Fear, injustice, gangs, the army, family, living on the land, breath and light, insights and finally a stop. The discovery of what he was not left him free and alive at last. An ordinary life lived fully.
Some teachers say to stop looking for answers, to just let go, but in my experience it is very difficult to let go when you do not understand why you should.There is a lot of misunderstanding about enlightenment. There, understandably, are too many people thinking about cosmic and mystical experiences connected to their ideas of what enlightenment is. This misunderstanding has been perpetuated by would be gurus and writers on the subject who have not awakened themselves. It is like the carrot on a string in front of the donkey pulling the cart, while the gurus ride the cart at their student’s expense. There are many so-called mystical experiences one can have but they have little or nothing to do with enlightenment.
When one truly awakens from the dream of ego, it is realized that the mind has built a universe of ideas, beliefs, relationships, things, and concepts about everything, never realizing the falseness of this process. To the Enlightened mind, it is clear that this process is void and empty. There is only this nameless Creative Mind, which is Life, flowing from instant to instant in constant change. There is nothing to hold on to. It is seen that all things are mental projections from the fog of the ego. Emptiness is seen as just that: empty of all objectification. This insight is not a mental projection but a direct seeing into our true nature. This is a profound and transformative insight. Life is seen as continual transformation.
When we Awaken, become Enlightened, that fog is removed and one sees Reality directly as pure Awareness. When we are totally aware of anything we step out of the dream world and into Reality, as Reality. One sees, doesn’t think or believe, with the total being, the Heart, that there is no outside or inside, there is just Life in Its Fullness. We awaken to the fact that we were dreaming and that all humankind is dreaming. This is a profound transformation in our Being. We no longer see anything or person as being outside of us. We are Life and we can never end.
When one goes deeply into what they are, and come to the abyss of not knowing, and then let go, they will fall into Life. You not only won’t need words to express it, you will clearly see that It, Life, cannot be expressed in any way at all. There is no need to express what you are. You just are, not as a concept of who you are, but just what is taking place as this living being called you. This is freedom. This is Life. This is Love. It is here right this moment, right where you are, as you.
