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When there's conflict, you will automatically start to look for a solution and that's where spirituality comes in. But actually solving a problem requires peace and calm. And time. Ask the monks.

Hold it right there, mister! You need to confirm this realization with the proper dzogchen authorities.

writes for the Daily Mail... 

The Daily Mail On Sunday darn it!!   Also guilt by association is a fallacy. I love Peter Hitchens, his belated brother and Karl. That might also amount to a fallacy  .

Am I in a spiritual trap?

Yes. And you make perfect sense and I could hug you. You have a long journey before you and you will need friends. One poster in this thread has given you the plain truth, and your family will provide emotional backing, but the realization before you is only for you. It takes guts you never thought you had.

I totally agree. That's why asking someone to explain something outside the realm of logic according to the rules and language of formal logic is, in fact, illogical.

no, it's epistemological :-)

Can a being that mindfully transcends fear-rooted thought still have cause to arise the illusion of suffering? (Illusion because the natural state has awareness beyond the capacity to suffer.)

No.

Everyone else

I'm reminded of Heinlein. Then how come some put the capstone back on? Breadcrumbs?

semantics? not interested. also, you are wrong. goodbye.

Or know you are and think you are not.

yes, but that's the useless definition. please concentrate.

a useful definition: ego is who you think you are and know you are not.

Is ego transcendence considered to be the final stage before enlightenment? I’ve included definitions of ego transcendence below, which may need redefining.

 

Ego-transcendence: 1. The act or condition of going beyond ego or egoity, as in love, service, non-egoic discipline, or undivided attention for another. 2. An evolutive practice or technique which involves moving beyond prior limitations. This technique is known as essential for spiritual and psychological progress: see SADHANA. 3. A state or condition in which spiritual ecstasy is experienced by virtue of the release of a spirit-being from the confines of ego and egocentrism. 4. Any experience or process through which the spirit-being comes to know itself as it is, i.e., spirit and not ego or lower mind.

 

http://soulprogress.com/html/Glossary/EgoTranscendenceGlossary.html

Yes. 4.

You really have no clue.

Self realization. How: studying and applying the teachings. Why: see how.

Perhaps later. I propose, for the benefit of this forum, that we engage in a public discussion regarding the merits of vedic astrology. Since you brought it up, would you like to begin?

I advise you to really wake up, Nikolai1.  You know what you're doing is wrong, and soon enough your son will too. What will you tell him then? Daddy's a saint?

You are now "moving the goalposts". Sorry, I haven't got time for games. However, "to be happy" is truly the supreme goal. Good luck with that!

You called?

The bliss you seek lies beyond the personal, Bindi. Expectations schmexspectations.

I don't "feel" but -know- that it's completely unnecessary.  I hope you don't mind.

Chinmayananda's!

Not according to vedanta. Anyway, you seem to know already so it's all good.

I’ve led us slightly off topic. Mea culpa. I submit: knowledge is only for the qualified.

Yes. Well put. What is the "something"?

Nice! Nothing like traditional vedanta. Does knowledge provoke an experience?

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