One reason why people never realize enlightenment is that
most people are not living spirituality
they are living spiritual pretense.
Human beings by nature do not like themselves. It is not their fault, it is their conditioning.
Somewhere along the line, everyone of us is painted an image by our family, media and society of the perfect person we are supposed to be. And we realize we are not anything like that perfect person.
And thus starts the journey of self hatred where we try and mould ourselves into this perfect person.
So when we enter a spiritual path, we take on the teaching as “this is how I should be” and according to whatever path or organization we join, we become that, we paint a mask on ourselves according to how we believe we should be.
We see how others act and we act the same to fit in and feel accepted.
The teacher says “Gratitude helps deepen your awareness” and sure enough all of the students of that teacher run around saying how grateful they are.
If you are watching this happen as an outsider, it is creepy. It looks as though they are being brainwashed. But there is no brainwashing happenning on the outside, only on the inside do people try and become who they think they are supposed to be.
They get an image in their mind of how a spiritual person should act and they act it out. They get an image of how they should feel so they convince themselves they feel it.
One person sees golden balls and then everyone related to that person starts seeing golden balls.
One person laughs and everyone else starts laughing.
Whatever the teacher and culture around that teacher, everyone pretends to be that. Like a constant halloween, people put on their spiritual clothes and mask and dance around trying to convince themselves and everyone else this is who they are.
Because for all of us, if we are ever lucky enough to be still enough to truly see ourselves in this moment, we have a breakdown. Because suddenly we are looking at all of the things we have been avoiding all of our lives.
And so most simply try and act out who they think they should be in order to feel accepted, in order to feel loved.
And this is the suffering.
So the key is to be still enough to see yourself in this moment and accept yourself as you are in this moment.
But you can only accept yourself as you are if you are honest about how you are.
Be honest:
What is here in this moment? What is your experience in this moment? It is not to define it, it is to simply notice it, to experience it. To be completely here with what is.
It is in this, in seeing all of the insanity that is here and accepting yourself as you are, that you see all of it exists on it’s own.
All of these thoughts and emotions and physicallity are all happening on their own yet you remain detached and aware. You remain free of all of it as unconditional peace.
Then true love begins to grow in your heart. You no longer care to put on an act. You no longer care to try and be accepted by others. Because there is already self acceptance. And in that self acceptance, there is self transcendence.
You have come to terms with what is here and found freedom from it.
So honesty is the key to realizing enlightenment. You do not realize enlightenment through pretending. You realize enlightenment through being with what is in this moment. At first that may be thoughts and emotions. But once acceptance is there, you see beyond this, you see what you are unconditionally, and that cannot be defined, only experienced.
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