Mystery... by Jed McKenna

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)