What do you think about this way to get enlightened? (see details)?

Hello Unity!

This is absolutely wonderful! I approach it in this way too. It's just living life, letting divine intuition guide and peel away the layers and then you are EVERYTHING.

Thank you for this, it's beautiful and so are you!

Namaste

1) Ravi Shankar (not the musician) offers watered down Vedic knowledge with a "technique" that is a sugar coated poison pill. It makes one feel good and gives flashy experiences, and offers nothing in the way of actual development.

2) If "reality" is a projection of mind, then we are no longer referring to the mind of any human. Thus, the evidence does not warrant the claim.

3) Enlightenment may be our nature, but it is also clearly supposed to be an experience. If one has not had the experience, intellectual assurity that it is their nature will not provide the experience. It is also not something that can be lost once gained.

4) There is nothing in the experience of pure consciousness to suggest it is more than an anomaly of the nervous system. that would require other evidence. Thus, the claim that it is "God" is baseless, as I pointed out in 2 above.

This is exactly right! We are always chasing the charm dangling in front of us. Sometimes we grab hold for a while, then the charm is once again out of our grasp.

It is our thoughts from what we have learned that keeps us looking again and again for that charm. We know it is there, but until we begin to recognize this in practice, we won't ever feel fulfilled.

My guru is guiding me through meditation very slowly. In the morning, I sit with my eyes closed and feel sensations from my toes on the right foot up the body and down to the left foot. We are going to go into the breathing next. Some of us really do need help to guide us so we can just be!

My journey led me to him and this man continues to endure pain from a fall, but his calm nature is addictive. He studied with an Egyptian sculptor many years ago and his relaxed approach to life started when he was in his 20's. Now he is in his late 50's.

So many of us need guides to help us gain "collective attention" or focus. I know when I am in a meditative state and how it feels. I could be doing anything, but when those thoughts start invading my head, that's when the "depression" starts!

Fantastic resource for all of us and thank you for sharing.

Peace.

First of all, I do think this article shares some great, interesting, and valid points.

But what I don't like about it I think is the tone. Its presented as if it is telling the reader they are wrong, and this is how it really is. When it comes to discovering life and our paths within, I do not think any person is in a position to present their idea as fact, with the "Im right you're wrong" approach. Its a display of arrogance in the literal sense.

I have very few concrete beliefs, and very many ideas that seem worth my pursuit at this time. But, with all my philosophies on life, I add an asterisk noting they are subject to change at any time, because that too is part of the nature of myself.

The only thing you can do is listen to what he or his followers taught and judge for yourself. The Buddha was said to be enlightened in so far as he came to understand what the problem of existence is and what the solution is - the Four Nobel Truths and the Eightfold Path. So, investigate and learn from the Buddhists. If you find something there that helps you or makes your life better - good. If not, then forget about it.

This is just what I needed to hear!

Million thanks for posting this at a most opportune time!!!

I have been in such a twirl for quite some time now...and asking all & sundry to show me the path! Most said you would find it on your own...just go on walking! I stood still...not knowing which direction to take...with tears in my eyes and darkness all around...with people coming and going, unmindful...

I don't say I have FOUND what I was looking for...but with these words, I have noticed a distant light beckoning, waiting to be explored...

I also like the way the thoughts are presented...no suger-coated words, just the kind of abruptness needed to jolt a person out of stupor!

Worth exploring!!!

The shortened version goes something like this: God decided to put the soul of Man into a body, because He knew it'd be the last place he'd look for it.

nice literature; but a lot of blah blah! the Lord Buddha put it much better long ago. A person went to him and complained of all the sufferings he was undergoing. So, the Lord asked: And what do you want, my friend? the man answered: I want LIBERATION! the Lord smiled, and asked: "But what binds you, my friend?"

and the man realized that nothing did!

We are all Buddha, enlightenment flowers, to give up anything is to give up enlightenment. What most people consider Maya is to the enlightened enlightenment itself rising out of the void. As long as there is Buddha there will be enlightenment it's Buddhas nature.

I "absoulutely" Love it!!

Unity this resonated with me so profoundly, and I still find my ego wanting to complicate it, Like...

"It's thursday night, feb. 5, 2009, at 10:45 pm, it's not possible that you have found peace right now, there has to be more struggle involved, there's no way that you have found "IT"!"

Silly ego...

This might not do it for someone else, but it brings a sense of Peace to me...and guess what, this time Im taking it...It's mine and I want it...once and for all!!"

Thanks Unity, I know you have essentially been saying this for the longest...why I hear it now?...who knows, and who cares...enough already with "Peace!'s" story!

Much Love,

Peace!