Terrific Progress

lobster

Not only did I become enlightened this year, I am contemplating un-enlightenment as a counter balance . . .
How do you know you are making progress?

how

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I'll concern myself with progress just as soon as it becomes more important than the process.

how

OK..I'll call my last last post 50% BS.
I do check in periodically but it's not so much to guage progress but is to make sure I'm not going off the rails in some way.

Check (1) Do I feel isolated or separated from humanity. (empathy check)
Check (2) Am I following a predetermined agenda. (fluidity check)
Check (3) Is my internal life different from my external life. (transparency check)
Check (4) Am I doing anything I wouldn't in front of the Buddha. (heart check)

These are not black or white / pass or fail checks but ways of checking where your path currently is compared to the middle way.

lobster

Check (1) Do I feel isolated or separated from humanity. (empathy check)
Check (2) Am I following a predetermined agenda. (fluidity check)
Check (3) Is my internal life different from my external life. (transparency check)
Check (4) Am I doing anything I wouldn't in front of the Buddha. (heart check)

:clap:
I think I would include more than humanity. What you call empathy I would probably call resonance. Empathy implies subject and object.
The fluid, open, spontaneous, free response is a good indicator.
Check 3, the integration/merger of internal/external is applicable across the range of experience levels . . .
Check 4 I find the Buddha gets up to all sorts in front of me . . .

Very good indicators. Many thanks. :clap:

Wisdom23

I don't intend to reach any destinations i love the journey far too much lol. Saying this my hols were spent in one of the most northernly pouns in scottland. I did a lot of meditating and learned so much about my suffering and how most of it is unintentionally se
lf inflicted. i also really understood the benefits of egolessness and non attachment.