Every human being is a manifestation of the Totality of life. Every human being is a singularity with different experiences, beliefs and emotional culture.
Thus, there cannot be a method for everyone to follow.
The idea of a "method" is coming from that consciousness of individuality. In other words, someone who may perceive himself as "having arrived." (where?) or "illuminated" may try to describe his experience by compiling those life experiences into a method for "others" to follow.
Please see that we can only follow behavior but we cannot follow a different consciousness.
Religions, intellectuals, scientists, philosophers are keen protectors of the "methodology."
It cannot be otherwise, when there is the idea of "massification," that is to "make everyone the same."
That is how our educational system works and once we go through it, a "new" consciousness is developed out of the experience of going through it and not because there was a particular element, a particular method which is the cause of change.
Going through the whole experience could be considered the method. :-)
Lucy shared: " My son (Billy) adopted Buddhism and he became a vegetarian and stopped smoking. He was very happy with that change, but then he met his old girlfriend again; who was a smoker and meat eater. My son went back into smoking and eating meat."
For most, the culprit is the girlfriend. She is a "bad" influence. Nevertheless, once Billy abandoned the "Buddhist method," he went back into his old ways, which made him unhappy; but at the same time, he was helpless to change.
That is how we arrive at another spiritual premise: If you really want to know if your "change" is just behavioral or a conscious change, then abandon the method and you will find out.
If Billy liked to eat meat and to smoke, then the method was merely a temporary "fix" which was causing repression in him. His girlfriend was the right excuse to go back into his "old" ways.
That consciousness will take Billy into a set of actions, which will have a consequence in his life. Those consequences may trigger a change in consciousness. Nevertheless, those consequences in life are not part of a "method" created by a human being.
As we peel off the layers of beliefs, dogma and emotional culture in us, then we could discover another "reality" which is fresh and pristine, "pure" from mental conditioning.
That experience may change our consciousness. However, that is not a method. :-)
It is a consequence to be experienced by those who are ready to wake up from their long sleep. Those who have already slept enough and are ready to get up from their cushy beds and comfortable beliefs.
If you try to wake up others who are sleeping deeply, they will fight with you. They will hurt you, for their consciousness is in a different location.
Neither "good" nor "bad," but just a different location.
DR.BK.SATYANARAYAN
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