Thanks to @How to be wise recommendation, I have decided to use The Work as my method to enlightenment and sagehood. Leo always says that it takes decades to achieve mastery of your mind and emotions, but this technique might actually get me there in a year or two.  I’ve been doing The Work for three days now, and I am amazed at how good I feel when I’m inquiring into my thoughts.  The four questions of The Work are: 1. Is it true? 2. Can I absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do I react when I believe that thought? 4. Who would I be without that thought? According to Byron Katie, the questions 3 and 4 are most important for beginners. As we ask ourselves how we react when we believe those thoughts, we become aware of the suffering that it causes. Then we ask, who would you be without this thought, and you feel the peace that comes from not believing it. Your mind becomes aware, over time, that believing untrue thoughts causes suffering, and it lets go of them by itself.  But as we get more experience with The Work, Katie advises that we focus more on the first and second questions.  Before we answer the questions, we need to fill in the ‘Judge your neighbour’ worksheet, which is something I take pleasure in doing. In the three days I’ve done The Work, I’ve done half hour meditation sessions. What I like about The Work is that we work directly with the issues that are troubling us. We directly question those thoughts and let them go. We always end up in a state of not-knowing, which feels very good.  Reading Katie’s books about her experiences motivates me a lot to pursue The Work. Some of her stories are so shocking that I recognised what level of mastery she holds.  I’ll be posting here if I get any breakthroughs or interesting experiences with The Work. What I’m really after is not experiences or mystical states. I want my permanent state to be transformed. I want permanent enlightenment and complete embodiment. Is it possible to do it in a few years rather than your whole life? That is the question I will answer.