Perhaps. Although it's comparable to several other accounts I am aware of.
-
-
Replying to @euvieivanova
I'm aware of quite a few as well and many from the person themselves. Not everyone finds it as terrible as you did, and for many even if terrible, it passes quickly.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @iwelsh @euvieivanova
and then there are those for whom it causes permanent mental problems they never recover from - depersonalization, de-realization.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @iwelsh @euvieivanova
every nervous system is different, and i think "waking up" is different for everyone .. even "being awake" is different for everyone, different siddhis, different expressions ..
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @gregorylent @euvieivanova
Agreed. Yet there are paths and commonalities. A lot of people seem to follow something fairly recognizably the Buddhist 4 stage path, for example.
2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
recognizing that you are not your ego/personality/conditioning and actually getting significantly free of it are two different stages. You hit the first one, and you think it included the second. But it didn't. (There are reputedly cases where both happen at once.)
2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes -
Maybe a little bit of the second was included in the first, in some cases. But most of the time, the second just keeps getting cleared out more and more completely forever. It's very easy to imagine you're much more free of your conditioning than you actually are.
2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes -
The process of actively deconstructing & destroying belief systems and other conditioning has been the particularly lengthy and unpleasant part.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @euvieivanova @OortCloudAtlas and
This is true for me as well. Especially when you start to see beliefs and conditioning fucking everywhere, it can get overwhelming. Belief might be somewhat easier to work with, but virtually nothing is independent of conditioning.
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @euvieivanova and
You can't fully escape conditioning unless you're unconscious; you can only get better at recognizing it in real time, and loosening its grip. That's not to say you can't shed specific conditions -- but you'll always be replacing it with other conditions.
2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
Awakening is the process of learning the rules of the shed-and-replace game. You can only learn the rules of a game if you recognize the fact that you're playing the game, and that you're stuck in it.
-
-
Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @euvieivanova and
I think that the despair comes from getting the recognition but not yet having the skills to play well. There's a sense of helplessness as the truth turns out to be that suffering is a fundamental characteristic of experience, not that you can become enlightened and escape it.
0 replies 0 retweets 2 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.