Written by Mathew Naismith
As it was asked recently:
What exactly do you gain from withholding
love, kindness and honour from yourself and others?
My
Reply: "Wealth and power." Also; "Is enlightenment, as in Buddha
enlightenment, of wealth and power? It is simply of letting go of what is
controlling you, this also means your own control. Enlightenment is all about
letting go of control therefore wealth and power.
Can
enlightenment feel like wealth and powerful to human consciousness? Yes, in the
process negating real enlightenment. The trick to real enlightenment, love,
kindness and honour is to not see it as taking control and
turning it into any kind of wealth and empowerment as this simply refers to
control.
Look
at it this way Tawny, what are you doing when you take yourself away from an
unbecoming circumstance or person? You are not controlling them but you are
also not allowing them to control you simply through letting go of control.
Let's be honest here, any kind of wealth and power is all about control, the
very same thing we are suppose to be letting go of!!"
You could also call this enlightenment
Yogic, shamanic, God, sage, Shiva, Jesus or what ever enlightenment, to me it
is still of the same enlightenment.
Love, kindness and honour are naturally a
part of enlightenment without any intentions of energy expended to gain love,
kindness and honour. If you have to expend a lot of energy to gain
enlightenment, it is often known in the western mind as not being of Buddha
enlightenment.
You may think honour has nothing to do with
enlightenment. Honour in this case is like humbling oneself, bestowing honour
upon all that is without prejudice or bias. This is not easy for the ego to do.
So does the ego have to expend a lot of
energy to gain awareness to the point of becoming enlightened?
You are actually letting go of expending
energy with enlightenment, but to the ego this will feel like expending energy.
Expending means to have something to payout for something received for this
expenditure. Within an enlightened state there is nothing you own to expend,
also, nothing to receive for something you owned you had to expend to gain
enlightenment. Even in relation to time expended, you don't own time to payout
in the first place to gain enlightenment. Enlightenment is the realisation that
you are not expending any kind of energy to gain enlightenment, for there is
nothing to gain in the first place!!
