' More on ideas about enlightenment '...

Yesterday’s reflection stated, “Enlightenment is the death of identification with everything the self loves to hang onto including spiritual ideas.” Spiritual ideas are merely stories pointing back to the timeless, empty, awake space in which everything and every story arise.

When it is realized that this moment is all there is, stories continue to arise. The story, “I am enlightened,” or “I am unenlightened” may arise. Words such as non-duality, Oneness, and enlightenment may arise to express what is essentially inexpressible. Recognize that whatever we say about ‘This’ is ‘This’ appearing as a story about it. The words are never the truth. They are pointers only.

Yet none of these stories should be suppressed or denied. Who would try to suppress or deny them? Only a self with an agenda to change what is would try to suppress or deny anything. Only a thought would seek to deny another thought.

If a movement to suppress or deny a story arises, see it. If a spiritual idea arises, see it. When this seeing happens, an awakeness beyond the stories realizes itself. That last sentence is also a story. It’s not the truth. Just see it. Look to where the words are pointing. See that what is seeing is not a story. What is seeing is prior to all stories. In this seeing, everything is allowed to be just as it is, without attaching or identifying with any of it.



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