enlightenment amy when you hear your heart beating 980908 ... jake when beer shoots out your nose. 980908 ... drew what m.j. did to his skin... 980910 ... drew the state we are always in, but are too wrapped up in the details to notice. 980910 ... kathryn an open mind. 981013 ... eric ... and when you feel your breath come sucking sharply in, surging in, then out, releasing into the atmosphere that envelopes the moment, stretching to infinity, the profound sense of your Self suddenly regarding another who rages completely out of control, spewing unbridled, vicious negativity. You see in that moment they are not themselves, that they are unaware of themselves, are helplessly abandoned to stimulus-response mechanics. In that moment of Self-conciousness, in the heightened cycle of a breath, you forgive them their helplessness, knowing that in the next moment, the senseless heaving of your chest once again an organic machination, you will cease to be awake. 000104 ... sannyasi Everything you need for enlightenment is in front of you RIGHT NOW. STOP TALKING, STOP THINKING AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND 000609 ... john coming to know God 000609 ... ubliss ***ubliss: The Ultimate Bliss*** If you are NOTHING, You got EVERYTHING and thus, NOTHING is EVERYTHING, the state of Supreme Enlightenment... 010109 ... Alexander Beetle open the blinds suddenly i know everything is that how it's supposed to work? 010501 ... Alexander Beetle "The problem with enlightenment is, if you think you've got it, you ain't got it." - J.R. "Bob" Dobbs I love that quote. 010501 ... kx21 A small step toward the Reality... 010502 ... kx21 and p_being... 010725 ... Grievance used to be so much more elusive. now i dance with the idea, feeling, of it sometimes, even if there's no music. The aura brings it's own music in. Thought is the deviation from the connecion, to be wired to life, thought must cease. That's the hardest part for me, because I arrived everywhere I am by thinking. Just letting it drift with the wind seems so ironic. But sometimes I still turn around and watch it go, with the tears refreshing my eyes. It's that dependancy, that attachment. Yet the more I fight the more it evades me, yet it's to go with the flow, an active reciever, dead in everday's eyes, yet alive by the gaia's view. In heart is where it exists, where there's silence, no corruptions to surface and distort. The silence where the soul was born. I remember there is where i saw it. Yet all I'm doing here is providing more resistance. Free from your everything and connect only to lifestream. --pleads with himself to do so...~ 011012 ... unhinged the soul is the biggest hinderance to enlightenment. humanity and the mind are two different things. enlightenment is a state of mind. understanding freedom gets you closer. my attachments make me sick. 011013 ... kx21 The biggest hinderance to enlightenment:- Emotion... instead of Soul... Refer to I_am_nothing for further infomation... 011014 ... unhinged but really aren't they one in the same in western thought? 011015 ... elonar not exactly. they're one and the same in feminist philosophy. 011015 ... dB The entire universe is governed by three things; energy, matter and enlightened self interest. 011015 ... kx21 Emotion (Temperature, Energy, Politics), Matter (Knowledge or Body, Power ), Enlightenment (Wisdom, Ten_Supreme_Hearts?) 011016 ... Artemismagus These things matter not... Enlightenment is nothing more than state of mind. It's a form of understanding things when Emotion, Knowledge, and Reason fail us. The soul brings it all together. It binds us.... That moment of clarity that we fail to explain. It just happens, in the sea of information. 011017 ... kx21 Cow_mu for enlightenment:- Which is better for Human? Bombing, War & Terror or Praying, Peace & Harmony? 011018 ... SonyaKitty Praying, peace, & harmony seems more conductive though most of us fall into a constant state of anger and hatred. I've now decided to simply wipe those out of my mind because those I would direct those feelings toward are not worth my energy or time. I'm really interested to know what the Dalai Lama has to say about the recent events. I struggle to reach this state of mind in my life but most likely it will occur upon my death. Then and only then will I be able to look back at all the mistakes, all the joys, all the sadness, and all the triumphs of my meager life. Perhaps if I'm lucky it shall all repeat again because despite it all, I wouldn't trade it for anything. I shall have no regrets, only a state of peace. Yes this is an idealistic goal, but it IS attainable. 