Instant Enlightenment

1. Enlightenment is Instantaneous, Unconditional Love.

Enlightenment is free. It is love. It is openness.

True happiness is now. Enlightenment isn't a distant goal but an ever-present state of love and openness, available in this very moment, just as you are. It's a sudden realization, often forgotten, requiring repeated practice to integrate into daily life. The core practice is to relax open, feeling the boundless love you inherently are, and giving it away.

Love without holding back. The path to enlightenment involves unceasingly feeling the openness of love in every interaction and activity—whether having sex, eating, or talking. By consistently offering yourself open in this way, you live as a gift to everyone around you. This instant, full love is enlightenment, even if habits cause temporary contraction.

An evolving expression. While enlightenment is instant, its expression deepens and evolves endlessly. The exercises in this book are designed to prove this truth to you, showing you how to access this freedom and love. Choose any practice and begin now to experience this profound, immediate liberation.

2. Expand Love Beyond Personal Preference.

If you love one person, you can love God.

Love without limits. Begin by feeling intense love for your most cherished person, then consciously extend that same depth of love to inanimate objects around you—a book, the floor, a pillow. This practice helps break the habit of limiting love to specific targets, revealing your capacity for boundless affection.

Embrace all existence. Once you can love an object with the same intensity as a person, expand your love to the space around you, outwardly in all directions. Finally, extend this unconditional love inward, embracing even your darkest secrets, shame, and perversity. This comprehensive love for everything, visible and unknown, is what it means to love God.

Daily practice of expansion. Dedicate a few moments each day to this exercise: start with your most loved person, then offer that same fullness of love to objects, other people, and the space around you, both inwardly and outwardly, without end. Every moment you love so fully is enlightenment, a direct experience of your true nature.

3. Embrace All Sensations to Magnify Love.

Your mouth knows the most of what it touches.

Heightened sensitivity. Our mouths, lips, and tongue are exquisitely sensitive, dedicating a disproportionate amount of brain capacity to processing sensations. This unique sensitivity can be a powerful gateway to enlarged love, allowing us to explore tastes and textures with profound awareness, as if our whole body were a tongue.

Oral sex as a spiritual practice. When engaging in oral sex, allow the experience to enlarge, becoming fully absorbed in the landscape of sensations. The goal is not just pleasure, but to convert this extreme sensitivity into a magnification of love, connecting hearts and relaxing boundaries between selves. This amplified responsiveness can be felt by your partner and radiates outward.

Love's afterglow. The enlarged love generated through such sensitive, intentional acts lingers long after the physical stimulation ceases. This tenderized, vulnerable heart becomes a blessing to everyone in your life—friends, family, and even the natural world. Offer your most sensitive human parts as a gift, tendering love-swelled blessings to all.

4. Transcending the Illusion of Time and Drama.

You are only interested in stories that move at a certain speed.

The arbitrary speed of interest. Our perception of "the world" and its dramas is limited to events occurring within a very narrow speed range. Things that happen too slowly (like grass growing) or too fast (like high-frequency sound waves) typically fall outside our attention, yet are equally real. This reveals the arbitrary nature of what we deem significant.

Expanding your temporal range. You can train yourself to experience events moving faster and slower, expanding your "speed-of-interest." For instance, closely follow the slow, intricate formation of a single thought, or imagine your entire life playing out in a minute-long blur. This practice loosens self-concern and reveals the humor in our tightly engaged human drama.

Humor and vastness. Contemplating the vast scale of time—from microseconds of thought formation to geological epochs—overwhelms the narrow human perspective with humor. While daily events remain vivid, your love becomes freed from time, embracing both the infinitesimally fast and the eternally slow. This wide-ranging capacity to feel doesn't detract from life's seriousness but expands your capacity to offer love.

5. Rest as the Unchanging Openness of Awareness.

You are this capacity to feel.

