SENSE OF DOUBT
Part 251
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One of the key things that has made enlightenment so unattainable, is people`s misconception about what it is.
Enlightenment has been sold and packaged as a big bunch of happiness and super human abilities.
Or in some cases approval from some deity. But the true definition is "End Game."
You have just taken all your chips off the table and cashed them in. Every table.
To mistake happiness for enlightenment is something you should dispense with quickly.
Happiness is the carrot that your identity uses to keep you in the game.
When one is enlightened happiness or sadness are irrelevant.
Enlightenment is being able to see the beauty and perfection of despair, sadness, grief, loneliness, rejection, and depression. Some of the greatest, literature, art, poetry and music was written by people who get it.
It comes down to being willing to experience your circumstances, whatever they may be.
Inevitably , at some point in life you will be called upon to experience the loss of a loved one.
Talking to you about it now won`t have any real significance. But when you are actually having that experience it is overwhelming. There is an emptiness and indescribable agony that blankets you.
Realize you are having an "experience."
From that experience you can come to know just how invaluable every single life is.
You can experience a full blown dose of how much we all mean to each other.
This is an experience that is not available if you have cashed in all your chips.
That is why you are having the experience.
The part of you who is who you could be can only wonder how much we mean to each other.
That is until you volunteered to experience it.
There is a perfection here that can make you weep till it hurts.
But do you get my point? The concept of how valuable another being is can`t be conceived. It has to be experienced. Please remember my words when the experience of loss swamps you.
Bless this person for opening your heart. Bless them for reminding you of the stars in the sky and the passage of time. Realize that you are experiencing what who you could be can`t.
They have become who they could be. When you become who you could be you are re united.
And then you can bask in the glory of that beings presence and know, from experience, just how breathtaking they are.
Now as for super natural abilities.
They don`t exist. They don`t exist because they already exist but you can`t see them.
The moment you define something as super human, you have denied yourself the experience of it.
You are performing superhuman feats all day long. But you don`t see them as super human.
You see them as a done deal.
The identity you have assumed hides your super human abilities from you because it knows it can`t compete with who you really are.
So the more you lose identification with the identity you have assumed, the more super your human abilities become.
Now an outside identity may look at your super abilities and say..."You have super human abilities."
But all you can ever do is wonder what they mean. Because you just did what you do and it wasn`t super to you at all.
You go up to Bob Dylan and say "You are a superman." And he goes. "No. I`m Bob Dylan."
Before long you piss him off.
So you go out and try to be like Bob Dylan thinking you will be superman too.
But Bob Dylan thinks "Man that guy was super annoying. Glad I`m not him."
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