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Originally Posted by wolfgang  Although there is a common theme, I hope. Just the termology can get specific or dogmatic. I just think anything that moves you into more love, peace, acceptance and harmony is in the direction of enlightenment. |
Yeah, sometimes people refer to enlightenment as something to aspire to someday, like some permanent state of blissful and guruhood, rather than something we can have right now, in this moment.
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Have to brush up on my Tolle. Which are the two things to not collapse together?
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1 = my thinking mind
2 = the consciousness that is aware of my thinking mind
It's worth re-reading The Power of Now, because just reading it can actually put you into the awareness of Being; aware that who you are is not your thoughts, who you are is not your job or anything you do or have or believe.
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Right no. And being down in the dumps about yourself is also a judgement. And then to be aware or more enlightened would not depend on self-esteem? Or to become more aware will naturally expose the self esteem as unneeded self judgement.
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That's how I think of it -- that works for me. Judging does not work so well for me (although evaluating does.)
I haven't read "Loving What Is", but I'll pick it up. The book I found the confronting stuff in was "Thousand Names for Joy".