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Monday, November 28, 2005 10:37 AM

Andrew Cohen Quote of the Week - A Raging Forest Fire

 

 

 

quote of the week

 

A Raging Forest Fire

 

 

Many years ago I was asked, " What is the difference between personal

enlightenment and impersonal enlightenment? " I answered, " What is the difference

between a burning match and a raging forest fire? " It's only now, years later,

that I am actually beginning to see the fulfillment of this vision that I've

held since very early in my teaching career.

 

Personal enlightenment is the awakening to the absolute or non-relative

nature of consciousness itself in the individual. But what I have come to call

radical, impersonal, evolutionary enlightenment means that this absolute ground

of consciousness itself is no longer just the possession or inner experience of

any individual, but becomes the very foundation of and context for human

relationship. Enlightenment beyond the personal, liberation beyond the

individual, the consciousness of One being shared by the many in a context of

multiplicity and relatedness.

 

An enlightened individual is like a burning match, and he or she might be

burning very brightly. But a forest fire rages out of control. The fire is the

context within which all the trees are burning. What they are sharing is the

fire. In evolutionary enlightenment, the individuals are consumed, as the fire

of enlightened consciousness itself becomes the context they are relating

within.

 

 

Andrew Cohen

November 20, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

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