goal

The goal, if there can be said to be one, isn't to become exceptional or better or more of anything. If anything it's to become exceptionally ordinary, in the sense of being natural/naturally oneself. It's to withdraw from all these false and artificial beliefs implanted and embedded in the body/mind which obscures perception and poisons experiencing. It's to release all these conflicting and misleading ideas and impressions, gathered from a learned distrust in innate qualities and abilities. It's regaining trust and coming to rest in the inherent simplicity, nourishment and wisdom of the Self underlying the conditioned false self-impressions.

This Self is already fulfilled. It is already complete, already whole, already beautiful, miraculous and as worthy as it could ever be. How could it not be? What fleeting, ephemeral thing could be added to it? Whatever the senses encounter is always coming and going. There's nothing lasting to be found in them, nothing essential to be gained in acquiring them.

Attempts to gain something from the world are only the futile manipulations of a confused body/mind. Trying to avoid the inevitable or get something which is already intrinsically present and available as needed, just beyond the conditioned beliefs which continuously claim and imply otherwise. Just beyond these delusions rippling across the body/mind in the form of repeating thoughts and their accompanying feeling states.