Frequently Asked Questions

Explain me like I'm 5 [ELI5]

Very simplified explanation of all the material

Basic Questions:

How to reach enlightenment?

What is enlightenment?

What is practical enlightenment?

What prevents enlightenment?

Is enlightenment a mystical experience?

Is meditation necessary for enlightenment?

Enlightenment without meditation

What are “should” stories?

How the concept of the decision believed best leads to absence of alternative realities which leads to absence of unhealthy anger and regret?

What is the ego?

Why the ego is a story

Ego death vs enlightenment

What are mental maps?

Reality vs truth

What is belief deconstruction?

How to dismantle false beliefs

What is the difference between a direct and indirect desire?

Why enlightenment is not self-improvement

What is observation without judgment?

What is the difference between a realization and an intellectual understanding?

What is change without change?

Why you should always be skeptical even regarding your own enlightenment?

Can you reach enlightenment and still experience anger?

What are the main symptoms that someone has reached enlightenment?

What are the main symptoms that someone has not reached enlightenment?

What are the main realisations of enlightenment?

What are the practical benefits of enlightenment?

Do you need to abstain from pleasurable activities like sex or food in order to reach enlightenment?

What is the difference between this approach and the classical Buddhist approach?

What is the difference between skepticism and doubt?

Advanced Questions:

How does the concept of always making what is believed to be the best decision moves beyond the debate between free will and determinism?

Impossibility of alternative realities because we always make the decision we believe is best (which has nothing to do with the absolute best decision)

Why the fact that we always make what we believe to be the best decision should not lead to fatalism?

What is the difference between kernel and shell?

What is the main difference between this approach and the classical philosophical approaches?