What is enlightenment?

Light and Enlightenment

Enlightenment, what does it mean?

Big topic. It needs a context. something that is easy for anyone to departure from. Aha! How about "LIGHT."

From that vantage point, one can go 1 of 4 ways to cover the sphere of consciousness. (Enlightenment and consciousness?)

4 categories

1. Physical descriptions of light (pertaining to
material life)
2. Emotional descriptions of light found in art
and design.
3. Mental descriptions of light pertaining to
formulas and numbers.
4. Abstract and Astral descriptions of light
using the first previous three.

Light as a literal, metaphysical, symbolic and personal concept is the the key to exploring parts of the concept of enlightenment. The 4 vantage points are good tools to consider because they describe the different views and tensions found in the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

Similarily speaking the two hemispheres represent the metaphorical artist (right side) and scientist (left side). Enlightenment must accommodate some sort of a union between these two metaphors of the artist and scientist.

There is a visual tool that has been developped to assist this accommodation for grasping the idea of union and unity. It is quite a contradiction to the standard notion of thought which has a difficult time grasping the union of opposites). The tool deals with bridging opposites to yield the maximum potential.

In the event that "someone" is enlightened, you can bet that both sides of the brain are working in unison and helping to facilitate a greater level of light (or chi energy) within the physical body. The information about this effect is called a full body coherence which can be found on the web.)


Bridging opposites hey? Thats right! Even the concept of bridging opposites has slipped the field of mathematics. Maybe thats why no one in the history of the noble peace prize laureates has ever one a prize for proving with mathematics that peace is the bridging of opposites.

I mean you hear all the time about peace and enlightenment, but when people try to wrap their heads around it, the fog (or veil) gets too dense to dissipate. I think part of that reason is because it exists without exception in our programming that opposites just do not mix, but in an infinite universe all things are possible. Especially enlightenment and being able to grasp it is no far stretch.

Naturally one would ask..."well, how do i attain enlightenment?" but being enlightened occurs on a daily basis, and there are many levels to that degree. How far do you want to go? A good question to ask about enlightenment and to validate its presence is, what are the effects? Like it was stated earlier, the two sides (hemispheres) of the brain are completely active with one another.

The categories used to identify the topic of "light and enlightenment" are good because they also point (partially) to nature of human consciousness and its make up. Sometimes, when we're being hard headed its easy to forget that we have other characteristics that make up our being and which are not absolutely physical. This is a reason why these categories are used to investigate the topic of 'light and enlightenment."

This a magazine on this subject: www.wie.org/

nothing!

What is the meaning of a wet pig falling down the stairs?

Enlightenment is falling in love with the soul of the universe; staying enlightened is a commitment to change as encouraged by your lover.

Thank GOD!

What is enlightenment? Sure is a thought provoking question. It’s like asking what is God? Maybe enlightenment and God are the same thing. And, maybe not.

What is clear is that: once a person starts thinking about the answer, lots of different notions come to the surface. Here we are on the third dimension attempting to understand how we got here, how the universe works, and a vast horde of queries that seem to generate ever more questions. Just look at the ideas that have come through on this tribe and thread. I have noticed some common ground among some of the offerings and this is a good start. What I have noticed over the years is that the discussion about metaphysical topics usually differs most in the language used. Some people call one idea one thing and other people call the same idea something else. I assert that we are usually saying the same thing in many tongues. Call it the Tower of Babel syndrome. I believe that if enough time and listening went on, we would find that, by and large, we are usually in agreement. The more mature the arguments put forward, the closer they become. What I perceive is that we need a common language to define what it is we are talking about.

So, having said that, I would like to put forward an approach to the question: What is enlightenment? Shall I say, I am advancing some parameters for discussion.

In a sentence: our understanding of enlightenment needs to come from our own plane of existence, which is the third dimension, the physical plane.

The very immediate observation that clinches this need is pure logic. That is, enlightenment is a strictly third dimensional phenomenon. Can anyone say that their personal angelic guides who dwell in the upper dimensions need to walk the spiritual path to achieve enlightenment? The heavens are already enlightened! There is no need to be spiritual above this physical plane because everything is already spiritual. Above this Earth plane, the light is all pervasive, all encompassing, and the real choice in the heavens amounts to choosing one form of love or another form of love. The archangels have not been granted the choice to choose what is not love. But, we have. We can choose to “not love”. Or, we can choose to love.

So being on Earth is not like being in the heavens---pretty obvious eh!

There are numerous concepts to understand before one’s understanding reaches the realization that we did not come to Earth as enlightened beings. The first concept is that we can choose to “not be enlightened”. But, we can also choose to be enlightened. The choice concept is a tangent which (for my buddy Rudy could probably be calculated using a pi square or something) needs to be given consideration. Ask yourself: Did I choose to come to this Earth in this life to be enlightened or not?

Beyond the choice tangent, enlightenment is an Earthly endeavour. It follows the journey that one takes on the spiritual path. The main point I am making is that because enlightenment is an Earthly endeavour, it conforms to conceptual thinking that our minds on Earth can understand. Enlightenment can be defined using ideas that our minds can work with. Mathematics has some validity in setting up an understanding from the perspective of the mathematician. Buddism has validity in setting up an understanding from the perspective of the Buddist. Love has validity in setting up an understanding from the perspective of the lover. Enlightenment is not a concept that comes from higher dimensions. Higher dimensions do not need to be any more enlightened than they already are.

So let me say in plain English, because English is our language and our source of understanding, enlightenment conforms to third dimensional definition. It is not some nebulous concept that we can say comes from heaven. We may perceive that the heavens are enlightened and aspire to be like the heavens, but the work of enlightenment is absolutely limited to our physical plane.

The choice to be enlightened is a good start, whether the chooser knows what that means or not. Another choice that obviously has significant relevance to this thread is the choice to understand enlightenment and discover answers that apply. To get anywhere with clearing up “what is enlightenment?” begins with realizing that the answer follows the rules that apply to the third dimension. REASON applies. Reason is a third dimensional frame of reference. Further, the answer cannot be satisfied in the higher planes. We can look to the heavens to discover the nature of enlightenment, yet to make it work on Earth, to bring our own understanding to completion here and now, we need to employ frames of reference that are third dimensional. I suggest that logic can take a person a thousand steps forward on the spiritual path to enlightenment. A thousand steps should take only five minutes to walk, yet without first satisfying logic the next thousand steps is impossible.

Logical concept #1: enlightenment is an Earthly endeavour.

In service to the light,
S. Roger Joyeux