Author: Manisha

If you are not liberated right at this very instant, do you think then that there is some fantastical liberation waiting for you somewhere "there"?
Really???

Assert Dominance:
Be like reality — self-liberating.
Just watch. watch. watch.
Stay. stay. stay.
All the way. 
Do not run.
Come back. Again and Again. 
Until all distinctions cease, for there are none either way.
Hinging on abstraction/analogy alone = delusional.
Hinging on rationality/reason alone = faithlessness.

Things *happen* effectively when both come together.

Intellectual honesty just means transcending one's thought-based beliefs/biases, the blinding lens so to speak.

The right view presents itself when one favors no views/lens, has no views.
why? — because there's no "you" you-ing, meaning no grasping/clinging/resisting etc.

Reactive rejections/dismissiveness and approvals are not two things. 
They are but dormant beliefs in essence, whereas Truth...

"Neti Neti — not this. not this.

Truth = End of Mind, which is to say end of perceiver-perceiving-perception. end of experiencer-experiencing-experience. end of thinker-thinking-thought."
Without the touch of the sacred, all things will feel like a burden, but when recognized as the Divine and therefore touched by the sacred, the mundane becomes the transcendental, for it has always been so.
The extraordinary is in the ordinary.

Just have to see.
Trust and surrender are at the beginning of something/anything, not after things have gone *your* way and after you have run your stupid tests and trials on divinity or any"thing".

Unquestionably. Hopelessly.
Until you see that it's always been very alright regardless.
Awakening = it is what it is. no resistance, meaning no wishing or hoping that things were any different or other than what they are at the moment.
No getting caught in thought-narrative centering around "me" or anything/one to run from current sensations, no getting busy emotionally reacting either repressing or expressing, but rather just radically surrendering to whatever surfaces; purely being, purely seeing it all collapse into Nothing effortlessly. As many times as it takes.
No action based on emotions or as a result of overthinking but only what feels right and just as needed in the most holistic way possible, meaning right action with right view in whatever degree it is possible and available and without concern for or attachment to outcomes.
All that said, keep coming back as many times as it takes. Return to the breath whenever attention is back on. No need to condemn or justify anything and get busy thinking and reinforcing the self/me-thought-story.
This is about all you can do, and all delusions will fall away and keep falling away in the degree of presence-sincerity you can bring or keep. 
Keep seeing and therefore keep transcending. Remain dropped. Be here. Be not of here. 
Be attributeless/labelless even as you do whatever is necessary relatively contextually, for you are always THAT.
The first and the last step, if at all, is to be stripped of each and every"thing" and just be here now
      with raw naked Reality as it is.

All else is fine but just a distraction from THAT.
What is, is.
All words, all explanations, all arguments, all fights, all things whatsoever are just the illusion of "I" lifting, thrusting itself forward.  
Seeing this renders everything irrelevant. 
One might just do it for fun alone until even that is rendered obsolete.
What you call death is the true ally, the best friend, the timeless lover, a recognition, a homecoming, a seeming return to that which you are. have always been. 
To know this in all the glory, one must die before they die.
The Buddha told his disciple Ananda to see impermanence, to see death with every breath. We must know death; we must die in order to live. What does that mean? To die is to come to the end of our doubts, all our questions, and just be here with the present reality.
You can never die tomorrow; you must die now. Can you do it? If you can do it, you will know the peace of no more questions.

— Ajahn Chah