Why We Practice

Spiritual practice is a process — its purpose is to attain enlightenment. After enlightenment, a new “clear-minded personality” emerges: another version of the self with independent thoughts and objective perception, detached from the physical brain and body. This is what I previously called the “inner heart,” similar to free will.

This awakened personality exists alongside the thoughts of the physical brain and body, and one can switch into this clear-minded personality at any moment — observing the brain’s thoughts and the body’s desires as a third-person witness.

During practice — such as meditation or out-of-body experiences — one can sense this personality. After enlightenment, this clear-minded personality remains permanently. It resembles what modern psychology calls multiple personalities, except this one is fully controlled and voluntarily accessible.

Many practitioners speak of “awakening,” “realization,” or “transcendence.” When enlightenment occurs, the clear-minded, observer personality naturally forms — the higher self.

Why Humans Live — The Meaning of Existence

After enlightenment, perception of yin and yang and of the future becomes increasingly clear. One begins to feel that one’s life is arranged — that one is experiencing and observing the life of the body and brain. After enlightenment, this becomes unmistakably clear.

For now, I continue observing — seeing how things are arranged for me, or whether I will meet another enlightened person to communicate with.

At this moment I have only found myself to be enlightened. From this observation, one possible conclusion is that this world is a simulation created to accompany my physical body and brain through this life. If I encounter another truly enlightened living person, that would demonstrate a shared experience across multiple conscious beings.

Each dream is its own world — similar to a parallel universe. In dreams one becomes an observer of that world. After enlightenment, one can gradually become conscious within dreams and improve control and recognition of dream worlds.

What Enlightenment Feels Like Now

Over the past one to two years of writing, the sense of enlightenment has continued to evolve. After two years, I can summarize the experience:

• The clear-minded personality observes the world as if sitting in a cinema, watching a film — the people and objects of this world exist within the movie.
• After enlightenment, one realizes that only oneself is awake. People around you appear to be controlled by their brains, lacking true independent awareness — confined within the physical body and brain, like robots running fixed programs.
• Human emotions and desires exist within the body and brain. The awakened personality can observe these impulses with complete objectivity, seeing how the seven emotions and six desires attempt to influence the self. These impulses then become materials for cultivation — refining the inner self and strengthening the observer state.

In short: the awakened, clear-minded personality can step outside ordinary mental patterns and observe the bodily mind as an objective process. This observation both clarifies the nature of existence and serves as the practical ground for further cultivation.

Edited on July 13, 2022