Enlightenment is hard to understand because if you "understand" it, in the worldly sense of the word, then you have blasphemed it (is that a word?). Similarly, if you can describe it verbally or w/ written language, or even THINK it, then it is also not, "it". "It" is beyond all worldly thought and reason.
In the end, you can only "reflect" it.
Interestingly, if you depart/realize that the worldly is actually a figment of your imagination, that everything is essentially empty, or "void", then you have essentially dwelled on the concept of "void", and in this process of dwelling on the "void" turned it back into worldliness. Guess what the solution is?
Lastly, on the concept of time. The perception of time results from the perceived passing of one worldly thought to another. This perpetuation of thought, from one frame to another, creates the illusion of movement, which we have come to describe as the passing of time. I often wonder what it would be like to truly stay in a moment in thought. Does time cease to exist? It is a rhetorical question.
In the end, you can only "reflect" it.
Interestingly, if you depart/realize that the worldly is actually a figment of your imagination, that everything is essentially empty, or "void", then you have essentially dwelled on the concept of "void", and in this process of dwelling on the "void" turned it back into worldliness. Guess what the solution is?
Lastly, on the concept of time. The perception of time results from the perceived passing of one worldly thought to another. This perpetuation of thought, from one frame to another, creates the illusion of movement, which we have come to describe as the passing of time. I often wonder what it would be like to truly stay in a moment in thought. Does time cease to exist? It is a rhetorical question.
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