Acknowledge the perfect and complete enlightenment
Ilchi Lee repeatedly said that enlightenment is a choice. It is the choice to acknowledge or deny the enlightenment that we already possess within. Therefore, enlightenment is not a finish line. It is just a starting point. Acknowledge the perfect and complete enlightenment within you. And realize that you are the master of your own choices and your own life. Then you will be ready to begin a life of universal, spiritual responsibility. The really important thing is not whether you consciously realize that you have joined the elite ranks of the enlightened ones, but that you make your daily choices based on what you see, hear, and feel and take responsibility for those choices.
Imagine a bell in front of us, and a stick that you use to strike the bell. Enlightenment is that you know that a bell sits front of you. However, enlightenment itself does not bring about change. The bell may sit there for the next thousand years and nary a sound will be heard if someone does not pick the stick up and strike the bell. Without someone who will act to bring the bell and the stick together, that bell will never become a true bell. It will be just a lump of metal.
Only when action follows knowledge is true creation witnessed. A state of enlightenment must be followed by action in order to have any meaning in this world. Therefore, the important thing is not enlightenment, but your choice to act.
November 24, 2008 11:12 pm 1 Comment
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