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Enlightenment (spiritual): Is it really possible for humans to be without ego for prolonged periods of time?

Nope. Human egos don’t go away or get destroyed. They simply recede way into the background.
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Imagine your ego takes up most of your foreground. You think you are your ego and the body-mind that contains it. This is the condition of most people on the planet.
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Now imagine you somehow become absorbed in deepest Silence & Awareness. Everything just Is & it’s all perfect. Your sense of an individual “you” gives way to direct knowing of your Pure Beingness & Consciousness, with no subject or object present,
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This is the “experience” of enlightenment. (“Experience” here, is said with poetic license because in full enlightenment there is no “experiencer” left to experience it:-)
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If “enlightenment experience” recurs many times, or is simply strong enough first time, what happens is you begin to recognize & get used to your True Identity as that Pure Being Consciousness & stop believing your identity is temporary, illusory ego.
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The ego doesn’t disappear or die, it just recedes way into the background of your Awareness, like random notes of music coming from a house three doors down the street, or barely noticeable ripples on a vast calm ocean.
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You can call the ego to the foreground whenever it is needed, to perform “normal” daily functions like being social at a dinner party, balancing your checkbook, driving down a busy highway, etc.
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Once it is no longer needed, it recedes into the background.

In this way, you could say, enlightenment is nothing other than which “identity” floods your foreground, and which is still there but way in the background. It’s really quite simple.
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Truly enlightened, you abide in Being constantly, it becomes your constant foreground Awareness, not just for a “prolonged period of time,” but permanently. But you keep your ego, at least until that ego-body’s allotted time is up.
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And even if we live to 100, that allotted time is very brief indeed, just a blip,, and it’s gone. Bye-bye ego…you were just an illusion.

Teja Anand

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Apr 14
Enlightenment is often described as "being" the flow of life, with the acceptance that everything is impermanent... But isn't "living in the flow" what we are all doing anyway? Doesn't everybody already know that everything in life is impermanent?
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YOU are impermanent and YOU are the flow. In other words YOU are ever constantly changing flow of “experiences”. And it includes all your life, the whole perceived world.
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There is nothing outside of seeing, hearing, sensing, feeling, tasting, thinking. This is the world, life, constantly flowing.

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Apr 14
What was the key to Buddha's enlightenment? He obviously tried all the methods that we know about. What was his secret that seemingly no one else had tried before (at least that we know of)?
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Siddhartha felt cheated in the name of enlightenment.

When his master said, “You have to move on. I am only a teacher, not a master. I was pretending and I am very sorry!”. Buddha was totally shattered and tired.
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He went to take a bath in a nearby river, Niranjana. It is a very small river; in the summer it is not even one foot deep. And he was taking a bath, but he was so weak that he could not cross that small current.
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Apr 14
Why is it said that only psychological pain falls away after Enlightenment, but not physical pain? If Consciousness is our true nature and if it's really primary & prior to everything, then wouldn't we also be free of physical pain too?
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Pain is a general word universally applied to both body and mind.

But, are they both ‘pain’ ?

A lustful man could not possess a woman, and is suffering pain. A child was bitten by an ant, and is crying in pain.
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Is it fair to call both by the same word and idea called ‘pain’?

A psychological pain is purely caused by attachment and delusion.

Then, what is physical pain.

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FIVE STAGES OF HUMAN HEART

There are five stages of the human heart: dark, propelled, steady, devoted, and clean. By these different states of the heart man is classified, and his evolutionary status determined.
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THE DARK HEART

In the dark state of the human heart man misconceives; he thinks that this gross material portion of the creation is the only real substance, and that there is nothing besides.
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THE PROPELLED HEART

When man becomes a little enlightened he compares his experiences relating to the material creation, gathered in his wakeful state, with his experiences in dream,
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Apr 14
Blemishes or Doshas in a horoscope can actually be used to one’s advantage. The Doshas which scare you the most can actually be your friend and bail you out of critical situations.
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1. It is not just your horoscope that may have negative placement of planets or the so-called Doshas. Each and every horoscope has some negativity in it and the responsibility lies on the shoulders of the native to activate or deactivate it.
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2. An astrologer who tries to only see the negative yogas or the Doshas in the horoscope cannot offer solutions.

3. Negative yogas present in the horoscope can be overcome by positive Karmas.
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What does Mercury signify in astrology?
Its said that Mercury signifies skin, analytical thinking, rational mind, nerves, communication, travel etc. But why is mercury a significator of these things? What is the essence of Mercury?
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In astrology all planets represent some aspects of our character. Mercury represents our instinct to self-preserve.

This is the reason why Mercury is considered an embodiment of Vishnu, the preserver.
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What do we need to self-preserve ourselves? Let’s analyse how these significations help us to preserve and protect ourselves:
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