Are We Enlightened Yet?
So much has been written and spoken and diagramed and charted and illustrated and sung and chanted about achieving enlightenment, it would seem that the human race would be awash in enlightened people by now, with just a few stragglers left to remind us what we once were.
So, why aren’t we all enlightened already?
What would appear obvious is that the message of all those words has so far failed to move the collective needle on enlightenment.
I would like to suggest that it is precisely because so much has been written and spoken and diagramed and charted and illustrated and sung and chanted about achieving enlightenment. In other words, what we thought was the path to it is actually driving us further from it.
That possibility is far more believable than the notion that if we just write one more book or pen one more article or quote one more guru or give one more lecture, then the world will finally see the light.
It appears we have forgotten what the point of enlightenment is.
The point of enlightenment is to bring the experience of life closer in line with the human design. In other words, no matter what benefit we believe we’re seeking, there is no better experience of life than to be in line with the human design.
The human design is where all joy, personal power, and creativity lie. If you are experiencing joy, personal power, and creativity, you will be so consumed by life that you will have no awareness available to experience lack of any kind. Everything a human could ever desire in life is encompassed in joy, power, and creativity.
One unmistakable aspect of the human design is that harmony with it feels better than being in conflict with it. So, we could safely say that the goal of life is simply to feel better. Therefore, does it even need a name like “enlightenment”?
Whatever else is true, how you feel is truer.
However, there is no absolute value of feeling. In other words, no one ever arrives; rather, we’re all just moving in that direction. And, that path is one where everything is measured by how good we feel about life and ourselves. That path is guided by one clear test: feels better, is better.
“Feels better” is always a harmony of body and spirit. Never just one or the other. “Feels better” will lead you where you need to go.
Words will never do enlightenment justice. Words are, in and of themselves, a logical construct. Logic is the antithesis of “feels better”. Enlightenment cannot be taught because the mere act of communication requires some degree of logical compromise.
Enlightenment can never be taught.
No matter how much we pretend that we are teaching others how to be enlightened with our words, it remains an act of personal discovery that can never be performed on behalf of another. Enlightenment is a flawed word because there is no destination called “enlightenment”.
The road to enlightenment is always traveled alone.
Even “feels better” is not a permanent state; it will come and go as a life of its own. We are either not deities, or we’re the closest thing to deities that will ever be. That is the human design.
Seeking enlightenment in the words or intentions of others is what keeps us from a better life.
So, the reason we’re not enlightened yet is because there is no such thing. As a “feels better” exercise, refuse to entertain the notion of enlightenment at all. We are all just degrees of it anyway. Instead, the new way to see life is to ask how fulfilled and joyful you feel in this moment. More is better. More joy need only be experienced, not talked about.
