The Sound of Silence: Awakening With Zen

Seeing clearly that you are a simple witness is itself Enlightenment since that realization involves impermanence, interconnectedness, and no-self. Awakening is essentially on auto-pilot ready to explode like a burst of flavour of a tangy orange. it will come to you at an appropriate time not of your choosing...if it resurfaces at all. Not your choice, The false ego developed after birth must be sacrificed to the self. the falsely perceived individual separate self must then be sacrificed to compassion and wisdom. When this begins, Enlightenment takes hold.Realizations, meanwhile, are mini-enlightenment experiences forming a foundation for the greater Enlightenment experience to come and, in the case of realizations occurring after the big event, clarification.Part of Enlightenment is seeing that all things are one, the Absolute, and different at the same time. Not separate...just different such as grasses, trees, mountains, and rivers are interconnected as part of the Earth but remain different. It is realizing that each thing from the tiniest atom to the greatest mountain are One.Enlightenment is nothing more than becoming an ordinary person, what you were at birth, and still are beneath the later-added layers of falsehoods and delusions. Seeking it, searching for it, is fine; just not outside of yourself...it's not nor has it ever been out there.Enlightenment reached, or more precisely received, things get very simple...cherries still taste like cherries, a knife still cuts.. Complexities, created by desires, attachment, comparisons, wants, wishes, hopes, demands, expectations, all evaporate with the characteristics of wanton behaviour. Enlightenment is simply re-reaching, re-achieving, being an ordinary person again. Desires and fears mostly disappear as fog is cleared by the rising sun. It is not getting something. Rather it is getting rid of something which is the illusions you have taken on. Enlightenment begins to be understood and re-seen when it is realized that all things are "here" and "part of me".Describing his own Enlightenment, Buddha said, "Ignorance was destroyed; knowledge arose; darkness was destroyed; light arose as happens in one who is heedful, ardent and resolute." It is the end of suffering through the release of desires, aversion, and attachment.

• | Author: Kajin Dan Landault
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Aug 03, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 278 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-13: 9798296319746