No matter what state the world was in when you were born
You would have adapted
No matter the severity
So when I think of unlearning
It’s such a hard concept to grasp for me because, yes, we can unlearn the things that we just simply don’t like
But on a deeper level, how can we reprogram ourselves out of the daily routine without knowing what else is possible?
Like how can we even begin to fathom what it looks like to completely unlearn if we only know one way?
And even that way has been so perfectly constructed that it doesn’t even allow us to dream bigger than the reality that has been created for us
We think our dreams have no ceiling
Yet, we only dream of what we can fathom
I know for a fact that I’m dreaming too small
But for me, my dream is to travel and see the world, meet new people
Experience new experiences that we would never have known existed had we not been to that corner of the earth
To me, those are the ways we can begin to fathom the the unfathomable

I grew up in finglas had my hands in all the wrong business ended up on drugs and lost all fitness.....feel my pain its running through my vein making me go insane dont no what my brain is saying touching the sky as if im flying in a plane feeling the highs of the cocaine down she goes then she slows here comes the lows body curled up and she folds no light no fight no bite no flight...no hope scruffy dirty no shower no soap best friends with a bag of coke hopeless homeless life feeling as if its a joke ....

I lived a dark live of drug use for a very long time... i got clean last november 2025 i woke up in january and sat at the side of my bed i look at the wall for a second and on the wall paper there is lines and shapes on it but flat normal wall paper i was amazed with what i could see and i could see 3D coming of the wall i ran down stairs to the kitchen to tell the family it was so exiting and when i got to the kitchen i could see energy waves like viberations now any where i go i see the structures behind all flat surfaces i feel free when with nature i see viberations and energy coming from all trees and plants its beautiful so iv learnd some meditation and can activate my pinealgland at any given time iv learnd how to cross over im able to see all the beautiful colors and the way they swirl and move iv got to see my dead brother and butterflys the faces of mudras budda ... this is real very real iv lost contact with every other systems and plat forms and connected deeply with my own my frequency is tuned into mother nature mother earth i have connected to the hire being whitin me .. my my peace and love be with you all my you feel my energy through this message

I am a lost wreck wreck i have lost all self respect on the streets of dublin city sleeping in lane ways all dark and pissy full of pain and misery people look on with so much pitty while the drugs and volience still goes on up and down the liffey Sirens screamming sirens beamming sun rising birds chirping council men on the streets cleaning a new day of struggle to find lifes meaning. he stuck it in his arm he said the feeling is great it will do no harm whitin weeks he lost his soul and all self charm he went deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole as the lighter burns his face goes black as if he was playing in coal exhale and out blows his soul .. where am i going walking the streets all alone no where to go no home down comes the rain soaked to the bone as i lay on the ground and cry i look up i beg plz god just let me die... the old life i lived

I'm not a native English speaker I'm Polish but I believe I'm quite good, it's important to the story. In the last year I couldn't help but notice while watching movies and tv series that some words are being pronounce differently then I remember. I can't remember those words it hits me while watching something, but I'm certain I learned them to pronounce them differently. It wouldn't be overstatement to say I use English more then polish so it's like one of the words in my native language became different over night. I really don't know what to think about it.

Does anyone here ever think about the effect that engagement bait, AI, and any other bait and switch, lie, misrepresentation or generic letdown has on our trust?
Worldly concerns, for sure.
But yeah, trust. Eroded away, one insignificant unimportant little let down at a time. Jaded.
Aware that posting this here in the enlightenment sub might only yield answers like “it doesn’t matter”, and maybe that’s true from one perspective, namely the extreme big picture, and that’s a handy option to have, but what about everyone living this reality?
Is there anything we can do about this?

Do you know how you get a person to believe anything, or be okay with anything?
Get them disinterested in truth.
The same way a person can “lie” to themselves - you can’t actually Lie to yourself because a lie means the liar knows and the person lied to doesn’t. You can only bullshit yourself, which is different.
You bullshit someone by having them invested more in lies, or escape, and/or by wearing them down until they just don’t care anymore.
Then we’ll all be yearning for the easy answer, the convenient easily understood soundbite, the cult leader, the fake master, the snake oil salesman, and so on.

Is enlightenment about the fuzzy feelgoods, or seeing a little more clearly bit by bit?

