Friday, December 16, 2005

Enlightenment is having no sense of separation




There is much writing about suffering or unsatisfactoriness in 'material' terms.
We talk of inevitable suffering of death and loss and things we get attached to.

Fine. But I think there is only one form of suffering, which is 'imaterial' in the sense of gaining more enlightenment, and that is suffering that comes from a sense of being seperated from what you feel you are part of, whatever you call it (God, Oneness, Infinite Intelligence, Nothingness).

I think we all go through life with this unsatisfactoriness unless/until we find fulfillment and satisfactoriness, through experiencing communion with the higher self of One and All or whatever?