Enlightenment

Student: “How do I become enlightened?

Master: “Drop the ‘become’ then that’s a good start.”

Realize that enlightenment is not an expanded state of mind, an exotic experience or a mystical event waiting to occur in a future moment. It is the recognition of the true nature of our infinite Self available only in the present moment. Now!

As long as you believe you will become what you already are, then this becoming becomes a never-ending obstacle. To become is to presume it is presently absent with an ensuing desire to seek or strive along some time-bound path to eventually realize its illumination. Good luck!

Drop the ‘become’ and just Be.