Im scared of going insane
doesn’t matter how much I ground

I still manage to loose myself in knowledge I never knew could be available.

Exclusive information?
yea oki.

Good thing I can still regulate my emotions & take accountability ofmy actions, that means I must be a lil sane.

Right?

Somebody help me, i feel like porn is a tool from the darkness, it saps my light i know people and children are being exploited and trafficked but i still keep coming back to it, my mind attacks me everyday nonstop, how do you break free from this psy op?

The words in your head are flesh / The words in your head are not flesh

Prometheus is a Titan who defied the Olympian gods by giving fire to humanity, symbolically in the form of technology, knowledge, and civilization.

Due to this disobedience, he was condemned to eternal torment, bound to a rock, with an eagle feasting on his liver. His liver would grow back overnight, only to be eaten again, and again.

Sounds absolutely tragic. I’m sorry, Prometheus. You got a bad deal. And what the hell, Zeus? Kind of an overreaction…

Jokes aside, I feel like I might be seeing what the original authors were hinting at, so explore with me here.

No other animal can maintain or use fire like humans do. We do not think about it much now because we have electricity, which is relatively new. For much longer, we depended on fire and lived with it every single day.

Research on early controlled fire use at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa -(https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3356665/)

Imagine what this may have done to us. With fire, we became separate from the world around us.

We were the only species using fire. Everything stayed away from it. Fire had incredible power. It gave warmth, protection, light in darkness, and safety against predators. So naturally, we felt power too. And in many ways, we did have it. Fire helped give us the ability to spread across the planet and become the dominant species. It helped make us who we are today.

But... at what cost?

Fire gave us safety. Safety gave us time. Time gave us the ability to time-travel, meaning we can think about the past and think about the future. We can get lost in deep thought, plan the architecture of a whole building, replay libraries of memories all while imagining infinite possibilities. It is our symbolic mind. This is part of what separated us.

Other animals live much closer to the present moment. We can leave the now and soar upward into thought, into imagination, into meaning, into complete new worlds. And because of that ability, we became who we are today. Our books, our progress, our culture, and our understanding, came from the power of symbolic thinking.

But it is this exact power that is the glitch: mistaking imagination for reality.

Our bodies can react to a story in the mind as if danger is happening now. And because of this, we suffer. We can’t stop thinking. This is our ability! This is what makes us human!

Maybe that is why Prometheus was punished the way he was.

The eagle, flight, a creature of the sky, high above the earth, may represent thought itself. The mind that rises upward into imagination, memory, fear, and future. Each day, it returns to feast on our liver, and we feel the wound through our emotions as our spirit starts to wither..

That is what thought can do when we do not understand it. It can descend from the clouds and tear into us with rage, regrets, anxiety, and dread. With stories that can rip the meaning of life from us.

But knowing this, and not knowing it, is the key difference. Because once you know the glitch, you can recognize what is happening. It is simply biology, our body reacting to imagination. And once you know that, you can begin to step out of it.

This is what I do.

When I catch myself in negative thought loops, worrying about the future, trapped in the past, feeling sadness or anxiety over things I cannot control, I tell myself this.

This is the glitch.

Then I come back to the present. To what is real. To what I still have agency over.

When the eagle returns, remember: this is the glitch.

And come back home.

Recently I have tried mushroom, expecting to have a spiritual and mystical experience, but what I had is a mild high and eventually it wore off. I have tried the golden teacher and I know the one that I have got is genuine.

So is there anything wrong with me or my body, that I'm not reacting to it, or is my dosage not enough to have a mystical experience?

Can anybody explain?

 I am always thinking about true love and what it really means. Does it mean compatibility, whether emotional or physical? Does it mean finding security by fulfilling our weaknesses through our partners? Or is it an animal instinct that drives us to reproduce and bring better offspring into the world, with love acting as a natural tool to facilitate this process?

Is love simply an instinct to keep our genetic legacy alive in this world, something every species tries to achieve in its own way, expressing similar emotions? Are we really any different?

I think about so many questions, yet I find no definitive answers about love. Somehow, however, I inherently know that nothing else quite belongs in the category of love.

Slowly and steadily, I have begun to understand the different emotions human beings experience and how these emotions shape us as we grow and evolve. One of the most important among them is desire — our emotional desires and our longing for recognition. People want to be recognized and praised for various qualities valued by society, such as beauty, intelligence, position, and power.

