Sever the conventionally grasping mind, and all bondage and desperation dissolve.

- Tilopa

It's hard for me to think of something more important than sincerely, genuinely, authentically orienting your heart and innermost intention towards the Absolute.

Resting in this inner orientation, holding it as a frequency, is really indispensable. Be real, make it known - to yourself and to reality - that you're serious about spirituality. We either want it or we don't and there ain't no faking it.

The whole point of the journey is to transcend and merge with the Divine. Another way to say it is to let go of all the hindrances and obscurations that cause us to remain ignorant of our Buddhanature. We have layers upon layers of conditions, identities, attachments - illusions and distractions - that distract us from reality. We are already it, but we think we aren't.

We fabricate stories and narratives and mental frameworks that are phenomenal. We spend endless hours mentally masturbating to our intellectual understandings. The god of logic. Ah! This model of reality makes so much SENSE! Let me tell you about the truth!

Except that the mind cannot conceptualize the absolute truth. Except that one cannot think transcendence and one cannot express the divine essence with words. Imagine thinking you can intellectually grasp the totality of reality.

These mental systems we devise are no more than rafts to aid us to the other shore. It's not that they don't serve a purpose or are somehow inherently bad - it's just that at some point you gotta step off the boat and onto the sand.

So the most fundamental component of the raft, at least how it has seemed to me, is that genuine heart. That authentic intention that we hold within ourselves. This is us reaching our hand out to the divine.

It's about submitting the ego before the Absolute. When we hold our consciousness on authentic intention, that's when shit starts to happen. All we have to do is get out of our own way. Get out of that labyrinth of the mind and experience reality directly.