Many enlightened people or at least those who claim like Echat Tolle and some Zen people i know claim that there is no soul, or anything separate at all. That to die is like a water drop in the ocean, dissolves like never existed. They seem to be happy about it and seem to think that it is the ultimate truth.
Why would anyone be trying to realize that they don't even exist? I don't understand that. Much of Buddhism makes sense except those Zen Buddhists, meditating all day trying to experience the no self. And those enlightened people that go around smiling telling people THERE IS NO SOUL! YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS which is not separate from universal consciousness in any way!
Those things make me depressed. I like to take third perspective on my situation, but enlightenment is far too much. I keep thinking about it like "man if he is enlightened he probably knows the truth and if this is truth then what is the point of everything?"
2007-02-12
03:40:42
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Eugene T
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