Jul 11, 2020, 16:23 pm
(Jul 11, 2020, 15:06 pm)LZA Wrote: [ -> ](Jul 11, 2020, 14:40 pm)Fant0men Wrote: [ -> ]I'm far from perfect, and far from enlightened. Even if I somehow one day become enlightened, I would never want to call myself that, as it's narcissistic and doesn't help anyone.
Everything is perfect. Even when it's shitty. I agree.
I agree, but I look at it like, knowing that I know nothing about enlightenment but catching glimpses here and there makes me enlightened as compared to my past self. And maybe that's the key, keep trying to gain and learn. I KNOW I'll never have all the info t say I'm truly anything... That's why I never say either , or in any argument. I like how scientists put things in "Likely" or "not likely" terms.
But you strive for enlightenment, picking up things on the way, you are on the path. The only one you can compare knowledge too is your past self... You can't look at someone lie Gandhi or Socrates and their levels... Only if you are a better self than before... That's the God journey
Narcissists like OP ate locked in a narrow-minded, arrogant/ignorant HELL because there is no room for learning. They believe there is nothing more to learn since they know... But like enlightenment, with knowledge, it's only when you get a little of either you realize how much you really DON'T know.
OP is in a war with himself, the war is being fought with himself. He's hoping it comes to us and is trying to go make that happen... An attempt at evil demon possession so to speak. There is hope for everyone, but as long as he considers himself superior, and puts himself in a different category, he'll be impossible to reach
Also, the evil can be gods asshole, or it could be anything that we don't like about ourselves that we negatively focus on.. Or nose, weight, penis size... Etc. I believe we are made in God's image, so any part of yourself you don't like can fir that bill. It's accepting what you don't like as yourself when you can alleviate your pain...metaphorically speaking of course
I've been on the spiritual path for a while. There was a time when I too believed myself to know things with certainty, and it looked to me as if there was nothing left to learn. How wrong I was! Since then I have learned more than I had up to that point.
I think what everyone needs is a good ass-kicking from life to get humbled. Narcissists never really get that, and if they ever do, they learn nothing from it. There's always more to learn, and the (hero's) journey never ends. It's not about being the best or about being superior. That's the opposite of enlightenment. I know that much.
It's about being better than you were yesterday, and how could anyone get better if they believe they're already perfect?
Maybe there are milestones, and that's what makes people believe they're enlightened. But how can anyone truly be enlightened? That would mean having seen and understood everything, this universe, all possible universes and realities. That amount of information doesn't fit inside a human brain, though I don't believe memory is really stored there anyway. Point being, it's simply too much information for any single individual.
I think memory is like a download, you download the information you need from the cloud as needed. The cloud being the Akashic records, or "store consciousness" as it's called in Buddhism. We have access to all knowledge that humanity has ever learned, but one needs to be in a state of receptivity. One needs to be open-minded to have access to all that information, hence no interference from the ego, or at least very little interference that can garble up the signal.
Being fearful, worried, sad, angry or hateful I have done a lot in life. I know that garbles up the signal for sure. That's how I know QiikSand's signal is completely messed up, and whatever information he's receiving is highly distorted. Even if we download information from the Akashic records, it still gets interpreted through our ego, and we don't really receive the information as is, but it's filtered through our own beliefs and concepts.