| | Author: Dan_K
“Why do you come day after day, wasting your money, knowing that you can't get a thing here? Why do you and others come here for years in spite of my rude, blunt cynicism, my insults, and open refusals to offer you any solutions for your problems?"
“The ultimate greed is God.”
"I want everyone who is interested in this kind of thing to understand: all kinds of transformation--physical or the so-called psychological--are out. When the desire to become something different is absent, then the body is free to function in its own way, that's all. You, the one who is creating the problem, cannot solve it. You continue to ask, "How, how, how, but that `how' is the problem, and the only problem."
----U.G.’s main point of focus is that people are foolish to idolize teachers and idealize qualities of enlightenment. The desire to become something reinforces the dualistic split by romanticizing certain qualities and demonizing others. In my opinion this corresponds to the gate of suffering, i.e. desire causes suffering.
“I myself resolved everything into just one burning question: `Is there really something called enlightenment?' Nothing else mattered. I did not attain moksha or enlightenment, which were my goals. The question just burned itself out. The very demand to know the answer to that question, and to be `free' from anything was entirely absent, that's all."
------U.G.’s “method” is not one that is particularly reproducible, as it took him many years of being homeless to attain. His view is seemingly nihilistic, as he says “I did not attain enlightenment” (i.e absolute truth). I believe the real message is that absolute truth is not added on to experience, as it ‘is’ that experience.
Also, his descriptions of the “natural state” in The Mystique of Enlightenment are worth reading |