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On Enlightenment



“Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.” 
~Adyashanti

Is there effort required on this path? Personally I find I have less and less energy to make an effort in any direction.

You can't make an effort without rension. But why do you make an effort?  Only because you're looking for some result, for something outside yourself. Once you really know that what you're looklng for is your real nature, you lose the impetus to strive. So first, see how you are constantly making an effort. As soon as you are aware of this process, you are already outside it. And it may come as an original perception that you are really stillness.

But doesn't seeing this require some effort?

No. This seeing is your natural state. Just be aware that you don't see. Become more aware that you constantly react. Seeing requires no effort because your nature is seeing, is being stillness. The moment you're not looking for a result, not looking to criticize, to evaluate or conclude, just looking, then you can perceive this reacting, and you are no longer an accomplice to it.


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NOTICE THAT HAPPINESS IS HERE



Happiness isn’t something to attain or achieve, but something to notice. If you are busy trying to achieve happiness, you are probably overlooking it. The ego tries to get happiness from doing, having, or being someone, while the spiritual ego tries to get it from transcending all of that. For the ego, spiritual freedom, or enlightenment, is just another thing to be achieved. Wanting happiness and freedom from the suffering of the ego are worthwhile desires. The problem is that wanting anything implies you don’t already have it. You believe you aren’t free when you already are. You believe you need to do something to be happy, and you don’t. This truth is very difficult for the ego to grasp. The ego doesn’t notice the happiness that is already present in the moment because that happiness doesn’t look like the ego imagines or wants happiness to look.

Lake, Gina (2009-04-19). What About Now? Reminders for Being in the Moment (p. 126). Endless Satsang Foundation. Kindle Edition.

What Time Is It?



At this moment if you set the alarm to get up at 3:47 this morning and when the alarm rings and you get up and turn it off and say What time is it?
You'd say:

Now. Now.
Where am I?
Here! Here!


Then go back to sleep.

Get up at 9:00 tomorrow. Where am I?
Here!



What time is it?

Now!


Try 4:37 three weeks from next Thurs.


By God

It is - there's no getting away from it -

That's the way it is 
That's the 
Eternal Present

You finally figure out that it's only the clock that's going around ...
It's doing it's thing but you - you're sitting
Here
Right Now

Always


~Ram Dass