"Enlightenment is a sudden, direct and energetic
     illumination that is continuously available to anyone
     who is ready to let go and allow it.  It is the open 
     secret which reveals itself in every part of our lives.
     No effort, path of purification, process or teaching 
     of any kind can take us there.  For the open secret
     is not about our effort to change the way we live.
     It is about the rediscovery of who it is that lives."
                                                    Tony Parsons
                                                    The Open Secret


The experience of Awakening into Awareness is a
discovery of this "Open Secret" and a Realization of
the fundamental nature of Reality. 

It is an intuitive revelation in which everything -- and, 
at the same time, nothing -- changes:
 The Natural Great Perfection and Completeness
     of Reality, as it is within the present moment, is
     revealed in all its magnificent, and ordinary, simplicity.

 Time, and the illusion of past and future, dissolve into
     the radiant luminosity of the present moment.

 All search for meaning ends within this Infinite
     Completeness, and the sweetness of the resulting
     Satisfaction is as vast and undisturbed as the
     limitless background of our own innate Awareness.

This is the Essence of the "Open Secret": 
      Reality, exactly as it manifests in the present moment,
      within our own innate natural Awareness, is none
      other than THAT which we have been seeking.