"Enlightenment" is simply seeing things as they are.
Adyashanti
Enlightenment, according to Adyashanti, is just a big and often misunderstood term or concept for seeing things as they are.
Most of us do not see clearly. Most of us...which would make it the "norm" ...see things as if we are wearing blurry lens. Those lens are our conditioning and beliefs. When we truly believe some idea or concept and look out at the world through that type of perceptual field...the world is distorted. And we make our choices and what not based on this distorted way of percieving. Most of us do this, especially if we were taught and conditioned in similiar ways... establishing the same belief systems. Therefore : It is normal but nutty.
When we realize just how "nutty" this is we seek to shift our perception, to see in a way that is less nutty, to remove the much too trendy glasses ( our conditioning and beliefs that no longer serve) so we see the world differently. We begin to see it for what it is...and we see that what the mind was creating and telling us was it...was just an illusion that can truly only exist in our minds. Putting down the lens of conditioned belief not only changes our vision, it clears our mind of story and illusion. This is enlightenment.
We do not come into a piece of information we didn't have before when we become enlightened...we actually remove information that was in the way of us seeing clearly ( our dependence on these blurred lens ...our mind and our conditioned way of percieving) . We realize that information, conceptual knowledge etc that we have habitually used to improve our understanding of things... can actually get in the way of us seeing clearly and understanding truth.
Awareness... that which we unknowingly seek...requires no understanding. It just is. We are not going to get anything "out" of this process of awakening because it is not something you can grasp or understand conceptually. It is beyond all that.
Awareness, the one thing required for every thing to be, is not a thing.
Awareness is the background on which everything tangible in our world emerges, yet, It Itself, is intangible. We can not touch it or know it...we can only sense it...feel it...experience it. This is our reality...what we are seeking when we say we want to wake up.
What we are really seeking, then, is no-thing...emptiness, space...what the Buddhists refer to as Shunyata.
I like how Adyashanti explains our seeking of this. It is like going to the finest restaurant, ordering the best thing on the menu and getting an empty plate. How many normal but nutty people would want to do that? Yet this is what we do when we seek to be enlightened...we are ordering the best thing we could ever experience in Life...and at the same time the only thing on that menu that is real....and it is nothing Wow! A bit mind blowing, eh?
What we are also ordering is our Self...for we are the very thing we are ordering. We are no-body, no-thing. We don't have or get awareness...we are awareness. And when we live as awareness...experiencing the timelessness, the peace, and the joy of being in the present moment, the only time we can be in when we are truly seeing clearly...we are the very thing we are seeking.
When we are enlightened/awake we can still do and function in this world of things but we do so as awareness. It really doesn't matter what we do as long as we are doing it as awareness....as long as we are doing it with awarness of this no-thing and no-body from which all doing emerges.
Love this:
If you are somebody picking up garbage in the park you will be miserable, but if you are a nobody picking up garbage in the park there will be beauty in the movement. Eckhart Tolle
Hmmm! Do you still want to become enlightened? Do you wnat to become a no-body and a no-thing? Or are you more content being normal but nutty?
Anyway, all is well!
Adyashanti/Nondual Videos (June, 2021 ) Shift of Perception (2008) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njWDak9_5gY
Eckhart Tolle/Nondual Videos (May 2021) No Desire to Do Anything/Happy as I am (2004) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPvYo49NNWM
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