The enlightenment myth

Anybody who falls into the abyss of 'seeking enlightenment', has for the most part, a sorry destiny. 99% of people who talk and write about it, think "it" (the big "e") is the ultimate state or condition of being alive and human on planet earth at this time and place in the continuum. And, they also believe, that if 99% of people believe something to be *true* then, god damn, it must be TRUE.



Yuk, yuk, yuk.



You know, if "it" (the big "e") was about growing a sixth finger on both hands, absolutely NO ONE would buy into it - since no one has ever been able to prove they could do it. If "it" was about entering bullet-time at will, or leaping tall buildings in a single bound, NO ONE would buy into it - since no one... If "it" was about rebuilding a Holley four-barrel carburetor in under an hour with one hand tied behind the back, NO ONE would buy into it - since no one...



But, since "it" is about something totally unprovable to anyone -regardless what the 3rd-generation "realizers" say who point to their 2nd-gen teacher, who points to his 1st-gen teacher - suckers are born every minute to look for and finally fall into the abyss. (The abyss needs to be fed, you know - it gets hungry too.)



The problem, is that the >>so-called<< (self-styled, supposedly "confirmed", "approved", and "sanctioned" by someone else) "enlightened" people doing all the talking about it, have failed - I say FAILED - to come up with a better word, a more up to date word, describing a more achievable process that can first be understood with the mind, and then worked with, by the masses they are preaching to. The reason for this failure, is their monstrous - MONSTROUS -self-centered-ness (it's always about >>how 'I' became enlightened'<<, and >>how I overcame 'MY' pain and suffering<<, and >>blah, blah, blah<<.) As such, and due primarily to this failure of theirs, anybody who falls into the abyss of seeking enlightenment, has for the most part, a sorry destiny.



There is a better word, and it's in the English Dictionary, and once you hear the word, uttered by someone who understands all the foregoing, it explains so god damn much about why attempting to achieve that which can not be proved to another person, is a fool's errand at best, and a circular journey at worst, that it just might be the source of the, now cliched statement, "Whoever has ears to hear let him hear."



For, believe it or don't believe - as will be mostly dictated by your genes and hormones anyway, and what you had for dinner last night -"it" (newly renamed by the other heretofore unnamed word from the dictionary) can be proved to another person, in exactly the same way an auto machanic can prove his mettle, by correctly diagnosing your leaky Holley and then fixing it - either he knows what to do and can do it, or he doesn't know what to do and can't do it.



While some might suggest: "Enlightenment is the only thing that makes life worthwhile", another view might be: "The only thing that makes life worthwhile is finding out what that god damn word is!!"