' The Enlightened State '...

"The enlightened state is not, as is commonly supposed, the special state.

The unenlightened state is the magical, mysterious, incomprehensible state.

Awake is just awake.

It's not something more, it's everything less.

My state is natural and easy.

I carry no baggage.

I labor under no delusion.

I don't spend my lifeforce animating a fictional persona.

All paradox lies with the unawakened state.

The awakened don't have something that the unawakened are missing, it's the other way around.

The unawakened posess massive structures of false belief.

They create and maintain these vast realms of past, present and future; of great meaning and importance; of a deep and wide emotional range; all woven together out of sheer nothingness.

Something from nothing; that's the magic, that's the special state.

The unawakened state is the one that requires such ceaseless dedication and devotion and which seems so fantastically improbable.

The awakened state is nothing compared to that".

and:

"The lifeforce I'm not using to project a false self is now available for much more fun and interesting purposes.

It's a whole different universe once all that petty self crap has been left behind".



- posted by Roy Whenary to Open Awareness