Suddenly Beautiful

I’ve spend a long time searching for enlightenment.  Like a drug addict, I’ve been longing for that moment of pure concentration where the entire world around you blurs and you are purely in that moment.  I usually found it working on the computer, which is where the name ‘digitalsatori’ came from.Now, I somewhat feel like a drug addict going through satori withdraw.   I haven’t had time to keep up with anything, and like any human being, I am prone to forget, falter, fall, etc. on my path to enlightenment.  I, of course, ridicule myself for failing.

I’m tired of doing that.  Now, I think I want to find an escape from my search for spirituality.  In my search, I’ve spent more time looking for spirituality instead of finding it right here where I’m at.  The grass is always greener on the other side, right?

The search for enlightenment is something that, I think, everyone is looking for.  Many people I’ve spoken to who have seemed to find enlightenment or peace found it while spending a few years in monastery with Buddhists monks, or spending a year or two on a cliff, or backpacking through Europe.  .. all of them really believe that one must ‘escape’ the mundane to find enlightenment.

I believe in the opposite.  I believe one must ‘escape’ the typical view of enlightenment as a new-age hippie idea.  Enlightenment can be found in the ‘here and now’; and I would go so far as to say that if you had to leave your current life to find enlightenment, I’m not so sure you really found it.

Most of us have bills to pay.  Most of us have a mortgage, or kids, or family.  Most of us are “stuck”.  What good is “finding yourself” if you have to leave everything about yourself behind?

I propose we “escape” enlightenment.

Not an escape from the Age of Enlightenment or the closing of our minds, but an escape from the idea that enlightenment can only be found “out there”.  Lets bring back the idea that enlightenment is an awakening of yourself, like someone turning on the light… and there aren’t any lights in the middle of the woods, my friends.. unless you’re in Narnia.

With that being said,  I present to you Escaping Enlightenment.

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