You Are All Enlightened

Tutorial for December 2022

​Do you think of enlightenment as a perfect state of being that you must achieve in order to stop the cycle of birth and death? Most people view enlightenment as a self-actualization project, an attempt to avoid rebirth by reaching Nirvana, that is attained only by the few fully devoted masters.

We suggest that enlightenment is truly everywhere, and embraces everything and everyone. Enlightenment is your true nature, and is steady and stable while also being far from static. Because enlightenment frequently seems to be sudden, it is often depicted as a lightning bolt. Enlightenment can also seem to be a result of a long and usually arduous journey, commonly symbolically associated with a path. Awakening is another term used to describe the process of enlightenment, with revelation being the threshold upon which enlightenment is achieved.

Enlightenment is the attainment of boundless wisdom and compassion which necessarily allows endarkening and enlightening experiences to flourish. If the enlightening aspects of consciousness contain clarity and confidence, for example, the endarkening aspects of consciousness generate profound acceptance of the great mysteries of life. Enlightening is coming to understand, while endarkening is allowing not-understanding, all of which is One Life Awareness.
Most people view their spiritual lives as either progressive or revelatory, and enlightenment, from our perspective, is the weaving together of progression and revelation which stabilizes in embodiment. Experiences of spiritual awakening, whether gradual or sudden, intentionally induced or spontaneous, typically evoke an ineffable sense of deep inner knowing, or “unveiling” of your true nature, as well as experiences of peace and equanimity, bliss, ecstasy and aliveness and love. Just as significantly, experiences of spiritual awakening can be experiences of fear, despair, and other endarkened emotions and thoughts.  All of these descriptions, all of these aspects, whether seeming to be light or dark, are truly one when you don’t get tangled up in them and allow them to be. Make yourself available, and One Life Awareness will arise in you.

Enlightenment is everywhere. Everyone and everything is enlightened—as enlightenment is an understanding of the relative mode of existence as well as the ultimate mode of existence—the true nature of all that is. Enlightenment and endarkenment is simply One Life Awareness which has no beginning nor end. Your mind, your true nature, all of you is enlightened whether you are experiencing that or not. You tend to look at life as either enlightening or endarkening, yet who you are is all of it, not one view or another, but All That Is.
Allow yourself to be all that you are and enjoy knowing, what is beyond information and data collection, from a pure primordial view, that enlightenment is everywhere.

​You are all enlightened!

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