Enlightenment is having certain knowledge about the future?

It seems my logical brain gets so fearful about wanting to have some control and security for the future, yet all the major events in my life just happened without my control. So I guess I must learn more to ‘trust and go with the flow’ I have no real idea what the world/universe will bring.

But I can take the Buddhist view and continually sow virtuous thoughts and deeds, in the present moment, in the certain knowledge that this will create a future based on what we think and do today.

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Enlightenment is feeling a 'loving wisdom'

I like the feeling of a ‘loving wisdom’ present everywhere in everyone. It suggests that the best knowledge of what to do, combined with a love for ‘the best interests of the person’ is developing and looking after us all. It’s a sort of ‘whatever I do, this has to be absolutely right’. Its relaxing and it transcends just wisdom and just love

It reflects the protection and beauty of Oneness through the Allness.

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Enlightenment is feeling the whole Universe

Our brains are simply not capable of understanding the whole of the Universe. They are not designed to 'think'and be that way. Given the experience and the knowledge, they can certainly think 'globally'.

But our Minds can 'feel' the whole of the Universe through Love. Love is present here and now, and everywhere. Love is the uniting force
of the Universe - holding everything together!

Think globally - feel Universally.
Smile :-)

Enlightenment is waking up earlier!

The Ancient Sages tell us to wake up to 'reality as it truly is'.

For some, it may be spontaneous, for others gradual.

But once you are awake, you are no longer sleeping.

Imagine that when you are awake, from normal sleeping that is, that
this is really still only a higher level of sleeping, and that you still need to awaken from that!

Brightness, clarity, and an overriding and unconditional love and wisdom come to mind!

I am told, 'keep making the effort until it is effortless'.

Maybe I need to set the alarm clock even earlier?

Enlightenment is becoming

I have learned that every person 'naturally' wants to become all that they are capable of becoming - the 'desire to realise innate possibilities' is inherent in human nature'.

I am inspired by this and the desire for a richer, fuller and more abundant life!

I was also told that the very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the
most of yourself - to then be able to help others even better.

To my mind, Enlightenment is realising the innate possibilities that we all have, to become
all that we really are.

This is really making the most of your self for Self - for One and All - I think?

Enlightenment is what it is for you

I have been told that Enlightenment is not a gradual process but 'Enlightenment simply is' all the time. We just need to wake up to it.

I resonate with this.

Yet the Buddha said 'don't take my word for it, or anybody else's, but experience for yourself'.

In my case, I gradually feel more enlightened on a daily basis. This is my experience. What's yours?

I have no idea if I am close to an instant experience, or barely on the path. All I know is that I don't want to stop.

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Enlightenment is perfect

Today I took the advice of the Ancient Sages and accepted that we are all enlightened - it's just that we 'think' we are not.

To my great delight, everyone and everything seemed so perfect!

There was beauty in everything I saw. I felt so humble to the great order that seems to underly everything in perfect humility and compassion.

I felt like an observer without being an 'I'. I spontaneously feel moved to say 'it's a conscious reflection of something we will never understand, only enjoy'. Does that make any sense?

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Enlightenment and thoughtlessness

There is a Tibetan saying that 'thoughts and concepts are delusions, awareness is wisdom'.

Wise thoughtlessness and totally experiencing the now?

Inherent Wisdom beyong learning?

I like the story of the father who noticed that his young son loved to sit in the garden and watch the birds. One day, his father decided to teach his young son everything about the birds that visited the garden. Their names, where they came from, what they would eat, when - the whole who, how, what, why, when of knowledge.

When the birds visited, the little boy no longer seemed to experience loving them in the same way, as he was too preoccupied with thinking and knowing.

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Enlightenment is knowing there is rebirth but no one is born

The Ancient Sages talked about rebirth in every moment. In every moment we choose again to create, to remain the same, or to destroy. In other words, we continually have positive, neutral or negative thoughts, which become positive, neutral or negative realities.

Each moment is unique. The secret is to stay totally aware in the moment. To maintain and develop existing and new positive thoughts, and to eliminate and destroy existing and new negative harmful thoughts.

