Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 1)

Here’s the most directly I am able to say this: The one and only truth of any person lies like a black hole at their very core, and everything else—everything else—is just the rubbish and debris that covers the hole.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes

The clock indicates the moment— but what does eternity indicate?

Like a Death Sentence My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon. Taoist saying

Mystics stay in the theater, but the theater isn’t the whole thing. It’s not the final, total, most ultimate thing. Enlightenment isn’t in the theater. If you want to be enlightened you have to go up the aisle and out the exit to the sunlight and totally leave the theater!”

Enough! I’m tired of thinking about it. Words are a lousy means of communication, brains are no place for serious thinking, and indescribable experiences are silly things to try to describe.

“The answer isn’t that I am or am not a person of faith or belief. The truth is that faith and belief are non-issues for me. In a very loose sense I suppose you could say I believe indiscriminately; ghosts, bleeding statues, alien abductions, cattle mutilations, crop circles, prophecy, demonic possession, whatever. I let all of that stuff in practi

“But back to the original question: Wouldn’t an enlightened Zen master believe in Zen? Wouldn’t an enlightened Sufi believe in Islam?” “You’re talking about vehicles and destinations. Once one has arrived at the destination, the vehicle is discarded, forgotten. If I take a train to Chicago I get off the train and enjoy Chicago. I don’t drag the tra

The thinking is simple: Wake up first. Wake up, and then you can double back and perhaps be of some use to others if you still have the urge. Wake up first, with pure and unapologetic selfishness, or you’re just another shipwreck victim floundering in the ocean and all the compassion in the world is of absolutely no use to the other victims flounde

I let that one sink in for a few moments. There were important lessons here and I didn’t want to race through them too quickly. The little questions are always portals into larger answers.