Patang

actually, maya is much fun when you really get to know her, and when you're not under her spell anymore.

pure fun my friend ?? live long and prosper

@Mighty Mouse why? how did you come to that?

there are numerous pathways to the mountain peak. some reach the peak but mostly won't.

it was all on my path to enlightenment (there is a post in that title) where it finally got me within reach to the enlightenment. it is way beyond meditation, way beyond being a witness, because there is nothing to be witness to.

some learn the rules slower/harder than others. rules are rules and can not be broken. who made them?... we did..., one's self did..., no one did... this is what it is. nothing is yours and you can do nothing about it. this is why you are nothing. you can not even own yourself.

@reku02 yes, you are but just a cell in an organism, a droplet in an ocean. from a wide perspective, the droplet is the ocean. you are a subset of consciousness, you are consciousness. the mind is only a concept, so are the body, the brain and the electric currents, and all the rest...

@reku02 ahhh that's a good question, a bulls-eye. the truck is only a metaphor, there is nothing behind it, and so are you.

let me describe visually how i perceive of what you are. you are like a truck, got out of the factory empty without any cargo. in time, all kind of packages are been loaded on the truck, which slowly been identified with all of those packages, as they are not separable. now you see, you are the truck but non of the packages.

actually it's a middleweight fight. you never really existed, it is all but just a dream, life and death are one and Inseparable. ahhh and not real and has no meaning, of course...

it is a known secret that just by being aware of enlightenment writings, you are being drawn toward enlightenment.

Again, another futile attempt to achieve something that is not yours and never will be, this time is very sophisticated, just to understand it in the end, with love ... ??

@Mighty Mouse It is fun to be naughty with a fellow human being from time to time ??

@Mighty Mouse hahaha OK You got me.... i am apparently still a human being (i said earlier that i am not an enlightened being... yet), doing spelling mistakes here & there no harm done.

@Mighty Mouse i wasn't aiming at you read it again, deeper this time, and the answer will pop up.

@Mighty Mouse there are three possibilities: 1) i am jed mckenna in disguise. 2) i read jed mckenna books and i am delusional. 3) this is what i "see" from where i stand and this is the truth. just pick one...

At least once in your life you've watched a movie that speaks a foreign language that is not your language, and you've forced to read the subtitles in order to understand what is involved. The subtitles were observed in focus with the maximum possible intensity, and the visual content of the film was perceived as peripheral vision with reduced sharpness in the background, due to eye mechanics and brain structure. The brain extrapolates the visual content of the film using a complex algorithm and its local memory, so you can make sense of it. Magicians (not the real ones) are using the same phenomena to trick their audience and to hide objects from their eyesight. Others exploit this phenomenon to convey subliminal messages to you. So actually, what we perceive as reality is just a fraction of it, not more. It is like looking at reality through a telescope, frame by frame. Now, imagine how would it be like grasping the whole of reality, and being able to understand it just as it is. This vision of reality can not be experienced nor explained from this side, only from the other side. But hey, i'm just a storyteller, all about the eye, brain, human body, reality and enlightenment are just stories, none of them really exists.

@Mighty Mouse After crossing the gateless gate, there is no me and you, there is nothing out there to aim anything to, there is only one, the absolute infinity.

@Charlotte GOOD, some say, "fake it until you make it", or "first you talk the talk before you can walk the walk". Your experience could be either authentic or not, it doesn't matter, just keep on going.

what is the gate that no one enters, but some do?

hahaha scrat is learning the hard way, that nothing is his and never will be, no matter what he will do! he is on the path to enlightenment.

to become enlightened you have to lose you sanity. but, when you are done, your perception of reality is perfectly sane, although each and everyone of the other human beings are perceived as insane in some degree. the only way an enlightened one can connect to a fellow human being is with unconditional love.

@MarkusSweden of course it is, it's a strange loop.

when using weed, you are becoming an extended version of what you consciously perceive as you, and much more that you are not aware of within yourself. now, who is standing right before the gateless gate, can get a glimpse or two to what is behind the gateless gate.

Full Disclosure: i am NOT an enlightened guy and there is no such thing as enlightenment. Development Steps: 1. i started watching "my" thoughts and feelings and stopped identify with them. 2. i knew then that i am not "my" thoughts and feelings, nor i am "my" body. 3. i stopped practicing judgment and criticism about reality as a whole. 4. i realized the nature of duality that governs reality. 5. i repeatedly asked "my self" who am i. 6. i started peeling the layers of the "self", what i assumed to be "me". 7. i realized then that all "my" imprints and beliefs are not "mine". 8. i looked at "my" fears "straight in the eyes" and realized that they are not real. 9. i realized then that life doesn't happen to "me", it happens for "me". 10. from then on i have been practicing full surrender to whatever happens in reality, watching the flow of inevitability and realizing the real nature of reality.