' Pointers '...

Many ideas are used to point to enlightenment, which is an essentially inexpressible realization. You hear words like, “Oneness,” “awareness,” “consciousness,” and “presence.” You hear statements like, “Do you see that the ‘I’ thought arises in the pure awareness that you truly are?”

Those are all wonderful pointers. But there is no such thing as a statement of the truth to which the word enlightenment points. No matter what you say about ‘This,’ the statement appears from and disappears back into an emptiness that is prior to the statement. The entire planet earth appears and disappears in that same conceptually unknowable emptiness that some call the “source” and others call “God” or “space.”

This space is overlooked because it is not an object the mind can grasp. Yet this space is the portal to the seeing called enlightenment. Instead of trying to grasp enlightenment through a formed idea, recognize this formless essence within you. See that this quiet, empty, loving space permeates the universe and every manifest thing.

Ideas are useful for communication purposes but they are as flimsy as a belief in Santa Claus. They can only point to an essence that is not an idea. They are not the essence itself.




-Kiloby, Scott. Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment