Hello everyone,
So I got a message the other day,
Two days ago,
From someone we'll call her Dee,
And I want to read it really quickly and then we'll unpack it here in a second.
I came across your videos by ways I do not know,
But I'm profoundly grateful I did.
I've read,
Listened,
Watched many.
I can see that I'm seeking others' words as a guide,
And the truth is I don't need a guide for my own consciousness.
I'm so grateful I found you.
Your words are what I needed right now.
So we'll call the person Dee.
This is exactly what's being talked about here.
In our lives,
There is a tendency,
Until you start looking into non-duality,
To look for happiness,
Satisfaction,
Outside of yourself,
In events,
In things,
In relationships.
We look,
We seek in videos,
Books,
And there's nothing wrong,
There's nothing ever wrong with seeking.
For however long it happens.
You seek until you find,
You search until you stop,
And it just happens.
There's so many great phrases that point to,
And that's all words can ever do,
Is just point to what is.
It never gets there,
Never quite gets there.
But the seeker is the sought,
I am that,
Thou art that,
I and the father are one.
There's so many.
At best,
Those tie things together on an intellectual level.
When you say,
There's a saying,
Everything you need is inside you.
And even that has its own limitations,
Because it's not inside you,
It's what you are.
And so,
I love getting messages like that.
Dee,
Awesome,
Thank you so much for sharing.
And I just want to say,
If there's a continuation of watching videos or reading books,
There's nothing wrong with that.
Just in the same vein,
There's nothing wrong with doing yoga or meditating or watching the breath.
All those things are what's happening.
The kicker is,
They won't get you to the ultimate truth,
Which is this,
The present moment.
And you can think through it as much as you want.
I know this is so important,
I've got to pay attention to it right now.
Years ago,
I got these tattoos as reminders to pay attention.
Whenever I saw them,
Sort of signposts in the dream,
If you will,
To stop and look around.
And the interesting thing about it is that the tattoos were acquired,
The signposts were put on my body as reminders to take a break to step into the now.
And the reality is,
The now is all there is.
This is it.
This is it.
This is all there will ever be.
And there's nothing wrong with any methods,
Any practices,
Any tactics.
I've said that before on these videos.
And some people may criticize that,
Saying you can't tell people things to do to get to a place.
And that's true.
That's absolutely true.
But if those things are being done,
They're going to happen anyway.
So there's nothing wrong with doing them.
Just know that they won't ultimately get you to this placeless place.
It's a pathless path.
And yet,
At the same time,
There's nothing wrong with being on a path.
Oh,
Man,
What a beautiful paradox it all is.
What you're looking for is not just inside you,
What you're looking for is what you are already and you've always been.
It's one of the beautiful aspects of realizing the self awakening,
Whatever the number of names,
Phrases that people want to give it.
And yet,
It's beautiful and really ordinary all at the same time.
You are what you're looking for.
This has always been the case.
