Enlightening

2025, January, Issue 131

Instantly bright light beyond ordinary human understanding,

Instantly aware as Source, open heart and mind,

not other, not not other, neither subject nor object,

not some figment, not not some figment

of our imagination, not separate,

Instantly entering this awakened state,

becoming this awakened state,

Awakening

Instantly,

beyond belief, beyond time,

beyond concept, beyond reason,

I found a conscious strand

assembling myself

from rainbow light

on these tremendous winds we cannot see,

energy we cannot fathom,

from energy that could drive us mad,

if only we mere humans

could see that, violent turbulent

energy of all spectrums,

from all that we can possibly imagine;

This emanation you see

is not who I used to be,

I am no more,

self has vanished,

along with all those things we

think are real,

Whatever you thought was real

about this person you see,

I have constructed something different,

Something the same,

Something familiar,

Something approximating

that will not freak you out,

well, most of the time you will

see no reason to freak out;

I’m an emanation of that brilliant bright light,

fabricated for your benefit, with a purpose,

a purpose of bringing benefit to all,

with something quite important to say,

carefully assembled from that bright light,

that bright condition we call Source;

And we are

All

Source,

even though we cannot remember,

even though we cannot fathom

that bright teaching

that we have always known,

that thusness beyond our

pathetic limitations,

beyond, well beyond

our dark

limited

childish views.

A poem by Robert Aho © 2025

Whenever I’ve been asked if I have awakened, or become enlightened, it gives me a little bit of heartburn. If I say yes, then I have to deal with people freaking out, gnashing their teeth in disbelief, etc. If I say no, then it does not explain the situation adequately.

I’m an emanation, not real in any way. I died. I assembled something tangible. I returned to a life that seems approximately similar. People have noticed that I’m not the same as I was, quite obviously not the same; yet, self never really existed in the first place.

It’s hard to say that I’ve awakened because self isn’t really here; and, this self who seems to be here is dealing with some very fine elements, with a little bit of karma to yet be dispelled into emptiness. I fabricated myself in this way, not because that’s who I am, but because of who people would expect me to be. To become that bright brilliant light we call Source means that it is possible to emanate in any way, without limitations.

Something here, associated with my old life on Planet Earth, needed to appear in a certain way. Even my health issues needed to be part of that emanation. My return has all been essential to completing certain tasks, in order to bring benefit. In order to bring benefit, I need to express to people how vitally important it is to awaken, and to let you know that it is instantly possible. We simply need to have the intention of awakening.

The aspects of my death had three parts: 1) This intensely bright condition beyond ordinary human understanding, which can only be understood through direct experience, 2) This brightly colored energetic dimension, beyond our ordinary senses, which can only be understood by developing an understanding of energy in motion, and 3) Our dark dull physical existence where we manifest as arrogant beings, sensing virtually nothing, thinking that we know everything because of our arbitrary beliefs, which have seldom been tested, questioned, or investigated in any way.

The reason I have no way of adequately describing what has happened to me or who I am is that whatever I say would not be beneficial. If I say I have awakened, then I have people freaking out. If I say that I simply went and came back, then people feel satisfied that their inadequate viewpoint will remain unshaken, remaining fully intact without any benefit at all. What I tend to say is something in the middle, just enough to shake people, not so much that they will absolutely freak out.

This is how we bring benefit to deluded beings. We shake them just enough so that they can tolerate the experience, but not so much that they go screaming into the night. If we are to awaken, then we need to be shook up. We need to begin seeing how we have been deluding ourselves for all eternity. If we remain in our comfort zone, then we will be simply getting more of the same delusion, trapped within cyclic existence for all eternity.

It is not arbitrary that I am teaching or writing in the way that I’ve been doing so. I’m paying attention to how people actually are, how they perceive and project onto the world, what it is that brings benefit and what people can understand in a limited way. The answer to the meaning of life, or whatever arbitrary thing you might be chasing, is not as it seems. The final step in your Spiritual Awakening is far more simple and obvious than you would ever have imagined.

Awakening is simply about this busy mind entering our bright natural condition, as Source.

Blessings in Light,

Robert Aho