No one knows how you go from the Dakhla city of obscurity to Halaib, the place of clarity, and anyone who tells you that they do know – knows even less than you do. Without doubt you must do something; from things you initially hear about, you must select and try whatever at the time seems right for you, while never forgetting that whatever it is – is just something that some other man made up to entertain himself and pass the time.
Even though he may have believed to himself that it was much more than that – there is no, “Much-more-than-that” when it comes to the methods that will eventually Awaken and Enlighten you. There are no such methods or, if there are, no one knows what they are. If you are one of those who instinctively Got it when you first heard about it, all you can do is do something, but do not let the temporary something seduce you. Do not fall in mystical love with the something; do not become addicted to the something, (which is easier to happen than with any drug).
All good methods to awaken are a trick, and they are all intended to be disposable for the few who naturally Get it. Only a man who did not originally Get it and who never will, will proclaim himself a follower, a student, a proponent of, this-or-that school of awakening and enlightenment. Such people enjoy what they are doing, and a large part of their pleasure is in identifying themselves with the whole idea of such activity.
On their death bed they may freely admit that they never did actually, “Wake up,” yet they express no ill will, and will say that they would not trade their experiences in trying to, for anything. But this is not the suitable end for one who instantly Got the idea of, man-waking-up as soon as they heard about it, and if you have at least reached a place, (through no direct intention of your own, it might be noted), wherein you are no longer uncontrollably driven by a need to talk about what you know, ask questions which sound impressive, but mean nothing to you, and argue with people even more asleep than you are, then you are ready to ponder and face what has been today herein noted.
From one quite valid view, (in the exclusive realm of the few), you do not make gradual progress in this, and there is no special way to achieve the goal. You are either born instinctively able to catch the idea of another state of mental comprehension being possible, or you are not, and if you are, there is nothing to stop you but your own lack of effort to follow through on it to the very end.
J.