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Why are you not enlightened?

zenzero

zenzero

Its only a Label
Friends,
It is with sincereity and full understanding can state that every human being is enlightened BUT everyone does not know that as a fact?
Those who know they are enlightened, kindly share your enlightenment with others; so that they too know what and how they missed.
Those who are not enlightened; do state why? so that others may guide you or point out where you missed.
Lets all party here!
Cheers!
Love & rgds
 
Guitar's Cry

Guitar's Cry

Disciple of Pan
We are both enlightened and unenlightened. There are no separations between the "I" and "not-I" except where we define them. But definition is reality, and even the most illusory concept is a part of our existence.

We are as we are. We aren't as we aren't. In those moments in between habitual motion and mundane sensation when our minds gloriously glitch and we glimpse ourselves in the stark mystical wonderment of Godly "isness" (This Is It! as Alan Watts so astutely remarked) we are enlightened to the awareness that we are the Universe.
 
michel

michel

Administrator Emeritus
Staff member
doppelgänger;1219997 said:
I am not enlightened because this sentence started with the word "I."
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which nullifies the validity of the post I was about to make; thanks!:p

zenzero said:
Friends,
It is with sincereity and full understanding can state that every human being is enlightened BUT everyone does not know that as a fact?
Those who know they are enlightened, kindly share your enlightenment with others; so that they too know what and how they missed.
Those who are not enlightened; do state why? so that others may guide you or point out where you missed.
Lets all party here!
Cheers!
Love & rgds
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Well, I am obviously not enlightened; but I am a heck of a lot more enlightened now (coming on to 60) than I was at 18. How did I get to where I am, by sufferring (in many cases), and learning from those..............
 
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Cacafire

Cacafire

Member
Why am I not enlightened?

Because I fail to see myself in everything, as I still think of things as seperate from myself. Duality, she's a b**ch, all right.
 
Halcyon

Halcyon

Lord of the Badgers
I'm not enlightened because I have yet to realise the cessation of suffering through the elimination of habitual attachment.

I am not enlightened because I still suffer from the fallacy that I am a permanent entity and not a process.

I am not enlightened because I do not yet see the impermanence in all things.

I am not enlightened because I still fear death.
 
Quagmire

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
whereismynotecard said:
This thread makes me feel stupid. I don't get what we are talking about...... :(
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Ironically, feeling stupid and admitting you don't get it are two prerequisites for Enlightment 101. (at least, that's what my invisible guidance counceller told me).
 
whereismynotecard

whereismynotecard

Treasure Hunter
Quagmire said:
You were until you said that (heehee, isn't this a fun class?).
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Okay... I'm a stupid idiot moron, and I don't know anything. I'm not enlightened, because I don't even know if that's a word. I don't even know if any of these buttons I'm pushing are producing words... I don't even know what I'm doing right now, and if this turns out to say something, it will be miraculous.

Hows about that?
 
Quagmire

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
whereismynotecard said:
Okay... I'm a stupid idiot moron, and I don't know anything. I'm not enlightened, because I don't even know if that's a word. I don't even know if any of these buttons I'm pushing are producing words... I don't even know what I'm doing right now, and if this turns out to say something, it will be miraculous.

Hows about that?
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Now you're just showing off. :rolleyes:
 
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