The enlightened state is a state of unknowing. Knowledge of the self is complete because all knowledge has been surrendered.
The self is an ever-changing state, a cosmic flux, a quantum uncertainty wherein no particular frequency/value can be discerned beyond that which is apparent in the moment.
Moment by moment, that is how knowledge of the self is garnered, a constant, unsegmented process of measurement and response, discernment and behavior. It is a moving target and the only way to be in alignment with that target is to follow it, endlessly, into the dark.
There is no way to maintain knowledge of the self without seeing our emotions, and feeling them. You must have an open heart. The target moves in many dimensions, and emotion is one of them.
Emotion is a superpower. We must open up to it in order to live a life worth living. We must feel it in order to truly be connected to our fellows, and what better way to be?
If we can open up and feel, without fear, not only can we live a life worth living; we can activate our superpowers and better track the One in its ever-changing state because we can feel it. What better way to navigate the world than by feeling the One Reality right inside our bones?
You will never miss the mark.
If you can feel It, moving withing your body, transforming within your bosom, creating Itself anew within your very loins, you will always know how to act.
Fight the world, help the world, enslave the world, manipulate the world, sell the world…All of these are attempts at controlling the One because you have neglected to feel It. How an you move with It if you cannot feel It? If you cannot move with It, then It will move you. If you cannot allow It to move you, then you are a thief: gaining your very being from It, yet denying It Its own purview.
It is the mother and the father, your source and greatest inspiration. The central Sun. The headwaters of your being. Open up and feel. Cry when you feel like it. Do not be afraid.
Surrender to It without fear, for It is none other than your innermost essential self. Your essence. You find your essence by surrendering your ideas of yourself onto the great altar of sacrifice to the One. The Great Being surrendering Itself to Itself.
What is surrendered is false self, false ideas about the self, the idea that the individual with her hair and eyes, his wit and swagger, is so important that it must go on, and on and on.
The truth of your existence is as follows: a frequency became discernible within the vast awareness of the One. It manifested as a human and has a life, it has friends, climbs trees and waves to its fellows, then it vanishes, dissolved back into the One like a wave in the sea. You are this: a happening within Infinity.
You are both wave and infinite oceanic being. Particle and eternal quantum flux.
You are the experience of a wave, but this is temporary. When this wave dissolves back into oneness, another will arise without fail, but it will not be the same experience. It will, however, be the same eternal experiencer, you.
In the First Bardo beyond death, the ‘wave’ must recognize itself as a indistinguishable part of the infinite: the aware void, and allow itself to dissolve, to unravel. The fear at this stage is the threat of an eternity of awareness of nothing: ultimate boredom. But, really, there is nothing to be bored.
Once the mental complex unravels and infinite awareness is reborn, the potential energy therein will build and blossom again into manifestation. It will not fail. The Infinite One does not pass away. It never stops manifesting, forever discerning within Itself the infinitude of frequencies present in the field of Truth. All are love.
So, do not be afraid. You are an experience of the Infinite One. It is in control and has perfect knowledge. You are It. It is creating Reality for you, for Itself. Enjoy this. The alternative is nothing.
See the Infinite One within every form you behold, as every tree and stone and human. Love it all because it’s all you. It’s all One.
You are the aware self catapulted into multiplicity.
Do not be afraid to die.
Do not be afraid of life.