GENIUS FORUMS

A physical object starts and ends in our mind as just another thought or idea. A thing, conceptually, is defined by a context and the interpretations arising in that context. In that sense you're trying to make distinctions here where none are existing. The "thing" is formed by you in eve...

Bardo, such nihilism can feel liberating but certainly wouldn't qualify as enlightenment of any kind. Both nihilism and your "truth" appears to promote the same stuff: no real questions, no real answers. Truth is that your mind is all about questioning and answering. Walking away from tha...

If you were Enlightened you'd know all the answers to everything. More like, you know all that you must know. “Love says: ‘I am everything’. Wisdom says: ‘I am nothing.’ Between the two my life flows.” - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj No, if you were enlightened, you would know that there are no answers,...

A person does not become Enlightened, Enlightenment already IS. When you realize what Enlightenment IS, you know it no longer is "you" that is Enlightened. I read something to this effect several years ago and I decided that since I was already enlightened and just didn't know it, I would...

Thankyou for the welcome. Listening is not talking, just as enlightenment is not thinking. A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pou...

Ego is the "I" of the self. When the self becomes one with the Universal mind and looses it's duality it looses the I and becomes non-dual. What's an "Universal Mind"? Why would you call it universal and why would it be a "mind"? Does it function like a mind? "Uni...

Enlightenment is a state of being, not an objective thing or an opinion. "States" and "beings" are just more things you're bringing to the table, objective or subjective, it doesn't matter. You seem here like someone who kicks "things" out the front door and invites th...

Ego is the "I" of the self. When the self becomes one with the Universal mind and looses it's duality it looses the I and becomes non-dual. This is enlightenment.

But I say, therefore I don't know.

Kunyab wrote:The answers I have gotten so far have only increased my confusion on the matter. It seems as if enlightenment is not a objective thing but a matter of opinion.

Enlightenment is a state of being, not an objective thing or an opinion.

Enlightenment?
Those who know, don't say.
Those who say, don't know.