Has anyone here achieved it yet? I recently awoke to enlightenment about 2 weeks ago and it has been hard to deal with. Although my mind is at peace, the day to day stuff is really weird.. How did you react when you first found out? Any serious input would be greatly appreciated.
That's a helluva hit of acid you took, son. Don't worry, you will come down. It's just a drug. Remember, it's just a drug.
i came upon a minimalist blog a couple of years ago. it made me realize how much owning a bunch of crap made me miserable. the money it cost and the time spent maintaining it was just wasted. i've been trying to minimalize my life ever since. gave up buying stuff and put that money towards experiences. now, the only thing i would lose sleep over (besides someone's death) is losing my passport and laptop. my decade old car is the all that i really have in my name. never been more content.
your threads are always so depressing, bro. i'm kind of even bummed by this one, even though it's supposed to be positive, i think? explain yo'self.
about 2 weeks ago I was sleeping then awoke all a sudden. I laid there for about 2 hours thinking. Then a bunch of things just started flashing through my head. I started counting my breathing and then it hit me. At first it was like I was sitting in a quiet room with things inside the room including myself, then when I awoke to enlightenment, its like my thought was the room and everything that is relative is just a thought in my head.. it's really hard to explain but I no longer care about having nice things, arguing with people, getting mad, but instead simply just accepting things the way they are and realizing that everything is just temporary. I give love and feel very happy now. The only hard part is dealing with this new sense of enlightenment because the world is beyond the world. It's so real now that everything and everyone is not real anymore but only a person's conscious is real to me. Don't know if that made sense.
Enlightenment isn't achieved...it is experienced. Your temporary state of enlightenment seems to be fading as you go through the "day to day stuff". You can continue to experience times of enlightenment, but they seem to be interrupted. Enlightenment is a lifelong process.
http://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/03/middle-class-poverty-friend.html that was the first post i read in the blog and i was hooked. don't misconstrue the blog title. it's more about being smart with your money than being a scrooge.
