The Xzanth:
If I knew that I only had a few years left I would stop all practice and just take the world in. Dying enlightened doesn't seem like a big prize... it's living enlightened that seems useful to me.
Dying enlightened would still be better than dying unenlightened. One could imagine there are various possible karmic scenarios/factors for what comes after in regards to dying enlightened or unenlightened.
As far as the fastest method... you seem to be doing well with what you have. What's you dissatisfaction with it?
No dissatisfaction ...perhaps sometimes just stuck an levels/insights/progress/ etc ....
I don't think any one method is objectively better than any other. It depends on history, personal preference and as someone else pointed out in another thread (very wisely I must say)... Fitter Stoke (I believe) "whichever path you are ready to surrender to is the best one."
True. Note taken!!
The fastest is the direct path! This is found within yourself, straight through. Teachings that support this are the non-dual teachings, such as Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Zen. Basically bypassing all the cycles and finding what it is in direct experience that is aware right now. I like to pretend that I am on my death bed and only have a few minutes left to live. Makes it urgent. Somebody said their practice was to imagine that each breath was their last. I have yet to try this. Sounds great.
Last breath technique!!!! Sounds very Very interesting.
All the other stuff, thumbs up. It was the way I was leading to anyway in regards to Vedanata/Dzogchen/Zen etc. So in a sense its a cool verification