Kurt Vonnegut already beat you to it. Under the guise of Bokonon and Bokononism in Cat's Cradle, he wrote: 'All the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.'
Enlightenment is recognising that the world of experience one was trying to escape from, to get to a better place, is the only thing that exists, and there is no escape. It is a very peculiar kind of realisation, not an intellectual one wrought by reason, that brings satisfaction and fulfilment because you now know looking elsewhere simply will not work because that elsewhere was a fiction created by your own mind. This statement itself is not true, it is a metaphor, and particularly will be perceived as not true by seekers. It is good to keep it in mind however, because when the seeking comes to an end, it will have a certain rhetorical significance. There are other phrases that serve the same purpose. The one that was significant for me was 'selling water by the river'. The search for enlightenment is a dream, and when the dream has exhausted itself, you are awake, which of course, you always were. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : I figure that if I ever teach again, it will be in my writing, within the context of a book that starts with the words that every "spiritual" book, lecture, or teaching ever given *should* have started with: "This is a work of fiction."
