What stops your from experience the space of pure innocence
Logic does not allow you to be simple and innocent. It does not allow the transformation to happen easily. Logic has to be overcome for the transformation to happen. Only when there is no logic there can be innocence. Innocence is the space for transformation to happen. I n t h e c a s e o f S a t y a k a m a , fortunately he was not bitten by logic.
The disciple goes to the guru for enlightenment and the guru tells him, 'Alright, take these cows, go to the forest and stay there till they become one thousand cows. Then come back!' If today 's seeker was in that disciple's place he would have said, 'I think the master is trying to exploit me. He wants a thousand cows, which is why he is telling me to do this work. He is using me to get his work done.' Innocence is lost to logic! That is why no modern day seeker receives such amazing techniques.
This is not a mere story. It has got a great truth behind it. With innocence, Satyakama simply followed what the master said. Further, he lost his logic of counting. He was completely lost in ecstasy and joy. The mind stopped functioning. He didn't care about one thousand or two thousand. Just the innocence and acceptance caused the greatest happening of enlightenment in him!
When you completely accept, you don't need the mind. The mind is necessary only when you live with struggles, only when you are fighting. Just this moment accept yourself in the outer world and the inner world. You will go out enlightened.
For so many years, completely accepting what the master said, Satyakama just was. What else can happen to him but enlightenment?