I fell into “this” many years ago. I realized I couldn’t go anywhere because I am always here and now. I tried to go places, and only the scenery changed.

“I” is the eternal here and now. There is only the divine, whose light shines as the absence we call “the present.”

It’s like a hole in the fabric of nothing, but it’s not evil at all. It’s infinitely self-giving and infinitely retiring; it never even appears.

You think you’re a character in the video game, and you realize you’re the game.

I scrambled the heck out of this realization as fast as I could. I semi-succeeded.

I didn’t scramble out because it’s bad - it’s wonderful. It’s just not what I thought all this was, and I was just starting out. So, I scrambled.

The one thing I can add to spiritual discussions is the impact of resistance. My spiritual life has few distinctions, but I feel pretty knowledgeable in this area.

“Seeking enlightenment” can be an elegant method of resistance to intrinsic enlightenment.

A little self-honesty is all that is required. “You” don’t want to attain enlightenment because you want to be a character in the game. Eventually, you get sick of wandering and you want to come home.

So, you play hide-and-seek with “enlightenment,” wanting and not wanting to be found.

Seeking enlightenment is not different from intrinsic enlightenment, if you look at it from a certain perspective.

Seeking enlightenment is like climbing a sacred mountain. We think we have to get to the top, but the entire mountain is sacred. Every step is the sacred center.