Listen! Here’s all you need to know to become enlightened: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what’s true until you know.
That’s it. That’s the whole deal; a complete teaching of enlightenment, a complete practice.
If you ever have any questions or problems—no matter what the question or problem is—the answer is always exactly the same: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what’s true until you know.
In other words, go jump off a cliff. Don’t go near the cliff and contemplate jumping off. Don’t read a book about jumping off. Don’t study the art and science of jumping off. Don’t join a support group for jumping off. Don’t write poems about jumping off. Don’t kiss the ass of someone else who jumped off. Just jump.
Jed McKenna
Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
I love this. It feels like the last two decades of my life I’ve been researching how to jump off a cliff…without actually doing it.
I think this is why so many people live their lives through other people today (i.e. celebrities, etc).
In other words, if you want to truly live, you have to embrace dying…that being letting go of your old sense of self that’s holding you back from making the leap to truly living.