The Greatest Lie Ever Believed

And what if everything you understand about how life functions ....is not really how it is?

What if something totally different is going on from what you have believed so far?

Would you want to challenge what you know? ....and if yes, to what degree? 

Enlightenment or Awakening or Truth Realization or Liberation (or whatever other label there may be) is looked upon with much nostalgia these days by millions of people.  There seems to exist this idea that it is the ultimate experience, where one will live happily ever after with continuous bliss, joy and happiness and will not have to deal with problems any more.  This is a fairy tale!  Mind cannot grasp what life will be like without its involvement and comes up with utopian ideas of what it will be like.  Someone living from an awake place describing it as ultimate freedom - is true - but it is not the way the I understands it.  

Mind hijacks everything that sounds good and beneficial and uses it for its own purpose and gain.  Mind is an amazing trickster - and millions of seekers have fallen for it.  Enlightenment is not what the I imagines it be.  Enlightenment is death to the I.  There won't be an I left that can say I want this or that.  Where the I once was there will be empty, hallow, void, nothingness space.  Is that what you really want?

Am moved to hold up my own, incredibly difficult and often being-driven-to-the-brink-of-madness breaking-down process and what I learned to help clear up some of the many misconceptions and confusions.  The way I see it,  enlightenment is not what most people are after because enlightenment truly, really and seriously means death.  And who - in their right mind - would want to truly, really and seriously die?  Nobody.  That is why, the seeking most people are engaged in is going round and round in circles, for some already since 30 or 40 or 50 years.  It's not bringing the hoped-for release toward bliss, joy and happiness because the I is doing the seeking, wanting, hoping, wishing.  But the I is what has to die! 

It's a catch 22.  As long as seeking is going on, not reaching the desired goal is assured.  Seeking equals failure because it has failure built into it.  There comes a point though, for some very few ones who's seeking eventually is no longer driven by their I, where dying begins to seem better than living.  These people no longer want joy, happiness, a better life or some other worthwhile goal and they begin wishing for death.  Only when that crossing is reached, the door toward enlightenment or liberation cracks open.  Seeking then stops and dying begins.  

Since death generally gets such a bad wrap, most people want nothing to do with it - even though death is certain the moment birth happens.  If you only knew what death really means, you would drop your seeking in an instant and long for death instead.  Because death is liberation, freedom, enlightenment.  Death is where life and true aliveness begins.  But the I can never know this.  

Thanks to AhabCapt, here are some great videos on this subject:  Death ALWAYS Delivers.  Nuke Your Life.   You Are Not A Serious Seeker.  Truth At Any Price.  Another Level.  U.G. Krishnamurti Tribute.  Burn It All.  

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Acknowledgements:  There are few, select authors who write distinctly about the death aspect of enlightenment.  Deep gratitude to U.G. Krishnamurti, Jed McKenna, Steven Norquist, Suzanne Segal, Bernadette Roberts, Richard Rose, Katie Byron, Bart Marshall, Melvyn Wartella, Eddie Traversa, Jeff Foster and David Carse.  Their writings and communications have been an enormous help in deciphering what was happening to me during my breaking down process and then living with no I.  With the process of integration, Michael Hall has been an invaluable source of support and aid.