Enlightenment is neutral?

I understand the concept of transcending positive and negative, happiness and sadness etc. They are two opposite faces of one whole and we need to broaden our perspective towards the truth.

Consider the picture of the earth and the moon. Stand back and see something bigger.

Ultimately, we are told, we transcend duality to unity and then transcend unity to nothingness?

I can comprehend a contrast of One and All but nothingness and allness?

Enlightenment is realising that 'letting go' is the natural state

This morning I woke up to a day of deep snow, no electricity or telephone or heating. Quite rare for the south of france!

I realised that I could not do anything at all about this. All my plans for completing urgent work tasks on my computer immediately evaporated. I had no choice but to surrender to the greater force and just go for a drive to a cafe.

Strangely, the immediate stress and lack of control turned into a sort of bliss. I felt this state of having no choice but to let go to be quite comforting and even natural.

Maybe we become most enlightened and most positive when we just let go of trying to control everything we do and, as a result, just flow more naturally instead?

Enlightenment is realising the invisible connections are real

Enlightenment is realising the invisible connections are real

If we are all One in reality, at a higher level, perhaps in absolute terms, then we should start to realise that we are all inter-connected to such a degree that the connections are real!

It seems so difficult to me, sometimes, to try to feel the connections in everyday experience, yet in other times of love and intimacy it feels so simple, obvious and natural!

Perhaps we will only ever experience universal connectedness, as One, when we have universal love and compassion?

Enlightenment is still chopping wood and carrying water

'Before Enlightenment - chopping wood, carrying water
After Enlightenment - chopping wood, carrying water


When I first heard this saying from Zen Masters, I suddenly realised the full meaning of being 'awake'.

In a 'sleepy' deluded, ego wrapped way of thinking, we go about daily tasks, we do things, and quite often we are not even aware of them or their real significance. We are not fully aware of the reality that exists.

When we become more awake, even fully awake, to things around us in the moment of here and now, we see the same things and do the same things, but with a totally new and fresh and complete perspective. An Enlightened attitude?

'Hill outside - snow has come
Birds eating from the table
Pretty - always was? '

Enlightenment is being in a hopeless state, full of hope

I guess that if you find yourself in a totally hopeless and even desperate state, and yet in that state you have this overriding stronger sense of peace and comfort, goodwill to all, and a positive feeling that everything is working out for the best, that you may have transcended suffering?

Have you won the spiritual battle between love and fear?

Enlightenment is seeing your face before your parents were born

Zen masters describe the innate inner radiance within us as original nature or 'your face before your parents were born'.

This leads me to a sense of timelessness, a sense of infinity, and a sense of always being.

Are we One 'always being' that manifests in billions of ways, or billions of 'always being' that manifest as One or both?

Enlightenment is going beyond labels

Enlightenment is going beyond labels, good and bad!





It was Jorgen Kirkegaard, the Danish philosopher who said 'If you label me you destroy me'.

Its impossible to describe who you really are in words, and once you put a label to something, you seperate it and it loses its authentic place in the whole.

But, we need to communicate with one another somehow, and scientists need to examine the part to try to better understand the whole.

One of my labels is 'Ronald Young'. I searched for it on the web. There are several other Ron Young's in the world and that label produced, at least:

1. one of seven US troops captured by the Iraqi forces
2. a photographer
3. a dentist
4. a fugitive on the run
5. a university professor
6. a neurosurgeon
7. a real estate agent
8. director of a school board
9. a special olympics swimmer
10.a knowledge management consultant (me)

So maybe - Enlightenment is searching on the web for your own name and then quickly transcending the label?

Enlightenment is easier to understand through a 'Google' search

Enlightenment is knowing that thoughts are living things that we broadcast into the Universe -like thoughts attract like thoughts - and coincidences and synchronicity then occur.

It's easy to imagine that all your thoughts are entered into a 'Google' search and you instantly get back all like connections. I tried two searches, 'The world is a loving, compassionate and positive place' and 'The world is a fearful, cruel and negative place'.

Instant attraction from the growing global brain!

It has been said that our broadcast thoughts can also be likened to a giant universal photocopier.
Great! But I prefer the internet and search engine analogy.

I like the idea of websites and blogging to attract like minded people who find you through their similar thoughts channeled through search engines.

But I must still do something (click) to turn these thought responses into reality?

Enlightenment is freedom and abundance

Enlightenment is knowing that 'humanity as a whole' is totally abundant and it is feeling creative and free and wanting to share and enjoy this truth with all, as a result. It is knowing that creative intelligence is infinite and that we can all create more abundance for the good of the whole.

Our problem is that most of us believe in individual abundance and scarcity, and believe that we have to compete with one another for the limited, finite, scarce resources we see in the world.

Enlightenment is knowing that we are masters and co-creators of what we bring into the world and have no desire to compete for whats already there. Unconditional love is the state.

Without this knowing we are likely to believe and we feel that we are servants and even victims of a 'dog eats dog' world'. Fear is the state.

The Enlightened mind accepts - the fearful mind rejects?

Enlightenment is a continuous meditation

We meditate because it gives rise to peaceful, blissful and insightful states.
The more we meditate, the more these states become more easily attainable
and deeper.


Eventually, these states continue on, to an increasing degree, when we return to our normal waking states and busy minds.

Eventually these states take over at all times... I think?