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Hi, I'm so excited! I found a passage where the Buddha tells the story of how he became enlightened. What I find exciting about it is that Buddha worked on obtaining his enlightenment. He worked with the Light and the Visions. Through trial and error, he gradually learned how to make the Light and the Visions remain. He learned how to penetrate the Light. The Light!!! (now I'm once again mad at AYP for parroting so many times that the Light is just scenery and should be ignored). Oh well.. I also ask myself, if Buddha got enlightened by working hard, analysing and finally determining the factors that caused the Light and the Visions to remain, then why isn't everyone using this method? I think the clincher might be that in order to see the Light and Visions, one must have the "divine eye" developed sufficiently. Right now, I equate the 'divine eye' with the third eye. I get the visions and I see the Light. I just didn't realize that they are the key to enlightenment and that one has to learn, by themselves, exactly how to make them remain. Perhaps I am lucky that I see the Light and the Visions, but then I have spent many years developing the third eye and if you'd ask me how it is done, I would simply say, location location location.. When you withdraw your consciousness starting from the area between the brow and then go back into the center of the head (after the body has fallen away), at a certain layer or frequency of consciousness, the visions appear. The area is about 1 1/2 inches behind the brow. Then, if you pull your attention back closer to the watcher, but not all the way to the watcher, that is where the intense bright light breaks through. I am very grateful to now know that Buddha actually worked on establishing and then penetrating the Light in order to become enlightened. He just didn't sit there, doing nothing. He experimented and put together a method, a road map. And he did it without a teacher. He did it all by himself. Anyway, here is the passage that I am grateful for: From: http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/5.18-Anuruddha-Upakkilesa-S-m128-piya.pdf The part of the text that I am enthralled by starts on page 189, with Light and vision of forms Be sure to read the footnotes.. TI I just have to quote some of it: So that is how he did it.. One last thing I thought I'd mention. Have you ever stared blankly at a scene, as if in a daze, not really thinking of anything? Have you ever noticed that when you do that that objects in your optical sphere start to disappear? Well I was listening to a podcast from Ajahn Brahm and he mentioned the same phenomenon, that when you hold the mind still, things just disappear. If you do that to thoughts, that is, you hold your inward facing attention very still without grasping or conceptualization, they disappear. If you do that to a larger space in the head, more and more of the contents of the mind disappear. That is when the light and the vision of forms appear. That is a secret you should practice...