Enlightenment

We usually associate this word with extraordinary people like Jesus, Buddha and yogi masters. But it is within all of us, simply the connectedness with the natural you, beyond ego, form and name. To the contrary unenlightenment is a lack of connectedness and separation of yourself from the world around. In this state the ego looms large and as a consequence fear and sufferring arises and we focus on the past which is dead and the future which is imagined. You can be enlightened, breath, dull down the mental noise and focus on the your thoughts in the context of the now.