Still chopping wood and carrying water.

If one is truly committed to life then nothing should escape one's perceptions of body and mind experience. One has to trust one's innate ability to capture each and every scene, colors sounds taste and smell; that can only happen in the Now. It can only happen if and when the chattering mind becomes quiet and the end of thoughts allows for a window to open in the subconscious mind and out comes an answer, a riddle , a doubt, an insight, a prophecy, a revelation, from within. To be full committed means to become that one is practicing. It can happen if one lives life of servitude, of giving, of loving, of compassion, towards all sentient beings in the six realms, the ten directions, past present and future; understand this if one is truly serious.
Life is only a pathway towards death, my way and your way, but we still have our own ways of getting there. It is a matter of time, of catching up to one's inner potentials as of Divine Creation or even as an Atheist, we exist in balance, the dual thinking mind operates in us all;" right and wrong is still a sickness of your own mind," the Lord Buddha is said to have said. Nirvana is, none who attains it." In right understanding of this lines one catch a glimpse of who you truly are.  wHAT DOES IT MEANS? wHAT HAPPENS IF AND WHEN THIS HAPPENS, (I will the typo error as is call it a slip of the subconscious mind through the fingers. It simply means one is at one with the All, the Universe, the Ultimate unobscured consciousness of just being; nothing special really.
Hence "chop wood carry water before and chop wood and carry water after.," all in the flash of a lightning.If one is truly serious in pursuing this course of action, learn to breath and learn to sit upright, learn to entertain the mental formations and how to bring order amidst disorder, how to recognize the real from the unreal, the permanent from the transitory. Sit and become the object of your observation and make this moment in time to stretch into infinity. If you can make it last three minutes, Lao Tzu said, you can rule the country. After having achieved right understanding of the nature of your physical self and the material world, you start to work right understanding of your mind or mental formations followed by the right understanding of your spiritual or Divine nature or as the Buddhist calls it, Buddha Nature., the Taoist calls it the Tao. or the Way, The Hindus calls it Moksha, and Islam calls it Fana'.
What simply happens is, the self drops, the "I" is no more, it is the merging of the all into one complete and perfect being. If one is serious, one carries this burning ball of fire within till it becomes ashes, this koan or question you have asked of your self, who am I? There is no more one basic a question that demands an answer even if it takes a lifetime to find it. Like the ouroboros I would be repeating myself time and time in trying to remind myself of what it takes embarking upon this journey towards self discovery and self annihilation. After all these years of Blogging I still maintain that one has to begin by 'Sitting'. Zazen or any other yogic forms of meditation.of body mind and spirit.