Quote Originally Posted by Dream of the iris
Congratulations! You've just had your first Satori! This is truly special, more so then the OOBE. I would suggest using that experience to help you along your path and to read more about achieving that state continuesly. That thoughtless mind is what enlightenment is.
The so-called Satori is just this? Being thoughtless? If it is so, im sure i had several ones... whenever i use weed + (some unnameable), during some seconds my consciousness enters in a state of pure awareness. I can only percieve the world around (or even stop to percieve it) and dont think absolutely anything. In fact, i cant even comprehend very well what im percieving. The only thing im aware is i feel like if i had realized some very deep thing, if i had a glimpse of "the meaning of the life", "the secret of the universe", whataver... i feel the same sudden realization we feel at the moment we understand a joke, and that is what makes us laugh... and so i laugh and laugh continuously because i figured the deepest and yet the simplest and most obvious thing in the world... but it is beyond words. I cant explain (nor even remember rightly) what is this thing i always realize whenever i reach this state of consciousness. After several repetitions, i could figure that its something that resembles itself, or rather, this is the only concept defined by words that i could notice that has anything to do with whatever i realized.
Then, after some moments in this state, my mind slowly re-starts to think, but the thoughts are scattered and with some intervals of not thinking between them, and it makes the sequence of thoughts very crazy, as it consists of completly unrelated thoughts...
And when all this craziness ends, im back to the "normal" world. Feeling very happy, at peace with everything, and relaxed... (far more than if i had only smoked).
So is it the so-called enlightenment? While it is a very remarkable experience indeed, and maybe even life-changing, as after i had it i could see the world in a different way, i still am not sure if what i experienced was THE enlightenment. So, what do you think?