What is enlightenment except authentically living the divine qualities?
I should be doing the update but I feel an irresistible pressure to talk about the divine qualities instead.
I wish I could get the attention of the entire world and say, “We under-rate the importance of the divine qualities.
“It’s our mastery of the divine qualities that promotes us from one domain to another. It’s our perfection of the divine qualities that brings us to the meeting of God with God, for which all of life was created.
“The divine qualities ‘live’ in the higher dimensions. We need to ask for our hearts to be opened, they being our portal into the higher dimensions. Then our guides will lead us the rest of the way.”
Phew!
That for me sits inside myself like what I consider to be a great secret. Not because it’s hidden from anyone, but because, until we have an experience of them – of love or bliss or peace, etc. – we may not even know they exist. Or we’ve heard about them but that’s all they remain – hearsay.
We may have had a rare and brief experience of higher-dimensional love, but it was over so soon that we forget it. Or it exists in our memory as a curiosity, triggered in the odd conversation with our friends.
What was it Ibn Arabi said? “I was a hidden treasure and I loved to be known, and I created the creation so that I be known.” (1)
Known when? In a moment of our enlightenment. As Bayazid of Bistun captured it: “O Thou I!” (2)
But look. Out of that moment of enlightenment, whether the experience lasts or not, we find ourselves in a divine quality, usually love, always higher-dimensional.
We under-estimate the divine qualities, focusing primarily on enlightenment. But enlightenment is itself only a doorway into … the divine qualities.
Especially for a lightworker, who may have set aside enlightenment this lifetime for a life of service.
Focusing on enlightenment could bring the desired reward but end the blissed-out individual’s ability to serve.
The divine qualities are already ours in our Natural Self, our Atman, Buddha Nature. Giving them the prominence they deserve, enhances our service and feels to me much more appropriate.
I’m enjoying divine love at the moment. I wasn’t even aware of when it arose. But having arisen, it has erased all past regrets and future concerns.
Message in a bottle: This love is the answer.
Footnotes
(1) Muhyideen Ibn Arabi, Kernel of the Kernel. trans. Ismail Hakki Bursevi. Sherborne: Beshara, n.d., 3.)
(2) “I went from God to God, until they cried from me in me, ‘O thou I!'” (Bayazid of Bistun in Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. New York, etc.: Harper and Row, 1970; c1944, 12.)