A few more words on recognizing your true nature.

Spiritual awakening.

The most baffling thing about it might be discovering how simple everything really is, while it all looked so complicated and difficult.

I find the whole searching thing really funny and fascinating.

The idea of millions and millions of divinely devoted people looking for the direct experience of life, at the exact moment they’re living it, is pretty hilarious.

Our expectations are so high!

This curiosity within us, this painful sense of emptiness that HAS to be filled, seems to require a spectacular finale or revelation that will go on forever.

Spiritual awakening just HAS to be amazing and blissful and like nothing we’ve ever experienced before, right?

But it’s not.

Not that, not forever, not orgasmic.

Well, it IS amazing, and in a way, it IS forever, but it’s also nothing but a recognition.

It’s remembering something that was never not there in the first place.

Something that’s SO subtle that we constantly trample it with our hungry, hysterical minds.

It’s SO close and SO normal and SO constant, that we don’t feel it as long as we keep expecting fireworks and explosions of elevation.

When you see it this way, when you realize that we are all looking for something that has always been there for us, within us, AS us, you start to appreciate the many different ways of talking about and teaching this.

And it doesn’t really matter whether people can become enlightened or not (many teachers and gurus will tell you that the individual is an illusion), or if you carry the black belt for awakening.

That discussion becomes totally ridiculous if you realize that everything is always already happening within consciousness.

This is it.

You heard it before, but I’m telling you again.

This.

Now.

Not your opinion about this, not your agreeing or disagreeing with this, but this, this aliveness, this being, with everything included.

This now.

You’re already what you’re looking for, THAT is the joke.

Whatever’s going on right now, that’s the only thing there is.

The answer to the ultimate question of who you are is this.

It’s just that we constantly try to find the solution in the realm of stuff that changes: form, ideas, traditions, dogma, rituals, activity, hidden caves in cold mountains, books, and other humans.

No need.

Although it happens anyway.

But everything is already this.

Home is this.

You are this.

This.

THIS!

Click.

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