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Spiritual Enlightenment for Dummies.
Topic Started: Jul 4 2015, 01:52 PM (433 Views)
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I wondered, today, if it were possible to translate, into practical terms, the method by which spiritual enlightenment might be realized.
Is there a method? Is method anything to do with it? Can the terms 'practical' and 'enlightenment' even exist on the same page?
Well, let's see.
I'll start this off with a simple observation, and edit the post as (and if) more occurs.
Comments are welcomed, as are questions, and personal reports of any success.
Here we go...

The method involves considering what follows, not to judge it, but to accept and embody it:

1: You don't count.
2: The world is perfect. It's you that isn't.
3: There's more to honesty than not telling lies.
4: Your opinions are not only worthless, but damaging.
5: Your expectations are a guarantee of disappointment.
6: The most important truths are those that defy understanding.
7: Your problems are in seeing what-is as representations of things you choose to resist.
8: There is no problem outside of your position in relation to it.
9: Your eyes are not designed to live life for you.
10: Your mind is not designed to interpret life into what life is not.

11: Your foolishness never steps aside for wisdom.
12: Your wisdom always steps aside for foolishness.
13: Your plans are the blueprints for spectacular failures.
14: Your spectacular failures are the blueprints for your successes.
15: Your defense invites attack.
16: Your defenselessness threatens nobody.
17: You will never find love.
18: Love will never tire of searching for you.
19: You will be unable to recognize any God you think you understand.
20: STFU and listen.

21: Enlightenment does not exist within your mind.
22: Neither does it exist until you discover it.
23: It is non-transferable.
24: It is indescribable.
25: It is a thing so priceless that you may never possess it.
26: It endures as the Cosmos itself, yet is as fleeting as dew.
27: If you retain a single thought, you can not know it.
28: Having found it, you may fear to lose it, thus you will.
29: Only to regain it as you let go all fear.
30: First comes paradox. Then comes the smile.

31: You are a tenant upon this earth: you do not own it.
32: That mountain over there, does not stop at the ground.
33: That ocean over there, does not stop at the beach.
34: This planet you live on, does not stop at the sky.
35: That distant galaxy, up there in space, is not distant.
36: That fox's teeth are smaller than that dog's; why would you fear it?
37: Doing nothing may not mean that nothing is being done.
38: A rabbit, raised with cats, behaves like a cat.
39: A child, raised around humans, behaves like a human.
40: A wolf, raised by humans, behaves like a wolf.


Edited by crow, Aug 3 2015, 04:02 PM.
"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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I'd like to think "I'm no dummy!" (even though I sort of am), but this was rather enlightening. Thank you crow!
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That's interesting. I can see why you might say that, and feel that, and it occurred to me even as I wrote the title. But...
It's not so much the word as the general idea of the word 'dummies'. Those who don't 'get it'. Which is, to all intents and purposes, everybody.
Yet almost nobody sees themselves as 'dummies'.
I submit that getting into 'dummy mode' is an ideal place to start.
Blank slate. Empty head. That's what meditation is all about.
"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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Hehe, at that, you might literally say "spiritual enlightenment is only for dummies", and you'd be bang on the money, as far as most of the world is concerned (dumb as they are).

I swear you presented an un-method there, rather than a method. Nearly had me, for a second ; )

Number 20 is still the best, IMO.
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Wonderful.. 13-16 resonate here. Allowing oneself to be vulnerable is the ultimate strength.. full feeling, full flowing, full freedom.
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There isn't much crow says that doesn't strike me as wisdom, irrespective of whether I am quite at the level of fully comprehending at the time or not.
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Funny you should say that. For there is (was) not much the actual crow said/was that didn't suggest wisdom, whether or not I understood it at the time.

Humans often resent me for speaking of things that they don't. Imagining - it seems - that I am the author of the things I say. But I am not. I am a messenger. Only that. Sometimes a poor excuse for one, and inept. Other times invisible to the eye.

Some months after the crow had departed, I was down by the water, in a generally crow-free place, in the early evening and the sky blood-red. There were tens of thousands of crows, squawking and squalling, a terrible racket. Something major was going on in crow society. I walked slowly among them, hoping for recognition, but there was none. Of course. What is one more crow among that countless number? I was humbled, in the way all crows are humbled, in spite of their boisterous irreverence. I didn't count, any more than any one of them.
I didn't know what they were doing any more than I knew what I was doing, and probably none of us were doing anything.
Just being alive, in each others' company, under a blood red sky.

