Enlightenment

Different Ideas on Enlightenment

• There is no such thing as enlightenment - It is also empty

• there is enlightenment and there’s what you do with it

• Enlightenment means realizing the truth

  • Truth seen as the experience in the present moment
  • Truth is never expressed in words
    • That’s why no one can describe or point to enlightenment
    • the map is not the territory - misplaced concreteness -

• Talks - Questioning Awakening Rob Burbea

The idea of You is an illusion, a fabrication

• What is the Self
• I is a fabrication of the Ego
  • The ego is a collection of thoughts and stories about yourself and the world
  • It creates our World - We see things as we are
  • The ego is created by what’s around us
    • your thoughts are not yours
    • we are slaves of the mind but don’t know it

Related Ideas

• everything is interconnected -interbeing-
  • Giving is receiving
  • Truly Good is Unconscious of Being Good
  • all love is self-love, and the Truest Self-Love is to love All of Existence

Life as a dream

• Like in a dream, each character is actually you
• idea of playing a video game and thinking it’s real (life is the same)

Wrongness is another idea of the mind

• the Universe is unfolding exactly as it should - wrongness makes life more interesting

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Created on: 2020-10-29 Inspired by: Jed Mckenna | Byron Katie | Osho | Alan Watts Related: 010 Mind MOC #MOC