Do you know that you are absolutely sacred? Do you? Do you know that you are already whole and complete? Do you know that you’re the reason the creator God, Brahman whispered the word ॐ, which brought this whole thing into being? Do you know that everything is perfectly beautiful because of you? We’ve got this. Let’s dance!
We are completely, absolutely nothing. At the same time, we are the expression of the Divinity revealing itself as creation in its full, purest, essence, for a moment, as perfectly as we can. Pretty neat, eh kids?
STOP!!
Actually stop.
Please.
PLEASE.
Look in the mirror.
See that reflection? That person? Yes? The supposed you? That?
That is the greatest, truest, fullest love you’ve been looking for your entire life.
Go spend a night with that person.
Talk. Imagine. Think. Do the impossible.
And then?
Do it again.
I dare you.
What will happen?
It’ll light your life on fire.
Another fire each time.
Time and time again with the fire of knowledge and love of you, yourself.
The deepest, most passionate, most sacred love there could ever be in the entire cosmos.
I dare you.
Try. It. You just might ignite your own passion, desire, wisdom, and knowledge.
How dangerous.
I invite you for a moment to notice the silence — the deepest silence within you.
Feel it.
Truly feel it.
Allow it to grow.
This silence, this stillness is always, has always been there. It will also always be there. It is also your true nature. It is the awareness that watches, knows, and will always be. It’s your boundlessness. And you have the ability, the birthright, the power — whatever you wish to refer to it as, to connect to this eternal, still, presence whenever you wish.
You cannot connect with mind, ego, or thought. Then, it will just slip away.
You can connect with your solitude. Just be still. Still. Silent. Secure. Whole. Complete. Just as you’ve always already been.
See? There it is. There’s that piece of bliss.
So, go, my friend.
Bask in the essence of which we are.
Ever powerful. Resplendent. Eternal. Still. Silent.
Bask. Bask in our infinite nature, silence, and glory.
Life is a beautiful labyrinth, a joke, filled with pain, suffering, pleasure, joy, and desire. God says, “Go. Go figure it all out!” And then you come back to God saying “I figured it out. I am you. I am GOD.” Then the universe shakes in joyous laughter. Nothing remains. Nothing ever was!
I know that we, as embodied human beings, can and will be confronted with the most trying of circumstances, at least on the subjective level of being. This is our nature. And, typically, we whine, we cry, we say, “NO, NO, NO, I do not want this! I did not ask for this!” when we believe the experience to be negative. Or, when we believe the experience to be positive, we say, “Give me MORE!”
In the end, we know that yes, this is only our subjective reality. This experience is occurring only on the subjective realm of illusion, and we simply have three choices from which to deal with this experience. These choices are denial, acceptance, and turning from the subjective realm of being to the Absolute.
In every case in life, in every choice, whether we believe at the time this experience is positive or if we believe at the time it is negative, these labels don’t matter, as both of them are lies. Whatever the case, the experience is happening. Resisting the experience provides suffering. Acceptance of the experience leads us through. Turning to the Absolute is the way of transcendence.
The choice of the interpretation of the experience is ours: Therein lies the choice, the view, and the reality. Therein lies life. Will you dance or will you suffer?
There’s not a damn reason, meaning, or purpose behind anything. Nothing matters. I don’t mean that in a depressing sad oh nothing matters way; but in a Whoa. Nothing matters way. Like in the ULTIMATE universal real sense.
But then when dealing with the Fundamental, if nothing is really here, nothing really matters, nothing really means anything beyond the formless, then what are we left here to do with it then? What are we going to do with all of this nothingness?! More nothingness. Enjoy the nothingness!
If you look closely, seriously, honestly, and ask “who am I?” Your world will be turned upside down. Your world will be liberated. Your world will no longer be a world, but a universal sea. An endless sea where “you” no longer exist. Nothing exists. There can be no you. No death. No birth. Nothing but the beautiful, empty, still sea of awareness. There is absolutely nothing else here. Look for yourself. Lift the veil of delusion and see.
Every single tiny thing that we think is important—We gave it that importance. We, either ourselves or as a society, gave it that importance through our stories.
Each and every suffering we have is the same. We gave it that story of our suffering.
But in truth, in Reality, none if it matters. Not a single shred. So stop. Stop worrying. Stop searching for happiness. Fulfillment. God. Goddess. Whatever you need has always already been here. Closer than your own breath. Nearer than your heartbeat. Freedom. Awareness. The full, nothingness of reality.
