Enlightenment: Anybody Can Awaken If They Investigate Properly

Embracing and Transcending ‘Reason, Religion, Spirituality’, Into the Era of Self-Awareness and Awakening

Starting Out

“All of this is a dream.” “All of this is real.”

Both are grand jokes.

――――――――――

My goal is not to persuade people. No one needs to be persuaded. My goal is to awaken together to what we all already know. Because there is something we need to realize. Something that encompasses and transcends all relative things.

――――――――――

“When someone says, ‘I should do this or that to my ego’ or ‘I want to change my ego this way or that way,’ they fail to notice something. The self that wants to change the ego is itself the ego.” (* ‘ego’ can be replaced with ‘mind’ or ‘thought’)

――――――――――

There are appropriate and inappropriate feelings, reactions, and behaviors in humans. After enlightenment, it’s not that these feelings, reactions, and behaviors disappear. The inappropriate ones cease, and the appropriate ones happen naturally.

――――――――――

Where else could phenomena (or we) have come from? Where else do they exist? What else could they be? Naturally, they are the source. You have emerged from the source, You exist in the source, You are the source. You are the Tao. The source is the phenomenon, The phenomenon is the source.

――――――――――

You can never see yourself, Because you are the seer. You can never hear yourself, Because you are the hearer. You can never think yourself, Because you are the thinker. You can never know yourself, Because you are the knower. What is seen, heard, thought, and known are all objects. They cannot be you. So, who are you?

――――――――――

I do not believe in any belief. I do not disbelieve any belief. Belief is not something to be believed or disbelieved. We only need to understand the nature of belief and use it well, For the harmony and flow of all beings and the whole.

――――――――――

There is neither self (有我) nor non-self (無我). Then what is it?

The ‘I’, the ‘self’ is neither self nor non-self.

When you declare ‘non-self’, a new ‘self’ of non-self is merely created. Both self and non-self cannot escape the ‘self’.

Therefore, There is neither ‘I exist’ nor ‘I do not exist’.

You need to look at the ‘I’ itself. It is just a created concept. A notion of subjectivity.

Even ‘existence’ and ‘non-existence’ are mere constructs. The correct question is not ‘Does the self exist or not?’ But ‘What is the nature of the self?’

It is not about finding the true identity of the ‘I’, But realizing the act of establishing ‘I’ as the subject. Recognizing this act itself is what matters.

Recognizing our automated error of assuming ‘I’ or ‘existence’ as something that already exists.

This is the only way to be truly free from ‘self’ and ‘existence’. (Note: No one realizes this. ‘I’ do not realize it. It is realizing that such a ‘self’ is a construct. Awareness exists without the need for a subject.)

Furthermore, this applies not only to ‘self/non-self’ and ‘existence/non-existence’, But to all human knowledge without exception.

Whether it is applied or unnoticed, This has always been and will always be the case.

――――――――――

Using illusion to eliminate illusion. Using illusion to transcend illusion. Illusion being swallowed by illusion.

This is enlightenment. Enlightenment is not new knowledge.

It is the knowledge that swallows all knowledge. Like a black hole swallowing itself.

――――――――――

Do not carelessly think you know anything. If you truly know, you must change. True knowledge accompanies change.

If you think you know but lack the natural change that follows, Say, “I do not yet fully know.” This way, you will seek to find what you do not yet know.

Casually saying, “I now know,” can stop you from seeking what you do not know. Ultimately, you will remain in the illusion of knowing while actually not knowing. This is a loss to yourself. Knowing that you do not know is the highest knowledge. This leads you to explore what you do not know until you truly understand. This benefits you.

The same applies to enlightenment and the pursuit of enlightenment.

――――――――――

If I had a thousand messages to convey to the world, I have spoken not even ten, And written less than one in this book. Everything will be conveyed appropriately as needed. And eventually, Nothing will be left unsaid.

――――――――――

Humanity has passed through its first great evolution. That is the discovery and use of language. Now we must undergo the second great evolution. It is freedom from language, which includes freedom from ‘self’. Remember! This knowledge includes the ‘self’. And beyond linguistic knowledge, it includes non-linguistic knowledge as well.

-by MuRu