Can Enlightenment Be Self Hypnosis
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 4:00 am
There is no exact description of Nibbana in Buddhist texts. Let us take a few words we usually associate with it - pure bliss, wisdom, joy, peace, stillness of mind and so on.
Can it be a state of self hypnosis ( Nibbana and the jhanas leading to it ) ? I am not denying meditation works and that it opens the subconscious. I am even willing to believe it gives a sixth sense and some extra sensory perception.
However when in self hypnosis the subject suggests to himself what he can do - give up smoking, worrying, anxiety. When he gives up anxiety ( real anxiety or his anxiety from guilt associated with smoking ) his mind opens up ( has more RAM to spare and less threads employing the CPU, to use a computer analogy ) and he finds he can lose weight, make more money, complete a college degree, learn a new language and so on.
I have not tried it but I am not entirely skeptical about it. ( That may beg the question how do some people become a success while smoking and worrying - well they have more RAM and a better CPU to start with; they could easily cope with all the hassles and have mental space left over to be a success etc; otherwise why do some of us get fed up with one job, one wife, one child and some be relaxed while juggling a $ 20 billion empire and two mistresses and a wife spread across two continents. )
What if you swapped giving up smoking as a goal of self hypnosis with Nibbana and tried it for many years. Will your brain rewire itself to make you happy all the time ? Is it a possibility ?
Nibbana and bliss of jhanas is just auto suggestion ?
Can it be a state of self hypnosis ( Nibbana and the jhanas leading to it ) ? I am not denying meditation works and that it opens the subconscious. I am even willing to believe it gives a sixth sense and some extra sensory perception.
However when in self hypnosis the subject suggests to himself what he can do - give up smoking, worrying, anxiety. When he gives up anxiety ( real anxiety or his anxiety from guilt associated with smoking ) his mind opens up ( has more RAM to spare and less threads employing the CPU, to use a computer analogy ) and he finds he can lose weight, make more money, complete a college degree, learn a new language and so on.
I have not tried it but I am not entirely skeptical about it. ( That may beg the question how do some people become a success while smoking and worrying - well they have more RAM and a better CPU to start with; they could easily cope with all the hassles and have mental space left over to be a success etc; otherwise why do some of us get fed up with one job, one wife, one child and some be relaxed while juggling a $ 20 billion empire and two mistresses and a wife spread across two continents. )
What if you swapped giving up smoking as a goal of self hypnosis with Nibbana and tried it for many years. Will your brain rewire itself to make you happy all the time ? Is it a possibility ?
Nibbana and bliss of jhanas is just auto suggestion ?