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Enlightenment A Personal Path To It
In Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Montreal, Hamilton, Toronto, Halifax, St Johns, London, Greece, Bali, Thailand, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand, Hawaii, the topic of yoga enlightenment for me came up when I did my first yoga teacher training.
Throughout the past three years, since then, there have been times where I feel completely true. I feel as though I am my true self. These moments are quite rare for me, but I have experienced them four distinct times.
Grade 11: Enlightenment
The first was in grade 11, when I was writing a reflection for an English class. I had several injuries in the previous year. I don’t know what it was, but in that moment writing felt right. I felt right.
The next time I felt like this was near the the end of grade 11. I had read the Learning Disabilities website of Ontario and was completely distraught.
Learning Disabilities
It had painted people with learning disabilities (something that I feel strongly about and have much experience in) as outsiders – or almost a completely different species. I then immediately wrote a poem entitled They are not Aliens.
While writing, I again felt as though I was connected with and being my true self. Maybe because I feel so passionately about the issue.
Movement: Enlightenment
The third moment was in September of this past year. At that time, I was head over heels in love with my partner.
One night, we were just sitting and talking. After a while we started to really open up to each other and both ended up crying. It was here that I again felt this feeling of true-ness.
This moment was a little different from the other moments. It wasn’t a feeling of being my true self – but there was definitely a feeling of total trueness. Almost as if I was connected to his true self.
Wednesday: Enlightenment
Finally, the fourth moment was actually this past Wednesday. After the first day of teacher training, I went to a yoga class at my local yoga studio.
There I didn’t experience the extent of ‘trueness’ as I did in the previous moments, but it was distinctly a moment in which I felt more connected to my true self.
Last year, I took a philosophy course where we read a bit of Plato and Marcus Arilius. Each describe that there is a ‘little piece of a divine’ in all of us. In the moments of trueness, I explain above, I think I may have been in connection with this piece of the divine.
In The End
That’s what I think enlightenment is – the feeling of being one’s true self, or being completely in touch with the divine within.
That might be why some people are advocates for journaling and self-reflection, why people practice yoga, or why some people are always chasing after love: because we all want to be in connection with that little piece of the divine.