Beyond Expectation

Beyond Expectation

Robert: This morning, walking in a little park, this insight came: “If everything is the Absolute, all this is the Absolute (meaning also, this is complete and perfect), there is nothing to search for, the search is over.” There was a release with it, but not something special. So the thought came (which is the Absolute too): “This can’t be it, there is no deep sense of peace and love, a great sense of freedom, not even bliss.” And I realized that this expectation was always there in the background, since the age of 22. Reinforced also by what some teachers say about awakening, about liberation in terms of an “energetic contraction releasing itself in boundlessness” (which seems quite dramatic), and so on. So this expectation was always there, veiling the simple recognition of What Is, and resisting what is, creating in this sense a me! And even if pain comes, or emotional suffering, this is it too. Could it be so simple, or do I miss something? Thank you, Robert, to be there with “me.” – Andre

You’re not missing anything, Andre! It is that simple. “Not something special.” The spiritual literature leads us to expect (I can say from my own experience) a dramatic “event.” But we have simply come to realize that there is no way in which the “me” can be “outside of” ultimate Reality. When the “me” dissolves into this Truth, “there is nothing to search for, the search is over.”