Can ordinary people also think like them and become enlightened just by copying their mindset?

Enlightenment within religion means: 'I have found God. He and I are one.'

Enlightenment within spirituality means: 'I have found my soul. My soul and I are one.'

Enlightenment outside religion and spirituality means: 'There's some great unseen force, power, order, or law that I can experience operating within me and within everyone and everything. We are all one.'

This raises the question: What do enlightened people do or think that makes them enlightened?

Enlightened people usually have a very straight-forward, extremely simple, uncomplicated way of reasoning. They exhibit a strange, surreal understanding of life and world that is as beautifully simple as 2+2=4 is. Their secrets have been widely written about, discussed, studied, and spoken about still they remain ever illusive to us common normal people.

Let us explore their secret to becoming enlightened.

1. Enlightened people don't fear death. Instead, they embrace death and see it as a necessary full stop. They accept it very gracefully without cringing, cowering, shivering and sweating before it. They have no unwillingness to depart. Normal people are mostly scared of death and will do everything to postpone or delay or cheat it so death never comes.
2. Enlightened people admire life, appreciate its biggest to tiniest of wonders, fall in love with its sublime beauty, but they don't lust after it the way we ordinary people do. They understand the transience of life and world. We common people, on the other hand, have a tendency to cling to life like we will never let it go, like we will always live, like life should always belong to us, like we cannot survive losing it.
3. They understand the importance of mercy, compassion, forgiveness, acceptance, thankfulness, honesty, and truthfulness with themselves. They love everyone without confining themselves with limited versions of love like that between only family members or in romantic relationships. Normal people do too, but their love and all other positive feelings usually stay confined to their loved ones.
4. They see patterns that others usually miss, ignore, overlook or disregard. Patterns such as the similarity between 'The wise warrior avoids battles.' and a wise person attempting to avoid troubles by being wise; Or 'Expectations is the root of all evils'. All wise quotes that we read, like and share generously are an example of noticing patterns.
5. They see the misery in happiness while ordinary people find only happiness in happiness, and misery in losing happiness.
6. Thy see the poverty in richness and money. Which is why enlightened people are as the rule of the thumb never materialistic.
7. They see the powerlessness in power. So they begin acquiring a different kind of power: that of their inner self.
8. They don't get entangled in the meshes of world's attraction.
9. They believe in living for the greater good, for the good of others and never hurt others whether humans, animals, plants or nature. Their sense of oneness is truly overwhelming.
10. They sense the same power, source, or being in all beings and surrender themselves truly and completely before this power. This is why, a truly enlightened person never falls for rigid religions, gods, deities, prophets, or religious books.

This is why people since centuries have noticed uncanny similarity between scientists, philosophers, thinkers and religious teachers, giving rise to the questions: Do scientists believe in God? or 'How can scientists and modern people believe in God if science has proven that there's no god?

Enlightenment is not a destination. It is a journey, an arrived mindset, a profound realisation. One can become enlightened and result in thinking this way, or start thinking this way and eventually become enlightened. You can definitely try.

But that's just my opinion. Thanks for reading!

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