Here is a brief excerpt from the book by Tony Parsons "The open secret - all that is " in a few days in library as well as online.
Tony dissects the myths on lighting and shows us how it is something quite ordinary and always accessible, Except in the spiritual mind.
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Nobody becomes illuminated
I used to think that people really become enlightened and that event was like someone who won the first prize in the lottery. After winning the award, the beneficiary would be guaranteed permanent bliss, infallible and incorruptible goodness.
In my ignorance I thought that these people had obtained and possessed something that made them special and totally different from me.
This illusory idea was reinforced in me the belief that the lighting was virtually impossible to obtain except for a few persons elected or extraordinary. These misunderstandings arose from some images that kept about how he should be a state of perfection. I was not able to see that enlightenment has nothing to do with perfection. These beliefs were greatly enhanced when compared with the inadequacy of my imaginary picture entertain any "spiritual hero" to which at that moment I felt attracted.
I feel that most people see the light in a similar way. Certainly there were many people, and there still are trying to encourage such beliefs and that, in fact, claim to have lit.
Now I can see how this is a meaningless statement as that of a someone who proclaims to the world of being able to breathe. Essentially, the realization of enlightenment brings with it the sudden realization that there is nobody and nothing that lights up.
Enlightenment just is. Can not be possessed, she can be reached or won as if it were a trophy.
Everything and all things are One, and everything we do is put us through our half trying to get this one.
Those who claim enlightenment or take that position, just have not realized the paradoxical nature and presumed to have imagine a state that they have reached.
They probably had a profound personal experience of some kind, but that does not support absolutely no relation to the lighting. Consequently
remain trapped in their own individualistic concepts based on their particular belief system.
These people often need to undertake the role of "spiritual teacher" or "enlightened masters" and inevitably attract those who need to be students or disciples. Their teachings, still rooted in the dualism, promote a clear and unbridgeable split between the 'teacher' and those who follow the teaching. When Following the teacher grows, the exclusive role of the teacher needs to be enhanced.
One of the most classic symptoms, when this role was adopted, is to avoid any admission or a sign of "human weakness". Also usually creates a greater distance between the "master" and his followers.
As the specialness of the "teacher" becomes increasingly more effective, and requests by the followers become ever larger, the lessons invariably become more dark and twisted.
When the darkness of the teaching grows, the splitting becomes larger and many of the followers often become more confused and submissive. The typical effect on those who are caught can be of unquestioned adulation, disillusionment, or a wake and a going over.
However, such influences are well established and have maintained an illusory sense of doubt and inadequacy in the collective unconscious about the ability of people to realize and allow something that is natural, easy and available as breathing.
Those who fully understood and embraced the enlightenment have nothing to sell. When they share their achievement, they do not need to decorate or embellish what they share. Nor have any interest in being of mothers, fathers or teachers.
The exclusive power to the exclusion, while freedom is shared through friendship.
Tony Parsons ("The secret-open everything," Laris Publishing © 2009)
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