enlightenment is anarchic

Enlightenment is anarchic

The enlightened way of being is anarchic. Ordinarily we live by rules, the rules of society or our own rules of behaviour. This gives a certain feeling of security, of knowing how life is flowing, how it is unfolding, how it is going to unfold. But in the enlightened state of being, rules have lost their power, they feel no longer relevant. Of course, one still lives in society and probably one feels no urge to create unnecessary trouble by deliberately breaking the rules, and yet the rules are felt as irrelevant. The enlightened way of being involves flowing with life in the moment, spontaneously, trusting existence to give us the right impulse at the right moment.  

This brings an unpredictability into life. Of course, without predictability there is no security, there is no knowing what is going to happen. So a trust is needed to replace this feeling of security which rules are hitherto providing. In fact, the feeling of security was another illusion. There is no security, there is no knowing what tomorrow will bring. So, in dropping the need for the feeling of security, we are losing an illusion only, and in its place comes this anarchic way of being. Outwardly, others may not notice a change at all, but this is an inward feeling – a feeling for how one is moving in life, not being driven by the thinking mind, by the rational mind, but instead by more mysterious forces. Existence is moving through one, as one. This is the feeling of the enlightened way of being, an unpredictable way, a way which is very much alive.