Ah ...

I have been contemplating around the theme of enlightenment, I rarely do... so I take this opportunity to jot down some thoughts that comes to my mind in this 'flash of a moment' to reveal that which apparently lay hidden. The one thing that became most obvious to me was that enlightenment is not a thing... this of course was not lying hidden; it is commonsensical knowledge! Well, considering that enlightenment is not a 'thing' in itself it dawned on me that enlightenment is a process. Ah, that was a true revelation. What does enlightenment as process mean? I guess the first tool that helped me deconstruct this was to understand enlightenment as being similar to food we eat: consume, digest, are affected by and practically defecate. This is strange, does it mean that moment to moment we consume enlightenment as when we need? I guess when we are hungry for some news from our inner being, in the transition stages of digestion we feel content for a while from what we receive as valid truth essences, and possibly after a while those truth essences that seemed ultimate truths now have little meaning and use until what ever remains ... I do not know, I guess, heaps up as large quantities of soul debris ?

Back to the original idea of the process of enlightenment; I found one other thing that seemed to touch a corner stone of 'being in the world': it is the idea that each moment of our lives we transform anew. This rings bells in my toes around the idea that enlightenment as a process is about living in every minute changing moment; to accept these unique moments as real dimensions of our living experience.