Enlightenment...

On the most absolute level, enlightenment never happens to a me or a you.

Enlightenment is less about a me or a you than anything we will ever experience! Strictly speaking, enlightenment isn't even an "experience" at all.

It is the discovery, the sudden noticing of, the spacious "field" of consciousness in which every experience comes and goes.

Enlightenment is trans-personal.

That doesn't mean that it's impersonal.

That means that it transcends every category of "personal" or "impersonal".

It is the fundamental nature of the absolute.

Enlightenment is itself, Light, openness, vastness, spaciousness, with or without a "person"...

Even if the whole universe was empty of people, enlightenment would still be here and now in all it's fullness and would simply continue to manifest (in a non-human way of course) through trees or rocks or whatever else remained in existence in the manifest world.

In fact, it is already, always so here and now in everything under the sun, and in the sun itself!


Francis Bennett