It is easy to explain to a 5 year old, but can an 80 year old practice?

Enlightenment is knowing you forget

No matter how many times I realise a Truth and/or gain a deep spiritual insight, I find that after a relatively short while that I have forgotten this.

It seems that I have to have this realization/insight several times before it starts to become a part of me.

Not so long ago, I put down in writing into my PC a series of short inspirations that I have had. They were very powerful at the time of writing. Shortly afterwards, I transferred this onto my PDA/mobile phone also. Occassionaly, I read from my PC or PDA the inspirations.

The other day I sat in front of my PC and had my PDA beside it. It occured to me that both the PC and the PDA have perfect recall of these inspirations, yet I have to read again what I originally wrote - to remember!

Weird??? At least I can get inspired, with the help of technology to remember - I don't think the PC opr PDA can get inspired yet?

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Enlightenment is far from the end

The Ancient wisdom tells us that:

Enlightenment may be seen as an end in itself. All else may be seen to be secondary.

In Truth, Enlightenment must be seen as the start of a better way to be of better service to others.

Enlightenment for self is courageous, yet limiting. Enlightenment of self for the good of others, as part of Self, is a humble and limitless act.

This is what the world needs!

Enlightenment, Truth, Wisdom and the Mind

The Ancient Wisdom tells us that the 'Truth is the Truth, whatever we may call it'.

It reminds us that we all have the Truth within us wherever we are and, although we may not 'know it all, consciously and logically' we intuitively know when someone is telling us a timeless truth (wisdom). We all naturally resonate with the Truth. The Truth is universal for humanity.

Yet the Mind, which is based on our personal learnings, experiences, beliefs and values, has another perspective. This may be the Truth, partially aligned to the Truth, or even totally untrue. The Mind filters and projects. Its often called the gatekeeper of thoughts.

We must train the Mind to hear the timeless wisdom. We must train the Mind to be quiet and calm and then be more able to hear the higher thoughts, the inner Truth, more often. Together with natural intuition, this will guide us better.

That's why I believe that meditation is one of the best spiritual foods, and that it will certainly and naturally lead to greater wisdom. In turn, greater wisdom will certainly and naturally lead to greater unconditional loving and compassion. The virtuous circle becomes complete. The Truth manifests in the dance of Love and Wisdom. The ultimate act of Oneness.

How many of us are spiritually undernourished? How many of us are spiritually poor?

Perhaps a better purpose would be to eradicate ignorance and spiritual poverty in an increasingly wealthy materialistic world.

How many spiritual billionaires could there be? Potentially, around 6.5 billion billionaires?
What could be greater?

Enlightenment is being what you don't know you are

Why suffer from being who we think we are? Why suffer from being who we know we are? Thinking and knowing are, and always will be, incomplete. They can only provide us with a useful but partial perspective of the absolute truth of reality. A tiny touch.

We develop a sense of individual self, as we think and know it. Yet the truth of reality is beyond the possibilities of personal thinking and knowing. The truth is simply too much for the limitations of human learning and knowledge.

Wisdom is here, there, everywhere. Wisdom is experienced and fully active in the now. Learn to unlearn. Know that you don't know. Be what you really are ... and forget the rest?

Enlightenment is living to love

It occured to me that many of us, especially in the western world, often say we must 'fight another day'. I certainly did, and often, and that's because many of us are too conditioned to strive to succeed.

I woke up today not to fight but to 'love another day'.

Just one different word and a whole different world, and an entirely different attitude.

So, every day now, I continue to love to live so that I can live to love.

It works for me.

Enlightenment is our guiding nature

I am so fortunate to live next to a small medieval village, surrounded by vineyards, and next to the Pyrenees, in the south of france.

This week, although it's still late march/early april, the sun and the blue skies have been glorious and so hot.

After a long walk, and following my meditation, I was reminded again just how much nature teaches us about who we really are. In walking, we can feel nature so easily. In driving a car, we are more likely to just see nature. Yet I have learned that nature has a tangible force that permeates the entire universe.

In that force, we can commune. In that force, we can feel our total connectedness to all of life. In that force we clearly see the continuous cycles of growth and transformation and feel the underlying infinity of it all. It's so natural. It helps us realise that we are a part of a higher force that guides us. It helps us realise the power and the wisdom of nature's laws. In nature we can see, hear, feel, smell, touch and taste our reality and truth. I find my walks, in beautiful and natural surroundings anywhere in the world, fill me with spirit, gratitude and awe.

Yet we sometimes think we know more. How many of us are so busy with our own thoughts and busy lives that we don't recognise or forget the guiding truth that nature offers?

Enlightenment is flowing naturally and effortlessly

If we could simply 'be in the zone' then everything would seem to flow more naturally and effortlessly.

But because we have associated success with effort we have made ourselves feel guilty whenever we take a naturally relaxed approach to life. I think we have missed the point.

What we need to do is become 'totally aware' or mindful, which is another way of saying that we need to be fully in the here and now. We can only do this if we are in a 'naturally relaxed state'. Beyond thinking and even beyond feeling. The paradox is that it takes effort to become effortless.

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Enlightenment is being really really awake

I realised today that it can be very painful to realise and fully accept some of your beliefs and behaviours about yourself. I have always understood that masks were a psychological device for presenting to others the image you prefer to give to them, but I realised that I have been presenting a mask to myself for a long time. Today, I took it off.

Ancient Sages tell us that, in an enlightened state, we are blissful and happy, with a deep inner peace. Today I felt much more awake to the reality of who I am. By taking the mask off I felt really really awake. But the feelings I experienced were the opposite of bliss, happiness and inner peace! There was a kind of inner peace, but quite different to the peaceful moments I have often experienced.

Hopefully, I am travelling somewhere?

Enlightenment is just the beginning

Much of life is about finding ways to lift the limiting beliefs that we have chosen to accept earlier on in life, in our culture, education and experience, and which prevent us from achieving our full potential, or at worst, may even destroy us.

Young children, without such beliefs formed, are happily enlightened without knowing it. That's why we can learn so much from the wisdom of children.

Whatever path we take, whatever spiritual disciplines we practice, the key is to remove negative and limiting beliefs and replace them with positive and creative beliefs. It is these positive and creative beliefs that are our natural innate state.

Eventually, we become more positive and creative than negative and limiting and, eventually, these better beliefs will be understood to be more than beliefs, but will be understood to be the reality of who and what we are. Enlightenment.

But the most important and enlightened realisation is that we are all naturally connected, at a higher level, as one, and one enlightened part of the whole is really enlightenment of the whole.

I like the notion that if there are a sufficient and a critical mass of people on the planet who are living in a more enlighted state most of the time, that this will trigger a more enlightened state naturally for others. So we work to help others and ourselves as one humanity.

Enlightenment is becoming the ocean

I like the idea that the universe is a great ocean of life.
A great ocean is continuously producing new waves that then grow, live for a while, and then merge back into the ocean again. Its a non-stop process.

An ocean of life is continuously producing new 'beings' that then grow, live for a while and then merge back into the ocean again.

The problem is that many of us believe that we are the finite waves, with a seperate birth, life and death, instead of knowing that we are all the vast infinite ocean itself that is continually creating and manifesting beings in so many different ways.

One big wave, perceiving itself to be seperate and rushing towards the see shore said to another big wave, 'we are going to crash and die'. The other wave said, 'just relax, flow and be, and you will see how we will all gently subside, pull back from the shore for a while, as part of our natural cycle, and then recreate again, as new waves, later'.

Enlightenment is a joke

In moments of laughter we go way beyond the rational mind.

For an instant, we seem to lose control. We freewheel. Fear and judgement simply disappear. We glow. We become our natural selves.

It's great to laugh, but too much laughing seems to then cause pain.

Yet the only thing to do in pain and suffering is to laugh at the absurdity of it all.

What's extraordinary is that life seems to be a dance between opposites, until we laugh. And then we remember, momentarily?