The Seeker's Seeking is Enlightenment Enough
-By Kyle Hoobin

How is it possible to use the word "enlightenment" if we still believe ourselves to be seekers of it? If you believe you are a seeker of enlightenment, than what idea or image do you attach to the word "enlightenment"? After-all, how can you seek something without already claiming to know what it is that you are seeking? If you know what it is already, than what's all the fuss about? I suppose we just love to play make-believe.

Perhaps enlightenment and seeking cannot exist without each other. Perhaps enlightenment is just as much an idea as seeking is. If you give up seeking, you give up enlightenment. If you give up enlightenment, you give up seeking.

Truth is what's left when your attempts to determine whether you are a seeker or an enlightened person stop.

Truth is the TRUE enlightenment. Unfortunately, for those of us with delusions of grandeur, the truth is not all that appealing, mainly because you are already aware of it. What is being referred to when I say "it"? I can't describe what "it" is, but I know that you know what "it" is.

No. . . no. . . . it can't be that simple. . . can it? I suppose the truth is an unfortunate thing to those who want it to be more than what it is, and at the same time, a very fortunate thing to those who have realized they will never be able to succeed in finding it to be so.