The Adventure of Enlightenment

When I first embarked on the lifetime discipline of enlightenment I thought it was one thing. However, looking back on the last 61 years of my life I see it quite differently now. To become enlightened is to embark on the most amazing adventure of your life.

It will not, in the end be anything you think before you start. Just like when you are five years old what you think a Phd is is not what it really is like.

This is my experience. On the path to enlightenment you will not die of alcoholism, drug addiction or accidents. The reason for this is quite simple.

Since a person on the path to enlightenment is always a truth seeker first, such a person immediately sees through such errors in judgment and changes their ways before they become fatal or destroy their health.

And being a truth seeker one starts to develop insight so though they might be a rock climber, motorcyclist, airplane pilot, mountain climber, and even date a lot of women, they are able to move on before any of that becomes fatal as well, simply because they see through all this before it becomes fatal.

The path toward enlightenment is the path of a visionary who sees clearly the past having studied history and who can extrapolate the future with ease. The visionary enlightening person watches their friends often die of accidents, alcohol, drug addiction, suicide because of unrequited love etc. But the visionary toward enlightenment stays alive because after all, he or she is doing this for all mankind on earth and for all life in the universe. Enlightenment isn't only for himself or herself, it is for all life in the universe. So the enlightened person sees himself or herself on a lifetime quest for all the answers, for all the truth of life so he or she can help save All life from further suffering. So the enlightened person goes on, supported by the spirit of all life in the universe and becomes enlightened to honor all ones friends and associates who have died along the way and to honor all the children being born and who are yet to be born.