| Co-Author: |
Co-Author of "One Page Wisdom. Book 1" |
| Author Number: |
62 |
| Pages: |
123-124 |
| Profile #: |
103388 |
| Title: |
Enlightenment - A Modern Understanding of God's Thoughts |
| Written By:: |
Gary Johnston |
| Location: |
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| One Page Wisdom: |
ENLIGHTENMENT IS THE ULTIMATE state of grace - a state whereby you come to understand what "it" is all about. You know your purpose and why the Universe is the way it is. Albert Einstein probably said it best: "I want to know God's thoughts. All the rest are details."
Many religions discuss enlightenment. Some try to teach you how to reach it, usually through great deprivation and rejection of normal pleasures. Many travel strange paths. Most never come near it. Most remain locked in their memories, filled with anxiety, anger, self doubt and delusion. Yet it is interesting to find that many who reach such a state, return to normal life after it, albeit with a different view of priorities, a different perception of their environment and the people around them. Now a new understanding of the mind, its associations with its environment, and its connection to other minds at all levels, has opened the door to a new way of experiencing this state of grace. There is a way forward without the mystery and pain that has surrounded the concept of enlightenment since before the time of Buddha.
The story of Buddha's struggle and deprivation to reach enlightenment became the basis of many paths. As we meditate and search for the answers to the Universe the dogma surrounding the religion or practice frequently gets in the road of true understanding.
Yet the simplicity of the state of enlightenment defies the dogma that has surrounded it with mystery. Enlightenment can only exist in this moment in time. It can only be experienced when your mind is totally absorbed in this moment - now.
There is a reason that the state of grace is so evasive. Most of us live in the past. This is normal because our unconscious mind provides knowledge and emotions from past memories in a continuous stream, modifying our thoughts, feelings and behaviors now in order to protect us. It uses automated strategies to control our reactions to what is happening now, based on its understanding of what is correct behavior under the circumstances. And it does so under the belief that the information stored in this automated recording system we call the unconscious mind is correct in content and program. However, we now know that much of its recorded content is inaccurate, created by or consisting of the beliefs of others that we were never able to edit before accepting. This recorded information of facts, circumstances, relationships, thoughts and feelings is delivered to our conscious mind in a never-ending stream of information that we just accept as being true and relevant to our current circumstance.
Think of the unconscious mind as our soul memory. It is the content of your unconscious memory that creates how you feel about yourself, how you behave and how the world sees you. Your unconscious mind is your personality - your soul.
Enlightenment comes when we stop, or at least greatly limit, this stream of unconscious flow. In the past the disciplines of the great religions were supposed to give us that, but failed more often than not because the parts of the mind producing the unconscious flow interfered with the process.
But what do you think happens when all those thoughts, feelings and reactions of your unconscious mind are slowed or stopped? All your anxieties, fears, uncertainties and ties to the recording of your past no longer impinge on your conscious self. The past stops controlling your present and at last you can experience a genuine view of this moment in time. You experience now without the discoloration of the past or longing for the future. Now is experienced without ego being involved.
In our investigations into clinical change of extreme anxiety states, stopping them in their tracks, we have come to understand this emotional unconscious memory. We understand how it controls our lives and our personality. We understand how it stands in the way of that elusive state of enlightenment.
We know how to negotiate with an ever-vigilant unconscious mind to allow new understanding and remain in now most of the time. Within that state are God's thoughts.
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