I was right there-lying on my bed and enlightened.
I started to think heuristically. I thought I know this, but how, question needs an answer. Then I remembered almost all the things I knew and found myself trying to figure out how I know so many things. And then there are so many other things which I do not know. So the simple question is – If you know something then how do you have probably acquired the knowledge we are talking about.
People tend to come up with answers like I have learned it in school or if they know a fact; they say someone’s told them. So is it like when someone’s actually telling you something you learn it by believing on his/her words or is the case a little different here. There might be numerous things which you come across on any normal day but you won’t believe all what you come across... or would you?
Somewhere I think we are actually driven by the sub-conscious mind and this so-very-conscious mind is all a frame which is built-up to keep us busy and off the process of the sub-conscious. I feel that sub-conscious has a sort of connection to something beyond physical. That explains how one can be creative. It is like when you think of something new on your own. It’s your idea. You never usually think about how an idea can germinate in your mind. Though you find it in a conscious state of mind, it is actually conceived by your sub-conscious.
When you are telling jokes to people have you ever observed that they smile when they actually get the joke and not like they start to smile as soon as you finish the joke? Some people might do it at a later time. Why is it so? Why cannot all the people who listen to the joke simultaneously, laugh at the same time. Why that is all the students in the class listen to the same lecture and some get more knowledge out of it and the others get less. Why some students are good and some aren’t?
The answer to the above and likewise questions is one of the absolute truths (if there are more than one) and the humble writer calls it ‘enlightenment’. It explains everything we know till date. The things which you thought somebody else has taught you are actually learnt by you. It is your mind that generates everything. If we talk about the jokes you will see that one laughs when the joke thing actually dawns in his/her mind and not because someone says, “I just told you a joke”. All the things you have learned till date are only the result of enlightenment. Although this form of enlightenment varies from your perception of it. Life is a result of small enlightening moments. Next time when you learn something you might realize that the small process of enlightenment just happened to you.
Sometimes you keep trying hard to learn something and still not getting it. All of a sudden you get it in a flash. What was stopping you from learning it earlier? You cannot explain it. Enlightenment is not in your control. You need to explore it to use it as a tool. Once you know it you will surely enjoy it all your life.
So, are you enlightened?
I started to think heuristically. I thought I know this, but how, question needs an answer. Then I remembered almost all the things I knew and found myself trying to figure out how I know so many things. And then there are so many other things which I do not know. So the simple question is – If you know something then how do you have probably acquired the knowledge we are talking about.
People tend to come up with answers like I have learned it in school or if they know a fact; they say someone’s told them. So is it like when someone’s actually telling you something you learn it by believing on his/her words or is the case a little different here. There might be numerous things which you come across on any normal day but you won’t believe all what you come across... or would you?
Somewhere I think we are actually driven by the sub-conscious mind and this so-very-conscious mind is all a frame which is built-up to keep us busy and off the process of the sub-conscious. I feel that sub-conscious has a sort of connection to something beyond physical. That explains how one can be creative. It is like when you think of something new on your own. It’s your idea. You never usually think about how an idea can germinate in your mind. Though you find it in a conscious state of mind, it is actually conceived by your sub-conscious.
When you are telling jokes to people have you ever observed that they smile when they actually get the joke and not like they start to smile as soon as you finish the joke? Some people might do it at a later time. Why is it so? Why cannot all the people who listen to the joke simultaneously, laugh at the same time. Why that is all the students in the class listen to the same lecture and some get more knowledge out of it and the others get less. Why some students are good and some aren’t?
The answer to the above and likewise questions is one of the absolute truths (if there are more than one) and the humble writer calls it ‘enlightenment’. It explains everything we know till date. The things which you thought somebody else has taught you are actually learnt by you. It is your mind that generates everything. If we talk about the jokes you will see that one laughs when the joke thing actually dawns in his/her mind and not because someone says, “I just told you a joke”. All the things you have learned till date are only the result of enlightenment. Although this form of enlightenment varies from your perception of it. Life is a result of small enlightening moments. Next time when you learn something you might realize that the small process of enlightenment just happened to you.
Sometimes you keep trying hard to learn something and still not getting it. All of a sudden you get it in a flash. What was stopping you from learning it earlier? You cannot explain it. Enlightenment is not in your control. You need to explore it to use it as a tool. Once you know it you will surely enjoy it all your life.
So, are you enlightened?
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