So I am enlightened ?
Lets say,
radical bliss
more than
one can know
yet it is so .
so what ?
it is good yes
then what ?
We are alive forever
it is so long
so long
it is NOW
it is so long
methinks it more fun to be in samsara than nirvana ?
but to be in both at the same time ?
You are always in nirvana, but only in samsara simultaneously when you think you are. You can never be in samsara only.
It’s nothing new to you to live forever, because remember, you have been living already for eternity! That same eternity in which you will continue to live forever.
And most importantly in regard to your questions: the true experience of what you are calling the Now, is not just a middle in between past and future, it is something entirely transcendental. It is pure, all-encompassing. And in that experience there is no feeling of time, because it simply isn’t existential. Hence there is no fear for a boring eternity when you are actually experiencing your presence of awareness.
These questions, urges and future projections you are having simply do not arise when you are established in your own awareness throughout all experience. You are then utterly content and at peace. not in a boring way: that’s just how the mind imagines it to be. This peace and contentment are the most exciting experiences in themselves. thought they aren’t merely experiences.
I promise you you will not be dissapointed nor bored! Haha
Thanks for sharing your most interesting thoughts with us!
Love,
Bentinho.
thankz for sharing this with us…
I’ve also felt the same way at times. Usually it depended my state of mind, but I was never bored while experiencing joy and wondering of what more is out there – much past the five senses.
[QUOTE=Bentinho Massaro;17967]Hence there is no fear for a boring eternity when you are actually experiencing your presence of awareness.
[/QUOTE]
Yes!
[quote=Bentinho Massaro;17967]You are always in nirvana, but only in samsara simultaneously when you think you are. You can never be in samsara only.
[/quote]
Amen to that. If only more would think (or think not) this way …
PS. On the original post, it is easy to aquire a state of blissful existence by artificially reducing/eliminating all disturbing thoughts or other factors. That is not nirvana or mahasamadhi yet, it is far from it. It is just a peacful state a resting mind, it is not transcendental (not fully realized), and as result, it is boring. It is clear that if boredom presents itself, the mind/soul/self is not free from rajasic inclinations.
When you see it clearly (that samsara exists within nirvana), it becomes very obvious and logical almost. How could it be any other way? Samsara happens when we believe in God’s Lila, the play of forms within consciousness. When we believe in the seeming separation and multiplicity of its play. But the very fact that this play exists, confirms the existence of something for it to exist in and to be known by. This in which lila and samsara (the belief in lila as being the real) appear, has no form of its own and it cannot be taken hold of. It cannot be defined or pointed at. For it is that which sees all defining and appointing.
Forever beyond being touched by any appearance, it is peacefully that in which all appearances arise and dissolve. To see this with clarity is to know that both awareness and the play of consciousness are not two different worlds. It is samsara which is dependent completely on awareness at all times and therefore it is completely permeated by it.
To see the world of forms as one dream-play of translucent openness, is to see everything as transparent and void of substance. Like a sleeping dream consists of nothing but ephemeral mirages that consist of no other that pure mind, so too is Lila simply the free and empty display of the undisplayable knower of all display.
To persistently see the translucent nature of what we regard to as reality, is to experience first-handedly the purity of being the untouchable Knower of a world that’s pure dream consisting of nothing other than Pure Knower.
PS. On the original post, it is easy to aquire a state of blissful existence by artificially reducing/eliminating all disturbing thoughts or other factors. That is not nirvana or mahasamadhi yet, it is far from it. It is just a peacful state a resting mind, it is not transcendental (not fully realized), and as result, it is boring. It is clear that if boredom presents itself, the mind/soul/self is not free from rajasic inclinations.
Excellent observation Hubert.