enlightenment-principles

Enlightenment is the ultimate nourishment for body, mind, and soul. It is the ultimate freedom and ecstasy of life.

Every road leads to sorrow. All aspects that make life beautiful _ friendship, love, art, and truth _ will end. All aspects that make life hideous _ pain, poverty, illness, betrayal, hate, crime, war _ will also end. The fact that human life is a mere blip on a cosmic scale is no reason for personal angst as we came from nothingness and will return to the great void that birthed us.

It is up to each one of us to immunize ourselves from any disabling bolts of anger and defend ourselves from the thunderstorms of hatred. No matter how maliciously anyone might act towards us, humankinds_ ability to express empathy, compassion, and mercy is the only life-sustaining panacea. Whenever we foster empathy and compassion and display mercy towards other people, we overcome the vilest actions and greatest atrocities committed by other persons. If we love everyone, we can never feel victimized or hate anyone. If we love ourselves, we will never act in a degrading manner.

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?

Only in duality consciousness we witness this-that thing. In reality, a unity consciousness runs as the very soul of every little thing.

First rule of spirituality - thou shall not believe in your own bullshit.

Love pouring out of you is evidence of God pouring into you.

Light only benefits one whose eyes are open.

You got to die for 'It'. Or you'll remain a religious nutcase. In other words, a dickhead, nitwit.

Enlightenment is tuning our consciousness to music of the universe.

We each possess the ability creatively to respond to the ontological mystery of our existence.

Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the river.

Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold.

Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.

Light poured out multiplies light poured in.

Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.

An enlightened person strives to live a meaningful life, defined by their personal humility joy, passion, and profound reverence for life.

From this we conclude, that, to live in harmony and peace_we must trace a line of distinction between those (assertions) that are capable of verification, and those that are not; (we must) separate by an inviolable barrier the world of fantastical beings from the world of realities.