Short story: The Rabbi enlightens us with his light

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The old Rabbi, Zendacai Ruestadt, was explaining some of the terms used in his spiritual talks to his students. He said that the words, love, enlightenment, consciousness, and awareness, all carry different meanings. "It is like this," he said. "We are given a mind with an opening degree of consciousness within it, or attached to it." "With this mind, we can feel an unconscious connection/awareness to/of something even greater than our mind, which is our heart." "Within our heart, sits love, which can connect us to truth, and to all knowledge too." "We need the light of enlightenment in our minds to be able to see fully these truths embedded within love though." "But, we need love to light the candle of enlightenment within us too." "When we are alighted in enlightenment, we suddenly make the jump across the gap between consciousness and awareness then too." "We become aware, completely aware, and this state fully keeps us connected to the love in our hearts, and so we live fully from love's truths, in the greatest way possible then too, as we also then have access to complete knowledge too." "Awareness comes alive at first only consciously, burning its candle in you, but later, you see that you are the light itself, not just the candle that can be alighted." "This is when full awareness hits you." "Awareness sits at the top of all else, and it spawns consciousness from itself into life as a seed from itself, which can expand and grow, through various levels of consciousness, building from love and mind working together, and this eventually achieves enlightenment, a state of complete awakenness, and full awareness too, in its vehicle, together with an understanding of what unconditional love is too. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com The old Rabbi could walk his talk, as well as his talking his talk. He always talked from the deep knowing of his heart. This is the best kind of enlightenment, perhaps a higher form of enlightenment than that which the Zen masters feel that they have achieved in their minds, alone.