The Steps to Enlightenment
(getting out of a sticky mess)
First, recognise that the nature of mind is clarity. It is clear.
Second, maintain that clarity, by not clouding clarity with attachments.
Our conduct – which is the continuity of clarity – is the way we maintain a non-stick mind!
Life is a reminder: it teaches us that we can break free of our sticky prison.
When we do not re-act, karma is not produced, and we repay a karmic debt. We clear the attachments.
When all karmic debt is repaid, and we do not stick to anything (even ourselves), we are enlightened.
To get rid of the sticky mess,
we use the soap of method.
Then we wash off the method,
and everything is totally clear…
for a moment.
The steps to enlightenment are milli-moments of clarity joining up,
without any stickiness in between.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
This reminds me of a story I once heard – I can’t quite remember it but it’s along the lines of if you throw clothes at a naked person, there is nothing for them to stick to and they simply slither to the floor.
I do like this: The steps to enlightenment are milli-moments of clarity joining up, without any stickiness in between.”
Thanks Tony!
Sometimes it feels like milli-moments of stickiness joining everything together!
Tony