Instant Enlightenment

[NightSpirit]

oh heck nh...now I'm truly enlightened...gee thanks mate!

Originally Posted by NightSpirit

oh heck nh...now I'm truly enlightened...gee thanks mate!

I can't believe you've never heard that NS you must have been a private school girl

[NightSpirit]

Originally Posted by not human

I can't believe you've never heard that NS you must have been a private school girl

noooooo....no private schooling for me...uh uh

I'm just a widdle innocent girlie wirlie...yep! that's me! (and if you choose to believe this, I will be your friend forever)

Originally Posted by NightSpirit

noooooo....no private schooling for me...uh uh

I'm just a widdle innocent girlie wirlie...yep! that's me! (and if you choose to believe this, I will be your friend forever)

What about if I say I do but really I don't

[NightSpirit]

Originally Posted by not human

What about if I say I do but really I don't

tsk, tsk!....pitiful...just pitiful what some will stoop to

[NightSpirit]

It's like the teacher and the student. Teacher sitting on the beach with his finger in his belly-button meditating. Up pops one of his students menacingly clutching a sharp sword. Student says to the teacher "You promised me enlightenment and still I have not found it." The teacher replies "How bad do you want it?"

The student goes off "What do you mean, how bad do I want it. Is that some kind of an answer? You promised to teach me old man and yet I am still none the wiser. Tell me how to become enlightened, or I will slice off your head."

The teacher calmly stands and beckons his student to follow him down to the water. "I will show you" he says. The student, keen to finally know the secret, swiftly moves into the water, whereupon the teacher proceeds to hold his head under water. The student struggles wildly to raise his head and take a breathe but the teacher is relentless.

The student struggling, has now totally run out of breathe and is beginning to drown. One last immense effort, frees him from the teacher's grasp. He comes up spluttering and chokes out "Why did you do that?" The teacher replies "How badly did you want to breathe? When you want enlightenment that badly, then you shall have it."

Originally Posted by NightSpirit

It's like the teacher and the student. Teacher sitting on the beach with his finger in his belly-button meditating. Up pops one of his students menacingly clutching a sharp sword. Student says to the teacher "You promised me enlightenment and still I have not found it." The teacher replies "How bad do you want it?"

The student goes off "What do you mean, how bad do I want it. Is that some kind of an answer? You promised to teach me old man and yet I am still none the wiser. Tell me how to become enlightened, or I will slice off your head."

The teacher calmly stands and beckons his student to follow him down to the water. "I will show you" he says. The student, keen to finally know the secret, swiftly moves into the water, whereupon the teacher proceeds to hold his head under water. The student struggles wildly to raise his head and take a breathe but the teacher is relentless.

The student struggling, has now totally run out of breathe and is beginning to drown. One last immense effort, frees him from the teacher's grasp. He comes up spluttering and chokes out "Why did you do that?" The teacher replies "How badly did you want to breathe? When you want enlightenment that badly, then you shall have it."

NS I've got story envy thats a really good story all I've got is a zen koan joke....this bar walks into a monk & says the drinks are on the fat guy ho ho ho

[NightSpirit]

Originally Posted by not human

NS I've got story envy thats a really good story all I've got is a zen koan joke....this bar walks into a monk & says the drinks are on the fat guy ho ho ho

LOL nh...story envy? *screws up face* hehe

oh haha...funny joke nh

[Squatchit]

Originally Posted by not human

I don't think it even helps to know......my life these days is grounded firmly in nothing

Hiya not human

A few years ago I was sitting quietly. Meditating they would call it, although at the time I wasn't deliberately meditating. Heck, I didn't even know what meditation was.

And out of the blue I had a lovely experience. A few months later I read this...

"Solitude is freedom. It's an anchor, an anchor in the void. You're anchored to nothing, and that's my definition of freedom." - John Lilly

Which best described the experience I had.

Your words reminded me of the quote, so I thought I'd share.



Squatch

Thanks Squatch....thats a beautiful description of groundlessness which I am learning to navigate, as all my points of reference went belly up a few months ago....its like learning to live all over again

PS I like your taste in music went through a mega Cocteau Twins stage a few years ago