--- In [email protected], "endlessrainintoapapercup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> And everything is real. The relative > differences between paths are an abstract > and academic matter. The only path > that matters is the one you are on. > In the midst of this experience of reality > that we find ourselves in, we seek to > discern value and meaning and purpose, > gravitating towards the teachings and > practices that seem most relevant to us. > In the process of discriminating between > what has value to us and what doesn't, > consciousness is refined and hones in on > that which is Real. It is this one-pointed > intention which becomes formed in the > deepest levels of consciousness that finally > delivers us to the goal. No path is a recipe > that automatically produces enlightenment > or states of consciousness. Enlightenment > reconciles all the relative differences, and > reveals the path to be illusory because there > was never anywhere to go anyway. > Beautifully said.
Given the perfect simplicity of this construct, depending on what we are interested in along the way, there are endless opportunities to explore, and get thoroughly lost in, all of the layers of reality, as Vaj demostrates here often. It has occurred to me more than once that Vaj is unable to accept this utter simplicity of life, for to do so would render moot and rather meaningless the endless permutations of consciousness of which he has grown so fond; the goal ought never be reached.
