What is Enlightenment?

   True enlightenment is not sought and never found. It is not an addition.  It is experienced by becoming less – from the discarding of things, like a gem that is cut to reveal its brilliance.  Jesus, Gandhi, Mandella – they all became less.  Finding is being found.  Enlightenment is by subtraction; it is by removing all the impediments that prevent you from living in what was already there.  Yes, more truly, it was never missing, as we are created in it.    The idea that we are or have ever been separated from God is an illusion.  This illusion can be manipulated for great advantage by men if we allow it.  Large institutions have been erected for that purpose.  According to what we have of the extant wisdom of the Galilean prophet, the nursing baby is as close to God as you can get on this planet.