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What is Enlightenment?
Enlightenment is the full realization that there is no such thing as
enlightenment. We spend our entire lives desiring either the past or the
future and miss everything that is currently here. When someone is
searching for enlightenment they ignore all of the experiences that
happen in each independent moment. This search for something other
than here is both ignorant and irresponsible. Ignorant because all we
have is now and irresponsible because the search stops full present
experience. Accepting the present moment ends searching, while desiring
anything other than now – wishing for the past, anticipating the future,
or wanting an alternate now – ends experience. Truly responsible people
experience everything as it exists now, instead of searching for salvation
or peace through an imaginary enlightenment. If I simply experience
everything that is currently here I am responsible. When a being fully
realizes that there is no such thing as enlightenment, the search for
enlightenment ends, and the flowering of the true self is seen. How can
there be enlightenment? There is just now, there is no place I could ever
be other than here.
Enlightenment is a fantasy because only the false self searches. I want to
be enlightened, I want to be free, but this “I” is just ego. We have all
dreamed greatly about enlightenment, but ultimately there is no longer
anyone here to tell the story or celebrate the awakening. The one who
wanted enlightenment was the problem to begin with. When this person
fully disappears, there is just seeing, observing, and loving. There is no
longer a seer, observer, or lover.
Finally, enlightenment cannot exist because everyone is already free and
enlightened. Everyone and everything is pure consciousness itself. After
all a cat doesn’t wake up and wonder if it is a dog and question how to act
as a cat, a cat is a cat – it just is. When a human wakes up he or she
wonders a great deal about everything and does not simply live a life.
Enlightenment is realizing one’s own humanness. “I am simply a human
being,” these could be the words of an enlightened man or woman. So the
realization that I was always simply here, perfect, and free from the
beginning is enlightenment. Everywhere I look I see myself: this is
enlightenment.
Enlightenment is the full realization that there is no such thing as
enlightenment. We spend our entire lives desiring either the past or the
future and miss everything that is currently here. When someone is
searching for enlightenment they ignore all of the experiences that
happen in each independent moment. This search for something other
than here is both ignorant and irresponsible. Ignorant because all we
have is now and irresponsible because the search stops full present
experience. Accepting the present moment ends searching, while desiring
anything other than now – wishing for the past, anticipating the future,
or wanting an alternate now – ends experience. Truly responsible people
experience everything as it exists now, instead of searching for salvation
or peace through an imaginary enlightenment. If I simply experience
everything that is currently here I am responsible. When a being fully
realizes that there is no such thing as enlightenment, the search for
enlightenment ends, and the flowering of the true self is seen. How can
there be enlightenment? There is just now, there is no place I could ever
be other than here.
Enlightenment is a fantasy because only the false self searches. I want to
be enlightened, I want to be free, but this “I” is just ego. We have all
dreamed greatly about enlightenment, but ultimately there is no longer
anyone here to tell the story or celebrate the awakening. The one who
wanted enlightenment was the problem to begin with. When this person
fully disappears, there is just seeing, observing, and loving. There is no
longer a seer, observer, or lover.
Finally, enlightenment cannot exist because everyone is already free and
enlightened. Everyone and everything is pure consciousness itself. After
all a cat doesn’t wake up and wonder if it is a dog and question how to act
as a cat, a cat is a cat – it just is. When a human wakes up he or she
wonders a great deal about everything and does not simply live a life.
Enlightenment is realizing one’s own humanness. “I am simply a human
being,” these could be the words of an enlightened man or woman. So the
realization that I was always simply here, perfect, and free from the
beginning is enlightenment. Everywhere I look I see myself: this is
enlightenment.
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Stephen Brown
Spiritual Counselor
Enlightenment Teacher
West Hartford, CT
860-523-1895
stephen@spiritualhealingct.com
Spiritual Counselor
Enlightenment Teacher
West Hartford, CT
860-523-1895
stephen@spiritualhealingct.com