Self-Taught

Our path to enlightenment is a matter of undoing our mental fixtures and fittings – the ideas we hold onto and fixate about which create an illusion of self and the world around us. We are pure being that has adopted features, and made these into an illusion of a self, a me, a I, that we use to reinforce this construct.

“I think this is beneficial” and “I think this is harmful”
as opposed to
“This is beneficial” and “This is harmful.”

It is this very same self-construct that is our teacher, showing us what we’re holding onto that limits understanding. Recognising and realising this clinging – and therefore what we need to let go of – is our path to enlightenment. We are not a copy from a book. One pill does not suit all, as we each have to recognise what is causing us unhappiness.

“It’s them! It’s them! They’re the cause of my unhappiness.”

This is an unenlightened world, full of woes.
We have a choice whether to join ‘them’ or not.

The path to enlightenment is singular.
Singular: in the sense ‘solitary, single’, also ‘beyond the average’.

A teacher only helps us to see our self.
That is all they can do.