Nowhere to Turn Except Being

Be aware of expectation – that something profound will be said, that you’ll have a marvellous meditation, or become enlightened. Such expectations will inevitably disappoint you. When seeking fulfilment in objects, activities, relationships, fails, we turn to spiritual traditions but project the same demands onto them. This is also destined to fail because no object can give us the deep peace we seek. The good news – this peace is the very nature of our being now, not how it might become through practice. Your being is already everything it could ever be. The teacher should be the final disappointment – when everything else has failed, there’s nowhere to turn except your own being. Everyone’s being is identical – one being, like space, completely filling yet unlimited by what contains it. Enlightenment doesn’t happen to us; it’s a recognition of what we essentially are. The object-seeking mind finds being boring, but being experiences itself as full, complete, peaceful.

Be aware of expectation – that something profound will be said, that you’ll have a marvellous meditation, or become enlightened. Such expectations will inevitably disappoint you. When seeking fulfilment in objects, activities, relationships, fails, we turn to spiritual traditions but project the same demands onto them. This is also destined to fail because no object can give us the deep peace we seek. The good news – this peace is the very nature of our being now, not how it might become through practice. Your being is already everything it could ever be. The teacher should be the final disappointment – when everything else has failed, there’s nowhere to turn except your own being. Everyone’s being is identical – one being, like space, completely filling yet unlimited by what contains it. Enlightenment doesn’t happen to us; it’s a recognition of what we essentially are. The object-seeking mind finds being boring, but being experiences itself as full, complete, peaceful.