Stalking enlightenment (not!)

[Eilias123]

If you can truly understand the meaning of this story, you will never need another support group, therapy, surrendering your free will under a so called teacher etc. The story comes from a song I once heard but have forgotten the title of it, otherwise i would have posted the youtube video!
 The Story goes something like this: A young man set out in the world to find enlightenment, true love, the meaning of life etc. He sailed the 7 seas and hiked over every continent for many years. After all of that he had still not found what he was seeking. But, he did hear of one man who had fulfilled it. He hiked up a tall mountain for many days until finding the man sitting under a tree. When he sat down beside the man the traveller asked him how he had reached enlightenment. The man told this story:
 He started out as a young man much like the traveller, he set out in the world to find enlightenment, true love, the meaning of life etc. He sailed
the 7 seas and hiked over every continent for many years. After all of
that he had still not found what he was seeking. But, he did hear of
one man who had fulfilled it. He hiked up a tall mountain for many days
until finding the man sitting under a tree. When he sat down beside the
man the traveller asked him how he had reached enlightenment. The man
told this story:
He started out as a young man much like the traveller, he set out in
the world to find enlightenment, true love, the meaning of life etc. He
sailed
the 7 seas and hiked over every continent for many years. After all of
that he had still not found what he was seeking. But, he did hear of
one man who had fulfilled it. He hiked up a tall mountain for many days
until finding the man sitting under a tree. When he sat down beside the
man the traveller asked him how he had reached enlightenment. The man
told this story:

[Biohazard]

[Wei Shan Yang]

Is it the U2 song..."but I still... haven't found... what I'm looking for" ?

[Eilias123]

with that title... I don't think so... hmm.

[Wei Shan Yang]

So you are saying we find enlightenment when we stop searching for it?

[Eilias123]

well one could interpret it that way... but it's not how I interpret it.

[White Knight]

Eilias123 wrote:He started out as a young man much like the traveller, he set out in
the world to find enlightenment, true love, the meaning of life etc. He
sailed
the 7 seas and hiked over every continent for many years. After all of
that he had still not found what he was seeking. But, he did hear of
one man who had fulfilled it. He hiked up a tall mountain for many days
until finding the man sitting under a tree. When he sat down beside the
man the traveller asked him how he had reached enlightenment. The man
told this story:
That is the search of the mind. it doesn't need to travel the world to find the purpose of life. And the best the mind can find is to be in process you like to be.

[Wei Shan Yang]

My feelings currently on enlightenment are...if I achieved it completely...then what? So I'm sort of happy to know some but not all there is to know, if indeed that is what enlightenment is.

[Guest]

Well, ok this doesn't totally relate to the story but it is about energy thus enlightenment..possibly...maybe... didn't want to make a new thread for this but wanted it somewhere related.

As I’ve stalked myself… I’ve come to a humbling realization. What I think and how I feel, doesn’t matter. Petty mistakes, verbal fights, awareness issues all don’t matter. What counts is knowing the ins and outs of … everything that is. The things we give negative attention to doesn’t matter when we’re diving into a black hole, vibrating to the point of invisibility, toying with the fabric of time, everything we do in daily life seems so small after we’ve seen energy and what it means to bend it at our will.

My biggest issue is how I would like to spend this power. If energy and what we can do with it is infinite, the possibilities are endless. How do I find more beings out there who share this, what can we do together, what can we do alone? I feel like I’m tripping on acid and I’ve never done acid. So much peace and quiet … if I had known it was this quiet here, I would have come sooner. Finally everything doesn’t matter and yet everything matters! Hoooo what a place to be at. We need to hang some Christmas lights at the entrance, show others where the doorway is.

[Wei Shan Yang]

What was that CC term? "Affectionate abandon" ...something like that. Thanks Kao, you really cut to the impersonal personal. Where we warriors are headed if not already there.

[FlutterTearfall]

Enlightenment is as mysterious as we allow it to be.

[Eilias123]

exactly.

[Wei Shan Yang]

Mystery indeed. And mysteries are meant to be solved...so its striking a balance between the two. Like surfing. The wave, the surfer, and the board between them, their link.

[ninth octave]

Are you pregnant Tiffany?

[Wei Shan Yang]

Its complicated. Physically...no. Just one of those warrior things.



Hi ninth

[Wei Shan Yang]

its about the nagual.

[seesaw]

Enlightenment is a bit of a pet peeve for me. Especially when people mix systems such as Sorcery and enlightenment.

My own experience is this non dual perception is just a new position of perception. It is a position of the assemblage point fixed in one place, the place where non duality is experienced.

It is merely one position out of thousands available to us. Currently it is popular and fashionable. For many of us it is our first real stalking task, find a new way of percieving the world and holding this perception.

Yes non dual perception is a vast arena for exploration and has myriad possibilities available to those whose attention is stabilised in it. It is experienced as a complete all engulfing way of relating to everything. But it is just one position of the assemblage point. After we have concieved of the assemblage point and experienced the shift to 'ruthlessness', it can be the first real way station on our journey out into the unimaginable.

[Littlepaw]

is the story something about a myth? becoming part of the story and the myth of enlightenment?

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