In the traditional notion of enlightenment, the egoless state is just consciousness or Being. There is no activity involved, no relationship.
It is easy to be egoless when there’s no relationship.
Anyone can experience egoless consciousness in the stillness of meditation. The real challenge of enlightenment is egoless engagement in an intersubjective, creative context. That is the call of the future, a new enlightenment to bring into being.
The new enlightenment is not an individual but a collective emergence.
It occurs when all individuals involved awaken simultaneously to the Authentic Self, which is the evolutionary impulse itself, the energy and intelligence that created the universe, experienced directly in the heart and mind. In that awakening, there is no difference between the deepest spiritual revelation of oneness and a fully embodied, conscious engagement with others and with the life process itself.
A new world means a new level or stage of development that we have to build together. Throughout history, there have alwaysbeen extraordinary individuals who were trailblazers; but new stages of cultural development are not individuals. They are intersubjective structures that are created in consciousness as people come together having transcended old value systems and world views and created new ones.
If the shared foundation upon which we build new structures is the transcendence of individual and collective ego, we are going to be consciously creating nothing less than an enlightened culture.
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.
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