BIRTHDAYS JUNE 15
Thaddeus Golas “The Lazy Man’s Guide To Enlightenment” 1924-1997
ENLIGHTENMENT is any experience of consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say that perfect enlightenment is realizing that we have no limits at all, and that the entire universe is alive.
LOVE as much as you can from wherever you are.
Giving the others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Convieniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day.
INSIDE yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
ANYTHING that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. IT may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.
LOVING YOURSELF is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become if you try to withdraw from your own ideas? Loving yourself is not a matter of building your ego. Egotism is proving you are worthwhile after you have sunk into hating yourself. Loving yourself will dissolve your ego: you will feel no need to prove you are superior.
AS YOU OPEN your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won’t even have to try. It’s a beautiful paradox: the more you open your consciousness, the fewer unpleasant events intrude into your awareness.
WHATEVER you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.
WHAT AM I DOING on a level of consciousness where this is real? That is the first question to ask yourself when you become aware of something ugly or evil or stupid.
I AM A LAZY MAN. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don’t even have to make a move. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time.
IT is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your everyday experiences for signs of results. Indeed, your daily life is nothing else but an expression of your spiritual condition. you life will change as you become more loving, but not in ways you can exactly predict. What happens is not important as how you react to what happens.
WHEN you learn to love hell you will be in heaven.
WE are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.
NO MATTER how it looks to us, love never losses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.
Go beyond reason to love: it is the only safety.
PEACE ON EARTH