Originally posted by Lucius
Try not to be obsessed with enlightment, do not focus on enlightment, rather, keep your eye on the path to enlightment, which is, just as important, if not more important then enlightment itself.
An enlighted individual can escape the circle on reincarnation on this plane, I wish to achieve it, but I do not wish to escape here, too much burns the desire to help others, ease their suffering and teach them, deep inside I feel asif achieving enlightment and escaping this plane is a selfish action, thats why I choose, even when I reach enlightment to remain on this plane, even after death I want to return.
I feel like enlightment itself should never be your ultimate and highest goal, that should be, walking the path towards it, and walking it the best way possible, and helping every single being that is in need you come across, even if that means slowing down or even pausing your journey towards the end. At least, that is what I want to do.
I also think you cannot achieve enlightment by intense training and meditation and the like, in order to achieve it you must just let your soul flow naturally and try not hasten the process, it will come, look at it as walking a certain distance, if you rush and hasten and run as fast as you can you will arrive wrecked, but if you walk calmly, smell the roses, stop sometimes to rest, your soul wil arrive in perfect state, if not better then before. And you will have assisted others to walk the road in peace aswell.(Im not saying you should not meditate)
I know enlightment will come for me someday,perhaps this life, perhaps not, it doesnt matter, I have the roses along the road, and the satisfaction of knowing that I helped others smell some of them aswell. ^_^
You are a true saint. I absolutely love your view on the world, and your desire to help people. I feel the same way because I have become many things which have made me question what most people take for granted. Initially, as a kid, I bought into all this 'stuff', and cursed it, which I later found out I was actually a part of! The irony which sets the mind free...
I also love to take life as it comes. I don't like rushing things - girlfriend, 'good' job, car, house, etc...I just let things happen naturally and I couldn't be happier...Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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