“Secondly, Amir has not said in this thread he is enlightened. However, ever since hes been on this forum he has made this claim.”
There is no need to ask others to refer to earlier posts. I will state it here on this thread. Yes, I have stated before that I have come to my awakening. And if I have come to my awakening, it is not because I am special or because I am somehow superior, it is simply because I have done the necessary work that is needed to come to know myself, through and through. It took me six years - of tremendeous effort from morning to evening even to have a glimpse into the true nature of mind, and at present my work is still not compelte. I am in the process of integration of awakening.
“He claims to be on same level of all masters of the past, including the Buddha.”
I am not interested in other masters, all that I know is myself.
“He claims all masters are lying at least…”
If you are going to quote what I have said, you should at least give accurate reports. I have never said that “all masters are lying”. I have said that sometimes, masters use useful lies in assisting others towards their awakening. In the yogic sciences it is known as upaya, which simply means skillful means. A thing need not necessarily be true in order to be useful. And I have given various examples of skillful means which masters have used, including different ways some masters have been trying to transmit their teachings. Gautama Buddha used to use the word Atman when speaking to Hindus, even those one central part of his teaching was just the opposite , the Anatman. Parahamsa Yogananda, before his death, declared that nobody is to succeed him as a teacher because it was not “Gods Will”. And as part of his attempt to transmit his teaching, he has tried to link Babaji, one of the figures in Kriya yoga, with Jesus Christ - claiming that they both work together to send out light into the world. This is again, just his own invention. Madame Blavatsky, who is considered awakened by several theosophists, invented the so called “Mahatmas”, which have been proven to be frauds, through several of her own colleagues who used to help her distribute the “Mahatma Letters”, which are letters that have been claimed to have been written through supernatural means, which transmit their teaching to Blavatsky. And I can give several more examples if you want of several people who have either been authentic masters or who have been passing themselves off as masters, who have been using useful lies in transmitting their teaching.
“He claims everything he says is the truth”
More attempts to deceive both yourself and others with your own dishonest and insincere tendencies. I have always said that the Truth cannot be organized, particularly through knowledge. So there is no question of what I am saying being true either, it is nothing more than a finger pointing to the moon.
“He claims he has reached enlightment, and now is in his post-enlightenment training.”
Yes, I am involved in post-enlightenment training. It is part of what has been called the Five Ranks of Zen, described by one Zen master Tozan. I am involved in the third phase, which involves balancing both the relative and the absolute within ones experience.
“He claims everything he does(walk, talk, eat) is better than others because he is awakened.”
With intentions to be deceptive as yours, I do not see how you can even consider yourself as interested in something like yoga. And it is my own understanding that you should avoid something like yoga altogether, it is only going to make you more egoistic and blinded by your own attachments. I have never said anything about things being better or worse, if you were being mindful while reading messages you would have understood what I was saying. I have said that the same actions done by one who is conscious are of a totally different quality than those which arise out of unconsciousness, just as there is no humbleness in bowing down, or any silence in sitting still. Actions have no quality in themselves, it is ones state of awareness which is flowing beneath the actions.
“He claims he can even steal if he wants despite being awakened and it would make no difference to the fact that he is awakened.”
As far as I am concerned, I have no desire to do such a thing. When I said that a Buddha can even steal and it makes no difference to his being, I was simply saying again, actions have no quality in themselves. There is one well known Zen master who used to steal. And he would steal useless things, like one shoe - or an apple from the marketplace. He used to get caught and be thrown into the jail again and again - so much that he even asked the police to keep him into the jail because he was just going to do the same thing again. His disciples were absolutely confused, how such a great Zen master could be stealing. Nearing the end of his life, the disciples couldnt help but ask him why he used to steal. He said that it was because he wanted to be thrown into the jail so that he could teach Zen there, to these people whom nobody has cared for, that these people are deserving just as much as being in possession of the method towards transformation as anybody else. And that is precisely what he had done - he turned the whole jail into a kind of monestery.
Yes, it is stealing. But his stealing is of a totally different nature than that of somebody who is stealing out of greed. So again, I want to make it clear - that actions have no quality in themselves, it is ones state of awareness which determines their quality. If still, you have trouble understanding this - then you are just seeing and remaining absolutely blind, hearing and yet remaining absolutely deaf.
Allow me to demonstrate:
And he was like that because he was tired of not-finding an answer for the “why” question? It sounds like a fine deduction to be made on a legendary personality such as Buddha.