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Acknowledging the goal to be
achieved
If the pilgrim
is to succeed in attaining her goal, that is to say, to make a new true self
a reality (or simply solve a problem and make a real change to her Inner
Pilgrimage), is vital that she acknowledges the final definition of her goal
and which she is running (i.e. so fast that it appears to have stopped) on
her internal output simulator (i.e. the Inner
Pilgrimage ended). Acknowledging
her goal, preferable by a physical or verbal act in the everyday world, sets
(copper fastens) or fixes the (self-) limit. Acknowledging the goal completes
the goal deciding, hence designing process by eliminating interference from
other goals. Deciding (hence slicing, in fact, de-fragmenting) her goal
(read: sanctuary) makes her striving
singular, hence coherent, thereby eliminating the dissipation of her energy
(to wit, energy loss) into secondary goals. Cutting off energy loss returns
her to a previous energy high, and which is experienced as an energy surge
(i.e. enlightenment). Until the
goal is acknowledged, i.e. fixed (to wit: ‘this and this only is my goal’,
or, ‘this and this only will by my true-and-real
self’*), progress towards it will be uncertain (i.e. because the goal
is uncertain). Daily re-acknowledgment, re-fixing of the goal, for instance
by re-accessing it visually or verbally, wholly or symbolically, preferably
just before going to sleep and just after waking up, or each time/moment
self-consciousness emerges or is about to de-merge, further hardens the goal,
strengthens the resolve to get there and keeps the pilgrim aligned (in fact
on-end). The fact of
acknowledging the goal of the pilgrimage - thereby making the self
momentarily coherent - produces an ‘as if’ (and actually real, albeit at low
intensity) achievement experience, and which results in (i.e. rewards with) a
minor (i.e. low energy) energy surge, self-interpreted (hence displayed) as
happiness. Obviously, the more intense the ‘as if’ experience, the more
powerful the pay-off. Understanding this allows the pilgrim to fake a perfect
pilgrimage ending and reap the actual reward for actual pilgrimage ending.
This is the preferred route for the religious, artists, novelists, bored
househusbands and so on. For the same
reason, it is vital that when the pilgrim does achieve her goal (i.e. reach
(in fact become) her sanctuary - or a step towards her goal/sanctuary (each
step completed functioning as a whole
and complete sanctuary) - she acknowledges/fixes her achievement (to wit: ‘I
have done what I wanted or needed to do’), preferably by a physical act or
verbal statement in the everyday world, hence by a first step on the External Pilgrimage.
Until the external pilgrimage begins, that is to say, until the end (or
outcome) of the inner, then internal
pilgrimage is reality tested, or at least presented for reality testing -
and the pilgrim never does more than present for reality testing, more or
less @random - the whole pilgrimage has not been completed, though she may be
wholly satisfied/gratified by the payoff of the completion of the either the
inner or the internal pilgrimage. Acknowledgement
of inner, ‘as if’ goal achievement ends the pilgrimage as intention (or
design). That allows the free use of the energy surge resulting from ‘as if’
(hence simulated) pilgrimage termination for transformation as rapturous joy,
or for investment first in the internal, then in the external pilgrimage. * Note: The Indian
philosophers of the ancient Upanishads used the same word for ‘true’ and for
‘real’, namely sat (or satya or sattva, Pali: sacca), later interpreted to mean
(real) being. That was a mistake resulting from in-discrete observation. The
word for true/real was actually tat (as in tattva, tattya and so on), that is to
say, ‘such’ (or suchness), a vague description of the experience of a
discrete moment of absolute (hence relativity eliminated, voided, made
vacuous) presence, i.e. the is’ness of absolute plenum. The Sakyamuni, who
was later called Buddha, referred to himself as the Tathagata, to wit, ‘gone’
(or ‘come from’) such-ness. |