enlightenment ✨➡️🔥
what it is. how we might remember it.
1.
“Heather, doesn’t ‘prajna’ mean enlightenment"?”
”Oh my goooooosh—I found a four leaf clover as soon as you said that.”
2.Definition:
A. To know who you are.
B. And what you should do.
C. Without fail.
3. A practical definition for us earthlings:
1.) in good faith:
2.)learn who you are,
3.And find what you should do,
4.one day at a time.
Something like that.
I had a professor tell me one time,
“My only goal, is to have a good day today.”
4. we probably know what it feels like:
*approximating*
A flash of inspiration.
A sudden warm nostalgia.
A positive loss of words.
Erie clarity under immense pressure.
A flicker of surprising joy after you’ve just lost something or been hurt.
I imagine—being at the birth of your child.
When an athlete is playing “out of their mind”
Flow experiences
When art brings you tears.
I imagine walking a tight rope high up would give you something close.
But more stable.
Rooted.
Like a tree.
A wholesome, nourishing, feeling of REALNESS.
Power & Love & Acceptance at the same time.
Imagine someone learns (practices/trains) to stay in a steady state of these “flickers” and “flashes” of insight, so that one day that flame inside of them burns bright—Steadily. Steadily. Steadily on.
5. I heard one time that : maybe two humans that ever walked have done it.
Jesus.
The Buddha.
But also somewhere on the spectrum:
A long list of others (Saints and Heros) way way way further up the ladder than i will achieve.
—but we’ve got to aim at something.
We’ve got to try!
“Things dont get better unless you do.”
6. Got it, so how?
There’s more i could say here, but im still wrestling through it myself.
I am not enlightened.
I am drawn to the potential that we can change and transcend and make earth more like heaven.
These seem to be crucial ingredients enlightening:
1.The Right Setting
2.The Right People
3.The Right Practices
4.The Right Intentions.
5.Time
7. I Hope you have a good day, today.
Start there! And then Who Knows!
I’ll leave you with this:
Nate brought a girls softball team into the gym a few weeks back, and we taught them some moves, and when they had a opportunity to roll with Nate and try these moves and tactics in a more mock live scenario—the coach yelled out to one of the girls when she was in a bad spot:::::
“REMEMBER YOUR TRAINING!”
(Some master yoda sh*t XD)
But actually, it serves as a metaphor.
It would take longer to explain.
But something about who we are, and how we were born into the world, and our vital bodily connection to experience here.
We kind know what we do already.
There are many who have come before us and marked the way.
Don’t reinvent the wheel.
*Learn to put it back together.
R E M E M B E R
(RE-MEMBER)
P.S: If what you’ve read here interests you, follow the work of John Verveake, whom I am glad to share the ideas of.
blessings,
-Nick.