What happens when enlightenment feels like a slow process of learning and awareness?
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"Enlightenment is not a slow process of learning; it is an instantaneous unlearning, a sudden insight that arrives like lightning the moment you let go of all that you cling to."
According to Osho, when enlightenment seems slow, you're mistaking it for learning; the mind is clinging and rationalizing delay. Enlightenment is not accumulated over time—it is an instantaneous unlearning, a sudden insight beyond time, like lightning. Drop the hoard of 'knowledge' at once rather than counting coins; the moment you stop postponing and let go totally, awakening is immediate.
If awakening feels slow, it’s because you’re holding on; drop your ideas right now, and it happens at once.
Why this matters practically
- Drop ideas and identities now instead of collecting more 'spiritual' knowledge.
- Catch the mind’s postponements and cut them in the moment.
- Rest in present awareness; let go totally rather than improving gradually.
- Catch the mind’s postponements and cut them in the moment.
- Rest in present awareness; let go totally rather than improving gradually.
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