The unchanging observer. Imagine contrasting images—a comfy bed versus a severed penis. The feelings evoked are vastly different, yet the "who" that can feel both pictures remains constant. You are this unchanging feeling-openness, the space where images, thoughts, and sensations arise and dissolve.

Freedom from content. Instant enlightenment is to relax as this feeling-openness, regardless of the specific picture or experience happening now. By practicing this, you become free, untrapped by any particular event, and your actions spontaneously flow as love. Pain or pleasure, the feeling-openness simply is.

Beyond the pictures. Regularly shifting between contrasting images helps you grow more stably free of any particular picture. The imagery changes, but your true self—the feeling-openness—is always unchangingly open to feel. This realization liberates love, allowing it to act freely within the ever-changing movements of body and mind.

6. Transform Resistance into Love's Deepest Expression.

Your life's purpose is liberated by your willingness to be love, especially through the qualities you most resist in others.

Opening through resistance. We often close down when we encounter what seems "unloving" or what we resist in ourselves or others. However, these resistances are precisely where our deepest gifts of love are capped. The secret to fulfilling your life's purpose is to open through what you most resist, allowing love to flow untrapped by past memories or judgments.

Embodying the avoided. Consider qualities you swore you'd "never be like" in your parents or others (e.g., a know-it-all father, a "slutty" woman). Your birth presents these precise obstacles for you to overcome. Practice embodying these resisted styles—speaking like your father but with a connected heart, or dressing "slutty" while radiating genuine love—to dissolve the obstruction.

Love in every style. Love is the openness that manifests as all possible emotions, thoughts, and people. By willingly inhabiting and expressing love through the styles you previously avoided, you liberate suppressed love. This continuous practice of letting go of each experience as it occurs, and offering love in every style, leads to unfettered, spontaneous action, free from the past or future.

7. Liberate Love Through Unashamed Pleasure and Giving.

Is love free to move through every part of your body while masturbating?

Fear of pleasure. Our lives often feel smaller than they could be due to a fear of unashamed pleasure. This fear curtails the whole-bodied flow of life's force, which is a movement of love. To liberate this energy, confront what you fear about pleasure and allow it to move through your body without shame, fear, or laziness.

Giving joy away. Enlightenment is giving all your happiness away to others, keeping nothing for yourself. Whether it's the pleasure of shopping or the sensation of almost-painful nipple stimulation, offer these feelings as gifts to ancestors, those who have hurt you, and all beings. This posture of gratitude and radical giving frees you from guilt and tension.

Breaking comfort zones. Our sexual and financial lives are often tainted with "residues" of fear and complication. To discover the enlightened use of sex and money, break usual rules in low-risk ways, offering gifts beyond your comfort zone. This process reveals and dissolves your "fear-gunk," allowing your offerings to serve openness rather than being inhibited.

8. Extend Empathy Beyond Human Boundaries.

Liberating yourself from this human-only view allows the scope of your love to include all beings.

Beyond human experience. As humans, our experiences are severely circumscribed, unlike a butterfly that cannot scratch its ass or a worm that cannot speak. This human-only view limits our love. Instant enlightenment means loving and being open to feel all—every animal, plant, rainstorm, and even abstract ideas.

Empathy for all forms. Imagine existing as a bacteria in your neighbor's gut, experiencing the world from that perspective, or as a fashion trend spreading through culture, or a great idea evolving through centuries. This practice reveals that our life drama is intertwined with countless other forms, large and small, whose suffering and existence we often overlook.

Love in action. We share love with those who seem like us, but true liberation extends this empathy to all beings, even those we harvest or destroy. The challenge is to act as a human, but love and feel all. If you relax all self-preservation for a few seconds, allowing only love for all to move you, your actions will be guided by a profound, all-encompassing compassion.

9. Cultivate Intentional Openness in Every Action.

Why would you intentionally hold anything in your mind, except that which most opens your heart and soul, so that others may benefit from your openness?

