Five Tenets of Evolutionary Enlightenment

well the first tenor which asks us to make the aspiration for freedom for unconditional freedom but the unconditional freedom of enlightened awareness to make that a priority if we genuinely make the unconditional freedom of enlighten were Outland lightened awareness an absolute priority if we put it first and foremost or anything everything else then our attention will always be focused deeper then our attention at some level always be focused deeper than anything that we could call relative so it means that that I gained where inner gaze he's focusing on that which is ungraspable and immeasurable and ultimately unknowable of the rational mind so that kind of perpetual focus loosens the grip if we're 200% behind it of the appearance of the appearance of the the the absolute appearance of relative existence the second tenant which asks us to take on conditional responsibility for ourselves compels Zestra calls us to take a and uncompromising in absolute position in relationship to every aspect of our personal experience which is a heroic aspiration and if we're if we're able to do it for real we'll stop looking backwards and forwards outside in a way outside of an away from our own self and in that context everyone else disappears in his only us including our small self and all of its conflicts and divisions and wounds they become all of all of the small selves complexity becomes contextualized within an absolute context and that helps enormous Li to illuminate the immediacy of what the Buddha called Yun created then the third tenet which is asks us to pay attention as if our life depended on to face everything and avoid nothing without conditions practicing that kind of practicing that depth of mindful awareness with a passionate vulnerability that that passion and that vulnerability under the gaze of a focused intensity also helps to penetrate the illusion of a relative context because if we keep facing everything in avoiding nothing and we keep facing everything in avoiding nothing we keep facing in everything in avoiding nothing everything that's other than who we always already are will eventually fall away and we'll find out it again and again that this is only us it's only me it's all only me and it's all only my responsibility the fourth tenant whose call it which is called the process perspective compels us to look at every aspect of our own experience and all of reality from the perspective of a 14 billion year process that had a beginning 14 billion years ago and that has Annabeth the end that has been in progress and that has been progressing and becoming more and more complex ever since so when we begin to begin to see the reality of our own felt experience our own felt experience of emotions and thoughts and opinions and perspectives worldviews and spiritual feelings in our states of consciousness and experiences of illumination and oneness all as a product of an evolutionary process it begins to dawn on us that we are that process we are the process itself bearing witness to itself so once again all these tenants bring us back to the fact that there's only one and not two and that's who we always really are and finally the fifth tenant we just call cosmic consciousness awakens us to the fact that our own spiritual aspirations are hide the our highest aspirations to become an enlightened person we're really never about us it was never about our own awakening it was never better on enlightenment it was never about our own feeling better or feeling free well we come to realize is that the universe is trying to awaken through us that the energy and intelligence that created the universe and is creating the universe has been trying to awaken through us it's a spiritual emotions we feel that compel us towards consciousness they compel us to do whatever we need to do to become more conscious are not coming from the small self they're coming from the source of the universe itself which is trying to become conscious through us through complex human consciousness the universe is trying to develop and grow at the most subtle and profound levels level of consciousness itself so when we realize that this has never been about us and it's really about the evolution of the interior of the cosmos it again dawns on us that it's a it's it's been only about us all along and so every one of these principles in their own way enforce the the ultimate truth that we realize when we awaken to enlightened awareness which is that there is only one and not two and that and that one is who we always have been and who we always will be and [Music] this recognition is ever new it profound it the liberating profundity of it he's ever knew