Dirty Enlightenment: The Inherent Perfection of Imperfection

by Peter Brown

--- -I see myself compulsively driven by my “little” self, trying to be safe and happy... Yes, IT will never stop trying to work out its safety, but you’re NOT IT. You’re what’s EXPERIENCING it. The ego doesn’t need to stop doing what it does; that’s what it’s for, that’s its job, fighting for safety and so on. But it’s not YOU, it’s just a spontaneously occurring phenomena in consciousness that you’re experiencing. It doesn’t need to be different than it is, because there’s nothing actually at stake as far as YOU’RE concerned. If your supposed “character” in the drama of “your” life succeeds or fails, what difference does that make to the consciousness experiencing those experiences? It’s like worrying about whether the hero in a dream you’re having in your sleep lives or dies... What difference does that make to YOU? And even that those supposed conditions (success or failure) are FACTS, is a very oversimplified interpretation of vastly complex and unknowable realities, and hence NOT actually true. -So