Self-liberation

[Tiny]

Dear folks,

for a long time I have wished to express myself about this, however I can of course not accurately describe the issue in the written word.
Even tho I'm not speaking from a Buddhist perspective nor was i ever influenced by it, I now find my own independant results to be curiously similiar to it.

I've always perceived that enlightenment is not something you achieve over time, but momentarily and something that you can easily and quickly lose again.
People always wonder the reason why the child is happier than the man. The name of this problem is desire. As man walks the material world he picks up attachments that occupy his spiritual bodies and cut him off from the divine within him.
Serious meditators long for what many have called the "NOW". When they experience, they know that it is the best experience they can have in the world. But how can one be in the now?
Clearly one can not be here in the present moment if his mind is somewhere else - when he is attached to something else. The key to breaking attachments is to let go off of them, to cease the desire that chain oneself.
One must also understand that dread and dislike are also forms of desire.
Man has many desires that he is not aware of such as: the desire to be comfortable, the desire for achievement, the desire for happiness and the desire to repeat.
It is obvious that the surrender of desire is an expression of high spiritual maturity that takes effort and will to achieve. One must not delude self by assuming that one can work self up to a point of enlightenment and then rest lazily in the illusion of achievement. It simply can not be earned. One has to work every day as were it day one.
Needless to say, attachment may cause man unimaginable suffering. I've found that suffering is intimately connected with desire.
Here in the physical world we one can observe for example, that not everyone suffers from pain. In fact there are people who take pleasure in it.
This goes on to show something.
Suffering is really an inner conflict with desire, like warmth and cold pressing against another causing thunderstorms. The desiring man lives in comfort that he can or may one day fulfil his desires, whatever they may be.
But the suffering one finds himself in a situation in which he is brutally facing that there is no way his desire can be fulfilled. This raises an incredible inner agitation as one's attachment is brutally ripped away from self yet at the same time he is still trying to hold on to it. He wants so bad but faces that he can't/can never have!
Unfortunately man can not help one another in the effort of purifying self from attachment, however one can only inspire others to work at it.
It is a true mystery why one attachese self so easily to the material world.
I suspect that it is a process of magnetization of certain energy bodies.
The spirit (driver) however appears to have a will of it's own that is capable of defying these magnetisms, therefore one can indeed purifie self from attachments.

Thanks for your time  


kind regards,

Paul

[TheGreatProvider]

The real truth can not be provided by external sources, it must be found by the owner of the truth.
One can only inspire annother to find the truth.

You got it!
Im not an experienced meditator i think, but who knows?
Iv felt the "now" menny times during meditation and i totaly agree that it is the best feeling iv ever had.
I dont know how much of the "now" i have felt but my goal is still to get that feeling and improve it with more clarification.

Peace!

[personalreality]

That's seriously right out of the book of buddha.

Though, it's such a different experience when you come to the same conclusions through your own exploration.  The revelatory experience is different.

the now moment in buddhism (and hinduism and sikhism) is called 'samadhi'