03-20-2016, 06:53 PM
(03-20-2016, 06:34 PM)maxx55 Wrote:(03-20-2016, 06:08 PM)SargeMaximus Wrote: Cool post. Have you read "The Power of Now"?
I have not yet, but I fully intend to. I think someone gave me that book a while ago.
It's also not until recently that I realized it's important to proactively read books like that. Before I just thought "Oh, I'm going to read that book. I heard from Tyler/Julien/Preston/etc. it's good". Now I see I should always look for it and continually read.
Maybe. I read it twice already, and I'm starting it again.
I stopped practicing entirely because I found that being present and enlightened did little to help with seduction.
I even experienced nirvana or enlightenment when I was practicing it regularly. It's great but doesn't solve any problems or accomplish any goals, unless your goal is to be enlightened.
I guess I thought back then that enlightenment would bestow some magical powers to me or something, but of course it does not (aside from the presence and social boost it gives).
I think it's summed up best in this old Zen saying:
"Before enlightenment: Mountains are mountains and waters are waters.
During enlightenment: Mountains are no longer mountains, and waters are no longer waters.
After enlightenment: Mountains are again mountains and waters are again waters."
Or as a Zen Master said when someone asked him what living with enlightenment was like, he said "Oh it's just like every-day, ordinary experience, except about 6 inches off the ground."
