Faith and Enlightenment

Prologue:

I wish to discuss an intriguing issue. It is an understanding of existence referred to as enlightenment, a subject I have contemplated for many years. Researching everything I could find dealing with spirituality, and attempting to find understanding of the mind, has only revealed how much I didn’t know and how much more I have to learn. I found that enlightenment is not the end, or beginning, of a path. Enlightenment is not a torch that lights your way through the darkness of a forest; enlightenment is the sun shining brightly and revealing sections of many paths through a jungle. It might not reveal the end but it gives you a pretty good idea of where you are headed and where you might end up. Enlightenment is not a state of being; enlightenment is a way of thinking. To practice enlightenment is to practice goodness. My studies have never ended and shall never end. Knowledge is something that remains with the soul and is the only thing one can carry with one when dust returns to dust. I will attempt to describe the discoveries that came to me. Enlightenment, of course, cannot be given. It must be learned. 




The Beginning: