Enlightenment is not a result

Manifestation is a song sung mysteriously by no one.

Something like meditation often arises prior to what is called an enlightenment experience. Yet correlation is not causation. Perhaps meditation is merely a symptom of an inconceivably deeper process.

My sense is that it’s through Grace alone that real spiritual “progress” occurs.

God, The Tao, playfully moves, and on the surface of the lake we see and feel what only appears to be a self even, engaged in the very serious discipline of meditation and waking up.