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Originally Posted by Rain95
I don't think the "why" results in any intellectual conceptual answer or statement of "fact" like here it is in these words. .It's simply an evolution in awareness. Why am I not enlightened? Well we are all "enlightened" at various degrees at various times, it changes moment to moment. It's an ebb and flow.
Why am I not MORE enlightened? Because the cake is not baked yet. A apple seed cannot make an apple right away. It has to get in the ground and grow into a tree then mature over time till it gets to the state where it makes apples.
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As we may consider ourselves to be the Sangha in the context of this thread, our mutual role is to create the social conditions which are most conducive to spiritual insight or realisation. Like an oven of ideal temperature, if you will, or the richness of soil and sunlight that apple trees thrive best in. This involves constant investigation of our own hearts, for there are times when slight tinges of malice or ill-will causes a lashing out, name calling, righteousness etc etc etc - which bring counterproductive conditions. Optimal conditions would involve the real-lived actuality of utmost respect and interpersonal understanding.
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We will all become "angels," or higher evolved beings, eventually. It's just a matter of maturing, of time and experience, a "ripening."
An odd side note is "purpose" is a creation. Why would the "universe" or "reality" want consciousness to evolve and become more aware? For what purpose? What cares? Why not have a bunch of unaware habitual consciousness running around in animal bodies doing whatever their animals brains dictated? What does a higher awareness serve? See "something" or "someone" has to behind the game. Otherwise, there is no reason for it to exist.
Then the creation becomes secondary to the tools needed to create. Can a 5 year old design a new computer chip? No it takes more intelligence and awareness and knowledge. And there's the purpose. Whatever is making all of this, creating all of this, wants to create more, understand more, be aware of more. So it creates new "cells" in it's body of consciousness, and sends these into physical worlds and bodies to become more aware through the interaction. As the "cells" in it's body become more aware, it becomes more aware, and therefore capable of far more advanced creations.
This is far more mind blowing then we all realize. Within matter exists consciousness, self aware matter, self aware energy particles. That's what we are.
Quantum Scientists discovered that matter changes when it is observed. We are the observers, the creators, the maker of all that exists. As far as questions like why do we exist one is thinking too small and limited. Imagine human intelligence and awareness is limited to under 300....... the ones at the "top" of this chain....... don't think in terms of 500...... 800...... try 100 billion trillion. That's where the "sources" intelligence and awareness is at. It is "watching" and aware of trillions of universes and dimensions at once.
We are only tasked with being aware of what we are.... a baby step in the grand scheme of things.
But back to the original topic....there is not something to know, there is something to be aware of.
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Yes. The things I speak of as are founded in self-awareness - with honesty - which is true to life, in every moment, and described here as 'tacit'.
This is a 'tacit knowledge'. A knowledge which can't realistically be written down, yet might be impressed or discovered through subtext of the conversation...