Enlightenment
Enlightenment For You Now.
By William Hodgetts
May 1, 2008

If I said to you that there are only two things in life that you search for, would you know what they are?

If I said they were security and pleasure what would you think?

For the first question, you would probably answer, love an truth. You would also say things like, ‘I seek answers to the meaning of my life’ ‘Is there life after death?’ ‘What is my purpose in life?’

For the second question you would probably say, ‘To seek security and pleasure for myself would be selfish’. So let us take an honest look.

If you seek the confirmation of life after death, are you not seeking the security of your continued existence? In seeking love, are you not seeking the greatest pleasure of all?

In seeking the meaning and purpose of your life, are you not seeking the pleasure of contentment and the security in that knowledge? Is there not pleasure in security?

Incidentally, the greatest pleasure is not love; the greatest pleasure comes from love’s fulfilment.

There are a million ways to fulfil your love and in doing so, receive pleasure, some are small and some are greater. Love is that which is good and right. No pleasure received from that which is good and right can ever be wrong.

In truth, a person will only choose to suffer if they believe that the reward gained from that suffering, in security and pleasure, is greater than the suffering.

There is only pleasure, pain or nothing and in seeking nothing, do we not seek death? While there is awareness there is life, so in life we can never experience being nothing, we can never experience nothingness. Peace is not the absence of feeling, or the awareness of nothingness. It is security and pleasure.

There can be no peace while one is opposing or being opposed.

So now you must ask yourself once more, what it is that you seek and why?

Let us take a step forward and find true security and pleasures that are good and right.