Drop the burden

Enlightenment is getting lighter...dropping the burden. Realising that there is no one to be enlightened.
Letting go of the huge sack full of garbage..book learning, concepts,past memories , future dreams... that one carries all the time.
Returning to one's original nature,free of time, free of memories or fantasies. Free even of the desire to be enlightened.
No wonder, in Zen, they say " Can you see your original face before you were born?"
"The children talking to the rain know that they will be heard. Because they have not yet been changed into their names." from a song i wrote years ago.

"Just as apes spend their time throwing things away and picking them up again unceasingly, so it is with you and your learning. All you need is to give up your "learning," your "ignorant" and "Enlightened," pure and impure, great and little, your "attachment" and "activity." Such things are mere conveniences, mere ornaments within the One Mind. I hear you have studied the sutras of the twelve divisions of the Three Vehicles. They are all mere empirical concepts. Really you must give them up! " Zen Master Huang Po, Courtesy, www.dailyzen.com

Conceptual thought is the greatest barrier to finding your true nature.
Direct experience of being, without distortion by thought, is the key.
Return to innocence..to that state before ego.
The state of being is what matters: the doing follows perfectly.
Then all will be well