an ordinary fellow

When the mind is at peace,
the world too is at peace.
Nothing real, nothing absent.
Not holding on to reality,
not getting stuck in the void,
you are neither holy nor wise, just
an ordinary fellow who has completed his work.

                                                                        ~Layman P'ang (c. 740-808)

Ruthless truth

One of the things the seeker does not want to hear
especially when it has invested a lot of time, money and intensity
into the search: hours of meditation, buying and reading
spiritual books, going for satsangs and retreats etc.,
that the search can be dropped right here and right now,
as there is no golden pot at the end of the rainbow.
There will be no enlightenment in the future.
Never.

Whatever Is is only ever Now.

Always perceived at this moment,

To be seen only Now

Only ever Now

Did you notice its always Now?


The ruthless truth is that the person you believe yourself to be will never get it.

The pristine awareness that you are already
does not need any improvement,
does not need any process to be able to comprehend itself.

Enlightenment, freedom is not for the person
its freedom from the person.


and...


What you are looking for is
what you are looking from.


Already the case.


You are That


(But then who knows... :
maybe even though the seeker does not want to hear this,
it might be that awareness, trying to recognize Itself through you,
drops this information in your lap, so you,
after investigating this belief of being a person and seeing the fallacy of it, might finally relax, sit back and enjoy the show ;-) )

So Cool

The thing with this perspective is that things are seen just as they are.
And even though you know you can never catch it in words,
if you do try and just say it as it is, it is so unlike society is functioning that immediately it sounds so cool, so deeply spiritual, 
so special.

And all you do is trying to describe how it is.
Our natural state.
And one thing i can tell you:
Its the most simple, most available thing in the world
After all it is what you are already.
Already the case.