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As I grew older, it became clear that to fulfill my life’s purpose, it would be necessary to move my awareness inward, to learn some kind of meditation. I also believed that it would not be easy.
Everything I had read about a “spiritual path” reinforced my belief that the journey was arduous and complicated. I never even contemplated that it was actually possible for the journey to be easy, and simple. I had never heard anyone say that it could be.
The fact is, not only is it possible for the journey to be easy and simple, it is actually required! We suffer and struggle only up to the point where we get sick of it. Suffering is not required, hardship is not required, and complexity is absolutely not required.
The exquisite experience of inner wholeness requires nothing but our attention. It is already there, and it has always been. The journey is simply remembering how to rest there, how to surrender to it.
Any practice, or path, that says there is something about you that needs to be fixed, that there is something about you that is not quite worthy of freedom now, or that you need something added to you to become more whole, is simply wasting time. Any teaching that becomes more and more complex as you move along is leading you away from freedom, not towards it.
The Ishayas have always taught simplicity. This Teaching has always held everyone in their perfection Now, until they recognize it for themselves. The beauty, and power, of this teaching is in its utter simplicity.
Simplicity births Innocence, and Innocence births freedom. The simple truth is, you are already that which you seek. Knowing this is one thing. Directly experiencing this is everything.
Everything I had read about a “spiritual path” reinforced my belief that the journey was arduous and complicated. I never even contemplated that it was actually possible for the journey to be easy, and simple. I had never heard anyone say that it could be.
The fact is, not only is it possible for the journey to be easy and simple, it is actually required! We suffer and struggle only up to the point where we get sick of it. Suffering is not required, hardship is not required, and complexity is absolutely not required.
The exquisite experience of inner wholeness requires nothing but our attention. It is already there, and it has always been. The journey is simply remembering how to rest there, how to surrender to it.
Any practice, or path, that says there is something about you that needs to be fixed, that there is something about you that is not quite worthy of freedom now, or that you need something added to you to become more whole, is simply wasting time. Any teaching that becomes more and more complex as you move along is leading you away from freedom, not towards it.
The Ishayas have always taught simplicity. This Teaching has always held everyone in their perfection Now, until they recognize it for themselves. The beauty, and power, of this teaching is in its utter simplicity.
Simplicity births Innocence, and Innocence births freedom. The simple truth is, you are already that which you seek. Knowing this is one thing. Directly experiencing this is everything.
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