@ Being_Is_It
Why do you feel you can't wake up? What is the biggest obstacle?
Several readers agreed with my point, but generally felt that reaching this level of understanding is very difficult, requiring a certain amount of good fortune for ordinary people, etc. I don't entirely agree. One thing is certain: you don't necessarily need to experience something as intense as death or the gates of hell. I believe the biggest obstacle is actually your own flawed self-suggestion. You may have studied this for many years, but you still haven't shaken off the misconception that "I am a person who needs to study Buddhism to achieve enlightenment."
No! Your self-suggestion is completely wrong, and this kind of mindset is the biggest obstacle.
1) You are never just a person; you are the ultimate being right now, more divine than God. This is your DEFAULT state, a state of not needing to gain and never losing. You are the ultimate perfection right now; do nothing. Am I direct enough?
2) You don't need to wake up. Because only a "person" needs to wake up, needs freedom, needs liberation. As the ultimate being, you are the very embodiment of awakening, freedom, and liberation. How could you possibly need to learn to wake up and then attain liberation? You already possess everything you seek. Why pursue anything more? You have never lost your fulfillment, freedom, and liberation. Why do you need to acquire what you have never lost? It's like a king who gets drunk one night and wanders out of the palace gates, lying on the street outside all night. When he wakes up in the morning, he has temporarily lost his memory and mistakenly believes he is a homeless beggar, feeling extremely ashamed and miserable. This situation is exactly what you are in now. You think you are a small character in your own dream, struggling and suffering terribly in the dream story. But you are never really in that dream; you have taken the dream as reality.
3) Believing yourself to be a "person," unfree, unliberated, constrained, and subject to the torment of birth, aging, sickness, and death—these psychological suggestions are your biggest obstacles. These suggestive thoughts, like venomous snakes, constantly deceive and bite you. Was the pain in your dream last night real pain? Dream experiences are merely experiences; they have no substance.
4) You don't need to improve anything. Your present moment is already the ultimate perfection and ultimate satisfaction. Your purity and beauty have already surpassed what words can describe. What extra do you need to obtain?
5) The only distance between you and awakening is whether you have seen this situation clearly!
6) True awakening isn't achieved through yoga or meditation, but through observation. You don't need to do anything; you simply need to see your true nature. The instant you see clearly is the instant of awakening, and it can be right now. It couldn't be simpler. Discard any self-suggestions like "I don't have enough understanding" or "I don't have enough good fortune"—these are all lies.
7) In reality, there is no such thing as personal awakening. The individual "I" is itself an illusion. How can an illusion possibly achieve awakening? Saying "I will awaken" is a misunderstanding. Only by understanding, and understanding, can one discover that there is nothing an individual can acquire through effort. The individual is an illusion interpreted by thought.
Finally, you can read Buddhist scriptures, but you don't need to join any religion. If you join these social groups, you will be given vague psychological suggestions by people who don't understand, and you may believe them, which will only increase your unnecessary suffering.
