TRUTH IN YOUR FACE

As a trilogy-related aside, let me say that I hate mystery. I hate mystery so much that I went out and tracked it down and wherever I found it I killed it until I didn’t find anymore. This is something I actually did, and at which I was perfectly successful. I destroyed shadows and darkness with light and clear-seeing. This is another way of expressing the awakening process, and the decisive question is, do you hate false-self more than you fear no-self? That’s the battle; hatred of false self vs fear of no-self. This question can build up in you for years, and the exact moment that you take the First Step on the true journey of awakening is the exact moment that you answer this question. Picking up a six-inch knife and leaping into a bloody maelstrom to slay an unslayable beast doesn’t mean you have answered this question, it is the answer. (Jed McKenna)

Silence is the Church. The mind is the devotee. Thoughts are the blessed prayers. All thoughts are always blessed by the Church of Inner Silence: whatever you think is already blessed at the beginning! Even the thought of evil, of sin, of guilt, of error is a blessed thought that may appear impure, but it is not. You do not have to correct or purify anything because you have never made a mistake: everything happens in the Church of Silence and here there are no faults, mistakes, iniquities, impropriety, curses ... there are only blessings (by ZeRo, aka Neti Neti)

THE FIRST AND LAST CHAPTERS of the trilogy were titled That Which Cannot Be Simpler . In the books we saw how that applied to the awakening process. Now we can take a look and see if that doesn't apply to deciphering reality as well. “You’re saying it does, I suppose?” says Karl. “Yes, that’s what I’m saying, and if I’m right about how simple it is, there should be no trouble at all in showing it to you, so that in theory, you understand it as well as I do.” “In theory?” “Yes, what for me is a living reality, my paradigm-of-residence, can only be theory for anyone who hasn’t made the actual journey. Short of that, we can certainly look together and see if it’s not only very simple, but that which cannot be simplified further.” “How long do you think this will take?” “We’re unlocking all the mysteries of creation, you can’t find some room in your schedule?” “But if you’re saying it’s so simple...” “Fine. Under five minutes if yo