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Old 21-07-2017, 02:08 PM
waechter418 waechter418 is offline
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Enlightenment

To be enlightened is to see everything clearly in the light that emanates from Oneself.

However, the light can only “shine” when the mirror is clean - i.e. when no judgements, emotions and other obstacles obscure the sight.

Since such condition is scarce, even rarer is the event of enlightenment and – considering our characteristic short attention span – fleeting as well.

Yet it is apparently so impressive, that almost anyone who experiences it will seek its re-occurrence.

Taking into account the amount of respective Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu & Zen schools, and the number of permanent enlightened individuals - there seem more efforts being taken in the Orient than in the Occident*. Probably because the dualistic R/P mode of latter, its rationalism and feedback-mechanism of the intellect, inhibit Selfrealisation. Moreover, occidental seekers were often forced into the Occult, and to hide their methods & results – conditions unfavourable to enlightenment which, after all, is synonymous with liberty.
In the beginning of the twentieth century A.Crowley introduced, as head of the “Ordo Templi Orientis”, a liberation tool developed in Buddhist & Hindu Tantra schools, that came to be known as sexual Magick, and to be able to annihilate the social & internal obstacles arising from sexual taboos, and to be a short path to Illumination.

*Orient and Occident connote here R/P (Reflection/Projection) systems, as well as cerebral and global hemispheres (see “Another view of Consciousness”)
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Old 21-07-2017, 07:31 PM
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Over time, people tried various paths in their quests for the Truth. One problem is when they concentrate too much on the path, and miss the signs that they have to adjust that path. Consequently they don't converge toward the Truth. They build models, but try to massage what they observe into their models more than adapt their models to what they observe.

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i.e. when no judgements, emotions
You need good judgment, and you have to continuously strive to better yours. You need emotions, but you must learn to control them.

I believe that the methods that concentrate on your body (energetic, sexual, abstinence, etc.) make sense only when they intend to use that as a launchpad to dissociating your conscience from the physical body.

I don't think that this is true:
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enlightenment which, after all, is synonymous with liberty
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Old 22-07-2017, 03:44 AM
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Over time, people tried various paths in their quests for the Truth. One problem is when they concentrate too much on the path, and miss the signs that they have to adjust that path. Consequently they don't converge toward the Truth. They build models, but try to massage what they observe into their models more than adapt their models to what they observe.

it is like shooting at a moving target, by taking stock of where the target currently is, then taking time to be aiming at that place, then shooting and missing.
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Old 31-07-2017, 04:52 PM
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Enlightenment seems most ordinarily to occur during sexual activity, when Kundalini cleans the mirrors on her fiery rise in the spinal cord.
Kundalini is a Tantric term for the energy snake curled at the bottom of the spinal cord - her rushing up manifests as a burning sensation. Her journey through the Chacras has been published plentiful and ought to be studied in authorized works (any suggestions?)

For Chakras & Kundalini see Wikipedia and
http://www.emergingsciences.org/kund...mental-project
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Old 31-07-2017, 05:49 PM
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To me enlightenment means becoming lucid in the dream of life. Then you can do whatever you planned to experience before you fell asleep (when you were born). You regained the memories, and the discernment of your higher self.
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Old 02-08-2017, 04:51 PM
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“Know Thy Self” and “Do Thy Will” concern Prajna, the active principle of Ultimate Reality, manifesting as integration & differentiation as unifying & creative urge (in Liber Al vel Legis represented by Nuit & Hadit) – Hui Neng calls Prajna the Wisdom of Enlightenment and it to be “inherent in our mind`s essence”, Crowley calls it “True Nature”.
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