Our biggest transgression against ourselves is that we believe ourselves to be finite and intrinsically flawed. This is a lie.
I love the stillness of a snowy winter evening. The quiet cacophony as each tiny snowflake lands with a small *tink* and, for a few moments, maybe a few hours, all is calm, still, yet expansive. I like to think that those small, quiet *tinks* of the snowflakes are the universe calling us to take a deep breath while it whispers, “Shhh. Be quiet and know you are this. All of this.” And then, once every flake has landed, we go back to our dreams of the outer world and the illusions of our “small selves” to forget our unity, our stillness, our expansiveness so that we can create and dance or destroy and wail, however we decide for that time to dream.
You are always, already whole and complete. This is a very important message to take to heart.
You are constantly inundated with messages of lack, messages that tell you that you are not good enough, that you are not smart enough, that without this or that product, you are not whole.
The outer world wants you to believe that you are lacking so that you will spend money and consume in the hopes that you might feel complete for a few minutes. You are conditioned to feel the need to read one more book to be happy, or that that if you attend one more workshop you will finally feel like you “made it”.
The world wants you to believe that without the nicest clothes and the coolest car you are somehow less than human. If you are not competing with everyone else in society, if you are not taking part in the game where you are in constant material competition with friends, family, and strangers, you are somehow living a half life.
But this is a lie. In fact, the opposite is true. There is never a “making it” and playing this game will bring you only momentary fulfillment, which will ultimately lead to more dissatisfaction. It is an endless cycle of lack and wanting where you consume constantly in order to feel whole and validated.
Living in this game, this façade, chains you to materiality and enmeshes you in the lie that something outside of yourself will make you feel whole. Nothing out there can complete you because you are already complete. You were born complete.
This incessant game of seeking and wanting is a societal psychosis that can never be satiated. Once you step off this treadmill and become conscious of it, you can experience a sense of freedom, liberation, and you can know your own instrinsic wholeness.
Never sacrifice your nobility. When you are feeling lost, fragmented, torn apart, remember that this is because you have slipped into unconsciousness and forgotten your wholeness. Take a step back, breathe, and know that you are a sacred being. Come back to your divinity.
The mystics of every tradition say that there is an ultimate truth, not the ultimate truth, but an ultimate truth that can be felt through methods such as meditation. This ultimate truth points to your interconnected nature with everyone and everything in existence. At the absolute ground of reality, there is no separation between mind and body, you and me. It is all the same. At the utmost physical and spiritual levels we are connected like a web. God (or whatever you want to call it) breathes in each of us, pulses through our veins, and flows through our lungs, and this can be felt through meditation. It is one of the bi-products of a spiritual practice. This is important because we are intrinsically and intimately interconnected and share the same sublime divine light. You need to remember and know this by focusing on the present moment, your words, the reality you are consistently creating and affecting everyone around you with. Mindfulness is absolutely important and will allow you to see the divine beauty of reality unfolding upon itself, flowing through you, as you, breathing the nectar of life and knowing peace. You are already awakened, you need only to uncover and remember it. Stop. Stop the search and allow it to be and flow through you. You are the sublimity, because that is really all there is.
I think that our incessant desire for distraction causes us to forget our beautiful and sublime interconnectedness, we forget ourselves, our inner essence. We lose touch with our equanimity and the world as a whole. Our realty becomes anxious and contracted. Ignorance and greed (for money, attention, power, etc.) are born from a power struggle of gaining some kind of importance, retaining it, and fear of its loss. We become blinded to reality and immersed in the illusion of separation. We come to fear silence, stillness, and thereby our true, inner selves as we liken them to dissolution. However, this is where comfort and liberation truly lie. Not in the frenetic, hectic, crazy world “out there”. We are not our incomes, Facebook likes, relationship statuses, or the cars we drive. Evaluation of actions, thoughts, fear, inquiry into the self and the oceans of our consciousness will uncover this stillness and open us to our intimate interconnectedness with everything. We can not exist apart from ourselves or anything in the universe and that often engenders a sense of fear, an ego-based fear that is anxious over loss of power and identity, neither of which truly exist. Once this fear is met closely, eye to eye, it disappears and opens us up to the ground of being. It is beautiful.