Life means feelings. The difference between dead and alive
is his feelings. Action can be induced by machines. Social responses can also
be induced in a machine because it all comes from the storage of memory of the
brain.
But feeling of “I AM” or the feeling of “AMNESS” is the real
life. The “I” may be one of the stand points chosen by the brain from the
opinions of others to polarise the memories. But the feeling of “AMNESS” is
always there, that is consciousness.
Ok. Now what is meant by the word “Enlightenment”. Normally
it is said that there is some unknown experience without the experiencer and
that one is called by many names like God, Meditation, Vipasana, Mukthi,
Moksha, Nirvana, Awareness, Consciousness, Witnessing etc., and because in this
there is no experiencer, you cannot verbalise it.
But there are lot of momentary experiences without the “I”.
Like accidents, falling in love, wonder, stunning beauty, unfolding creativity
etc. These moments are leaving a deep experience in you, though you forget
yourselves in those moments. It is more like that you say, “ i had a sound
sleep” but you were not conscious in that sleeping moment.
Not only that the moments of “without i” leaves a deep
imprint in you but also they change your way of living and seeing the life. So
for sure “Enlightenment” is also an experience of you without the “I” but
without losing the state of consciousness, instead in the peak state of
consciousness.
Your body is relaxed so that the whole energy is in a peak
state of consciousness, because in the tense state of the body, the energy
moves in the body to make it more powerful. Also the mind is not focused
because a focused mind forgets the source and the whole energy moves towards
the object to achieve. But normally, relaxation is associated with sleep and
energy is associated with activity either in body or mind.
Anyhow in the above, we approach “Enlightenment” from the
point of, how the body and mind will be. But what i want to share is not that.
For me Enlightenment is that, you feel the present moment
completely. Your feeling is rooted very deeply in the moment. All your energy
is available and flowing in this moment of life, for this moment of life. You
feel the present-moment’s top and bottom together; you feel the centre and
circumstance of the present-feeling’s together. You feel the fullness and
emptiness together, you see the connection and cut together. You are so
balanced that you see the whole of your-presence in this moment, the tangible
and intangible. Your view becomes complete, you see the birth and death both.
You feel the flow and you feel the unchanging part underneath.
Once you get this full view, that is it. It changes your way
of living and seeing the life. It is like a pleasant smell added in your
environment, nothing changes but the whole atmosphere has changed. You see
silence and on which music hits, but the silence is so vast and deep and
strong, the music does not make any mark on it, the music of life is a dance of
the escaped particles of silence.
Enlightenment experience depends on the background of the
mind and body you carry before it. Because the energy or consciousness locked
in the body and mind in its patterns, memories, experiences etc., is jumping
into a new realm by suddenly getting the full view. It also suddenly tasting
the untasted reality. When you touch this after so much of life long effort,
naturally a good laugh will born out of you.
This state of being is best worded by OSHO as “witnessing”. This
is the same reason that OSHO says that the future religion is ZEN, and only
ZEN. Because only in ZEN everything except “witnessing” is removed. No path, no
scripture, no teaching, no discipline. Just you sit in ZAZEN, that means just
sit unmoving, doing nothing, simply sitting, the spring comes and the gross
grows by itself. You enter into the full view.
By this the false boundaries, the false limitations of body
and mind were also lost and this also leads to a new experience.
Actually, after “Enlightenment” you become simply an
experiencing body. It starts a new life with a new vision. Without the anxiety
of “I”, you move towards the existence or the existence moves through your
body. Both are right. You are one end of existence’s innumerable ends which
grow or expand. You live you feelings and they take you to more deeper realms. Because
now, you are always fresh, without any pattern, without any focus, and only the
present-moment manifests in you according to the need of the moment. This is
the life “Beyond Enlightenment”. Because of this, the people of enlightenment
move to solitariness to move into deeper realms and the society bondage is a hindrance
to this.
So as OSHO says in one place, upto Enlightenment you move
towards enlightenment, and after that you move towards existence.
sky view,sidd.
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