You Always Will Be (Wrong)

If you believe there is a state called enlightenment,
in which life will come easy,
in which you will be in control of mind and emotions,
in which you will have answers for all situations,
you are wrong.
If you think there is an experience called awakening,
which will reveal truth beyond appearances,
which will take you out of your body,
which will bring for ever joy and happiness,
you are wrong.
If you imagine there is someone out there,
who knows the secrets of life,
who can show you the way,
who will make you whole,
you are wrong.

Why?

Because there is merely one state: the existing state;
Because the coming easy or hard is life;
Because there is no control over control;
Because there is no knowledge to confirm knowledge is true.
Because experience happens to the awakened;
Because there is only appearance;
Because the body is no in and out of the body;
Because joy and happiness are merely other experiences.
Because there is no one out there;
Because life has no secret and because life is a secret;
Because there is just this way;
Because you are the whole of it already.
Because whatever you believe, think or imagine, you always will be wrong.


In a Dream

If I were in a dream and if I were to find my way out of this dream, would I seek help from people in that dream?
If I were in a dream and if I thought of this dream as a dream because others in the dream said it was a dream, would that dream really be a dream?
If all I have ever known is that dream, if I have not known myself without the dream, nor the dream without myself, would the dream and myself be two things?

Individuality

The assumption of individuality may be false; but it feels real. How to shed this stubborn assumption?
Part of his answer was:
So all you know is what you've always known - only you call it individuality [but] it is actually HOW THE WHOLE FEELS.
This is just blasting! :D

We feel something, define it and confirm our definitions with the feeling as a proof.
"I am the individual", "I am the body", that feels so strong indeed, but we made these definitions up in the first place, accepted them as true, and pinned them on the sensations.
Then, one day, we hear new definitions: "I am the whole", "I am not the body" and we break our heads up trying to understand what the heck they mean.
So we turn towards the feelings and shout "go away you stupid sense of individuality, go away you so bloody solid body!"
And instead of letting false ideas go, we take on new ones and look down on the only thing we know to be true: experience.
After all, the only thing we know for a fact is the feeling at the root of "I am the individual", "I am the body" and so forth, i.e. the sense of "me". We don't know what it really means, we don't know if that really is a proof of individuality, of corporeality. No. We just know it is, we know it as "me" whatever that means.
So often we can feel this "me" and there is the latent idea that there is a "whole" somewhere around that "me", in which we are. But have we ever felt that whole-other-than-the-me? No. We only have labels pouring over our experience claiming this is the "real me" and this is the "world".
It is not surprising then, that as we hear some who say "I am all", we feel somehow stuck in this bubble of individuality. But it is not a real bubble, we only imagined a greater whole that has never been here.

Because the whole is already this.