Enlightenment is always very practical

This would be the opposite of enlightenment:

You get injured and your response is to get drunk so you bleed out and you die.

This is not enlightenment. This is just death by stupidity.

However, enlightenment might start with getting very angry because you got injured. But then, realizing that if you don't do something you might die. So, you call a friend to help you get to a doctor or a hospital. You get there you get treated and you don't get an infection and die. Instead you recover and go on with your life.

This is how enlightenment works too.

So, often extreme anger is the start of enlightenment for many many people.

Often you might hear that you should never get angry but I can say to you truly that if I didn't get angry many many times in my life I could have died many of those times.

Often Anger is the first step towards enlightenment. Without anger often you will die when bad things happen because you won't focus enough through your anger to survive them. IN my genetic stock anger focuses our intelligence to a genius level. So, even though I might get angry I also am at maximum intelligence too towards survival. This likely is because I am of pioneer stock who came to America in 1725 and those that didn't have this angry focused genius quality all died from one cause or another along the way from 1725 to here.

So, the point of when you get angry is not to get crazy but to get focused towards your survival and others survival along the way. Anger is there so you can survive really awful things like we are going through now.

When bad things happen if you just say "Fuck it" and get really drunk or stoned you are avoiding death maybe but aren't moving yourselves towards enlightenment that day at least.

I was always lucky because my father and grandfather and I are all somewhat allergic to alcohol. So, by the time I was 16 years old I had already been drunk once and realized I never wanted to do that again because I had one cap knocked off a front tooth and my cheek was cut to the bone by a fist. So, by age 16 I knew I would never ever get drunk ever again. Alcohol and I didn't mix well so that wasn't a direction I was going to go in ever. And this has served me well ever since.

However, it is also important to realize that when I was 16 it was 1964 and people HAD to grow up about 10 years earlier then in the U.S. and Europe than now. Now people often aren't as mature as I had to be at 16 even at 30 years old in the U.S. and Europe. This is pretty obvious to me now at 73 years of age.

So, how do you get enlightened?

I would say use your anger in constructive ways when it arises to further your education and life both in economic ways but also in quality of life ways too.

If you can live in beautiful places with beautiful people it is much more likely you will become fully enlightened in this lifetime.

By God's Grace