Spiritual Knowledge VS Actual Experience

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[@khaladaglarion]

Hey Julie,
thanks for sharing,
and please allow me to share my own experiences!
I have a friend whose childhood was affected by faith in a negative way.
He was traumatized about sin and blasphemy, to the point he developed fear about it.
This trauma affected him to a point where he can't live a normal life.
Unfortunately, we all have some type of trauma, or at least, we all are subject of a trauma.
The many concepts we generate based on trauma is what keep on the cycle of self-torment.
I see that based on this friend of mine.
The reason I'm sharing this is to express how we get locked into our own concepts.
Usually this concepts dictates our understanding, and our understanding dictates our subjective perception.
Through this subjective perception then, we lock a cycle again, usually delusional.
In many traditions, especially in Buddhism and Hinduism, Enlightenment is to break free of delusion.
This break free occurs when we stop deluding ourselves with ideas of Enlightenment.
In other words, Enlightenment is just the perception of how things are beyond our subjective reality.
I usually tell this friend of mine about how faith is similar, since it doesn't depend on an actual feeling,
but it's rather an understanding that you should walk a better path, spiritual or not.
This way, faith and Enlightenment might help each other in our journey through life.
This "filter" you've mentioned is perfectly natural, the one we create in order to protect our "self".
Awakening is indeed this understanding that we aren't what we believe we are.
But Enlightenment is beyond that, since it's not limited by a perception of reality.
That's why the Buddha usually told that he doesn't teach a perception of reality, but how to notice reality directly.
Also he didn't mention what you're going to find there, since you must see it by yourself.
For that you need wisdom and concentration, or Jhana.
Jhana is actually that experience we all have, similar to this feeling you personally had while a child.
Buddha had this Jhanic experience as a child as well, and this was a key factor for the development of Buddhism.
Since it generated the Four Noble Truth and the Eight Folded Path.
Anyways, hope this commentary helps out people who are interested on those matters!
Thanks for always sharing your video with us, I personally like it very much.
We need more people like you sharing and expressing themselves.

[@theexpansivejourney3570]

Thank you for sharing 💚

[@johnpaulson996]

The ego will always be the first to claim "I am spiritual" :)

[@ffll6725]

what about mctb?

[@theexpansivejourney3570]

I don't know what that is ☺

[@ffll6725]

@@theexpansivejourney3570 Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha. Book by Daniel M.Ingram, it's free.
Just google mctb.
I thought you familiar with it, and just wanted your feedback on it.

[@ffll6725]

@@theexpansivejourney3570 Perhaps the book will interest you.

[@theexpansivejourney3570]

I don’t have a lot of spiritual «knowledge» 😉 just my own awakening experience. Thank you! 😊