Call Off the Search

Call Off the Search

Rachel:

The years you have spent in meditation have not been wasted: they have demonstrated to you that you cannot get where it is that you want to go by effort. Why? Because there is no where that you need to go. You are—though you may doubt this—where you hope that you’ll be! When you want to know, firsthand, who you are—where do you go to do that? Look. Truth cannot be hidden.

Focus on these comments from the monographs that aroused your attention: “That essence—which is present in every iota of matter and energy—forms a singular, whole connection as the basic, common identity of all things. “How much closer can Brahman, or Essence, be (which knows no distance) than to be yourself? “Your capacity to recognize Intelligence is this Intelligence in recognition of itself. The Absolute, being all things (including you), anything which any aspect of it contemplates is It contemplating Itself. “It’s not that it is too mysterious or too sublime or too complex for words, but rather because it is too simple, too obvious, too close to be caught in the net of the subject–versus–object perspective.”

How much simpler—and easier—can it be? Enlightenment is nothing more than the profound realization “I am that.”

Therefore—and this is the most fundamental aspect of the realization—there is not really an I in I Am That: there is only That. The I—the self—dissolves when you recognize this truth: only the essential Presence remains real and this essential Presence is (must be) where you sit now, and where I sit now—always whole and unbroken everywhere. This is not news to you. You’ve been hearing it for decades. (Intuitively, even, you know it to be true.) In Buddhism, upon awakening, an expression is often repeated: “Buddha and the 500 patriarchs have not lied to me!” Why is it that we come to this truth so reluctantly? Because it tolls the death for the “self.” It is a life-changing realization. And many people are not open to a change in their life that this change in perspective heralds. Therefore, the “search” (subconsciously) continues. But that too is seen to be okay, when you recognize that “you” are not the doer. Whatever is done, is That doing what it does!

So, whether you “realize” (or not) really makes no difference!—because you are inescapably that Presence, whether you are “aware” of it or not. Hence: search ended, as well.

Contemplate these matters!