04-25-2014, 04:23 PM
That post (Manniz) reminds me of a story of a Master Yogi telling his student to go seek meditation in a far-off cave and when the Master comes to find the student packing his things for the trip he sees he is packing all sorts of paper and things. The Master asks what all that is for, and the student replies that it is so he can write down all the beautiful poetry and ideas he will have while he is in meditation. The Master immediately takes the supplies away and says that the student is going in to retreat to seek his true self and to become empty of distraction and that enlightenment is not realized through the externalization of one's thoughts but in through the correct, undiluted perceiving of the pure self.
I used to want to share every major realization I had as well, and in many cases did so on these forums. Sometimes I still do. Eventually I realized that the realizations were disjointed and if you took them out of context of eachother then you just had a broken system of thought and philosophy without substance. That doesn't mean the realizations in and of themselves were not useful, but that disconnected from the continuum of my experience they are snapshots that are more distracting than enlightening.
I used to want to share every major realization I had as well, and in many cases did so on these forums. Sometimes I still do. Eventually I realized that the realizations were disjointed and if you took them out of context of eachother then you just had a broken system of thought and philosophy without substance. That doesn't mean the realizations in and of themselves were not useful, but that disconnected from the continuum of my experience they are snapshots that are more distracting than enlightening.
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