For anyone interested, the title of this blog appears to refer to this essay by Heidegger:
https://ebookppsunp.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/martin_heide...
You're enlightened – now what?
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#22I knew a guy, twenty years my senior, who claimed he had once been enlightened for a week. He had just stumbled into it, to borrow a phrase from the article. As far as I know he did nothing with it. Just revelled in it (if that is an appropriate word for such a dispassionate state) and after a week he fell back into his old self. He regretted that.
To me it sounded awfully like a temporary mental affliction back then, but who is to say?
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#23What a weird article. It makes several assumptions that seem entirely unproven, such as that someone who is enlightened would immediately want to "spread the word". Similarly, worries about the practicality (or not) of enlightenment seem very un-enlightened almost by definition.
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#24You are always enlightened, and you are always not enlightened.
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#25I honestly don't get the point of the article. Is it supposed to be a jab at the modern mindfulness wave? Or is it actually speaking of "enlightenment" as it's understood in most spiritual practices, in which case none of the questions even make sense?
The article desperately tries to push all the triggers like a nerd on a party who tries to small-talk about science with a beauty queen who already has achieved inner emptiness.
Beauty queens can be scientists too, you need to check yourself.
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#26It feels like working towards enlightenment is what gets us there, once we are there and not thinking about achieving it, do we just settle down and willow in comfort? Losing the enlightened state. So all these back to chopping wood quotes make sense.
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#27This article is what yall want on the front page?
The author submitted and probably vote-manipulated to get it there.
It's a content-less article, it has nothing to do with hacker values or software or entrepreneurship.
Please vote responsibly, everyone!
Re: You're enlightened – now what?
#28You're Enlightened implies an "I am Enlightened". Now, you're somebody special. This very realization takes you out of Enlightenment.
Impossible to define Enlightenment, we can only point to what it is not.
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#29"To understand is to forgive." -Blaise Pascal Now, go chop wood and carry water.
I would never have attributed that quote to Pascal as he mostly is depicted as quite judgmental. Or perhaps he thought he only needed to forgive himself?
Well, after enlightenment you clearly know that you need to chop wood and carry water on your own volition. Ok, technically very likely not for yourself, but still. "You do it for yourself" is the same lie we tell children when they need to go to school after all.
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#30If you're enlightened you're probably not asking yourself any of these questions nor reading this article.