You must have loved your Sensei.
The very spiritual (IMHO) Van Morrison sang "Chop my wood, carry water...Enlightenment, I don't know what it is..."
Seems that when I get clearer, there is still more clarity to attain. I dont recognise it untill I am clearer still! Then I see how foggy my previous level of clarity was...and that there is always more shadow work to be done.
So I no longer see enlightenment as a static state, but as a dynamic process. I sometimes meet people who seem to be much farther along than I am in some way, and I admire and aspire...but when I hear a claim that someone "is enlightened" or "has attained enlightenment" I wonder if they, like all of us, are simply somewhere on the path...
vitaman
