Subject: Philosophy
I am asked by many friends, what is enlightenment or self-actualization? If I know the person well, I guide him to chalk out his own plan
to be enlightened. To people who are uncertain. I give parameters or offer some
models based on philosophy and psychology.
One person's need may be different from another because the human mind is
very complex in its demands. However, we need to surpass our present mindset
and be something we want.
Nonetheless, change is happening now, you are changing
but perhaps not as you would like to be. You perhaps need a plan for your
journey towards what you want to be. That plan essentially connects to your
psychological state and your mental conditioning, the fastest way to do this is
Mediation which we offer for the proposed corrections.
I am an atheist, hence any Mediation I propose does not have
any reference to a God or specific religion. Although being an Indian I may
quote something from Atheist Indian philosophy. Let us begin: The search for
the cause and removal of human distress is the concern of civilization from the
days of organized religion to modern psychology.
Based on Existentialist philosophy. I will be taking the
ideal model for a perfect human being from here
This model says that we can never understand a human being
with his negative traits. For understanding a human being, we must consider his
highest aspirations. Personal Growth, self-actualization, striving toward
health, the quest for identity and autonomy, the yearning for certain
Excellencies is the tendency of a person. According to this philosophy, each of
us exists as a being-in-the-the world, consciously and painfully aware of the
existence and eventual non-existence. We seem to have no existence apart from
the world and the world has no meaning for us apart from the people who are in
it. Existentialists say that a person is neither a product of genetic factors
nor environmental influences; they stress the idea that ultimately each of us
is responsible for who we are and what we become.
One's life is what one makes
of it. The human tendency is to attain freedom and create meaning for survival.
Each person is responsible for his actions and is a conscious agent
experiencing, deciding, and freely choose in his actions.
Enlightened people can accept themselves the way they are.
They are not very sensitive to their shortcomings, and weaknesses. These people
do not feel undue guilt, shame, and anxiety-emotional states. They have good
appetites, sleep well, and have fulfilling sex lives. They consider Basic
biological processes like urination, menstruation, and growing old as human
nature and accept these gracefully. They are spontaneous, simple, and natural.
This does not mean that their behavior is unconventional. Their inner life
(thoughts and emotions) is unconventional, natural, and spontaneous. Their
unconventionality is not for impressing others and they can suppress it in
order not to distress others; therefore, they may even abide by ceremonies and
rituals. Thus, they may conform if it means protecting themselves. However,
they do not hesitate to defy social rules when necessary.
Without exception, they are committed to some task, duty,
vocation, or job that they regard as important. They are oriented towards
problems beyond their immediate needs, problems for which they have a
missionary zeal. They live to work rather than work to live; their work is a
defining characteristic of themselves. The enlightened ones commitment to work
is equal to a love affair. Self-actualizing persons need privacy and solitude
and as they do not have a clinging relationship with others, they can enjoy the
richness and fullness of friendship.
In social encounters, people often view them as aloof, reserved, snobbish, and cold. They do not need other people in the usual sense of friendship. As a result, there is a need for another level of encounter, that with the self. When they are alone, they are with their best friends. This is not narcissism. The enlightened can be alone without being lonely.
In social encounters, people often view them as aloof, reserved, snobbish, and cold. They do not need other people in the usual sense of friendship. As a result, there is a need for another level of encounter, that with the self. When they are alone, they are with their best friends. This is not narcissism. The enlightened can be alone without being lonely.
They remain calm and serene during periods of personal
misfortune or setback. This comes in part from the tendency of enlightened
people is to stand by their assessment of the situation instead of depending
upon what the people think or feel about matters.
They are self- movers,
resisting society's attempts to make them adhere to social convention. As
characteristics already discussed would suggest enlightened ones are free to
act independently of their physical and social environment. This autonomy enables
them to rely on themselves.
They feel more in harmony with the world, lose their self-
awareness or transient it, feel simultaneously more powerful than before and
become less conscious of time and space. The peak experiences that really
change a person come about when the person comes to some glorious insight as to
the result of a year on a psychoanalytic couch. A philosopher who has been
working for fifteen years at some problem comes to illumination. People through
correct Meditation attain peak experiences.
They are creative in the true sense of the word. However,
their creativeness is different from unusual talent or genius as reflected in
poetry, art, music, or science. It is as the natural and instinctive
creativeness found in children. This kind of creativity appears in everyday
life as an expression of a personality that is keen, original, and simple.
They need not write books, compose music, or produce art
objects to be creative. Nevertheless, in day-to-day activities, they are very
creative.
This is a concise description of an enlightened person one
from the perspective of Existentialist philosophy and the dependent humanist
psychology.
With Infinite Love to all, I am
Aalok Chandra
12-5-55/1, Samskruthi Heavens Vijayapuri,
Tarnaka, Hyderabad, Telangana 500017 ,
India
