Enlightenment Definition Essay

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Enlightenment is just a total realization of being what we are anyway. Since it is just a realization, we are it, and it does not matter if we know it or not. We do not need to do anything, as we are already what we are. Whatever the definition of Enlightenment, it involves being whole; end of separation; everything is one; everything is together. It may be called "One Consciousness" or "Self" or "Reality", and it is being this "One". There is no time, just now; but now contains everything. Perhaps you may say it contains past and future, and also much more - all the possibilities of past and future. And you are that. From now I will use the word "That" as a shortcut for what we really are. Most people I've talked to during the last few years …show more content…

What are the implications of being "That", being one real Wholeness, embracing everything? What happens when we do not go into metaphysics, but just live it? There are very obvious implications of assuming you are "That" already. Simple consequences, which are just defaults: 1. Being whole means containing everything. Nothing is needed, no desires, no wanting for anything. 2. This applies to people. No attachments of any kind are needed, because you are everybody, anyway. You cannot lose anybody. 3. Love is just being love. Since you are everybody, then you do not love somebody; as there is no you and no somebody, only love is. This is even more than unconditional love and compassion to everybody. It is like a Bing Bang of Love. 4. Fear. What could you be afraid of, if you are it? No time, so no future, how can the fear come? 5. Being humble is a default. You are everybody and everybody is you, so nobody is special. At the same time, it is seeing everybody as Enlightened already, because everything is now, time does not exist. So once one is whole, we are all whole; once one is God, we are all Gods; once one is Enlightened, we are all

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