My nickname refers to the head as the center of intellectuallism in opposition of the heart as the center of... what isn't intellectualism!

But before I go further, as you might have already read, english is not my 1st language, so it will may be difficult for me to tell you exactly what I'll try to mean, but I'll try...

An author I discovered this summer, Douglas Harding (the 3rd way, The Headless Way) made me realise how we don't look at the world as we think we are. Do you really feel that someone inside your head (you!) is looking at what stands before himself through two little holes?
Douglas shows you with very simple exercises that you are not where (what, who) you think you are!
Never in all the spiritual books I read, the concept of vacuity and emptiness was so simply explained..! It was a very concrete revelation. Douglas insists (and demonstrates) on how we perpetuate a big, very big misunderstanding about (what we think is) ourselves...
Sentences like "Blessed those who are poor in spirit"(Jesus) or "To find the the way, you have to lose your head (Lao-Tzeu) really take all their meaning...

But meaning means that there is a seperation between the thinker and what is thought. That separation = not living the moment. And that necessarily means a distance, a process in which time is involved... and perceived by the mind (the head), doesn't matter if it takes a few seconds or many days.... Let's take a short cut: more there is time, less there is love.

The Nomanhead is not ruled by time because he leaves behind all what he learned from what society, family, himself told him what to think. He can totally embrace the moment. Not being ruled by time (your historical, social, logical... past) allows to live in the moment. And a moment that is not ruled by time = eternity. Eternity isn't a present that always last but a lack of time perception where the "action" of "being" meet at the same intersection... By the way, even if my nickname is Nomanhead, you can tell that I still think a lot...
I guess that's enough for tonight... We'll have to talk about dualism and the problem with words...
All you Zaadzters, i invite you to show your disagree or your agree with this. I wrote that blog quite fast and I must admit i'm not rationnaly sure about everything... certainly a good sign... ( :
And go check the web site of my friend Leonardo de Luca. He's a very good teacher!
Good night, bonne nuit!
JF

I think the bodhisattva way is the best anwser for this question.
You make the wish that you won't go to heaven until any living creature reaches liberation.
That "strategy" prevent your ego to imagine that goal. It's important to do so 'cause you cannot enter in heaven with your ego... The beauty of the plan is that when you really work for the liberation of all living creature, you have many chances to erase your ego and enter into paradise, even if you wish not to go there... That's how you don't get attach to detachment!

But to be effective, your wish has to be totally pure and honest. And the only way you can check that is with your actions... actions that will transform you and will eventually, if you work hard enough, give you the shape of that well-known camel for who it's easier to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter in heaven... (if he's attach to its bank account, doesn't matter if you're rich, it's what you do with your money that counts...).

When you get to face yourself when there's nothing left but your soul, and you really realise that what you did to other people, you did it to you (we're ONE by the way...), the doors of heaven won't open if you didn't diseappear in the support of others all your life through. And when they don't open, you get stuck (again) with yourself and have no choice to come back and try again...

Even tough I really think that this is one of the way it works, I still find it hard to act the right way. But I'm getting better. Hope you do too!
Bye
JF

1-The zocalo of Mexico city.
Immediately after I started to walk into the square, I felt that this place was sacred since a long long time. I wasn't surprised to learn that the cathedral was built on an ancient aztec temple (or pyramid). I also felt that I already knew that place.

2-The forests and the mountains.

3-There's also a place I went 3 years ago but I can't tell you where it was. I guess it was Home...

Voilà!
Jeff