unconditional love, regardless of others' ignorance

[Silver]

Originally Posted by Humm

You, my friend, are quite an enlightened individual.

Hey! Aren't I enlightened (sorta) too?

{I need my weekly attention here, ya know?}

Originally Posted by Silvergirl

Hey! Aren't I enlightened (sorta) too?

{I need my weekly attention here, ya know?}

Enlightened - sure! Appreciative of all that goes on here - I'm not so sure...

Another poem..I cant help it, love threads do it to me..:)
Being love
no conditions
no boundaries
no missions
just being
without cause
without pause..
just being love
as love can be
the many faces
I now see
love in motion
love in devotion
amidst commotion
just being
no intention
sought
just nought
ground zero....

[Xan]

Funny... people like to throw the word 'enlightened' around to mean just about anything they want it to. Unfortunately this probably blocks curiosity about just what it really is.


Xan

Originally Posted by Xan

Funny... people like to throw the word 'enlightened' around to mean just about anything they want it to. Unfortunately this probably blocks curiosity about just what it really is.


Xan

I like to.

Originally Posted by Xan

Funny... people like to throw the word 'enlightened' around to mean just about anything they want it to. Unfortunately this probably blocks curiosity about just what it really is.


Xan

How can what others throw around block ones own innate sense of curiosity? Curiosity is only blocked by ones own blocks...I would think.

Originally Posted by Xan

Funny... people like to throw the word 'enlightened' around to mean just about anything they want it to. Unfortunately this probably blocks curiosity about just what it really is.


Xan

I was actually surprised to see people using the word enlightened myself... Perhaps they didn't mean "enlightened" enlightened?

Originally Posted by Sybilline

I was actually surprised to see people using the word enlightened myself... Perhaps they didn't mean "enlightened" enlightened?

Perhaps it was simply an indicator of 'more' enlightened - or, 'enlightener'.

Ah well.

[Gem]

Originally Posted by TzuJanLi

Greetings..


You have demonstrated the ambiguous and arbitrary nature of enlightenment, and tried to disclaim it.. you start out saying what enlightenment is not, then describe it as what you say it is not..

I notice that is a common trend actually.

Enlightenment is a belief, a word used to describe a shift in consciousness and understanding, a realization of expanded awareness, but.. it is the contents of consciousness and understanding that affect the actuality of existence..

Be well..

I believe in being cautious, because sometimes these weird stories about enlightenment can be believed by people, and that has the effect of them thinking 'something else', ya, some imaginary thing the story had told of.

Enlightenment is a noun. If realized, it might very well become a verb. Anything else is open for conjecture.