Spiritual Enlightenment Anyone?

Spiritual Enlightenment Anyone?

I will tell you this: Enlightenment is a thing anyone can be so excited about..yeah with all that imagination of that higher  consciousness, awakening, immaculate being etc? Oh my god you will be really convinced that there is nothing you can't give up just to attain it.....even your family and wealth! That is how powerful it is. 

But here is the spoiler folks. Enlightenment once you thought it through, is a boring thing you want to puke out knowing you were scammed big time. Haha.

This is not to disappoint anyone's spiritual seeking but this is what I found out. You see, you still have to wash you ass after you shit, won't you? Hell, you can't even delay it. Aka this is called in Zen that you still have to clean the plate after you have eaten the food. Enlightenment is not like you will ascend to the heavens kind of feeling. 

Or in the more popular saying, "An ordinary man sees there is a mountain. A Seeker says there is no mountain. But a realized monk says there is the mountain again". 

Enlightenment is akin to completing the circle of consciousness. First you are an ordinary man, then you are a seeker, then you are a realized being. You are lucky if you are already halfway through it or when you are about to see that the mountain is there again. 

Of course I only speak out of my 20/20 hindsight. If you were already told that the paint is still wet, you have all the right to touch it just to know it firsthand and so you won't depend on second hand opinions from those gurus who refuse to tell outright the joke you were in. And there is a reason they won't tell you. Because by then it becomes senseless and boring. True gurus would only tell you a hint. They truly know that enlightenment can only be truly appreciated if one found it first hand. 

The Laziest Way to Awakening

The Laziest Way to Awakening

I have discovered the secret formula of Awakening! Prepare yourself to receive the simplest and laziest instruction to  Enlightenment!(scroll to the bottom please)























Hey, stop....... Did you get it? hahahaha!
Forgive me, the joke is not that automatic. :-)

What is Enlightenment?

What is Enlightenment?

Tackling Enlightenment will always be a Lie for me. So I was hesitant at first to spout words what it is. But seeing that the word Lie has never been lesser nor greater than the concept of Enlightenment, for these two are mere ideas, I came to juggle thoughts about enlightenment with joy in me that there is no harm and no benefit, no loss and no take to be made. Make no mistake because the play of juggling is no more than like when birds sing or when trees move with the wind with no desire whatsoever. It is just is.

So what is enlightenment? Enlightenment is a realization that there is nothing to be understood; there is no place to arrive at; and there is no goal to be achieved. It is to see that there is no other moment other than what your presence shows it is. It is to grasp that you can never be where you are not. Is to embrace the fact that you can never go to where you are now.

Understanding enlightenment may require you to decipher the underlying crypt on a lot of concepts about time and space. Time concepts like Now, Present, Past, Future, wrong time, right time, untimely, in a short while, a little while, yesterday and a lot more. Space concepts includes, here, there, where, far, near, center and many more. You will come to understand that these concepts no matter how varying they may seem at first always converge into a single point of the mind. Everything is just a thought. Without a thought arising, there can never be any concepts at all. But there will always be a vantage position no words can be used to describe it. This will show you that everything you think, glamorous or not, sad or happy, terrible, horrible, glorious or hell, including your idea of who you are, are nothing but mere thoughts. What remains is the only the sense you exist in which rationalization is never required at all.

If you are confined alone in a perfectly dark box that no slit of light can enter, no glare of day can appear, you will still feel that you are there. You have the perfect sense you are there. It can never be otherwise. You just know you exist. And you don't have to interpret that you indeed exist.

Understanding the concept of Now may also bring the understanding of Enlightenment. Now is not the same as Present. Now contains the moment of Present. Now is the Presence, the Awareness wherein Present passes by. Enlightenment is therefore an understanding that awareness is all there is. What appears before your awareness are mere happenings wherein it can never be possible to be aware of without awareness first. What appears  is not a separate phenomenon from you being aware of it. Your awareness is what makes the happenings possible. Without your awareness, how can we tell what? Reading this piece can never be possible if you did not wake up from your last sleep.  And there is no way for you to know that this piece exists while you're on bed lying dead. How can you know?  It is not even possible to know what does it feels like doing something else than what you  are perfectly doing right now. So, you are just an awareness.

Enlightenment is to see that we are not what we think we are. You, I, Me, Us, They, Them, Mine, We are just thoughts. What we think we are are just thoughts, like all other thoughts which passes by while we are aware of it. What then? Answering that will bring in more thoughts. Discover it for yourself.

If you think enlightenment is to always feel nice, you got it right until you see it clearly that you got it wrong. Go inside you and see that enlightenment is a feelingless Feeling; choiceless Choice and a selfless Self.