There are friends in our spiritual community I look up to. Yet, if I were to call them ‘enlightened’ they would laugh in my face and tell me to drop all labels. So what to do? Should we just ban the expression ‘enlightenment’ until we finally meet someone who literally walks on water? I go with the famous Zen saying, everyone on spiritual journey shall get that taste of freedom, but after this blessed satori moment we have to return to our human roots anyway. All the while our spiritual transformation continues, this certainly also applies to my ‘enlightened’ friends.
Satori moments abound along an Awakening journey. The time when time stands still. The feeling that our ‘I-perception’ is just a thought, a feeling, that we can leave behind like a set of clothes. Or the realization that we are bathing in light come rain or shine. So why don’t we leave it like that, we enjoy these countless blessings, but we are as happy to continue chopping wood and carrying water when the time comes. The Tao Te Ching says, ‘Heaven is in earth, and earth is in Heaven’. We have to accept this fact of life and embrace it.
I graphic develops the idea of a spiritual transformation as a process quite well. We may just have enjoyed peace, love and stillness, but then again we are at it again, with more water to carry and wood to chop. A sudden meanness, a lingering depression, a craving or lust, and once again life takes us to the cleaners and transforms us in the process. It’s ok. Let life do its dance and we follow along. Let’s enjoy our spiritual transformation.
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