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Jed Rant: Myths of Truth Realization
Jed McKenna:
It's one thingy when in it's genuine form/experience, but goes by a number of names; enlightenment, your True Nature, Self-realization, etc. Don't ask me why.
It also has a variety of myths attached to it, some are close to the bull's eye but many are not. Let's have a look at a few:
Myth 1: T/R will make you happy.
Happy is a state, an emotion usually caused by a pleasant conversation in your head. Happiness comes and goes and has nothing to do with T/R. If you reach T/R you may be happy or you may be sad, you may experience pain and you may experience pleasure, but, as Nis said, and is my experiences as well, they will lack their sting. If you look closely at happiness and pleasure you will find their is a strange little sting to them because they come straight out of Maya/ego. T/R has an indescribably quiet joyful ordinariness to it.
Myth 2: T/R will make you rich and money will just flow into your world.
Sorry to disappoint you. The two whom I often refer to, Nis and Ram, had next to nothing in terms of money, but in another sense they were wealthy beyond imagination. They had the universe. A truly enlightened person (impossible of course) understands wealth in a very different way than a business tycoon. Having said that, one may be a sage and tycoon at the same time... very rarely.
Myth 3: You can get enlightened.
Nope, the person never achieves T/R, it's the ''person-hood'' that must be sacrificed by seeing through it for T/R to be realized. Something few are ready to give up on. Maya/ego has a tight hold on humans.
Myth 4: You must do something to achieve T/R
You must do nothing to realize what you are in this very moment. However, there are numerous Maya/ego barriers which very effectively hide that realization. Letting go of... seeing through these barriers is certainly something that is helpful, but it is in the vein of dissolution and not accumulation. In that dissolution one can make themselves more prone to the divine accident.
Myth 5: T/R folks have a certain look, certain behaviors and can thus be discerned.
The reality is you may have met, passed by, or even lived with someone who is fully T/R and not realized it. Sounds a little strange but how would you apply criteria and judge such a thing if you haven't realized it yourself. Sometimes T/R makes for big changes in a life and other times the outer appearances don't change much at all. I have observed this variation in Series students. What it might mean in your life, should you realize it, is dependent upon many variables.... and it's not up to you.
Conclusion: The ordinariness is something that you seldom read about, and T/R is remarkably ordinary... but I don't think you really want T/R. You want H/A. I'll rant about that next.
Love ya, Jed.
guest1374:
In all this I feel the need to write, to be clear and honest, might as well be here.
I can see how much I think this is going to do "for me." It's so obvious in this moment, it's been sinking in for a bit now, I see that in hindsight, but I can see how ego, has attached a lot to awakening, "what am I going to get out of this?" It's become immensely clear...... my money problems will be solved, life will just work our perfectly for me, everything will go my way, whatever that means, I know I'm being redundant, but it seems so obvious now. Like this was being held back in the shadows..... in the depths of my mind, and yet I can see how much it permeated, no matter how "good," our intentions ego can always slip in.
Yet, this recognition, that I've been holding out, saying I know enlightenment will get me nowhere and nothing, but really in the whispers of my mind saying, but yah... I mean that's fine, but it'll solve all my problems right?....... This recognition is huge. It feels big, it's a another step, towards removal of the false. I can't even say what in particular triggered this, it just did. I don't know..... Thank you
guest1374:
Truth is, there aren't any problems! No such thing exists, so if there is nothing to be solved, how could anything fix anything? If anything the more I wake up, the more I see "I," am the problem, I'm the one who thinks things need changing or saving, so what needs to go "Me," or all the other stuff, it would appear to be me.
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Jed McKenna:
Good work there Ian.
Cheers.
Frits:
Yes, Jed, I agree. But the thing is, anyone who's looking for enlightenment (or what you wanna call it) is not going to believe what you just ranted. That seeker is still going to believe you are probably wrong and he will gain something when enlightened. He won't know and see there's nothing to get and everything to lose until he gets there (not really gets there, cos who could go somewhere, but you know what I mean)
Apparently even The Buddha said that enlightenment gave and brought him absolutely nothing, but do the Buddhists believe him? Nope.
Anyway, good rant, true-ish the least. :) :D ;D
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