enlightenment, the silence enlightens, but that one is usually only recognized afterwards, and is sort of different in it's effects/affects.
Originally posted by eNtRopY
Somehow I refuse to believe that 44 year old "men" who dedicate their entire day to peddling 30 km from their illegally camped tent to the computer room at the Kingston Public Library for the sole purpose of arguing on internet message boards with 17 year old boys are capable of achieving a true Buddhist enlightenment.
eNtRopY
EDIT aside from all of that, what do you know about what I do with the rest of my day? I'll tell you, NOTHING, hence, you judge in ignorance, that tells of you, and your judgmental abilities/inabilities. Why don't you try something constructive for a change, like trying to learn to control your own mouth!
Originally posted by Mr. Robin Parsons
"Atypical" is simply your judgment radagast, so it isn't what you expect, welcome to the Real world, try training yourself to be silent, "Non-talkative", in North American Society. Just this morning, someone calling me "antisocial", behind my back, because I walked by them, in silence. What is 'typical', or 'atypical', about that?
Find the Ego(tist), in what I write, not as simple as you would think, cause I can reasonably assure you that you will find your own, first!
Originally posted by radagast
(SNIP) I have observed quite a bit of what you've written. Though you wouldn't be, what I would consider, egotistical, your ego shines thru just fine. As, I'm certain, does mine. This is what is lacking in the 'more' enlightened folk I've been associated with. (SNoP)
Originally posted by Mr. Robin Parsons
Examples please... as one of the things that is (has been) very clear, in my life, is just how many people cannot tell/recognize the truth about the Ego's of 'others', inasmuch as the "takes one to know one" rule requires that, for you to recognize one who operates mostly absent of egotistical drive, you must be able to subdue your own ego to "at least" that degree...most cannot see 'that' which is 'that' which they cannot reach.
The easiest examples of Ego come from persons/peoples judgments, how well they are based in something, balanced against admittence to their own (self recognized) ignorance.
4) apparently you seem to think that the ony thing I do is exchange with andy, (17 year old Boy) what an un-enlightened cursive thing you are!