YES YES YES YES!!!!!
"I" awoke to god just last night,
and I have never been more trusting, more concentrated, more compassionate, and yet more empty.
A really really great simple straightforward way for becoming self-aware and then working toward full-time nirvana is The Headless Way -- Homepage

The Headless Way. Afghooey you explained it perfectly, but for those who are still lost the headless way lets you do a few simple excersizes outside the realm of thought that sort of shock the system into understanding Zen.

It also approaches another truly incredible aspect of self-knoledge, that lies in the concept of multi-celled organisms, how the earth itself is an organism and equally as conscious as the galaxy and then the universe all the way down to a singular atom. We are not in fact "Humans" but the very Essence Of God that is all things. We only perceive a separation due to conditioning.

God bless.

Edit: man afghooey even your avatar means enlightenment!
Life and Death are so beautiful...
Inferius Reviewed by Inferius on . "Who Am I?" We are taught from a very young age that we're nobody until we find ourselves; that if we don't live up to certain expectations, we "won't amount to anything". How many times as a child were you asked about what you wanted to be when you grew up? Not what you wanted to do -- what you wanted to be. There is so much emphasis put on what we will become in the future that we often overlook what's already there. Then, when we finally notice that something has been overlooked, we find we can't Rating: 5