Enlightenment is a destructive process

Enlightenment is a destructive process

Published 23.10.2023 | By Йосиф

Enlightenment is a destructive process

This experience is experienced by a person as destruction. I often warn people against making a mistake: enlightenment is a destructive process. Enlightenment has nothing to do with getting better or happier. Enlightenment is the way out of delusion. This is the detection of deception. Everything that we thought was true, starting with ourselves and ending with the world, is completely destroyed.

As a result of this process, we learn that even the greatest inventions of the greatest minds of mankind are nothing more than children’s fantasies. We are beginning to understand that all great philosophies and all great philosophers are part of a dream. Awakening at the level of the mind is like pulling back the curtain — like in the fairy tale “The Wizard of Oz”. Dorothy expected to see a Great Wizard, and when the curtain parted, he turned out to be a little man who controlled the levers. The same thing happens when we comprehend the nature of the mind. Our vision is changing radically. Quite unexpectedly, we learn that everything we thought was true is actually part of the dream state and serves to maintain it.

There is no such thing as an enlightened thought. It comes as a shock to us. In fact, most people avoid knowing this truth. We say we want to know the truth, but is it really true? We say that we want to know reality, but when it opens to us, it is so very different from what we expected to see… It does not fit into our worldview, does not correspond to our ideas. It goes beyond everything. Moreover, after seeing it, we can no longer perceive the world in the old way. Our world is turning to dust. After all this, we are left with literally nothing.
Adyashanti “The End of your World”

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