One of the most common questions Ilchi Lee get asked during a lecture is this: “How can I become enlightened? How can I become a master?”
In the general parlance, a master is someone who has attained mental and spiritual mastery of herself. My questioners seem to be envious because they think I have attained something they want and they don’t know how to get it. The unfortunate thing is that I have nothing to tell them, for there is no special way or method for enlightenment. Therefore, walking a path to enlightenment is an illusory exercise whereby you artificially build a path and try your best to stay on it. It’s not that there is no path to enlightenment, but, more accurately, there is no distance between yourself and enlightenment across which you can build a road.
Enlightenment is our natural state of being. Since it is already us, you will never find it looking for it somewhere else. Why don’t we know this? Why don’t we feel this? Shouldn’t we be able to recognize it if it is so close to us? Therein lies the contradiction. We cannot see it precisely because it is so close to us. Something that is too close or too large cannot be consciously recognized. Fish do not feel the reality of water since they live in it: we do not feel the flow of Ki although we live in it every waking moment.
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