Lessons Enlightenment. Elena Sidelnikova

      Lessons Enlightenment

      Elena Sidelnikova

      © Elena Sidelnikova, 2025

      ISBN 978-5-0065-2774-4

      Created with Ridero smart publishing system

      PREFACE

      To be honest, meditation just doesn’t work for me. I’ve read plenty of literature on the subject, exploring how it works for others and the methods required to still the mind and achieve a deep meditative state. I’ve tried many of these techniques, but all in vain. My thoughts race, and my body won’t relax. Stories about how easy meditation is for others don’t offer much comfort. I thought, «Maybe I feel that channeling is easy, but not everyone can do that either. There must be some nuances.»

      So, I decided to turn to someone who must know all there is about meditation – Buddha. Before communicating with him, I had an image of Buddha shaped by esoteric literature. I imagined him as an essence that remains indifferent and unaffected, having found the path of balance, detachment, and non-action. He resides on higher planes, seemingly uninterested in the fate of humanity, including my own. Still, I decided to give it a try.

      What came of it is before you. I’ll say right away that Buddha amazed me. I did not expect to hear or feel this kind of Buddha. Of course, it’s evident that he is a profoundly wise consciousness. But what surprised me was the amount of love, care, and even tenderness present! He skillfully guided my mind away from numerous questions into a state of emptiness that filled me with awe. Every conversation was a revelation for me. Usually, I have a well-practiced method for writing channelings. I always have a list of questions prepared in advance, either sent by others or arising in my mind. Then, during the channeling, other questions quickly come to mind without much thought. Typically, I’d take 5—6 questions submitted by others, write responses to all of them, and add my own. But this time, things were different.

      I would ask one question from my prepared list, and then my consciousness would delve so deeply into that question that asking further questions would make no sense within that topic. Each channeling ended up being an answer to almost just one question, with Buddha speaking at length, in detail, and extensively about it. Moreover, at a certain point in the channeling, my consciousness would pause without words or questions and simply remain in a balanced, immersed state, which made me exit the channeling.

      In our channeling seminars, we teach that if there is no question, there is no answer because channeling itself is an energetic process in which the question – essentially a beam of consciousness – is reflected off the consciousness of the entity we send it to and returns to us as an answer. If we do not send out a question-beam, we don’t receive an answer-reflection. In our seminars, there were very few people who couldn’t open their channeling abilities because they would fall into a zone of thoughtlessness and lack of questions when they entered altered states of consciousness, and naturally, they wouldn’t receive any answers. With Buddha, it was different. He led my consciousness toward understanding truths so skillfully that, after some time, I relaxed and, with anticipation of new discoveries and things to marvel at, allowed my consciousness to be led into this ocean of silence and wisdom where he resides.

      What surprised me most was how much sensitivity, patience, care, and tenderness he showed toward my questions, which must have seemed childish and naive to him. It was like conversing with a wise teacher whom I had never encountered in my life. He navigated all the peculiarities of my consciousness so effortlessly and gently that I felt no negative emotions, resistance, or sense of inadequacy. This fostered a sense of unconditional trust in him as a teacher. At one point, I said to him, «I think you are my teacher; I’ve finally found my teacher!» To which he replied, «Do not limit yourself or me. The whole world is your teacher.»

      Interestingly, we never actually got to meditation. Buddha started talking more about the perception of the world than about meditation itself. He said that it is our incomplete perception of the world that hinders us from immersing ourselves in meditation, and that diving into meditation is akin to death and enlightenment. He introduced my consciousness to the paradoxical nature of perception, which helped me delve deeper into the depths of my consciousness. And thus, this book, «Lessons of Enlightenment,» was born.

      I fully understand that there are deeper texts and experiences from the greatest practitioners of enlightenment and immersion into the ocean of silence. However, perhaps this book will help you in some way. The consciousness of a Western person differs from that of Eastern mystics, and so do the paths. Why do you think there are so few examples of enlightened consciousness in Western civilization? Because our consciousnesses are fundamentally different. Lucifer once explained this to me, saying that the four races of humanity – white, black, red, and yellow – differ in their ways of understanding the Divine, and each follows its own path. The black race understands God through sensuality, as expressed in phrases like «African passions.» The red race perceives God through intuition and connection with nature, which is why the mind is of little importance to them, and they have many shamans among them. The yellow race, which includes Tibet, India, and the Himalayas, understands God by turning inward, through self-contemplation. Thus, these nations have many yogis and mystics who achieve enlightenment through meditation. The white race understands God through the mind, which shapes its development. Do you think understanding God through the mind is impossible? Why not? As Lucifer taught me, nothing is impossible – everything exists.

      So perhaps my path of understanding the Divine and seeking the ocean of silence through the mind will be of help to you as well, and you will also be captivated by the subtle and gentle guidance of Buddha from concrete thinking to paradoxical perception. Paradoxical perception is rarely described in our culture. In fact, it is only truly found in one great series of books – Lewis Carroll’s «Alice in Wonderland» and «Through the Looking-Glass.» We consider these books for children, but they contain many codes that even adults don’t always grasp. However, children can more easily perceive the paradoxical nature of the world before they grow up and close themselves off from the wonders and magic of the world, from its unpredictability, non-linearity, and fluidity. Our adult perception is cluttered with constructs and concepts we cannot abandon because we are, in fact, afraid of finding ourselves in a paradoxical and unpredictable world. As Buddha told me, we fear death, which is enlightenment, and thus we fear enlightenment itself. Meanwhile, Eastern mystics do not fear death; they are taught its naturalness from childhood and know that death is merely a transformation of consciousness.

      When we were discussing this, Buddha asked me, «Do you like diving?» The question surprised me. I really don’t like diving. He asked, «Why?» I replied that I don’t want to get my hair wet because then I’d have to redo my hairstyle. He told me that to become enlightened, you need to dive without fearing losing your hairstyle. I hadn’t realized how connected it all was before. Dive fearlessly into silence, ready to lose everything. Lose it all to gain EVERYTHING. This concept appears in many Eastern teachings and is precisely the main obstacle that prevents many of us from becoming enlightened – the fear of losing ourselves. Buddha told me about his own death. According to legend, he died after drinking a cup of poison in the house of his disciple or eating poisoned soup. I was always perplexed by this – how could such an enlightened consciousness not know there was poison in the cup? He could have refused it, poured it out, or even drunk it and dissolved the poison within himself so it wouldn’t harm him. But that didn’t happen. Why? He answered me in a way that turned my understanding upside down. What he said, you will discover for yourself by reading the book. And not just that. I hope you will discover a new Buddha, unlike the image commonly held – a gentle and caring Buddha, full of love.

      I think this book is still unfinished. Of course, I still have many unanswered questions. Moreover, conversing with him is such a joy and delight as I relish the subtlety of the dialogue and the internal processes that unfold within me. However, I was eager to share the beginning of these conversations with you. Perhaps, if I do reach the end of the path of enlightenment, I will no longer have any questions left. But for now, I invite you to join me on this journey – to take the lessons of enlightenment with me.

      With