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Enlightenment
What happens when we apply the no Mind state to our introspection?
We experience Enlightenment. It is introspection without the mind.
Enlightenment is a very unique experience. We will explore it, but I want to say that it is not a goal or something to aim for. Anyone bragging about being enlightened or anyone talking about the steps to enlightenment should be handled very carefully. Why?
People who achieve enlightenment, a special feeling of peace, equanimity, and vision don’t want to talk about it. Most often when this happens, those individuals don’t want to talk about anything related to the Mind and spirituality.
It is difficult to talk about something that you do not have words for. Talking about something that is dear to you in a way it is incomplete, takes away from its power.
Even talking about enlightenment here feels injust because the words do not capture
the feeling. It’s almost easier not to talk about it and just experience it.
Enlightenment is never the destination. Often it’s a consequence or a side effect of deep personal examination and realizing the factors that keep you in your Mind.
What is the experience like?
The purpose of spirit lab was to explore and push the limits of my understanding of spirit. If I can get here and grow, so can you, if you wish. But I want to provide a disclaimer. What I am sharing here is not captured accurately by words, nor should it be the goal. Otherwise it will have been ineffective for me to discuss it.
If you experience enlightenment, you won’t want to talk about it.
That is how you know. If any part of you wants to discuss your own experience of enlightenment, I reckon you have not experienced it yet.
Enlightenment is clarity
You begin to see the present, the people, and the things around you for what and who they are.
You start to see their intentions.
Your vision broadens.
You can see the world at a macro level.
The intentions of their actions begin to reveal themselves.
Then you start to see the futility and the delicacy of your own life and existence.
The vision happens quickly.
Your heart is racing.
You can see in color now, panoramic.
And there is so much to examine.
So much to see.
So much to know.
No one around you can see. They are still using monocolor narrow lens.
What you care about changes.
How you spend time.
Who you spend time with.
How you see yourself changes.
What people are doing around you doesn’t make sense anymore.
There is no desire or anyone to share this with.
This is enlightenment.
Should you do it?
No.
If you get there, will you tell me?
No.
This journey is for you alone.
Grand Mastery
Through a spirit lab, I wanted to test the upper limits of my understanding of spirit. I am not a Grand Master at any one particular subject, but I have had some early experiences.
Grand Mastery is a place of deep understanding of a particular subject matter.
Within the depths of this understanding, a Grand Master is operating from a place of personal experience and intuition, while respecting the technical aspects or the book knowledge, of their particular domain.
They are able to observe the limits of their own ability, and seek to deepen and explore the fringes.
Grand Masters also see how their work interacts with the broader ecosystem. Grand Mastery is a common occurrence when someone commits to living a life in spirit.
Teaching is a critical aspect of Grand Mastery.
Every Grand Master of a particular domain spends a certain amount of time in education, and learning and observing the experience of others. Even Jeff Bezos, while being the CEO of many companies, holds internal courses for his own executives.
Navy SEALs who gain a certain level of veterancy often teach the younger Navy SEALs in formal hands on courses. Expert physicians are often at teaching hospitals. Their roles often include giving formal lectures and providing bedside, hands-on, in-the-trench education to other training physicians.
Peace
If you have made it this far and have climbed our proverbial mountain and are still enjoying this view, I offer to you something that you may have been seeking all along.
You may not have been able to put your finger on it, but this was likely the thing that has been eluding you this entire time.
You may have gotten glimpses of this experience, moments when your mind was off.
These were times when you were content, present, and floating. I call this Peace.
Peace can be found and experienced every day, anywhere, anytime. It can be a companion at any moment, and it can also be a source of our motivation and intention.
This peace lives within. Its effect can be shared, but it itself cannot be transferred.
It cannot be obtained from someone or something. God will not give you this peace. A religious center is not a place where this peace can be mined.
Peace lives within you, and it is yours alone.
What does it feel like to be at peace?
The exact feeling is near-indescribable. The closest I can get is “floating through life with a calm, present awareness.”
It’s both a place to be in and also an energy source.
I can operate from peace.
Instead of doing something to try to get something from it, I can do a thing from a place of being completely satisfied.
Acting from peace also removes many limitations and barriers. The biggest one is the fear of failure. The fear of failure stems from expectation.
If you fail to meet your expectations, your mind will produce negative emotions.
Fear of failure is a limitation that many individuals experience. In peace, there is no expectation.
Without expectation, there is no failure.
Without fear of failure, all options are available.
Nothing can go wrong.
Each action is simply a matter to experience.
Let me explain.
If I write this blog to gain your admiration or your approval, my energy and thoughts will be in the direction of impressing you. First off, this is a massive limitation on myself. If my energy and focus is spent on trying to convince you, I am missing my original goal, which was to share my experience and my understanding in the most complete way possible.
The more time I am spending convincing you, the further I am getting from my original goal and purpose.
Two, convincing you is an ineffective action. You will feel the effort that’s being put in to convince you, and it will be natural for you to turn away.
Let’s get deeper.
If I go for a run to clear my thoughts, to quiet my mind, I am looking for peace via running.
I may or may not get it via running. Running may make my thoughts worse and harder to deal with. I will only run to the extent of feeling good. At that point, I dont have to continue to run. Because the goal was to use running to get a break from my mind, it is something done to find peace.
The alternative is to do something out of peace.
When I do something out of peace I am not looking for anything from that activity. I can do that activity for the sake of it. To experience that activity in its entirety. That feeling is completely different.
I am able to experience every detail and every moment of that activity.
Running from a place of peace, allows me to be completely immersed in the act of running.
So in this way, none of my actions are stemming from chasing or strategy or trying to get something. My actions are stemming from the desire to experience whatever I am pursuing in its entirety.
Spirit
I have used this word countless times so far in Spirit Lab. I would like to shed some more light on the feeling of spirit. Acting from spirit is acting from your intuition.
Being in spirit is being completely present and also being connected to your intuition.
The two often happen at the same time. There are certain qualities of being in and acting from spirit. The feeling is of effortlessness that occurs. The mind and body flow. They follow the intuition which is presented by the spirit. Internal resistance and hesitation melt away. The spirit allows one to be and to do and to flow with great ease. It allows me to see and feel what is reality.
A life in spirit is truly a beautiful experience.
What is spirit exactly? Often people talk about mind-body-spirit. The body is straightforward. It’s your physical body. The Mind is something that we have extensively talked about in Spirit Lab. The spirit is something with more mystical connotations.
I describe spirit as our consciousness. It’s the person that you are without your Mind. It’s that internal presence that can feel your intuition and that can see your Mind.
Your spirit may have certain characteristics and tendencies. It may inherently have certain strengths and weaknesses.
Often when we live in Mind, the spirit becomes suppressed. We can talk about body – health and physique, the mind – which we attribute to our personality, goals, thoughts and desires. The Mind often speaks in a logical way. The conversation about spirit feels more mystical, but it does not have to be. The purpose of spirit lab was to examine spirit in simple terms, no magic involved.
Spirit is who you are in flow. Its the unique characteristics that make you different. Your spirit is your intuition. It becomes available to experience, once we transcend the Mind.
As I conclude this exploration of Spirit Lab, I wish to share with you one of my deepest feelings. The journey that I have described is not one that you should take, but it is one that is available. A life without mind is a beautiful existence. Any steps you take in this journey will likely reveal significant peace and clarity.
For more in-depth exposure to the subject matters that I have discussed here, you are invited to explore my Deep Explorations at drbaelab.com. There you may experience a deeper sharing of the feeling that lives within the content that I described here.