Ensuring one follows the prerequistes for awakening

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Top five ways to ensure that one follows the prerequisites for awakening:

 

1) Find a guru who can spell out exactly

what the required prerequisites are, what one's shortcomings are,

what the path is, and how one will know when one's arrived (e.g.,

one will feel the bliss, peace, joy, love, emptiness, openness,

and certainty that the guru do).

 

2) Read lots of books about enlightenment.

 

3) Listen to lots of people in the know who can tell you about

their enlightenment experiences, or the experiences of famous

dead guys, and tell you what they did to get

these experiences.

 

4) Use the Stuart method (looking in the mirror

and giving oneself a good talking-to: " I'm empty enough, infinite

enough, wise enough, compassionate enough, and gosh darn it,

people like me " ).

 

5) Employ the ever-popular prerequisite of doing nothing,

which allows one to realize that there is

no doer. As this prerequisite is already fulfilled by not needing to be

fulfilled, one simply needs to accept that there is no one there to

accept that there is no one there, and to neither think nor not

think that thinking that one needn't think is necessary or helpful.

This is the prerequisite called " natural simplicity " :-)

 

Remember -

Although all being is not-two, one is deluded by ignorance into

thinking that one can be deluded. As one imagines oneself to be imagining

oneself a doer who can get or not get enlightenment, one will miss

awakening if one does not fulfill the prerequisites for awakening from the

delusion that there is someone who needs to awaken.

 

If you are believing that there are no prerequisites, thus requiring

doing nothing about not being able to do anything, thus neither

requiring nor not requiring anything, remember there still

is one prerequisite left ... having a good laugh...

 

Lots 'o Love -- Dan