True Enlightenment Is Not a Reality Tunnel (Part 2)

Some of us spend much of our life exploring the infinite possibilities of the infinite RTs. As Alice pointed out, it just gets curiouser and curiouser. Eventually the awareness arises that there are endless relative truths in endless realms of being. Every reality tunnel is a truth enfolded within itself.

Is there an ultimate truth or reality?

This is a very tricky and dangerous question because as soon as we consider it, we are creating more reality tunnels.

And as soon as we ask this question, we begin to discover there many reality tunnels that claim to have the answer. To name a just few, there are science, philosophy, religion, spirituality, linguistics, new age beliefs, etc. There are many teachers available who know these reality tunnels inside and out and are therefore considered enlightened masters within the context of theseRTs.

Truth is not a reality tunnel.

What we are is not defined by any reality tunnel, no matter how sophisticated, interesting or profound it may be. And the moment this is pointed out, it immediately creates a new RT and thus a relative truth.

A truly enlightened teacher knows that the moment they open their mouth they are creating and sustaining reality tunnels and are moving away from truth.

A truly enlightened teacher does not teach a reality tunnel but wakes us up out of all reality tunnels. This seems impossible, as anything a teacher says or does necessarily creates more reality tunnels. And yet the true teacher awakens great doubt and natural meditation within the student.

Great doubt is the free intelligence that expresses as an investigation of what we have always assumed to be true. This investigation exposes our reality tunnels for what they are, yet does not judge them. When honestly investigated, reality tunnels are seen just to be reality tunnels.

The natural intelligence of great doubt ultimately allows true awareness to stand free of all identification with all reality tunnels. This freedom is natural meditation. No abiding anywhere. If there is identification with what is realized – Boom! – another reality tunnel is created and we are now students of Reality Tunnel 27-ZEN. Please bow!

Natural meditation is simply everything being as it is. It is what is. When natural meditation happens, it is the effortless and natural non-identification with reality tunnels. It is the gateless gate of truth and freedom.

Effortless, choiceless, silent awareness.

Be clear. There is nothing wrong with reality tunnels. We are not trying to get rid of them. That would just be another RT. Enlightenment is not the rejection of RTs. It is simply recognizing them for what they are. This recognition is freedom from identification with them. This freedom allows full participation in reality tunnels without the entrapment of believing that any of them – including the reality tunnel we may think we are – is real and true.

If you want to wake up and discover what is actually true, be wary of all teachers teaching systems. It is not that difficult to learn, practice, internalize, actualize and then teach a system and be “enlightened” within the context of that system. But this enlightenment is not true enlightenment. It is reality tunnel enlightenment. You simply meet the reality tunnel’s criteria of enlightenment and bingo! You are the guru.

A true teacher is a completely paradoxical event. They have no agenda. They simply are. They say what they say and do what they do and somehow people awaken around them. They may use RTs as pointers and yet they stand completely free of them. It is this freedom that is so contagious to their students. It is easy to catch. There is no cure for it!

When we discuss enlightenment we are discussing a reality tunnel, not enlightenment. True enlightenment is not knowable and is not an experience. It is prior to all experience, all knowledge, all perception and conception. It is what is before anything is. It is not definable.

If “you” do anything to realize enlightenment, you are just creating another reality tunnel. You create a “you” that wants to be enlightened, and this “you” is just creating more reality tunnels. Trying to get out of RTs is just another RT. There is nothing “you” can do. And yet…

And yet awareness has a natural capacity to wake up out of reality tunnels simply because it is already awake. This, that is prior to the entire matrix of being, is always awake. This is what you are. Enlightenment only has meaning to the unenlightened because for the enlightened, there are no unenlightened. There is just this.

Silence is the language of truth. Emptiness is the land where it is spoken. 

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