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suddenly gained an understanding of all teachings, the ability to see things as they really are and not how others see them, how to examine things with his own wisdom while remaining free from discursive views, and all the abilities of a great yogin38 no longer dependent on others:
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
The idea of a universal human nature brings us to a third theme, humanism. The thinkers of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment saw an urgent need for a secular foundation for morality, because they were haunted by a historical memory of centuries of religious carnage: the Crusades, the Inquisition, witch hunts, the European wars of religion. Th
... See moreSteven Pinker • Enlightenment Now
I think there are ideas that enlightenment is about getting to some place where nothing uncomfortable ever happens, where no delusory thought will ever walk through your consciousness—those very ideas about enlightenment are delusions; it just doesn’t seem to work that way. Besides, it doesn’t really matter. When that gap is so narrow that it can b
... See moreAdyashanti • The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
We have to kill off any notion we have that there is something to attain, something to hold on to, something special we can become once and for all. Enlightenment is not a “thing” we “get” from practice. Anything we think we’ve gotten—even if it’s made of gold—can only get in the way. Only when there is nothing and nobody left to obstruct it will t
... See moreBarry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
Again, Dzogchen posits that the state beyond suffering is not something apart from us to be attained, but rather the enduring condition of our own being, obscured by investment in the subject-object mode of perception and the resultant attempts to manipulate experience. As an expression of this view, its contemplative practices emphasize relaxation
... See moreSasha Chapin • Should you meditate, and also, what is even meditation
The Way of Lao-tzu was never to be attached to any tradition that imprisoned our mind because if we hold our center within, we will move with the evolutionary energies of the universe without resistance. These evolutionary energies materialize as synchronicity on the level of the conscious mind- Jason Gregory Effortless Living
Francis Bacon and then John Locke grounded the reliability of knowledge in empirical observation, René Descartes in the solidity of “pure” reason. Bacon’s and Locke’s empiricism and Descartes’s rationalism played immensely influential roles and opened the doors to modernity. The shattering and liberating impact of their philosophies freed knowledge
... See moreCarlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
The Rapid Enlightenment Process is a series of contextual shifts that destroy cultural conditioning, limiting dogma and unexamined beliefs and replaces them with new enlightened dogma (aka Enlightened Perspectives).