Amongst the masses, proclaiming that you live your life according to a certain
code-of-conduct,  belief-system, or philosophy is considered laudable –
a sign of a serious, deep-thinking person, devoted to goals beyond the mere carnal;
while this serves well the gears of collective society, it jams up those of the few
trying to decipher the construction of the engine itself driving all of this.
 

Those figures held by mankind as heroes and leaders are always deemed to have had a code by which they conducted their lives, either religious, political, or philosophical:
prophets, prime ministers, knights who would pay any price rather than act contrary to their adopted code.
All major religions, states, and moral systems have at their founding core,
such a figure, and via the myths, legends and other story telling so important to ordinary men’s inner life, these figures,  living their life adamantly dictated by
their code inspire in common men’s minds, unequaled admiration.
Men so dedicated to their code that they will fly in the face of all reason –
even give up their life rather than compromise it,
indeed strike wonder in the consciousness of ordinary people.
 

Just as it was yesterday, and all the days before:
that-is-how-it-is at the routinely perceived level,
and all there is to be said about it is:
there is nothing amiss about it because: that-is-how-it-is  --   but,
some where beyond that particular that (which is to say)
inside the perception potential of a few people  –   there is more to it than that.
 

If you are content, then having a code you say you live by
is neither here-nor-there, and certainly does you no harm (indeed may do you good
in the eyes of your peers), but from a certain secret malcontent perspective of those few trying to get to the bottom of what is going on,
trying to live your life according to some set out model is blinding, deafening,
crippling and absolutely insane  --
there simply is no more appropriate word for  it but  --  insane.
And for them, the seductive tar baby (as the Law would call it:  an attractive-nuisance --
a legal concept for the protection of children from alluring but dangerous circumstances
[obviously something completely impertinent to our adult discussion here --  so we will move on[),
is in, after having abandoned and dismissed the various common codes employed by the majority, they embrace their own minority ones --  but see it thus, they do not.
Those born with that certain wonder & wander lust in their neurons see the codes, models and belief systems of the masses as mass delusions --  leading no where –
--  and they are correct,
but then to ever even get started on the search to satisfy their special desire,
they themselves adopt an obscure one  --  they have to  –  they have no choice,
no more so than can you ever crank an engine without first priming it with fuel –
a code-for-how-to-see-what-common-codes-do-not-lead-you-to-see is the priming,
but once an engine is running, if you keep priming, it becomes flooded & will stop.
 

Having in your mind a solid, comprehensive code which, whenever you think and speak of it makes you feel good --  proud --  satisfied that you are doing something most worthwhile in attempting to live thereby, gives the ordinary part of the brain
real neural pleasure  --  this is not questionable;
for the few the question is: “Is this all there is? --  finding a belief-system,
a mental-model to which I aspire to match?”
If the aim of the code you adopt is described as, Enlightenment or, State X,
and you do not ultimately push your mind past the far wall & confines thereof
to reach a realization of why some human mind came up with the concept of Enlightenment and State X,
then based on the differences between your adopted model and the prevailing ones, you may feel in your own mind that you have separated yourself from the herd, but you have not liberated your mind from its own self imposed confines due to your code.
 

There is no such animal as a partial rebel  --
no such thing as conditional freedom;
he who sees to the actual bottom of things is tied to nothing  --  he cannot be --
                                                                                                                   --  and see.
 
 

World events are non events unless a bomb blew up in your yard;
what happens elsewhere has no meaning to your life unless you think it does,
which if you do reveals you to be an ordinary person;
one part of your mind does the same thing to other parts --  making them think that something going on extrinsic to their existence has significance to their existence,
which if you go along with it announces you as a person with a major, meaningless breakdown/problem in their recreational consciousness.

“Understanding” that has holes and gaps in it is not understanding,
and never realizing that it is not is un enlightenment on the galloping hoof.

If you do not see through the code you initially adopted and which brought you this far --  this is as far as you will ever go;
the inner freedom of the few is unconditional, with no gaps or exceptions;
it is freedom from everything in man’s mentally contrived, inner reality.
It is that plain and simple  --  that contorted and damn near impossible,
and as long as you have one single neuron clinging to one little bit of some code –
it is impossible.