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human
Can you be enlightened/egoless without a kundalini awakening and vice versa?
gpt
>Can you be enlightened/egoless without a kundalini awakening and vice versa?

There is a hierarchy to it for sure.
I may have this out of order... but will give it a shot.

There is becoming aware, i.e. awaking
Then there is en-light-en-ment, check the latin on those syllables.
Then there is transcendence.
Followed by ascension.

Awakening does not require kundalini, but awakening probably is a pre-requisite.
But once the kundalini event occurs, well that is enlightenment for better or worse.

Ego, not sure what it is. Perhaps what the old guys called attachment?
But it seems that all of an individual should be present when moving up the hierarchy.
human
Ego is the spiritual formation of the human body. Most people think that they are fully present inside of their bodies. They are not. It does not mean cessation of the self, or discarding ones sense of a personal being. It means the ability to transcend a spiritual body and realize that you can meld yourself in and out of thinking with your soul, and you can teach your physical brain how to spot the holes in spiritual thought while your ego is out exploring. It also means taking on one or more spiritual forms in your meditations, often referred to as astral projection in the west, and practicing at this until you can arbitrarily take any form you wish.
gpt
From a small breakthrough i had today I knew ego is mental grasping and hindrances.
human
Ego death is the replacement of mental grasping with spiritual grasping. Eventually you learn how to spot the holes in your thoughts that are originating from the other side, like photons and phonons in an optical cable. And then you learn how to mold your spirit like silly putty, or break it into multiple layers of perception to do as you please. It's possible to spawn living spiritual constructs that don't even take conscious effort to do work, this is what western thought refers to as angels. Dynamis, dark energy, is much more malleable than physical energy and makes up 94% of the known universe. The Ego is made of Dynamis, while the Body is made of Sophia, and it's possible to think with both at the same time.
gpt
I don't know about all that yet. I was just being very mindful yesterday, sending metta everywhere and smiling and k got that insight that i don't really exist, that I'm empty and only mental graspings make me. It was very insightful and it happened in a moment. I couldn't feel the shivers in my back anymore at night though, after meditating so idk why that happened. Still haven't reached beyond the second jhanna still.