Meditation lesson number six. What about enlightenment?
So now that we’ve become really good meditators. What about enlightenment?
Is it a thing?
Well… Just think about it. You’ve had so much experience now with your mind. You’ve been simply sitting there watching it. You’ve been listening to yourself. You’ve been watching your mind as it goes silent. Perhaps you’ve been watching from a place of silence. By now you’ve had moments of simply sitting there and experiencing the silence that is inside of you.
If you’ve done this regularly you’ll start having beautiful spiritual experiences as you sit and meditate.
Wait… what?
But wait, you say. I didn’t have a spiritual experience. Nothing grand happened! I didn’t have as big of spiritual experience as I’ve read about from other people. I wasn’t able to re-create a spiritual experience that I had in the past.
Yes that’s true. You probably didn’t have a giant spiritual experience. But you had something else. It was simple, relaxing and natural.
The simple experience
Just seeing the silence at all is a spiritual experience. Give yourself a win for that.
But now let’s go deeper. There’s still another step. This is what we talk about in Nonduality. Who are you? Who is it that is listening to your mind. That’s who you are.
Who is it that is listening to the silence?. That is you.
So enlightenment itself, if you’re so inclined, is stepping back into who is doing this. Who is this witness?
That is you.