Don’t Eat the Menu|Savoring the Indescribable and the Unavoidable.

Your mind isn’t going to be quiet. It isn’t going to settle down.  Your thoughts aren’t going anywhere, they will always be around.

You cannot wait for your mind to quiet before you realize your true nature.

Don’t be fooled by the infiltration of thoughts after you’ve recognized what you are. They cannot touch what you are. They cannot exist unless YOU are here first. They come and go, making such a racket. They leave so much more quickly with out impetus from you. Their job is to arrive, present themselves then leave.

And you, well, you just nod your head gracefully and note “Ah, I see you, I hear you. I’m not going to get involved. No, thank you.”

There is no realization.

There is only the seeing that you’ve always been realized.

It’s like wiping the fogged up window pane. The only thing keeping you from the view is the condensation. The only thing keeping you from realization is the foggy thought: “I’m not yet realized.”

Once that thought is wiped away, or rather given no investment, then you will see what’s always been right outside your own window “pain”.

Thoughts and feelings are arising:  unpleasant ones, joyful ones, peaceful ones, agitated ones.

Here they come… some slowly and languorously… some at a sprint, nearly knocking you down.

Just watch them come. They have a will of their own. They are none of your business.

Don’t get in their way, and tell them “you  shouldn’t be here!”

Don’t cling to them because you find them favorable.

Just get out of the way and watch how they come and go without any permission from you.

Don’t think that the mind has to stop for you to know who you are.

The chatter of the mind cannot exist unless you are there first.

How could anything be wrong in oneness?

The way you look, the way you speak, any insecurity arises from the belief that oneness could be wrong. And yes, even the belief that there is something wrong arises from oneness itself.

Don’t worry about it. You are oneness.

Even the grandest scheme you can imagine for your future or the most horrific mistake you can recall from your past is still simply a thought occurring in this, right now.

That’s all they ever are. Thoughts occurring in this timeless unfolding moment.

See this now.

Here is a guided meditation by Mooji. Stunning in it’s directness and unyielding pointing.

ONE WITH EVERYTHING.

It’s become a bit of a clichè. Overused, overworked, overdone without insight into what the words actually point to.

Here’s another one:

ALL IS ONE.

Hmm. Same problem.

Ask anyone who is seeking this “oneness”, this state of unicity and they will tell you, yes, that it’s a given: All is one.

But there is an error to this logic of seeking oneness when all is one. Can you see it?

If all is one, then how can oneness be sought from outside itself? That would make two: Oneness and the one who seeks it.

This isn’t a conundrum for the mind to tackle. All it takes is simple seeing.

If all is one, then the one seeking and even the seeking itself is oneness. The effort to get this, to become enlightened, to know oneness – all of these cannot be separate from oneness.

Oneness excludes nothing.

Anything that is happening, that is being experienced, felt, thought or done IS oneness. Oneness appearing as that. It cannot be any other way.

So….

the frustration of seeking?

oneness.

The anxiety over money woes?

oneness.

The elation of falling in love?

oneness.

The aggression that starts a war?

oneness.

The hum of this laptop?

oneness.

This body that rest in the seat, the fingers that tap the keys?

oneness.

The car that just went the wrong way down Haley Street?

oneness.

The distant horn of an Amtrak train?

oneness.

Oneness is appearing as everything without exception.

EVERYTHING.

The mind that you think you own is merely a thought.

How can a thought produce thoughts?

Words are used to point to our true nature, which is nonconceptual. Unfortunately, words and concepts is all we have to point us back to our true nature when it has been overlooked.

You will continue to overlook your own true nature if you embrace any words as truth.

Words have their usefulness, just like the map for the journey, the menu for the meal, but they can never replace the actuality of what is being pointed too.

The lines on a map make for a poor substitute for the view from the train, the menu just can’t satisfy the palette like the morsel of food.

You don’t need the map to enjoy the trek, you don’t need the menu to savor the meal and you don’t need these words to know what you are.