Enlightenment in 3 quick and easy steps

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    Taken from: http://actualfreedom.com.au/richard/selectedcorrespondence/sc-i2.htm

    Step 1: Read and familiarize yourself with the above.

    Step 2: Search your brain for the "I" based on the description given above and the features described.

    Step 3: Keep searching until you notice that your "I" has disappeared.

    Notice the first line says "feeling yourself out subjectively". If anyone could clarify what he means please do so.
     
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    Here, Richard describes the "seeing" of the "I" as it is "That", or perhaps the source of all gods and imagination. Seer = seen.

    Taken from: http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/richard/listdcorrespondence/listd11.htm#15Jun13
     
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    This was a recent exchange with Richard:

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    The goal of this thread is to make your 'I' disappear from your brain. I am not sure if the feeler or exister has to die, but it requires that one discovers one's essence to reach the goal of freedom from the human condition which brings forth happiness and tremendous confidence.
     
  8. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    I don't want the I to disappear from my brain.
     
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    So you don't want to experience perfect days without an ounce of suffering?
     
  10. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    No, I don't.
     
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    We all need each other in order to learn, live and love for without others that couldn't happen.
     
  12. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    Without suffering, we wouldn't be human.
    I don't want bliss.
     
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    I hate to state the obvious, but a passive awakening is blissful, and retention of humanity pervades without excessive laughter as a medication.

    By far beats being awakened through pain and suffering.
     
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    Do enlightened people do anything useful?
     
  15. Fork Banned Banned

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    Yes, obviously. As I am currently in a partial state of Nirvana/ enlightenment, I can speak as a partial authority on the subject. It is freedom from pain and suffering and once you are in that state you can make anybody's day.
     
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    Feel the day enjoy the way, no price to pay, just thrice and you stay in the doorway.
     
  17. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    Freedom from pain.
    Really?

    Make anyone's day.
    Is that all?

    I don't want my day made.
    I want enough money to have a decent lifestyle.
    Stuff like that.

    I don't want an ego lobotomy.
    I'm quite content to be me.
     
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    Contentment has two stages. One with yourself and the other with everyone else.
     
  19. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    Contentment.
    Yes, I want that.
    Contentment is good.
     
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    Will ridding myself of my "I" help with my hangover, because I have a killer migraine that needs to go off and die.
     
  22. Arioch Valued Senior Member

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    I'd say that light goes pretty fast, and so do bullets. Both are a part of life...
     
  23. Fork Banned Banned

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    In the above description of the is extremely useful to achieving parinirvana or vipassana consciousness where "nothing dirty can get in" since everything dirty is caused by the illusory 'I' identity. It is the key. To achieve Nirvana simply use the above description as a means of locating the 'I' in the brain as the one thing that causes imperfection or dirtiness.
     

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