-Removed-Seeking answers precludes attainment of the state of being which constitutes enlightenment. Seeking answers fills the mind with distraction, whereas the state of enlightenment consists in mindful awareness of what is without distraction.
Consider the lilies of the field; they do not seek answers, neither do they suffer distractions.
-Removed-Perhaps you appreciate now why I do not often contribute to the spirituality forum. There are so few posters who are willing and able to engage in a civil discussion outside their cognitive comfort zone of familiar Christian concepts. The spiritual traditions of Asia, which you cavalierly dismiss as psychobabble, go back many thousands of years prior to Christianity. They know what they are talking about. If you do not wish to even consider the possibility that a nonChristian spiritual tradition can have validity, then there is no point in continuing this.
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-Removed-False binary. Your mistake, not mine.
I wrote “mindful awareness” not “brainless”. I guess you missed that.
When the little chattering voice you think you hear behind your eyes and between your ears stops pestering you with incessant questions and monologues, when your mind has learned to be calm and not made calm (with drugs or whatever), then you will understand.
@moonbus saidYou sound like you're whistling the book-learning equivalent of "I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt".
Perhaps you appreciate now why I do not often contribute to the spirituality forum. There are so few posters who are willing and able to engage in a civil discussion outside their cognitive comfort zone of familiar Christian concepts. The spiritual traditions of Asia, which you cavalierly dismiss as psychobabble, go back many thousands of years prior to Christianity. They kno ...[text shortened]... hat a nonChristian spiritual tradition can have validity, then there is no point in continuing this.