Our social system is designed to sustain itself. It pushes us to earn more money and secure a position within the machinery of society so that the system continues to function, operate, and survive. It prepares us to become part of that system. Needless to say, some people work at the top, some in the middle, and others at the bottom.

Throughout this process, an image of ourselves is created. Our attachment to that image is what we call the ego.

Can we say that the thoughts and emotions generated by the ego will lead to right action or ultimately guide us towards unconditional love?

Unfortunately, most of our actions seem to arise from desire, which often brings chaos, unfaithfulness, and further conflict into our lives.

Sometimes, we are told to keep the glass empty. An empty glass can be filled. But what does this really mean? Does it mean freeing ourselves from our biases and questioning the image we have created of ourselves?

As we search for unconditional love, it becomes important to understand one fundamental question: Who are we?

As seekers, we need to understand what lies within us and what is actually seeking fulfilment. Is it the image we have created of ourselves, constantly looking for security, pleasure, and power? What is it within us that is seeking these things?

Are we trying to escape our deteriorating relationships, the sorrow we carry, or the emotional wounds we have accumulated over time?

These causes may prevent us from understanding love because we are too occupied with fulfilling our desires and protecting our identities.

Love, however, seems to know only one path: the path of unbiased truth. Truth emerges through silence and observation — through the ability to observe every action and the emotions that give rise to it without immediately judging or justifying them.

So, what should we do to recognize this truth?

1. Recognize the image you have created of yourself.

Question it. Examine it. Be willing to shatter it if necessary. Sometimes, the image we create of ourselves is merely a mask designed to hide our weaknesses and insecurities.

2. Recognize the biases you have accumulated over time.

Question them rationally. Try to understand where they come from. Are they simply survival strategies? Has the mind created them to provide security or help us fit into society?

If you look deeply enough, you may discover that you have been carrying these biases like a burden throughout your life without ever truly examining them.

3. Observe what remains when you begin to question these images and biases.

Perhaps you will find loneliness and silence. Perhaps you will encounter a heart filled with pain, a heart that has long felt ignored, suppressed, or overpowered by responsibilities and external influences.

You may find yourself constantly comparing your life with that of others: Look at the Chatterjees. They have bought a car and a house.

Amid these comparisons and expectations, your own inner voice is rarely heard.

These three points may seem simple, yet putting them into practice can be difficult.

Some people become monks, leave society, or separate themselves from their families in an attempt to free themselves from their biases and attachments. They try to break away from their social identities, only to enter another system in which they believe they have attained moksha — liberation.

But do they truly understand maya, the illusion that can bind the mind? Perhaps they have simply fallen into another trap, becoming attached to a different identity: that of a liberated person.

Sometimes, I wonder whether people search so desperately for love that, when they cannot find it, they end up inventing God.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna also brings attention to the distinction between attachment and love.

Recognize the difference between attachment and love.

The statement sounds simple, but what I understand from it is the importance of recognizing the chain of actions that arises from attachment and distinguishing it from the actions that arise from love. Doing so requires deep observation, freedom from bias, and awareness.

Attachment brings sorrow, while love points towards liberation.

Attachment arises from desire — from the urge to become something or someone. Once we become what we have desired to be, that achievement can become another image constructed by thought. We then begin to act in ways that protect and sustain that image.

Just observe the faces of people working in offices. They may have good salaries, impressive positions, and material comforts, yet deep down, many may still be unhappy. They have been pushed or compelled by circumstances and expectations to follow a path that may not reflect what they truly want.

They carry their sadness behind artificial smiles.

I can now see and recognize the actions that arise from attachment more clearly. However, actions that arise from love remain a mystery to me, because I first need to understand what love truly is.

My search is still ongoing.

I will keep this article short for now, as the journey of exploration continues. I will share more in my next article.

But what does unconditional love mean to you?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts and perspectives.

How do you spend a lifetime if nothing is of interest anymore?

All feelings, attraction looks meaningless. Existence looks meaningless. I have no clue what do when I am not working.

I choose to believe that enlightenment isn’t the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s more about how you choose to carry your light through the world.

I believe it’s about living in sync with your soul out loud.

