My main objection to enlightenment is that it looks to me like it takes a lot of effort, but I see value in it.
It's like a Summer breeze. You don't control it.
You cannot make it happen, you cannot prevent it from
happening. No effort on your part is worth crap.
The best you can do, Brick, is open the windows
so that if and when the breeze rises, it can come in.
Lots of people spend their whole lives waiting
with open windows. Still no breeze.
"Lots?" Probably most!
The 'road to enlightenment', the 'path to realization',
the world's methods and techniques -- all as
silly as a 'road to a breeze', a 'path to a wind'.
Books, teachings, holy scriptures, gurus, teachers,
priests, inflatable love dolls, -- all as silly as
trying to conjure up a storm by reading about one.
Meditation -- only useful to open windows.
Forget about
pursuing enlightenment. Just live
your life. Think about becoming a pastry chef.
You get to eat your mistakes. Big advantage
over becoming a monk!
I'm bored now. Not sure if I'll be back. Save any
questions you have for someone who knows
what they are talking about. I deny that's me.
In fact, it's best to forget everything I said.