“Awakened people are out there, and some people do stumble into it with minimal practice, and I wish it were this easy to get to it, but It’s probably not.”
Having read the preceding descriptions, I find myself wondering if I’m one of those stumblers. If “awakening” is defined by the quote you provided, “suffering less and noticing it more”, that’s exactly how I feel today when I compare to myself a few years ago. In casual terms, I’d say I’ve been blessed with the almighty power of not giving a crap; I know exactly when something should feel bad, but I can’t bring myself to let it affect my mood, because I’ve successfully and singularly focused myself on what truly matters and can never be taken from me. The thing is, I’m not a meditator; although it’s been recommended to me plenty in other circles, my feeling has always just been “I don’t need it”, because I’m very adept at directly editing my cognitive schemata. If I really want to change something about myself, I just do it, and it happens. So I got to this point simply by finding a very compelling reason to put in the effort of changing how I internally relate to external circumstance, and it worked. So I’m curious how you would precisely define “awakening”, or as others call it “enlightenment”, and how would you advise one to self-diagnose whether or not they’ve got it?
“Awakened people are out there, and some people do stumble into it with minimal practice, and I wish it were this easy to get to it, but It’s probably not.”
Having read the preceding descriptions, I find myself wondering if I’m one of those stumblers. If “awakening” is defined by the quote you provided, “suffering less and noticing it more”, that’s exactly how I feel today when I compare to myself a few years ago. In casual terms, I’d say I’ve been blessed with the almighty power of not giving a crap; I know exactly when something should feel bad, but I can’t bring myself to let it affect my mood, because I’ve successfully and singularly focused myself on what truly matters and can never be taken from me. The thing is, I’m not a meditator; although it’s been recommended to me plenty in other circles, my feeling has always just been “I don’t need it”, because I’m very adept at directly editing my cognitive schemata. If I really want to change something about myself, I just do it, and it happens. So I got to this point simply by finding a very compelling reason to put in the effort of changing how I internally relate to external circumstance, and it worked. So I’m curious how you would precisely define “awakening”, or as others call it “enlightenment”, and how would you advise one to self-diagnose whether or not they’ve got it?