Are We Almighty Idiots, Or Are We Omnipotent?

Almighty: having complete power.
Omnipotent: unlimited.

There are two ways of looking at this question.

What is it that has complete power over us? It’s the mind, full of instructions, opinions and beliefs = memories. This is therefore a limited understanding, and clinging to this limited understanding makes us idiots, doesn’t it?

Idiot: from Latin idiota ‘ignorant person’.

So what is it that is omnipotent and unlimited?

It’s consciousness, when consciousness is realised as pure, uncontaminated and unlimited. The only thing that consciousness controls is the ability to be undistracted by almighty idiots. 🙂 (a Buddhist once wrote to me to tell me that I was coming over as high and mighty; it was just their view – and you can’t argue against that reaction!).

Does consciousness know the entire universe? It knows the simple principles of the universe – attraction, repulsion and inertia – which are the same forces that drive all sentient beings through desire, aversion and indifference.

As unenlightened beings, we are idiots.
As enlightened beings, we are omniscient.
As unenlightened beings, we ignore what we are – enlightened.

If we keep looking for something special,
we will miss our perfect simplicity.