The essential practice in short path buddhism is meditation.  Meditation is a process in which you stop thought, transcend dimensionality, and merge with the perfect light, through the planes of light and the causal worlds, beyond the astral.  And there you experience light, as you go into light for longer and longer periods as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, all pain, you learn not to be bound by desire and eventually you transcend death itself. 

 

So this is the enlightenment cycle.  It's the process of uniting your consciousness with eternity; of being eternal, eternally aware, and at the same time, being poised, graceful, balanced, and having a most excellent sense of humor. 

 

 - "Buddhism", The Enlightenment Cycle