Enlightenment

Is enlightenment a state of mind I can develop?

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R. D. Laing, the psychiatrist, in describing the search for ones fundamental self said, 'The Life I am trying to grasp is the me that is trying to grasp it.' One of the enlightenment sites listed has a heading, 'What you are looking for is what is looking.'

Enlightenment is not a state of mind you can create or develop. It is something beyond any change, outside of anything you can develop. After all, development suggests change.

The frustrating thing about enlightenment is that the harder one tries to grasp it, the further away from it one gets. The more effort one makes in trying to achieve it, the less one finds of it.

It is the ever present, self existent core of yourself that remains when all else drops away.

So the question should not be can I develop the state of mind that is enlightenment, but how can I realise this fundamental state?

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