' Enlightenment for no one '...

With respect to enlightenment, thought says, “I have it” or “I don’t have it.” Those are dualistic ideas. The mind can get lost not only in the search for enlightenment but also in the false idea that it has attained it. Enlightenment reveals that there is no separate self except as a dream of thought. A self can only consider itself enlightened if it sees others who are not. The idea that I am or am not enlightened is just more separation.

Enlightenment is for no one. It is absolute liberation that no time-bound, egoic self could ever know. No story of self reaches enlightenment. That self is just a story of time, which means a story of mind. That story is doing everything it can to avoid this moment (i.e., to avoid enlightenment). Its main goal is to stay in separation—to be someone in relation to, better than, less than, or more spiritual than the others. It accomplishes this by staying locked in thought, in time.

When that movement of self is seen to be nothing more than thought, something beyond thought recognizes itself. That which wakes up is what you really are. It knows no separation. In this seeing, there is no longer the belief in a separate self who needs to tell stories about being enlightened or not being enlightened.



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