Most based guy around

All know the way; few actually walk it

Freeing oneself from words is liberation

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Based thread, its refreshing to see something good in here between all the trap and fembot garbage

When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you can head off your foes with a balanced attack.

Epic post my good friend, have an upboat

Good stuff. Mostly true stuff. But useless as advice. People who are enlightened will recognize the truth in his words. People who live in ignorance will see a fancy quote and remain ignorant.

Unfortunately you are right. Hence Though i think everyone has the capacity to become enlightened, its just that only a few will actually become enlightened

Monks frown upon thinking of themselves as enlightened

Yet all monks acknowledge that they are on a path towards enlightenment. All monk orders that I know of have an established hierarchy where the "more enlightened" monks teach the novice monks. No one questions that the Dalai Lama is enlightened - except perhaps the Dalai Lama himself, for the purpose of consciental hygiene.

It is as you say. Everyone has the capacity to become enlightened. Few have the will. And there are some who have the will, but who fail to find a Teaching that brings them to enlightenment within their lifetime.
There is also the matter of commitment. Awakening cannot merely be a number on your bucket list of things to check off before you die. It has to be on top of the list, forever.

He has a point though. Thinking of yourself as anything, let alone a title as grandiose as enlightened, is feeding the ego. Dont think of yourself at all, just study reality.

Yet at one point a monk who decides to teach meditation has to recognize that he has the sufficient experience and understanding of the development of consciousness needed to teach others.
The way this is done in my order (the ishaya monks) is that the Maharishi (the head teacher) declares that your experience of Pure Consciousness is stable enough to teach. This avoids the whole ego problem. The Marahishi speaks what he observes: an enlightened novice. The novice accepts his Master's acknowledgement without any thinking required. Of course, attachment to grandiouse feelings is a trap, but an enlightened being is (by definition) aware of such traps.

But as you say, its not the student deciding when or when not he is enlightened. Its the master. So dont think about yourself, You are irrelevant. Dont go around trying to compare yourself to others or trying to judge other people on how enlightened they are. Study reality, and the rest will come on its own.

Of course, I agree with you.
I do not see how this changes my initial post:
As far as practical advices go, I think this one is my favorite:
Yet it is still easy for someone in the ignorant state to find a quote of wisdom and fail to understand its meaning - especially when its application remains unspecified.
This is how religions are made. People eavesdrop on enlightened people and, without an enlightened experience themselves, adopt the words as concepts to believe in, failing spectacularly to apply its wisdom when practicing their lives.

>a monk using 4chins
I've seen it all now

Can you explain to me please? What I understand is to not try to understand the world within the confines of your mind but instead go and put yourself out there and experience reality. I'm probably wrong.

t. brainlet

i unironically permanently transcended the ego/mind years ago. I should be living in infinite peace and bliss right now but I have an issue so im not. once I fix this issue, I will be fully enlightened and living in the fifth dimension

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Robots are prime monk material, you know. It's actually surprising there are not more of us. I suppose the doorstep treshold to leave the basemenet is just an inch too high.
Reality exists only as it is, right Now. The past does not exist, neither does the future.
The present moment can only be accessed by human consciousness through directly experiencing it.
Thoughts are restricted to the past or the imagined future. Even commentary thoughts on what you are presently experiencing, are about a past moment. An analogy would be watching a sport's game with live commentary. The commentators can only comment on a play after the play has been made, observed and experienced. Your thoughts about your present experience are about the moment that just passed. By the time you are aware of the commantery thought, you are experiencing a new moment. Therefore it is impossible to access Reality = the present moment, relying on your thoughts. Said another way, your thoughts are useless for accessing Reality. To reconize Reality, one must transcend the mind. The being who understands Reality, by doing so, immediately recognizes the limitations of the mind.

If you permanently transcended the mind, you would acknowledge no issue. If what you say is true, then you are standing on the treshold of enlightenment, holding onto beliefs that prevent you from experiencing it.
Yet I doubt that this is true. If you remember your true nature, the notion that ANYTHING could prevent you from being That would appear utterly absurd to you. The only problem here is that you have forgotten that you are already free.

>Reality exists only as it is, right Now. The past does not exist, neither does the future
>Thinking reality and time are exactly the same thing.
Ah, you understand nothing after all. Shame.

so am i supposed to be taking you mega seriously because you talk in cute little riddles and all lofty and shit? kill yourself, massive faggot. spirituality is so fucking gnarly, but faggots like you ruin it with your overbearing pretentiousness. memorizing quotes and concepts from tinybuddha.com and speaking like a stereotypical guru doesnt make you enlightened, faggot. you can intellectually learn all the shit you want and spew it everywhere like a puking dog, but you will always be an unenlightened dumbass, desperate to be seen as ascended.

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>oh no I entered a thread I don't like, now I'm mad, what do I do?
How aloof.
Care to enlighten us?

>dismissing my legitimate criticisms as me being upset about entering a thread I don't like

you're clearly a massive egotist who cant handle being criticized. sad, considering spirituality is about detaching from ego. stop larping as some spiritual god and kill yourself. you are why no one takes the spiritual community seriously. you all think spouting concepts you read once and talking like you're a saint in india make you better than everyone else. fucking cringe. peace faggot.

>referring to calling someone a faggot and telling them to kill themselves as"legitime criticisms"
>pic related

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This is just my interpretation of it, but to me it seems like it means that any constructs made up by the mind are deceiving and distract from the reality of things. We as humans make up constructs and things to help us better understand reality, but ultimately these constructs are not reality itself. The only way to really understand things is to study the actual reality of it. If you try understand a tree by first trying to philosophize about it, and then looking at the tree to see if your philosophy is true you will get caught up in your own fabrications and lose yourself to delusion once your ideas dont match up with reality. But if you first look at the tree, and then build and understanding based on what you saw, you will understand both the tree and how your mind works.

Basically what it says is study and observe first, think later.

Though this is just my interpretation, no idea if thats actaully what Bodhidharma ment.

You are not far off the mark.
Generally, I find that reading about enlightenment on its own is useless due to reasons mentioned above: It is impossible to fully understand a statement of Truth from the ignorant state, yet alone discern Truth from quack (this thread being a supreme example). However, reading about enlightenment as a supplement to a daily meditation practice can help satisfy the mind and boost motivation towards one's practice. "Enlightenment! The Yoga Sutras by Patanjali" is the most precise, consise and detailed explanation of the evolution of consciousness from ignorance to full enlightenment recorded in history. However, most translations are flawed due to being translated by Sanskrit scholars who were not enlightened themselves. However, the translation to English by Maharishi Sadashiva Isham, an enlightened being wielding a mastery of the ancient Sanskrit language, is highly recommended for the student who is ferverent in his quest.

Maybe that's human nature

this is a funny little thing because i've spent my life understanding my own mind and i can literally do anything but having so much potential and so many options just ends up paralyzing me in the end. just INTP feels though amirite

The nature of the mind is to seek happiness.
Human nature is not the mind.
>"I'm intelligent but lazy"
No, you're just lazy.

apparently we're all god, hiding behind a mask of ego. sounds pretty cool

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nevermind you sound retarded

Yep. It's a crazy dream. Enlightenment is very similar to lucid dreaming. Recognizing that everything is an illusion except for your own self-awareness. Meeting other enlightened people is even more absurd. It's like meeting your friend in a lucid dream, and your friend says: "Hi, user, nice dream, huh?" and you realize that he's lucid, too. Kinda like in Inception, when Leo confronts the dreamer telling him it's a dream, and that he's there to help him stay lucid. It's very much like that.

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You are in love with your own ego

I am in love with God.

>schizo who thinks he is god
You are lost far in delusion

If you have nothing better to say than "you are wrong", then you might as well say nothing at all.

awesome description. im not enlightened so i don't know, but can only imagine

u think the siddhis are real?

Thats all thats necessary to say here. Im just helping you out, the ego is a dangerous thing

>u think the siddhis are real?
Humans can be very powerful, but anything that breaks the laws of physics is not true

Greed, anger and everything else I think is bad.

go fuck yourself you pseudoreligious bastard

whoops, I meant that for

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