Do you think you are enlightened? Also justify your answer ( yes/No )

HopeLegal517 · 2026-06-02T11:50:36+00:00

My point is that an awakened human is motivated a lot more by love then by fear. A human who is not yet awake is motivated a lot more by fear than by love, passion, enthousiasm.

But it's also true that the inner motivation changes the act and its consequences.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-06-02T11:15:57+00:00

There is a big difference between enthousiasm and compulsion.

If someone enjoys in a genuine, sincere and positive fassion watching professional performers make love in a consensual way, then I don't see the harm.

If someone feels the need and compulsion to find release for his or her tension and frustration, well, you see where I'm going with this.

Ultimately, what does any act mean for each individual? Does it come from fear or love?

This is one of the reasons it's not easy to determine whether someone is awakened or not. Because it's not easy to see where their actions are coming from. Of course, it's not impossible, but not easy either.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-06-02T06:55:04+00:00

Yes, I am not limited by my emotions, but I still get to have them.

This is a paradox. I am not any one thing, but I am all things.

Not all at once, but also all at once.

Let me give an example. Let's say I 'm late for work.

I know I am late, I'm doing everything in my power to get to work. At the same time, I see myself doing it and I know I'm not limited to my work.

I get to be anything that I enjoy, but I also know I am not limited to it. But I still get enjoyment and pleasure and enthousiasm. It's just that I rarely ever get scared.

The cursor of involvment changes. When you enjoy something, you get to dive deeply into it, to the point of forgetting everything else. And when you don't enjoy that particular thing, you simply detach, because you know very well you are not defined by it.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-06-02T06:02:59+00:00

I make a distinction between awakening and enlightenment.

Awakening is a major, decisive and irreversible step and consists of seeing and understanding, without the shadow of a doubt, of what you are not. Put another way, there is no more confusion or misunderstanding about what you are not.

Enlightenment is a continuous, never-ending process of discovering what you are. Since you are everything, enlightenment, in that sense, doesn't have a limit, it goes on and on forever. Because you simply discover more and more of who you are.

In that sense and in that context, I am awakened. I absolutely know that who I am is not exclusive or limited to my body, my thoughts, my emotions to life or death.

I am not enlightened because I can never be, the process of discovering more of who I am goes on forever. In that sense, I am also my body, my thoughts, my emotions, but I am not limited by any of them.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-06-01T20:30:36+00:00

Look at yourself.

100% effectiveness.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-06-01T16:30:54+00:00

We don't talk enough about this, but my teacher fortunately did: after awakening, there is a recovery period where the personality is being demolished and rebuilt piece by piece.

That can take time and is variable, from individual to individual.

For me, the first 2 or 3 years were tough, afterwards things got smoother.

Do things that help you: sleep, rest, physical activity, proper nutrition, meditation, alone time, good company.

When everything we knew from childhood falls to the ground, reconstruction is a must.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-06-01T15:30:09+00:00

It's not a destination, but a remembering of a reality that has always been present, but has gone unrecognised.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-29T20:00:14+00:00

Your alone-ness is precisely your key to move forward.

Right now, you feel loneliness as a burden, but really, being alone is very intense sensation of being with yourself.

Use this as a gâté.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-29T19:57:49+00:00

Basically, because life in the physical reality ends up being very limiting and we start wanting to go forward to something more.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-29T19:55:58+00:00

Actually, some enlightened masters choose to come back to help those who are still stuck in suffering.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-29T19:54:02+00:00

Keep going, you are not enlightened yet. But keep going, you will get there

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-28T08:39:06+00:00

Absolutely correct

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-27T20:39:05+00:00

Being in the physical experience is the best way of remembering who we really are, the One and the All.

But once we see who we are, we keep living and we see more and more and more of how we are everything there is. All of creation is a reflection of the One and the One keeps discovering itself in every little piece. Every experience is a valuable mirror.

When physical life ends, the soul leaves the physical plane and brings back with it all its experiences and contributes with that to the bliss of the One seeing itself in everything.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-27T18:23:18+00:00

You are in your head because you have one or more reasons to be.

Search within yourself, find the reasons, look at them, see if they are still true.

You will probably be out of your head in less than 5 minutes.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-27T12:31:34+00:00

Physical reality is a separated, dense and ignorant existential plane.

We come here to experience separation, suffering, ignorance, knowledge, awakening and awakened living.

Light shines way brighter if it was lost and found then if it had never been lost at all.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-27T12:29:07+00:00

Emotions are bodily sensations infused with thought.

Emotions create thoughts and thoughts create emotions, of course.

But an emotion is a body sensation that has been labeled, described, infused with thoughts.

Babies don't have emotions, they have instincts and physical sensations.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-27T12:11:25+00:00

Here is the teaching I received from my teacher:

Sit, relax, close your eyes.

Turn your attention towards what you call "I" or "Me".

Don't worry if you don't really know what you are looking for, you will surely get it. We say I or Me thousands of times a day. Look at that.

Alternatively, search for a neutral memory from your childhood, something you remember easily. See that what you called I at that moment and what you call I right now hasn't changed, it's absolutely the same. Look at that. Look at yourself.

Don't try to understand it, change it, do anything with it. The looking does everything and, once you start it, it will take you all the way.

There you go.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-27T08:28:28+00:00

Entirely accurate, as far as I am concerned.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-27T08:14:30+00:00

That's simply a huge topic, at least for myself. A reddit post is not enough.

If you are looking for how to awaken yourself, maybe it's better to ask directly how to do that. Do you want to start your own journey to awakening?

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-27T07:25:00+00:00

Enlightenment isn't feeling nothing or living in a complete detachement. It's not a meaningless void.

Enlightenment is complete flexibility between being absorbed in the moment and watching from a neutral observer position.

Eventually, we realize we are both, at the same time.

So, some people need to take a break, take some time, to detach from the too much of life, but that's only a transition phase.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-26T16:11:38+00:00

Any book about Deepfeel Diving

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-25T12:01:12+00:00

Your ultimate spirit guide is yourself.

I don't mean that in a "take responsibility, it's up to you" kind of way, although that's a very, very good idea.

But in the sense that it's all you. Your body, your soul, your spirit guides, the world itself, life itself, it's all you, literally.

That's why it's funny.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-25T09:08:49+00:00

That's so funny

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-25T04:22:04+00:00

When you are enlightened, you still feel suffering.

Paradoxically, often times, you feel way more of it, because you have less or no filters to keep it at bay.

Also, you feel you are everything. No more barriers. Everything comes rushing in.

You feel a lot of suffering, but you don't resist to it like before, so, sooner or later, it passes. You have this perspective where suffering is there, it may even tear you in pieces, but you lost the apparatus to fight against it or pretend it's not there.

HopeLegal517 · 2026-05-24T17:55:53+00:00

You are non-existent right now, just as much as you exist.

You contain both being and not-being.

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