011018 ... julielynnbrashears every kernel of truth 011018 ... unhinged "In denying the soul hypothesis, Buddhism of all Schools maintains that personal immortality is impossible, because all personal existence is but a mere flux of instability and continual change karmically dependent upon the false concept that phenomena, or phenomenal appearances, or phenomenal states and beings, are real. In other words, Buddhism holds that individualized mind or consciousness cannot realize Reality. The essence of the Bardo Thodol teachings is, likewise, that so long as the mind is human, so lang as it is individualized, so long as it regards itself as separate and apart from all other minds, it is but the plaything of Maya, of Ignorance, which causes it to look upon the hallucinatory panorama of existences within the Sangsara as real, and thence leads it to lose itself in the Quagmire of Phenomena. Followers of Semitic Faiths are hereditarily so completely dominated by the theory of soul and of personal immortality after death, in a phenomenal paradise or hell, that in their view there can be no alternative; and to them the Buddhist denial of the theory erroneously appears to imply a doctrine of the absolute negation of being. The realization of Reality, according to the Bardo Thodol, is wholly dependent upon expurgating from the mind all error, all false belief, and arriving at a state in which Maya no longer controls. Once the mind becomes freed from all karmic obscurations, from the supreme heresy that phenomenal appearances --- in heavens, hells, or worlds --- are real, then there dawns Right Knowledge; all forms merge into that which is non-form, all phenomena into that which is beyond phenomena, all Ignorance is dissipated by the Light of Truth, personality ceases, individualized being and sorrow are at an end, mind and matter are known to be identical, the mundane consciousness becomes the supramundane, and, one with the DharmaKaya, the pilgrim reaches the Goal." W.Y. Evans-Wentz 011018 ... kx21 Judging that Nobody i.e. Nothing can stop the santanization of this World... I_am_nothing is the Way? 011018 ... :..S e e d S.:...o f...:.L i g h T..: i_know_what_it_takes_to_lift_you_up 011031 ... ever dumbening is what happens when you stop doing everything else 011120 ... kx21 The Light (e.g. wisdom) in one's Mind / Soul(s) which can sense the shadow(s) hidden in a given Matter... 020127 ... kx21 Physical: Stand Still Logical : Surrender Reasoning Emotional: Stop Stirring Spiritual: Suspend Thinking? 020130 ... leslie prod nilson It sounds like shit with any guitar. I've tried a Les Paul studio gothic, a B.C. Rich NJ warlock, and even a fender strat. It's noisy as hell. The sound ranges between crap and complete crap. The cab sounds like it's made out of cardboard.The clean channel distorts when you turn it up to about 5 or 6. Oh and try turning the distortion and volume up as loud as it shows in the little instruction manual. Just try it and listen to the shitty feedback. 021008 ... ~gez~ true enlightenment - knowing that enlightenment is nothing but something sad people claim to have to make it look like there shitty life is worth something 021116 ... blarg awww, someone's in a bad mood.... i thought we got rid of you. 021116 ... ~gez~ unlucky, maybe in another life 021124 ... kx21 M_Matter of Ten_Supreme_Hearts... 021126 ... l shitty question. surely I'm just insane, or my girlfriends a whore. What the fuck. Do I know her self, what the fuck does that mean (how she feels, why she feels) better than her, or at least what she tells me. I CANNOT possibly know what she's thinking about, if I do she's awful to me, she denies everything. Either she lies, I'm in touch with her ever fluxing emotions, or I'm fucked. You sound awfully like me. I've been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Big deal. I thought I was enlightened, made sense at the time, I just knew people. If I'm not enlightened - i.e. I only know about her what she tells me, then I treat her like total shit because I'm schiz - lost contact with reality. Doctors are shit - they look after your own INTERESTS. 031021 ... Zeke all meaning is a human construct. ultimately we are all responsible for upholding reality and the extent to which we engage in consensual reality. positing an external source of significance is an effort to trancend this construct. 031117 ... The Spork If current arguments are any indication of the state of Enlightenment today, I think I'd be better off jamming a Flashlight up my own ass. 031117 ... sorry it hurts 031119 ... hsg without fear. knowing the great clay. 050708 ... hsg th_is_just_all_ride all_ride_all_ride_already 080831 what's it to you? who go blather from