How to experience open enlightenment?
12th December 2010
On a first reading and watching, this seems like a p2p-compatible form of spiritual practice, i.e. with a self-reflexive teacher who insists on personal responsibility:
(however, it seems the Open Enlightenment project, from which this is taken, will end)
How to experience enlightenment from Alan Chapman on Vimeo.
December 12th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Enlightenment about what?
This is also enlightenment: to become aware that we are all actually modern day slaves becausewe have to work, i. e. earn money, just to survive physically.
December 13th, 2010 at 6:03 am
pretty much the difference between the eastern enlightenment, which is about witnessing the mind, and the western enlightenment, which was to improve the mind and hence society through reason; but this version here is a western version of the eastern approach; I woul say that the new p2p approach is to focus on the horizontal, participatory aspects of consciousness, as vehicles for social justice ; I don’t know enough for the above to know if they take that aspect sufficiently into account, and whether therefore the approach has still a individualist, say even narcissic bias, but at the very least, it is very self-reflexive and self-criticial about spiritual authority, which is an important advance all by itself