Choosing openness. When you find yourself imagining something that closes you, intentionally replace it with an image or feeling that most opens your heart, softens your belly, and relaxes your mind—like passionate love or saving a friend's life. This is the first step: replacing habits of closure with habits of openness.

Dissolving forms. The next step is to allow this intentional visualization to dissolve into uncontrived feeling, like a swirl in water. Let go of all effort to imagine anything, not adulterating love's open water. This two-step process—replacing unloving forms with loving ones, then allowing all forms to dissolve into love's clear openness—should be repeated whenever you notice yourself closing.

Perfect laziness, perfect responsibility. Commit to absolute laziness, doing nothing unless it happens spontaneously. Then, whatever happens—a blink, peeing—do it as love's most fully offered art. This disposition is instant enlightenment: nothing happening but love. This perfect laziness is perfect responsibility, as love, not self-interest, moves you, breaking the chain of suffering.

10. Dissolve All Forms into Boundless Awareness.

When these two feelings—fullness and emptiness—are simultaneous and instant, your life is free and an expression of love.

The transient nature of experience. Whether it's the coming and going of light as you blink, sounds as you cover your ears, or anxiety as you hold your breath, an ever-present openness of awareness remains. This openness is alive, familiar, and is who you are—seeing, hearing, and feeling.

Fantasy and dissolution. Engage in your favorite romantic or sexual fantasies, but then speed them up to a blur of white light, or fast-forward through inevitable old age and decay, or use X-ray vision to see internal organs. Finally, feel the fantasy dissolve to nothing instantly. This practice reveals that every great moment, remembered or hoped for, is both lavishly alive and utterly empty.

Simultaneous fullness and emptiness. When the feelings of fullness and emptiness become simultaneous and instant, your life is free and an expression of love. No hope, memory, or fantasy is needed. This realization extends to all sensations, body images, and emotions, allowing them to dissolve in the openness where they are first felt, revealing freedom from time.

11. Embody Heroic Qualities as Your True Self.

Your hero is a vehicle through which goodness, truth, or beauty shines.

Heroes reflect your divinity. We resonate with heroes because they embody divine qualities already alive within us. This yearning to evolve and make your life a sacred offering is a natural call to become transparent to these divine qualities. Instant enlightenment is to relax as the openness displaying all the heroic qualities that are your very nature.

Wearing your hero's form. To cooperate with this call, relax into heart-open awareness, then vividly visualize your hero (e.g., Jesus). Slowly, allow their image to merge with your body, wearing their form, breathing, sitting, and speaking as them. Feel what it would be to embody all their admirable qualities.

Dissolving the visualization. Once you feel you are embodying these qualities, allow the visualization to dissolve, retaining the sense of the qualities themselves. With practice, this process becomes instantaneous: visualize, merge, dissolve, and remain openly alive, spaciously shining as the qualities you admire. You become an open force of blessing, spontaneously offering the gifts of all your heroes.

12. Live Beyond the Pursuit of "Better."

With nothing left to gain or lose, offer yourself to be lived as the singular expression of love's evolutionary force.

The limits of improvement. Wanting to be "better" and seeking perfection is a natural evolutionary impulse. Imagine a perfect world where everyone is a super-achiever, giving all they can. Even in such a world, dissatisfaction would eventually arise, as we outgrow the pursuit of improvement itself, much like we outgrow living for the sake of brushing our teeth.

Beyond motivation. There comes a time when you no longer live for the sake of improving your life or serving others as a primary motivation. These actions may continue as good habits, but your attention relaxes from all things, including yourself and others. You neither seek nor try not to seek, even as the evolutionary impulse lives through you.

The divine paradox. This leads to a phase of despair, where hope and fear fade, and you fabricate no value for being alive. With nothing left to gain or lose, you offer yourself to be lived as love's singular evolutionary force, acting spontaneously, instantly open, and gone as a bright dream forgotten. This is the divine paradox: love's unstoppable offering at one with time's yearning to vanish as sudden openness.

Last updated: December 26, 2025