The futile search for enlightenment

Traditional path to enlightenment:

1. Decide there's "something missing" in your life.
   
2. Seek out various books, gurus, paths and practices.
   
3. Realize that enlightenment is knowing there is no such thing, other than the ceaseless Leela of duality and integration. Put another way: the meaning of life is there is no meaning. Some find this too hard to accept and either continue the search (making that their meaning) or choosing a particular answer.
   
4. Give up the search.
   
5. Decide your response to the truth.
   
6. Take responsibility to create your own meaning.
   
7. Decide what game interests you and play it.
   

Seemingly Quicker Path: omit steps 1 and 2.

Unfortunately, as easy as it seems, one must come to these truths through one's own explorations. Therefore, there is no quick path. Darn!

Steps 6 & 7 are the "real work" of life, but can be exceedingly challenging for every individual. The Matrix exerts a powerful force!

An Alternative Approach:

know yourself + know the universe = ?!

abbreviated: you plus U