Ignoramus - The Enlightenment Project

Having read the material, having consumed and salivated over the images in the brochure, having become intoxicated by the spiritual environment, the practitioner develops the ‘seeker's mind’.

The seeker's mind operates in time & space, through which they perceive an event that will take place in the future that they call ‘enlightenment’. That event has been conditioned into them by their spiritual environment, by their sangha and by the misperception of the teachings. It is a learned conceptual fallacy that leads to complete ruin and utter failure.

A person with this type of awareness innocently ignores themselves in favour of spiritual promises. The wind forever blows towards them, and they experience the effects of their own ignorance.

Sodden with their own inadequacies, their bold audaciousness pummels onward: they declare their seeking to be the absolute truth and think themselves into an arrogant state of sophistication, sounding off half-hearted words of wisdom, while not understanding their prevailing quality is that of an ignoramus.

The Japanese Zen Master, Hakuin, points this out with succinct beauty:

“People see it as if it is far away. What a pity! They are like a man who, standing in water, complains of thirst”