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Written by Roldan Smith in response to  ”How to Make Yourself Unenlightened“

Let go of the experience of what you perceive to be as an “enlightened” state and you will realize that “enlightenment” or even “being awake” is not an experience that you can either gain or lose.  It is already your perfect and whole state of being that is within you.   You can’t create, maintain or achieve something that already IS.  Your AWARENESS of what IS is regained through the work/practice that you are doing.   But there is no going TO or come FROM the awakened or enlightened state.   Just an deeper awareness and understanding of what is already inherently there as part of your original Being that many of us have long forgotten.

The false self (ego), which is very, very real to most walking on this planet at present, always wants to attach to this experience and claim it as something that needs to be labeled.  In effect…

“I am enlightened.”
“I am not enlightened.”
“I am spiritual.”
“I am not as spiritual as…”
“I am human.”
“I am spirit in human form.”
“I am nothing.”
“I am everything.”

Many active seekers in the realm of self-knowing and understanding use all or some of those statements to describe the state of being/living within an “awakened” state at some point in their self-realization process. However, the “danger” here, like in all areas of life, is to ATTACH too much if ANY logical or tangible meaning to even these concepts.   They are just words to try to describe a state that is near impossible to describe to someone who has not seen it within themselves just quite yet.   Trying to attach meaning, explanation, logic, or any of the like to them is akin trying to tie a string around air. Go ahead… try it.   Not very easy, huh?

Let it go and let it flow.   But you DO have more control than you might be aware of right now…  through that letting go.   One can not create with actively being in co-ntrol… with Source. This is essential to the element of choice when it comes to the “waking up” process or choosing to remain asleep/unconscious (not our natural state of being).

And letting go easy for many well-seasoned practitioners, or the simply gifted sage, in the quiet space of a meditation room, in the woods, or on a rock somewhere.    But do it in the middle of your everyday life… in traffic, in the office, in the grocery store, at the gym, with your friends and family, etc… and you will find that “being awake” or as some put it “becoming enlightened” has nothing to do with the action of coming or going.

It is pure presence, absolute joy and acceptance, fun and truly interesting.   It is LIFE being fully expressed.   It is where one realizes and operates from the understanding than “THE ILLUSION” is only anything that is opposite of Love, Compassion and Creativeexpression.   This is the space where God resides in the very, very REAL and physical world, or a time being, through and expressly THROUGH you (also God) for no other purpose than to Live, Love, Learn and Expand.

Practice makes perfect, but here is one place where you already are.  Perfect that is, just as you are.   The act of “waking up” is coming to the realization that  Truth and then focusing on the action of restructuring your thoughts, words, and actions for the greater purpose of living that Truth and begin to see the same in others.   That’s all.

Now go tell someone how much you love & appreciate them.  It IS Valentines after all… =)