not in need

The enlightened state of consciousness is one in which we no longer feel in need. We no longer feel that something is lacking or is in short supply. Of course the physical needs are still present: to drink a certain amount of water, to breathe air, to eat enough food. But beyond these simple physical requirements, there is no feeling of neediness within us.

Deep down, we have reached a point where we feel whole, complete. Indeed, we have reached that state where there is no longer any separation of oneself from the rest of existence. And without that sense of separation, the feeling of oneself melts away. The feeling of one as somehow separate from the rest of existence is no longer there. And so, what is left is an existential feeling that is of a universal character, not personal, not individual, but whole.

And in this wholeness, there is no space for neediness, for everything that is, is within one. And so those deep psychological needs, that ordinarily we suffer from, have disappeared. And with this feeling of completeness, we see the world differently. We feel things as abundant, rather than lacking. And we can give our energy without conditions. Our love can become unconditional. For what are those conditions except a need: something we want in return which ordinarily corrupts our love and makes it something like a business transaction, a contract.

All this changes with enlightenment and we rest in a place of wholeness, of completeness, of not being in need. Those needs were but an empty, aching hole within us that we wished to be filled. And that ache came from our sense of separation from the rest of existence. And that sense of separation was but a creation of the mind, of the thinking mind, of the symbolic mind. So moving to our essential being, all this drops away. And with it the neediness is gone. In this space, life feels clean and full.