I'm more enlightened than you!

[HeWhoHowls]

not any pain. extreme pain. and enduring it.

Well enduring extreme pain could be a way to prove your spiritual awareness n control, but i dnt thnk its used to actually GAIN enlightenment or spiritual growth.

 

[HeWhoHowls]

the original post reminds me of this forum lol

haha forreal.
Evryone has a high-horse here.

 

[Nagelfar]

Well enduring extreme pain could be a way to prove your spiritual awareness n control, but i dnt thnk its used to actually GAIN enlightenment or spiritual growth.

Perhaps the requirement of being able to endure extreme pain drives one to a 'contemplative extremity' that results in enlightenment for the very purpose of carrying on at all.

 

[HeWhoHowls]

both equally good theories.

 

[Dedbeet]

"I'm more enlightened than you" is LOLZ . Any "me/you comparison" is unenlightenment, so to speak. Reality is incomparable.

 

[CoffeeDrinker]

^I'm pretty sure the OP was making fun of the idea, which I admire.
But I think people can read some of the conversations here and think that the participants just want to try and one-up on another (to speak dualistically), but that's not my intention. It used to be, I'll admit, but I haven't felt that need anymore, or, if I do feel like "one-upping," I recognize it and cool my jets.

 

[superelephant]

If there's ever a movement to rename the thought & awareness forum I think "fancy words" ought to be a serious contender

haha

QUOTED FOR TRUTH.

I can't lie though, I love it.:D

 

[cosmic._.ape]

"Life is a process of bringing the unconscious into consciousness. After we have achieved this we find that we are not the things we brought into consciousness. We are in fact "consciousness" which is the eternal part of ourselves." (John Gallagher)

"that feel" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbNg5_Jtd8k

infiniteconsciousnessbliss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satcitananda

 

[ebola?]

If there's ever a movement to rename the thought & awareness forum I think "fancy words" ought to be a serious contender.

Sorry about making this too apt.
(j/k...mine are just words, nothing special about them)

ebola

 

[panic in paradise]

" He who is receiving you doth receive me, and he who is receiving me doth receive Him who sent me "

- Matty

whaauuuut?!?
;-)


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im so enlightened; i dont need a light-switch or a lighter.
DOH