Truth is like a well in the desert. Most people ignore it completely, even though they are thirsty. Some people curse what they see as an eyesore above the ground. Some resent having to go around it. Some notice it and think it’s nice: this stone wall built in a circle. Some sketch it in a pad and walk away. A few come closer and see the opening, sensing water in its depths. Some find the water, drink — and are satisfied.
True Freedom does not mean license to do what you want. It means allowing Truth to run your life. Allowing the unknowability of Truth in your life is Wisdom. It allows you to put down the baggage of obsessive planning and just be.
You can’t know what’s next, so try to embrace this not-knowing instead of fighting it. Then you can be more in the Now.
In the introduction to my book, The Path of Awakening, I write the following:
Most people think that a spiritual teacher is a person outside you. This is not necessarily the case. The ultimate Teacher is Truth, or who you are in your essence, so you already have a Teacher inside you. Everyone does. You are your own Teacher.
I speak and write a lot about the importance of the Teacher. This can easily be misunderstood to mean that the Teacher is an external authority, which is not true.
No matter what we want things to be, they are what they are.
In my experience, if we try to gloss over, ignore, or repress our awareness of Reality—things as they are—we cannot help but be confused. It’s like looking at the world through lenses that distort what we see into what we think we want to see, when what we really want to see is things as they are.
Reality is not conceptual, but is the Truth that makes concepts possible.
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