Thanks for your response to my questions. I have one more. You mentioned that neither the enlightened or the unenlightened knows the why of creation! Isn’t that like saying “Well we do not know the whole mystery? And, if we cannot know the whole mystery, the might not we just remain aware and empty and let go of all our attempts and just “be” aware and empty?
James: I think it’s always best to think of enlightenment as an event process rather than a one-off goal…lots of mini insights into some aspect of one’s true nature from a particular vantage point, followed by a challenging period of self-protecting ego resistance as it grapples with the implication of what has been seen in terms of its habit structure.
Nobody or no thing can know the mystery. Only the fact that the mystery has no actual impact on the Self or the reflected self, the individual can be known because it is a projection of ignorance of one’s immortal wholeness. Letting go to attain being is futile because the one that let’s go already is. The letting go happens reflexively downline when the knowledge of one’s immortal knowingness is assimilated. Let mysteries remain mysterious and enjoy the mysteriousness of the mystery. Knowing it will not pay the rent or improve your love life, but letting life be a mystery will.