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Introduction The
word ‘pilgrimage’ derives from the Latin peregrinus, meaning
‘foreign’, derived from peregre, meaning ‘going’ abroad, derived from
‘per- (through) + ager (field). 1.In
short, the word ‘pilgrimage’ means: journey. 2.Therefore,
a pilgrim is someone who is not at home. 3. The inner pilgrimage is the journey taken to return home. 4.
Home is one’s true self, i.e. the (religious, cultural or social) self
restored to absolute wholeness (i.e. health), therefore perfection. 5.
In other words, the inner pilgrimage is a journey of self-transformation. |
1. Any journey is a pilgrimage, not just a religious one. 2. A journeyman (or woman) is on her way (i.e. to upgrade himself or herself) between an almost unidentifiable initial state and a personally (hence uniquely) identifiable end state (i.e. personal mastery). 3. The journey home (i.e. to self-perfection) is the series of steps taken (i.e. connections made) to integrate a system (of functions) to wholeness, therefore to unit, i.e. steady state status (read: sainthood). Steady state, hence ‘waiting’ capacity (read: nirvana) is achieved either when all functions have been fully integrated and/or non-goal oriented functions (read: sins), hence disorder, and which causes turbulence, have been eliminated (See Patanjali, Yoga sutra 2). 4. For home read: a fully integrated identifiable steady
state, i.e. a unit or quantum of (unique) difference, in short a perfect,
therefore true self.1 4.1 … In IT terms, a true self (i.e. an identifiable unit, i.e. a home without an address) is symbolized with the digit 1.1 4.1.1 … An incomplete system (the sinner, an open field with a complex address) is symbolized as 1,1,1,1,1 > n. A saint (i.e. a home reduced to a fixed point/quantum) is symbolized as 1,0,0,0,0,0 > n. The Brahman (or God), i.e. a completely open system, is symbolized as 0,0,0,0,0,0 > n. |
Step 1 Examine your self. |
Assess the down-side (i.e. depressive) and up-side (i.e. enlightened) aspects of your self and their causes. By fixing your condition state as an undeniable fact you create an initial state. |
Step 2 Admit that you are restlessness, hence on a journey because not at home with yourself. |
Consciously commence the inner pilgrimage, i.e. your personal self- transformation process. |
Step 3 Determine the functions you need to perform to eliminate your restlessness, hence to come home, i.e. to be whole, perfect. |
Relative to your current functional output (i.e. your current self as pattern of habits), invent (i.e. imagine) the functional scenario (i.e. your future home/self) that will return you to rest (and reward you with joy which you desire). |
Step 4 Access
the functions you require for perfect self-completion and eliminate those
functions that hinder your self-completion. |
Install the required functions (i.e. the bits of your ‘perfect’ self) and activate them. Eliminate all counterproductive functions, i.e. dump the bits of your self that don’t fit your perfect self (i.e. get released from your sins). |
Step 5 Integrate
the necessary functions to unit (i.e. at-one-ness) status. |
Align (i.e. unify) all functions (i.e. all bits of your desired true self) to operate as a single whole. |
Step 6 Self-apply
the wholly unified functions set to experience your self as at home (i.e. at
perfect rest). |
Reality test your new (i.e. upgraded) whole self when fully aligned/integrated. |
Step 7 Confirm
to yourself that you have indeed come home, i.e. that the inner pilgrimage
has ended. |
Very important. Fix (i.e. freeze) your new self (i.e. your home) as an undeniable fact. Indeed, if your new home is a unified whole you will experience it as ‘cool’. Moreover, it will taste and smell sweet, and appear to brighter, in fact, it will seem to be enveloped in a golden glow. Obviously, the dysfunctional self you left behind tasted bitter, smelt rotten and seemed dank and dull. If you don’t fix it, it will disintegrate. |
Step 8 Experience
fully the sheer bliss of homecoming. |
(Virtual) (Self)-completion (i.e. full self-integration) releases part off the energy applied to achieve completion. The energy release, and which happens as a sudden surge or rush, is often experienced as mild enlightenment. |
Step 9 (Optional)
Invite a guest to your home. |
Offer your true self for random contact/copulation (i.e. with a Guru). That’s far more difficult than you think. Steps 1 thru 9 make ‘steady’ and ‘ready’. This step prepares for Step 10, i.e. ‘fire’. The ‘other’ always fires first. |
Step 10 Connect
with the guest to start a new inner pilgrimage. |
1. Connection/copulation (i.e. ‘fire’, i.e. implosion) not
only releases all the stored energy in the true self, it also transfers
identity (i.e. the self as address) both ways, thereby disintegrating the
(state of rest of the) home and forcing both host and guest to begin a new
inner pilgrimage. The beginning (i.e. birth) of a new inner pilgrimage is
often experienced as awakening (Pali: budh or buddha).1 2. The description (or definition) Buddha1 means: the awakened. To awaken, to become conscious, a system/person must leave nirvana, i.e. the @rest state. 2.1 … Siddartha Guatama claimed that He was a perfect Buddha, i.e. perfectly awakened (Pali: samma-sambodha). In other words, He claimed to be completely awakened rather than just relatively awakened as was everyone else. Relative to Him, the rest (and that included Sariputta and Mogallana) were un-awakened, i.e. asleep. |
Step 11 Experience
fully the sheer joy of leaving home. |
Actual completion by means of (self-) realization, and which results from contact/touch, releases all the energy stored in the home (i.e. in the true self as whole unit). Total release of energy (i.e. as in a nuclear implosion) is experienced as the Great (i.e. @100%) Enlightenment, locally interpreted as overwhelming bliss. |
Tips 1.
Revert to pre-adolescent self-creation procedures and restore them to current
use. 2. Suppress or eliminate restlessness by means of diversion, for instance, by practicing yoga. 3.
Or, end your inner journey by accepting wholly someone else’s true self as a
perfect home. 4.
Where the mind rests, that becomes real. |
1. You are born with the equipment needed to succeed at establishing your unique niche (i.e. your true self) as a reality (i.e. as a real mark). Gradually your success achievement functions are intentionally impaired/warped by parents and teachers to force you into their (cultural) mould/niche. 2. Suppressing inner turbulence, i.e. non-alignment is at
best a band-aid, which, alas, results in repression. 3. The easiest way to come to rest is to go and live in
some else’s home. 4. That’s the key.1 It was well explained and practiced by Emile Coué, and who restored far more people to perfect health than the ‘sacred space’ of Lourdes. 4.1 … This is an alternate interpretation of ‘tat tvam asi’, i.e. ‘That thou art’. |
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Warning 1. The inner pilgrimage ends as a perfect virtual reality, hence as fundamentally unreal. To complete the inner pilgrimage it must be made real. Making the virtual real is the outer, the spiritual pilgrimage. The outer pilgrimage is hazardous. 2. Not making the virtual real is even more hazardous. 3. Activate (i.e. realise) your home (i.e. your true self) gradually lest you crash. |
1. Making the virtual real is dangerous; however, it’s the sine qua non of (self-) realization/being (Sanskrit: sat’tva), awakening/ consciousness (Sanskrit: chit’tva) and joy (Sanskrit: ananda). 2. Buddhist and Hindu yogis attempting to eliminate suffering choose to live a virtual existence. |
Thing’s you’ll need 1. Your most basic responses restored to perfect
functioning. No
fear |
1. Recover the self-development functions
of late infancy, elsewhere called ‘The Beginner’s Mind’. |