(beingthere) What is enlightenment ?
What Is Enlightenment?
by
Stephen BE
As a short answer, Enlightenment is a level of consciousness from which you are deliberately creating your world. Enlightenment is the highest level of consciousness. This correctly implies that there are lesser levels of consciousness, and it is from these that we can only extrapolate the experience of Enlightenment.
Enlightenment is the name of the highest level of consciousness. It is a level where you have the highest skills in all four aspects, and as such, there is no distinction between aspects. There is no separation between physical experience and spiritual experience, or mental experience and emotional experience. All experiences are known collectively as enlightened consciousness.
Enlightenment can only be referred to in terms of other levels of consciousness, as it is impossible to accurately describe it until it is experienced, and it is equally impossible to accurately understand it from a lower level of consciousness. Our understanding is limited by our present level of consciousness. What can be identified and understood from a lower level of consciousness as Enlightenment, is only its distant, hazy image.
The pursuit of Higher Consciousness is like a path, that requires specific skills, has identifiable milestones and points the way ahead. What any of us knows of Enlightenment is what we can see from where we are on the path. We know what it has taken to walk this far. We imagine what will be required ahead. And our description of the view is definitely limited.
Even though our understanding is limited by our present level of consciousness, many of us hear the calling of Enlightenment. As we walk the path of Higher Consciousness, we can make sense of the process, identify the experiences of various levels, acquire greater understanding of the "big picture", begin to create short-lived experiences of that reality and hear the calling with ever-increasing certainty.
Enlightenment is the birthright of every individual. It is not some magical, mystical experience reserved for the very few. It is what we are here to do, whether we know it or not. Life is for learning; learning the lessons that bring us, step-by-step, into the realization of Enlightenment. It is where we came from. And it is where we must return. Our job is to clear away the barriers to what was once ours, and is yet to be again. It is the grand purpose of life, to which everything else is a stepping-stone.
How long will it take? Like Kwai Chang Caine's master said to him, when he asked the question in the 1970's television show, Kung Fu, "It may take a lifetime, maybe longer."
by
Stephen BE
As a short answer, Enlightenment is a level of consciousness from which you are deliberately creating your world. Enlightenment is the highest level of consciousness. This correctly implies that there are lesser levels of consciousness, and it is from these that we can only extrapolate the experience of Enlightenment.
Enlightenment is the name of the highest level of consciousness. It is a level where you have the highest skills in all four aspects, and as such, there is no distinction between aspects. There is no separation between physical experience and spiritual experience, or mental experience and emotional experience. All experiences are known collectively as enlightened consciousness.
Enlightenment can only be referred to in terms of other levels of consciousness, as it is impossible to accurately describe it until it is experienced, and it is equally impossible to accurately understand it from a lower level of consciousness. Our understanding is limited by our present level of consciousness. What can be identified and understood from a lower level of consciousness as Enlightenment, is only its distant, hazy image.
The pursuit of Higher Consciousness is like a path, that requires specific skills, has identifiable milestones and points the way ahead. What any of us knows of Enlightenment is what we can see from where we are on the path. We know what it has taken to walk this far. We imagine what will be required ahead. And our description of the view is definitely limited.
Even though our understanding is limited by our present level of consciousness, many of us hear the calling of Enlightenment. As we walk the path of Higher Consciousness, we can make sense of the process, identify the experiences of various levels, acquire greater understanding of the "big picture", begin to create short-lived experiences of that reality and hear the calling with ever-increasing certainty.
Enlightenment is the birthright of every individual. It is not some magical, mystical experience reserved for the very few. It is what we are here to do, whether we know it or not. Life is for learning; learning the lessons that bring us, step-by-step, into the realization of Enlightenment. It is where we came from. And it is where we must return. Our job is to clear away the barriers to what was once ours, and is yet to be again. It is the grand purpose of life, to which everything else is a stepping-stone.
How long will it take? Like Kwai Chang Caine's master said to him, when he asked the question in the 1970's television show, Kung Fu, "It may take a lifetime, maybe longer."
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