Yesterday, i started thinking about what i should do if we did not have "world peace" today and that is when i decided that i should shift my attention back to the "internal" and more towards my ongoing, continuing search for or discovery of "spiritual enlightenment".  

Yesterday, i also decided that if we did not get "world peace" today that my first intended sermon would come from the person known as the "Guru from Littleton".  And so it is.su

Most of the sermon will come from "yesterday thoughts", but now i have to adjust my sermon a bit, in order to adjust it with "patience".  Patience has always been an issue with me, even though it is one of the virtues that i expect myself to follow.  Anyway, this is the first sermon written by the Guru.

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Enlightenment is not for "wimps".  In fact, there is not even such a thing as an "enlightened wimp".  One has to fight battle after battle after battle after battle before one can become enlightened.  These battles range from small skirmishes to all-out war, and the battles come both from the internal and the external.  No one can avoid battles that affect their thinkings.  

And as you search for enlightenment you have to get over all the bumps and bruises, the broken bones, the head traumas, the diseases that you have suffered in your battles.  Although i suspect that people who are more successful in the "battle arena" than others, also might find it easier to find enlightenment than the others.  But that is just a suspicion.

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Why is it so hard to achieve "spiritual enlightenment"?  

In all honesty, it is not that hard, but the best answer to your question is probably the fact that we cannot get over all the bumps and bruises, etc. etc. etc.  And those bumps and bruises and other things are still allowed to cloud our thinking.

With enlightenment you forget the past even though you remember it.  That is an important feature of "enlightenment".  You know of it, but you forget it.

Why is this the case?  Because "enlightenment" means that you know the "internal goodness of your soul"--what usually is referred to as the "Self" in lieu of the smaller "self", which is you and your body experiences.  The "Self" is your soul.  The "self" in my case is "Jim Boswell" (if you get my gist).

The further and further away i get from "Jim Boswell", the closer i get to the "Self" and vice versa.  It does work both ways.

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Now, here is the rub.  A truly "spiritually enlightened" individual can do "no harm".  Every action taken, must be a "right action" and nothing less.  Inaction can be Action.  And Action can be Inaction.  

And "right action" can somewhat be associated with the fourteen virtues within the pyramid of issues.  And here then, is another rub--sometimes the goodness of one virtue is used over the goodness of another virtue.  Such is the case right now with me and "world peace".  I have moved past the point of using "patience" and had moved on to the virtues of "strength, temperance, prudence, courage, humility, and poverty of spirit".

But then, "patience" has always been the hardest of the virtues that i have had to deal with.

Just the same.  How do i feel the day after my dud for "world peace".   Disappointed, of course, but when you get to the stage of "enlightenment" everything is supposed to be good, or you have to find the good in it.

I'll keep looking, but right now i think i will focus more upon myself than the world for now.

God, i cannot tell you how much i dislike "patience".