Finding Oneness by Kirael doAni

The Buddha sat down beneath the bodhi tree and discovered enlightenment. Most people have no idea what he discovered. What he found was simple, but it is self-effacing. What he discovered, is that he isn't separate. He discovered that either it's all me, or I don't exist. He found a sense of Oneness with the world.

This matters because you spend your mind wondering who am I, why am I here? This will give you the answer, if you ever get past the child's questions and get to your own bodhi tree experience. Until you get there, it won't make any sense. And when you do, it'll be so obvious, you'll wonder how you missed it.

In the moment you realise that you are one with the world, you feel everything that the world feels: its silly and petty stuff, its pain, the beauty, the wonder- and you are not equipped to feel that amount. This is part of why most people do not reach this point of enlightenment. The other is, that when you, the entirety of you, expand to encompass everything, you generally die. You cannot hold on to a pure anchor when you expand that big. This is why the Buddha was given the choice to leave the whole wheel of reincarnation, or stay. He said "There are people hurting here, there is pain in the world, and I'm staying here to help." Only when you reach this level of expansiveness do you realise the beauty, the pain, how much people are afraid and confused, and at that point you can begin to help them.

Here's two reasons why most people do not find enlightenment. 1: It's too big, it'll hurt too much and you'll run away from the pain. 2: It's too expansive, you cannot get that big and lose your anchor. That is why Elfpath teaches people to stay inside, in their guts, and to feel every feeling that comes by. So when you reach this place, you can handle it and sink into that awareness that the greatest of your teachers have talked about, that so many have sought and so few have found. And so few have found it, because it hurts, there's so much feeling. People haven't found it, because it's self-effacing, the I goes away, it's no longer "I'm great, I'm this, I'm that." And finally, because people aren't trained in staying in their guts and being grounded.

When we fight and struggle against the waves, when we try to hold on to some and get rid of others, we get hurt. When we can simply be in our center, feeling everything but simply letting it pass, we get slapped around but our course remains true. As we go along, we can handle more and more, and so get faced with more and more, until we get to a place where we can encompass the whole world, and find that moment that so many have sought.

Angel, 2014-10-25