Are we there yet?

 An imagined entity 

desires to become 

an enlightened 

entity.

 

What’s the point?

Wu Hsin 

 

You imagine yourself on an island, and you are just about to drink your margarita and enjoy the sun on the beach when you hear the radio announcer warning everyone that a tsunami was headed your way. What do you do? Right, remind yourself that you aren’t on the island in the first place!

 

Adyashanti presented that little thought experiment in a YouTube video, “Identification and Disidentification”, and reached the same conclusion as Wu Hsin: enlightenment may be meaningful to the character identifying as “me, myself and I”, but he never existed, while the presence always is. 

 

The enlightenment proof is in the pudding as the saying goes. ACIM offers this requirement: “You have one test, as sure as God, by which to recognize if what you learned is true. If you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and if all those you meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace.”

 

Sure, the fear has gone, and I hope it has for you too. Still, the loved ones in my life could enjoy a little bit more peace of mind. So apparently there is still a little work ahead identifying and arm-wrestling with the character who is keen on writing the story of me. What do you say?