Many people and paths
say that enlightenment is paradoxical. However, it only seems paradoxical
because we are trying to grab a goal that is itself the absence of grabbing. Furthermore,
grabbing is redundant because there is no enlightenment, and therefore nothing
to grab. A better goal than enlightenment is liberation from illusion. The main
illusion is the idea that reliable happiness is found rather than being innate
to being.
Liberation is the
natural state. Illusion, on the other hand, is artificial and imposed by society. Therefore,
liberation is realised by subtraction of the false, which simply requires that
we understand the false.
Understanding means
seeing that it is futile to seek reliable happiness in things that end. Seeing
the repetitive leak of energy and attention into futile habits weakens them. As
the patterns of leaking are noticed sooner and sooner, a point comes when the
tangle of illusions quickly unravels.
However, you quickly
realise that illusion in society also needs to end. A good place to start is to
work at ending illusion in spiritual circles since those people are hopefully
able to hear the message.
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