Dr Dosti Regmi Blog

The Buddhist conception of enlightenment isn’t intellectual. It’s experiential. It’s kind of like being a parent: If I went back in time and tried to explain to my younger self what it feels like to be a dad, nothing I could say would adequately convey it. I couldn’t imagine what it would feel like to be a dad until I actually became one. In the same way, you cannot truly know what it’s like to be enlightened unless you’ve realized enlightenment. To be enlightened is to be liberated from our habitual reactivity, freed from our perceptions and ideas to see reality as it is without wanting it to be different. I would go further and say that enlightenment is also freedom from wanting to be enlightened. Any notion we have about what enlightenment is can get in the way of actually experiencing it. Put another way, enlightenment isn’t something you get or find; it’s something you rediscover—a state of being that has always been in you but that has been covered with made-up stories...

The you that you do not know. The reality is the Mind dreaming. The mind of the other is always enigmatic. There is no free will. There is no clear line between right and wrong. Death is negative only when you think about the end of all the positive possibilities. Death if accepted as neutral is neither positive nor negative. (Dreams tell us how our minds can manipulate the information. Before studying philosophy you are not serious. While you are studying philosophy, you are serious. When you have studied the philosophy , you will be no more serious. Vedanta is idealist and believes in non-duality. Zen is practical and says it's neither one nor two. It can be interconnected or even shunya.) - Book,What does it all mean (Thomas Nagel)