Even in that, mystery that it was, there was wisdom. And none of it, ever, mine.



Kami
Aug 3 2015, 04:58 AM
Wonderful.. 13-16 resonate here. Allowing oneself to be vulnerable is the ultimate strength.. full feeling, full flowing, full freedom.
"ॐ"

Nice signature, Kami :)
Edited by crow, Aug 3 2015, 04:06 PM.
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I didn't know what they were doing any more than I knew what I was doing, and probably none of us were doing anything.
Just being alive, in each others' company, under a blood red sky.


This is the most metal thing I've read in a long time.
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Some have said, before, that I was more metal than metalheads. I didn't know what they meant, then, and I confess, I still don't.
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It means that you embody a lot of the things, that 'being metal' is all about for certain - but certainly not all - metalheads.

Being metal really has nothing to do with the music as such, as much as it's about what the music can inspire in a listener with the right ears to hear it.
It's about being in tune with reality, and being able to see the beauty in things, that most people deem to be horrible, or incomprehensible.

For me, it was always about the realization, that there are absolutely no objections to life. Period.

I never called it 'being metal' myself, but that was (and is) indeed the inspiration that metal is (and was) able to stir in me.

And from that perspective, yes: I would say that you are indeed more metal than metalheads... Even though you don't like the music.
(Especially with your post on the Northern Fowl Mites in mind).

Regarding the excellent guide to spiritual enlightenment, I have to say that I love all of it, but that point 7 rings especially profound to these ears.
Only now do I see, that you've added another 10 points to the original 30.

I take note of point 40 as well. Just recently, wolves have started to reappear in the forests of southern Denmark, after many many years of absence.
Some are overjoyed by this turn of events. Others react in fear.

I tend to see it as a spiritual event.
If they are here to stay, that is.
Edited by SorenL, Aug 6 2015, 10:47 AM.
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Aug 6 2015, 10:38 AM
Being metal really has nothing to do with the music as such, as much as it's about what the music can inspire in a listener with the right ears to hear it.
It's about being in tune with reality, and being able to see the beauty in things, that most people deem to be horrible, or incomprehensible.

For me, it was always about the realization, that there are absolutely no objections to life. Period.

I never called it 'being metal' myself, but that was (and is) indeed the inspiration that metal is (and was) able to stir in me.
Indeed! and it was actually for every other reason than that (and there are plenty of examples to be found), that I never considered myself 'metal'.
One couldn't possibly be that thing if it incorporates all those other things too. So for that, I thought of myself as a thing beyond 'description' but that can nonetheless be attempted to be described.

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When people consider the term 'Enlightenment', they tend to see only one facet of what they think it means.
Illumination.

But what else do the terms 'light' and 'lighten' suggest?

"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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Something, or somebody, not carrying much or any of a load.
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That's it. To unload everything remotely connected with being a human in a physical body.
Lighten yourself enough, set enough aside, and you begin to realize your essential nature.
All that extraneous stuff had become what you thought you were, but then you find it was just extraneous stuff.

In meditation, you'll get nowhere significant, until you become unaware of your physical body.
This applies also to worries, cares, thoughts, memories...

It applies most of all to identity.

Lay it all down, and what's left?
Only the whole Universe.
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Physical maladies muddy the waters. EG postural problems~ the twang and seize of muscles draw attention to the body.
So too do emotional maladies.

T.T.C. verse 23
 

Express yourself clearly, then be quiet.
Be like the forces of nature:
When it blows, there is only wind.
When it rains, there is only rain.
When the clouds pass,
the sun comes shining through.

If you open yourself to the Tao,
you are at one with the Tao.
If you open yourself to insight,
you are at one with insight;
able to use it completely.
If you are open to loss,
you are at one with loss;
able to accept it completely.

Open yourself to the Tao,
and trust yourself completely.
Everything will fall into place.


Is this why one must accept loss? To lighten the load? Something else perhaps?
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Loss is an inevitable part of life, as much so as birth.
If you haven't already, you will lose the thing you most care for.
Accept that this is so, and do not fear it.
When it happens, you'll deal with it.
Unprepared, you may not be able to.

"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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