Crasses et Voluptés

Make no mistake about it – enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don’t want to know them. They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.

The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we  feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that  may or may not be an easy thing to do.

...when you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. this is, in many ways, the most important step: are you willing to be aware? are you willing to open your eyes? are you willing to be wrong? are you willing to see that you may not be living from a standpoint of truth, from a standpoint of reality?


Adyashanti