Originally Posted by bashmaki
Edwin said,
"It seems a bit weird to chase after enlightenment while not knowing what it means, but in fact everybody who wants to reach it does."
Amen brother! In fact I've come to the conclusion all the books with all the words in the world could not explain what enlightenment is with enough clarity to recognize it IF one ever stopped long enough to realize it!
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The strange thing is, everybody knows to some extent how it feels, as everybody has experienced it for a few seconds at least a few times in their life.
When you are at some extremely beautifull place in nature, or when you realise for the first time you are in love with someone, or even when you have had a good scare, where your life is threatened, and even during sex !
Usually after a few seconds, the mind kicks in again, trying very hard to label and box your feelings, which we all know is impossible for the mind, as it is emotionless. This process covers up your true emotions of joy, happiness and peace, and because the mind tells you you should feel confused over the emotions as it cannot classify it, it actually triggers emotions itself, so that is why being in love can be so terribly confusing for example.
Some people hit that moment of pure awareness and stay in it, and this is what happened to for instance Eckhart Tolle.
However it is possible to reach the same state through meditation, and this is why I like the book by Paul Wilson so much: The Quiet.
It is a practical workbook where he has shamelessly taken all kinds of meditation methods he learned over the 40 years of meditation practice, taken out the religious aspects, the aspects that don't work, and added some tips and tricks to enhance it through his neurological research he has done on meditation and mindfullness for the last 10 years.
He also is able to explain how certain kinds of meditation will help trigger certain glands to speed up hormone production, and what parts of the brain will get stimulated by meditation and the benefits that come from it.
I think his scientific approach to meditation and easy going style of writing ( he is an Ozzy ) go really well with LifeFlow technology. It's simply combining the best of both scientific approaches.
It has helped me greatly in enhancing my feelings of peace and stillness throughout the day.
) and still no rock-hard abs !
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