Reflections on "Spiritual enlightenment is not what you think" 1

I have been obsessed with Jed's book "Spiritual Collision" since I read it, so after reading that book, I can't wait to put his other three books in my pocket and continue to shake with his life from a distance!

I especially like him because as a true enlightened person, he not only vividly depicts the enlightened truth that people yearn for and misunderstand, but also makes his language extremely humorous and luxurious, making him feel interesting rather than boring at all.

? I think the reason why I met Jed McKenna at this point in time must be the most beautiful gift from God to me in an uncertain year!

? The "Disclaimer" at the beginning of Spiritual Enlightenment is not what you think, but it has three pages in this book. Read his words, Buddha is reading. A serious person spits lotus flowers from time to time and bursts into cold jokes. He couldn't help laughing, but he was also deeply shocked and alert: what is true enlightenment?

? He tells you bluntly that enlightenment has nothing to do with all the consciousness of peace, sympathy, love and unity advocated in the field of spiritual teaching. On the contrary, facing the personal demons and fears in the depths of life, gradually disintegrating all kinds of civil wars, discomfort and all the "enlightenment side effects" brought by personal identity, which is full of fun and is simply a blow.

? After reading the first five chapters today, what touched me most was his last two sentences in On Contradiction:

? "Paradox is that there is no contradiction.

Isn't this the most ridiculous thing? "

This reminds me that his enlightened state is "permanent non-binary awareness", that is, a permanent state of awareness without self and mind. Enlightenment is about truth, which transcends all binary opposites, completely transcends all opposites that our human nature likes to judge, right and wrong, good and evil.

I remember a saying: Never stand on either side of the contradiction. Jumping out of contradiction is prajnaparamita, that is, reaching the other side. This is an interpretation of "enlightenment" at a higher level of conscious thinking.

Of course, everyone who wants to be enlightened has to go through a process far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, so Jed does not encourage people to be enlightened, but to become an adult of human beings, which is also the best choice for most people.

Wonderful follow-up continues ...