Enlightment itself does not enalbe you to make good choices. People generally think that, once you are enlightened, choosing becomes very easy, but that is something different. You are walking down the street and run across a gold coin. Do you pick it up or not? That is a choice. You run across a truly unfortunate elderly person on the street. Will you help him or not? You know that that he is unfortunate and pitiable; enlightenment goes that far. Whether or not you choose to act depends on your character.
That’s why englightenment and character are different. Character is habit and it is something that is created through training. Character is created by how you normally live and in what sort of environments. That’s why a person must grow up in a good environment in order to create good character. Enlightenment comes naturally when a person’s character improves through habit and training. That enlightenment helps her to make those good choices. If enlightenment does not enable us to make good choices, then that enlightenment has no meaning at all.
To develop good charater, we should repeatedly make good choices so that they become a habit. And to say that a person has good habits is to say that they are supported by good character. This world will undoubtedly change if our enlightenment leasds to choice and our choices lead to action.
Let’s practice to develop good character. You can get a great help from many exercises like ‘Brain Wave Vibration’ created by Ilchi lee.
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