Retail business of enlightenment

People have a significant belief about getting enlightened, that they are not enlightened. It’s a vicious cycle that keeps people from realizing that they are already enlightened.

Besides, people are willing to give up everything to get enlightened. We see people who have given up their jobs, their money, their families, their health and will give up everything to get enlightened. Give up speaking, give up sex, give up you call it they will give it up. At hand, simply one thing people will not give up is to get enlightened. They will do anything they know to hold on to this. They will not give up, no matter what. The only one thing people will not give up for the sake of getting enlightened is the idea that they’re not enlightened. That’s the big deceit, not anything else.

There’s no such thing as enlightenment to get. The more we do of that, the more we state that we aren’t enlightened. Oratory about enlightenment or thinking about enlightenment is not enlightenment. In the realm of enlightenment, we do not make a difference in what we know, we make a difference the way we know. There is a perception of the necessity of extensive training and struggle to get enlightened, and it is nothing more than a perception. We all experience enlightenment, but we give a miss.

Enlightenment takes no time. Although the practice is necessary, that each step is in the expression of enlightenment and self-realization. It takes practice, courage, and commitment to give up old ways of being. The more we practice, an early-warning system gets built, new conditions, self-realization, and new courses of action get established, and the outcome is extended in all directions and in our action. In the undilute sense, we are all enlightened right now, right here. We already got it. There’s nothing to get.

Where peace, practice, and enlightenment live are truly invented & live inside of us.

"The musk deer searches through the forest trees for the fragrance that will enchant and please. But all the while it searches, never knowing from its nature, the musk is blowing."

―Sant Kabir