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Enlightenment.
What is enlightenment?
A thought?
Absence of thought?
Feeling?
Absence of feeling?
Enhanced feeling?
Nothing?
Everything?
What is it?! How can you know if you have obtained it if you don’t know what ‘IT’ is?
But how we search! Classes, courses, teachers Gurus, Crystals, books, shamans, journeying, spirit, fasting, suffering, and the list goes on. We search the ends of the world seeking the seemingly unattainable, following instructions to the letter.
Or do we?
Of all I have read, learned, heard, witnessed, none of these hold the key. At least not the whole key. All are nothing more than tools. Like a good luck charm that we place all our faith and hope in. A tactile means to identify our physical nature. Feeling that somehow we have been punished and dropped into a maze and left to fend for ourselves and if we dot our I’s and cross all our T’s then and only then will Enlightenment and Salvation will be ours simply is not the truth.
No. I don’t feel it’s that way at all. I do feel that we are afraid of our own wisdom. We go on in a haze feeling not good enough, that only a select few could ever obtain Enlightenment. Drilled into our subconscious that it must take years of searching, suffering and education before at last we should feel entitled to Enlightenment, because NOW we have earned it.
How ultimately silly of us to feel we are less than perfect, still so obsessed with the outside.
For me….well, enlightenment doesn’t mean having all the answers. It is not necessarily having a still mind. It’s not all of a sudden feeling above all, special, or any of that.
For me it is being able to ‘see’ the minutest aspect of something and at the same time one can also see the big picture.
Like standing on the sun and seeing all the planets, comets, and moons and viewing all the activity and yet looking past and seeing the vast sea of nothing. You can see the nothingness of space and feel the everything it creates. You can feel connected and removed all at the same time, and at that moment you know you will never look at things in the same way again. You can look at anything and see, FEEL, the universe. Intellectually you may be unable to verbalize or explain or understand, but you just know on a soul level that there is a purpose to the dance, every dance. You just know the emptiness, nothingness, everythingness, and fullness. The oxymoron of it all finally makes sense and you can then enjoy the experience of NOW.
And really, isn’t what all the teachings tell us? That all there is is NOW. Yesterday is gone, it happened but it doesn’t really matter. What matters is what we are doing NOW, what we are feeling NOW, how we view things NOW. It is not what we WILL feel or do we don’t live in tomorrow. It is not what we HAVE felt or done, because that is done. The experience adds to the collective consciousness and is relevant, but what it is, the ultimate experience, is RIGHT NOW. Everything is happening NOW, in this moment, so if it doesn’t feel like it aligns then you do the work INSIDE …NOW.
NOW exists on every level and there is no beginning nor is there an end.
WE ARE NOW, therefore we too exist on every level. We truly are everything, everyone, during every time. When we are able to finally accept this then we can release the judgment of self and others and just experience. We are Nothing involved in creating the Everything.
In short, to me Enlightenment is NOW.
One Earth.
