enlightenment for everybody
Nov. 3rd, 2001 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iamomI've come across several personal enlightenment stories in the past few weeks. Examples here and here. I think there's a lot of value in reading these stories, especially the modern ones. It's easier to connect with someone's enlightenment story when it's set in the same context as your own everyday life.
Enlightenment stories. Funny concept. They're commoner than I thought. They just reflect a certain moment or period in your life when you awakened to your own self. When you recognized that you were not alone, and even that you weren't any different from anybody else. You can take that concept, like any concept, as deep as you'd like to go; but the very state of enlightenment is brought about simply by acknowledgment.
Acknowledging that you are, is enlightenment. Nothing more, nothing less. The rest becomes a lot simpler after that.
Enlightenment stories. Funny concept. They're commoner than I thought. They just reflect a certain moment or period in your life when you awakened to your own self. When you recognized that you were not alone, and even that you weren't any different from anybody else. You can take that concept, like any concept, as deep as you'd like to go; but the very state of enlightenment is brought about simply by acknowledgment.
Acknowledging that you are, is enlightenment. Nothing more, nothing less. The rest becomes a lot simpler after that.
