Self inquiry is like a silent atom bomb it’s silent and cataclysmic and what happens from that first self implosion into boundless serenity and whether it leads in the long term to more or less wellbeing depends on so many factors
Because it can be traced back to as the precursor to disarray either now or later it’s not safe to desribe it as the solution to suffering because it can also cause it and sometimes lead to more than what you started with, and for some people it’s irreparable and even deadly. mportantly it depends a lot on what your intentions are for engaging in it and what your expectations are
As in why are you doing it?
Truth
Liberation
Curiosity/an astonishing experience of a different way of perceiving
Frommmy own experience
You’ll take it to be truth and it convincing is, but after that I see there’s no absolute truth just many interpretations of it and truth itself evolving !
If you do caught up in it being truth you’ll make yourself susceptible to authoritarianism, gaslighting, and rigid way of thinking and sacrifice all sorts of vital things by dying for it - this is a
If you expect liberation you will get stuck in bypassing, make sacrifices that didn’t need to be made, and turn down volume on you humanity and dull the bright colors of your unique personality and squash the flame of your individuality
Please don’t expect the first two. You can do everything right, hit all the non-attainment milestones, etc. you can experience them intermittently or persistently for periods of time but
Some say jump now! I say look before you leap and there’s thousands of others who want you to hear that too.
It doesn’t mean don’t do it it means to be discerning to try to get a more balanced picture from those who have been down this path, those who are not in any way invested in showing it in a mostly positive light , and most importantly hear from those who are further down the path who can reflect on how things changed.
Keep an ear open for nuance, and for absolutes and know what … listen with an open mind to the harm so you can make a good decision.
You’d want to know about the common side effects before taking a potent pill that will change your life dramatically would you?
I would say to look at it like psychedelics - right now those giving it out don’t even know and aren’t going to tell you, I would say look at set and setting , consider bad trips, proclivities, the shift when it happens will be just as reality inverting.
We do hear in the religions only positive but that just means we didn’t hear about those for whom it wasn’t…those weren’t the stories people focused on!
It’s not attacking but those invested in it it’s not necessarily financial etc but can be same blind spot as when people really psyched about psychedelics and rheir potential to help, don’t look into the dangers and how common they are and say that they recommend everyone do them, in a negligent way.
So you might want to hear how deep and dark the pitfalls are, I don’t know if I would have done anything differently, but I would have liked my 25 self to have heard. It might at least have cautioned me to seek as balanced as possible and not go so extreme , and of course to see it not as a permanent thing but a stage to the unity of opposites, and to know about that stage of the both/and not thrown out the baby
to me
It opened the gates to both a peace and a hell that passeth understanding, to not just a peace but a hell as well.
Peace beyond my wild dreams and
Inquire into self inquiry
Because of how many I’ve heard from now I can say confidently that thousands would
Be healthier today and many still alive if self inquiry led no-self wasn’t pointed casually …
If it was still safeguarded in the ways it had originally intended to be / had been in new ways to adapt to our modern context where it’s been commodified, in books and YouTube
It’s like before we knew smoking causes cancer often enough to warrant a label
Instead of saying here’s what it isn’t I.e. self dev or a good way to address x or to improve your personal life , that it’s not for people looking for a better personal life, in a caring explanatory way
They say this while putting down and mocking those who do want that and who won’t want the teachings after hearing this helpful info!
Because it can be traced back to as the precursor to disarray either now or later it’s not safe to desribe it as the solution to suffering because it can also cause it and sometimes lead to more than what you started with, and for some people it’s irreparable and even deadly. mportantly it depends a lot on what your intentions are for engaging in it and what your expectations are
As in why are you doing it?
Truth
Liberation
Curiosity/an astonishing experience of a different way of perceiving
Frommmy own experience
You’ll take it to be truth and it convincing is, but after that I see there’s no absolute truth just many interpretations of it and truth itself evolving !
If you do caught up in it being truth you’ll make yourself susceptible to authoritarianism, gaslighting, and rigid way of thinking and sacrifice all sorts of vital things by dying for it - this is a
If you expect liberation you will get stuck in bypassing, make sacrifices that didn’t need to be made, and turn down volume on you humanity and dull the bright colors of your unique personality and squash the flame of your individuality
Please don’t expect the first two. You can do everything right, hit all the non-attainment milestones, etc. you can experience them intermittently or persistently for periods of time but
Some say jump now! I say look before you leap and there’s thousands of others who want you to hear that too.
It doesn’t mean don’t do it it means to be discerning to try to get a more balanced picture from those who have been down this path, those who are not in any way invested in showing it in a mostly positive light , and most importantly hear from those who are further down the path who can reflect on how things changed.
Keep an ear open for nuance, and for absolutes and know what … listen with an open mind to the harm so you can make a good decision.
You’d want to know about the common side effects before taking a potent pill that will change your life dramatically would you?
I would say to look at it like psychedelics - right now those giving it out don’t even know and aren’t going to tell you, I would say look at set and setting , consider bad trips, proclivities, the shift when it happens will be just as reality inverting.
We do hear in the religions only positive but that just means we didn’t hear about those for whom it wasn’t…those weren’t the stories people focused on!
It’s not attacking but those invested in it it’s not necessarily financial etc but can be same blind spot as when people really psyched about psychedelics and rheir potential to help, don’t look into the dangers and how common they are and say that they recommend everyone do them, in a negligent way.
So you might want to hear how deep and dark the pitfalls are, I don’t know if I would have done anything differently, but I would have liked my 25 self to have heard. It might at least have cautioned me to seek as balanced as possible and not go so extreme , and of course to see it not as a permanent thing but a stage to the unity of opposites, and to know about that stage of the both/and not thrown out the baby
to me
It opened the gates to both a peace and a hell that passeth understanding, to not just a peace but a hell as well.
Peace beyond my wild dreams and
Inquire into self inquiry
Because of how many I’ve heard from now I can say confidently that thousands would
Be healthier today and many still alive if self inquiry led no-self wasn’t pointed casually …
If it was still safeguarded in the ways it had originally intended to be / had been in new ways to adapt to our modern context where it’s been commodified, in books and YouTube
It’s like before we knew smoking causes cancer often enough to warrant a label
Instead of saying here’s what it isn’t I.e. self dev or a good way to address x or to improve your personal life , that it’s not for people looking for a better personal life, in a caring explanatory way
They say this while putting down and mocking those who do want that and who won’t want the teachings after hearing this helpful info!