Maybe that’s what enlightenment really comes from. Our minds are constantly pulled in a variety of directions at any given time. Also, given the number we have to make. A decision is taken from the path of least resistance which may be the easiest versus best direction. Allowing our mind ease to grasp our most internal points of a moral compass allows us to then essentially slow down the time taken to make a decision until we don’t have to anymore. Enlightenment is then you on auto-pilot. You don’t have to worry the path anymore because you’re now on it.
Christians call that Jesus or God which is why they’re so protective over any who don’t value it as highly. Getting closer to Jesus is their idea of “walking the path”. Without that guidance supposedly written in a book they’d feel lost not realizing they are essentially good people by simply taking the time to know themselves, which leads to a yearning for peace within and in contact with everything in their environment. Then they wouldn’t take accounts of one man seen by other men who tell us about how great he was amidst a world where people were coming somewhat freshly from a primal level. Accounts add up, more people get involved in the ability to tell this tale and humanities errors drop on in. Agendas are set as they first write all of this down to entail the stories of revenge and denial save for the intended purpose of first trying to say, “hey, we should all be like this guy.” Then it’s put into another era of translation wrought in an age further developed yet much simpler versions of where have evolved to now.
Preachers are out there trying to rebrand themselves by being that image amongst the culture they live in. People love to throw stones about the knock-off or corrupt version of these guys to give Christianity a bad name by showing that they acted as if they emulated the life written before them yet chose not to. Those, most of us on the fence about it, are then let down for making a mockery of one actually trying to get closer to a continuation of peace of mind.
The resurrection they speak of is then the next evolutionary step of breaking free of all this to either rewrite it in a fashion that is finally best for an evolving us or collectively working towards actually being the best versions of ourselves.
The world is already balanced in nature through time and evolution itself but we got away from that by being given a brain with a faster processor for information. Being able to do so has allowed us to feed into new things and experiences. That’s the fruit in the tree. The original sin of sorts is the shame of selfishly getting yourself out of the balance and then having to essentially look at yourself in the mirror for it.
The tree of knowledge is your brain. If you just let it do what it does best without trying to keep putting spokes in the tires with thoughtless impulse then you’d be better off. We all really want that, even the evil ones, but we’ve all got too damn smart for our own good. We try to make things easier and easier while not realizing the toll it puts on ourselves as well as collectively.
We praise science here because it showcases our potential of the human spirit to understand everything while also finding the best way to, again, make our lives easier all the while preserving it. Even the good and bad in science stems from people saying “oh shit what is this I, he, or she made” and either not realizing how it will affect another or caring; we proceed. Some choose to make the right decisions and others do not but we’re all in this shit together.
It’s hard to believe for anyone then that they could be their own image of a Godly one. That’s what being yourself really means. Not going with the flow when it goes against what you feel may be off. A trusting of the gut.
We all want a simple life at ease but do everything we can to get away from it. That’s the heaven and hell we all live in. We envy those who are closer to it and the one’s that act like they are. We can either choose to just listen to ourselves enough to figure out what is it we want to accomplish for ourselves and others in a short bit of time or waste it by being concerned about everything else
Life then, enlightenment then, is best served when we care enough to give care to ourselves and others. It’s no longer a choice rather than a path forward.