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So much today relies on image and is linked to approval and this can lead to issues of confidence.

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There are many who are not aware of their need for approval and go on blindly and it has become a natural or so thought behavioural way of conducting oneself. This is because of inculcation.

 

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I have gone into this so many times; born free with imprints of FEELING in the womb, name on coming out of the uterus and not understanding the name sound till later, that sound is me. Then the religion or not, culture and so on. Many just carry on habitually in this manner with a few innovations and stretching the ‘net of conditioning’.

Those who may question the whole of one’s life may wake up to a startling awakening; who am I without the brain washing of my life up to now. Then there may come a period of loss, no identity, before I knew my boundaries now I am without those boundaries gave me my identity.

So my image was formed from my inculcation even if I took on another set of programmes and conditioning, they are not me they are someone else’s thoughts and ideas.

OK so my ego which is my critique will in relationships assess approval based on the acceptance presented of the situation; greeted with smile accepted, anger a rebuff not accepted. Depending how the ego takes this and is self conscious of the response will the rating of the ego be either approval and doesn’t rely on the response of approval or rejection and is arrogant ‘I don’t care and rely on their response and is over confident, ‘It doesn’t bother me at all, an acceptance and comfortable sense of ease in oneself, or crushed as a self loop of the image of how one should be, that is I am not satisfied with my image at all and do not match the image I am trying to be, such as a celebrity of some sort or manufactured from life’s experiences, peers or just fantasy.

Then one can say ‘well I do not need approval from anyone’. Then one can see the trap of the above; should I realise I have been brainwashed and just have enough habit and routine to survive and I have then come to the realisation I am sort of empty and have intellectually come to the realisation that I have no identity I could then rely on reminding myself in a sort of prompt and question; if I have not an identity as such then my only identity is a subtle programme of reminding myself I can live without an identity? So is that my identity? 

Should I be able to see as I have often written that everything is impermanent and dies and withers in time, time being based on the so called solid form, which I fully realise, is about atoms the life of form is perilous to rely on like sand that dwindles through the hand and hour glass and so loss is the nature of the human life and eventually leads to the known of youth to the dwindling slow decay of senior years and the coming unknown albeit for memories and a pursuit in meditation and metaphysics to the conclusion of the empty state as it were.

When one abides naturally in the peace of emptiness then approval is not needed for one is grounded in the inner peace and has an acceptance of what is.

In the human form and life on Earth one knows all is temporary, transient and endeavouring in any form to preserve crumbling structures, ice in the hand is a dog chasing its tail and so one comes to terms with this intellectually at first and this can cause anxiety which eventually can lead to unease and regret and wishing the past and this impermanent stuff were never taken on and it may have been better to have a brain washed something and at least have a promised outcome and the know and expected.

Now with a promised known future one has an identity and some say that carrying that over on demise one can in reincarnation can be drawn to reincarnate and look for the promised conclusion and so it becomes unfinished business and it said to carry on ad finitum. However without an identity and being compos mentis and embedded in the quiet silent mind that becomes ones identity, some say this is enlightenment, Samadhi-- Samadhi is a state of profound and utterly absorptive contemplation of the Absolute that is undisturbed by desire, anger, or any other ego-generated thought or emotion. It is a state of joyful calm, or even of rapture and beatitude, in which one maintains one's full mental alertness and acuity.

Samadhi is the highest state of consciousness one can achieve through meditation. It consists of a yoga practitioner reaching spiritual enlightenment where the self, the mind, and the object of meditation merge together into one

Jivanmukti, according to Hindu philosophy, is the state of being spiritually liberated while still alive. The Sanskrit term is derived from the root words, jiva, meaning "life," and mukti, meaning "freedom." Jivanmukti is a state in which one possesses limitless knowledge, free from suffering, and enjoys eternal bliss.

The Upanishads link jivanmukti to karma as attaining jivanmukti depends on the karma of Self. The concept of jivanmukti was synthesized by the 14th century sage, Swami Vidyaranya.

: sudden enlightenment and a state of consciousness attained by intuitive illumination representing the spiritual goal of Zen Buddhism.

What Satori feels like?

Ken(seeing)sho(nature) is a short effortless experience of enlightenment, satori is the never-ending effortless experience of enlightenment. Kensho and Satori basically feel the same, but kensho ends and you return to your normal pre-enlightenment mode of experiencing.

What is a kensho experience?

It is usually translated as "seeing one's (true) nature", that is, the Buddha-nature or nature of mind. Kenshō is an initial insight or awakening, not full Buddhahood. It is to be followed by further training to deepen this insight, and learn to express it in daily life.

Some might say; all that above is defining, clever intellectualism, mind games-----well when is in the 'no mind' (who is in 'no mind') it has no meaning, to others steps and guidance, still to others what's the next soccer match or Netflix buster --- nothing matters really like the tide we flow and go. Who is the We?

In the above definitions approval and image are not needed.

 

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