Not a single moment, rather an every day continuation of choosing right over wrong, good over bad, the feeling of an energetic yes running through your body over biased perception, and so on.

Hello everyone! It is nice to see this room exists!

I need to feel supported in this next phase of work. So I will get straight to it. My original awakening happened about 12 years ago…. I was spontaneously pulled into the white light. I’ll keep this short. I suffered 2 near death experiences exactly nine months apart (Peruvian Shamans made a big deal about it but when they began to fight about it so I walked away) My visions are strong, people and animals are quick to attach to me and become possessive (I am working on detachment concepts). I am not sure why I am being asked to come out of the shadows like this, I do not seek outside validation or attention but this was what I was asked to do. I understand this very post takes me outside of my comfort zone so I know I can expect insight, kindness and respect, and growth…..

Every time I watch something seemingly important like with the president of vice president while on shrooms there seems to be some kind of shield that prevents me from reading the energy like I would with any other programming or show. I remember watching a press conference with Donald Trump and everything he was saying including the way he was saying it felt so intentional. And like he has a shield that prevented me from "reading" his energy. Usually in high dose of shrooms, I can feel people's aura and can usually tell if someone is lying or acting or pretending but for some reason it felt neutral while watching the conference. Like it was blocking me from reading into the energy. Anyone else notice this?

My theory is that maybe my brain processes it as important and filters what im seeing and hearing through a different filter than if I was watching regular entertainment. So maybe I perceive it through a more sober lense because my brain works harder to focus and prioritize what I'm seeing and watching as important.

Hello everybody!

I thought I would share some of the teachings of the Buddha. The word enlightenment is loosely defined nowadays it seems, but the way the Buddha used the word was very clear.

According to the Buddha, enlightenment is the full realisation of the unconditioned state, also known as Nibbana. The fully enlightened being is through this realization freed from all future states of being and from all emotional distress in this life. With the breaking up of the body the fully enlightened being is extinguished. That is not to say that there is no existence however. It's also not say there is existence. There is however no more endless birth and death.

The way to this realisation of Nibbana and liberation from endless birth and death is the eightfold noble path. It's not a very complex or abstract path, but a collection of instructions which when followed will lead to some stage of enlightenment (there are four).

If you have further interest I can highly recommend Ajahn Sona on YouTube!

May we all be at ease! :)

Woman originally came from Man (I mean all the way back up the chain at the beginning) / Woman did not originally come from Man (I mean all the way back up the chain at the beginning)

It actually is one of the two.

For every proposition, either it or its negation is true.

Well, I know which one I am going with.

"What am I supposed to do by watching this?"

"You're not supposed to do anything."

Anyone that understands shadow work, I will deeply appreciate any help or guidance you can give!

That's what I've gathered.

It has come to my attention that there are very deep flaws scattered throughout modern discourse of enlightenment. The mesmerizing concept has been obscured through projection of the modern morality and limited understanding of the world, coating it in mundanity. It is time to leave this tiring framework of thought and acquaint ourselves with enlightenment as it has been understood since the dawn of time, through the eyes of a child.

All great men or even men who are a little out of the common, that is to say capable of giving utterance to something new, must by their very nature be criminals - more or less, of course. The extraordinary individuals are necessarily in conflict with nature, because the path to any worthwhile destination will cut maze walls in evermore creative ways, that will only ever be known to the few people who discover them on their own.

The origin of human consciousness is an awakening to the invisible disarray around us. Conscious or not, humans are machines that seek means to an end, and the ordering of chaos is the foundational desire of a human mind, beyond any carnal or social desire. Discovery and creation are 2 sides of the same coin, so to discover, that is, create order, is the the answer to the last question, it is the true meaning of enlightenment.

An enlightened person is, first and foremost, the architect of their own life. They do not yearn, compromise or come to terms with what they cannot change, instead they simply do the impossible. Their lives are guided by controlled obsession as opposed to desire. They are intelligent, knowledgeable and physically fit. There may be exceptions, but never in more than one of these qualities. They simultaneously live a life of monastic discipline and rampant hedonism, virtue and malice, success and failure. They flout the rules of nature with elegance and composure.

Do not fall for the trap of altruism; a life of subservience is a life of wasted potential.

Do not fall for the trap of mundanity; the world is truly mystical.

Never lose focus of the vision.

That is the basis of all spiritual development.