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Throughout history thinkers
have sought to define and encourage
"enlightenment". Like the concept of
consciousness itself, the issue of enlightenment naturally is complex and murky. The Wikipedia entry for the word enlightenment
is a directory that fans out to six more entries, each spawned
from at least that many perspectives. With
a basic understanding of the temporal aperture model, the
notion of enlightenment is relatively clear and
easy to comprehend, if not to practice. Seeking
enlightenment amounts to the deliberate expansion of one's
temporal aperture surround volume. In other words,
enlightenment grows from inclusivity. A large temporal
aperture is highly inclusive. The infinite temporal
aperture of a Deity would be absolutely and totally inclusive
of all events and knowledge of the entire Universe. An
infinite temporal aperture is beyond the grasp of mortal human
beings, but the aspiration to that infinite inclusivity
denotes the process toward enlightenment. Enlightenment
means inclusivity - that is the basal message of the entire
temporal aperture concept. In
the context of the spirituality seeker, such a person would
seek to be infinitely inclusive, even knowing that this goal
is at best an asymptotic one for a human being in a nominally
three dimensional world. In
whatever way, every action that denotes, connotes, and grows
inclusivity is a personal step towards enlightenment.
Such actions grow the temporal aperture surround volume on its
polydimensional continuum. It's
clear enough in the context of the temporal aperture model
that enlightenment
is deliberate broad conscious inclusivity. However,
there are major barriers as was touched upon on page
4 and other earlier pages. Psychological,
sociological, religious, and physiological pre-constructions
all pose serious limitations that are difficult to transcend.
How inclusive can a person stand to be? What about all the
psychological conflicts and resulting stresses? Possible
social conflicts? Enlightenment is a difficult,
hazardous, and singular process. It is clear that anyone
professing enlightenment but overtly making statements and
acting in a way that expresses or promotes exclusivity is a
hypocrite and/or is profoundly self-deluded. Using what
the Buddhists call "mere ritual" to build an
illusion of enlightenment is the ultimate human folly.
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