The effort to lift one’s self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It’s a refraction of the cosmos. The cosmos delights in itself.
The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of what creates enlightenment. And if their descriptions were correct, then everyone who is in religious practice would be enlightened.
The wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be anything it wants to be.
When someone says to me “I want to be enlightened.” I immediately take a vacation because I know that the person isn’t serious. I’ve never met anyone who’s serious about enlightenment.
The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and that’s to be in the garden of the heart, in the perfect stillness, where the white light of eternity meets the white light of eternity.
Enlightenment doesn’t mean you stop being a student. Being a student is a state of mind. Enlightenment simply means that you are everything and everywhere. It doesn’t preclude being a student.
When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.
Enlightened beings are rare in the universe. They are the joker in the deck. They are outside the circle.
Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don’t function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They’re not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they’ve died.
The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us.
The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.
Sometimes beings come forth from that realmless realm. Light incarnates and wanders around through the samsara, kind of looking at itself in various countless forms. We call beings that come from that realm “enlightened”.
There are beings who come into this world, from time to time, not simply with miraculous powers, which we call the siddhas, but with a miraculous awareness that is so strong yet so subtle that anyone or anything that touches that awareness is transformed forever.
An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.
The teacher is not a person; they’re a field of energy. They’re a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they’re not.
If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is play roles, since they no longer have a self.
They just teach by their presence. They don’t really have a message for humanity. It’s irrelevant at that point. They’re just a fluid, perfect embodiment of what we call the dharmakaya or the enlightenment of nirvana .
True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren’t enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.
A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.
An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot can change you forever.