There is no way to Truth. Truth itself is the way.
There is nothing simpler or more obvious in all the world than Truth. It takes no effort, no study and no knowledge to realize Truth. Truth is always here. In fact, effort, study and knowledge are what keep us from realizing the Truth that is always right here and now.
To realize Truth simply let go of everything you think Truth is. This is the only way you will ever realize Truth. Clear that thick, dense cobweb of thoughts, ideas, opinions and knowledge that are blocking your clear, direct experience of what is. Yes, it is that simple.
Truth is here. It has always been here. You were just too busy looking for it to realize what has always been here. Relax. Let go. Surrender all those thoughts about what is true and experience Truth directly.
Erasing the white board of the mind, now there is space for Truth. 🙂
Wow! does this resonate:
“We simply don’t want to give away our freedom and happiness to thoughts any longer.”
Understood. Really hits the DELETE button on all mental activity.
How do you become free of thoughts?
First, you already are. It is only your interest in, belief in and attachment to thoughts that make you appear unfree.
Second, there are many good exercises that help free us from our attachment to and belief in thoughts. A Course In Miracles is one. Life only has the meaning we give it. We’re just making it up. Are these thoughts even yours are they just things you’ve picked up from others – conditioning? Simply looking at our thoughts non-judgmentally as we do in meditation. Realizing these thoughts are not me. They simply come and go. And just look at them. Kind of silly, really, aren’t they?
It’s also important to accept, upon observation, that no thought is actually true nor can any thought be true. Thoughts are abstract and artificial limitations of life and of truth. Is a tree, really just a tree? Is that really all it is? A combination of different thoughts about trees? Or is it something much, much more than this? You can describe the taste of an orange. But is that really the same as the taste of an orange? So by paying attention and observing we come to see that no thought is true, has ever been true or could ever be true. Upon realizing this, we no longer believe thoughts and we naturally pay less attention to them. They go from being our entire life and how we see the world, to simply something else that is happening in the moment. They come and go. We are no longer so attached to them. And we no longer believe them.
This combination of various practices, and there are many of them, and simply observing thoughts will show us all of this.
The third step is simply experiencing what it is like to be free of thoughts. How does it feel to be free of thoughts? There is great space, freedom, peace, love and happiness that are here for no reason at all. It feels incredibly wonderful simply to be free of thoughts. The more we experience this, the less thoughts have any hold on us. We simply don’t want to give away our freedom and happiness to thoughts any longer. So we don’t.
We realize we have always been free of thoughts. We have always been completely free. Only thoughts told us we were not. And we believed them. Now we no longer do. 🙂
Is what you are saying is one should surrender all that is un-truth: all “thoughts, ideas, opinions and knowledge that are blocking your clear, direct experience of what is”? That one gives up everything that originates in mind in favor of What Is?
Yes, exactly, Karen. The mind is an interpreter of what is. And much, perhaps 99% or all of it, gets lost in the translation. There was a children’s game I played when I was growing up. We called it the telephone game. One child would whisper something into the ear of the child sitting next to him or her, that child would then whisper it to the next child and so on. When it finally got to the child who started it, we would all laugh because it was completely different. It often had nothing to do at all with what was first whispered. It was always like that. We just did it for fun to see how bizarrely it had changed. But we were actually learning something about language and the mind. We all tried to keep it as accurate as possible, but it never worked. That was the fun of it.
Our mind’s also try to interpret as accurately as possible, but they can’t do it. It’s just the way mind’s work. And the more distance from the actual moment, the further away from it the mind gets. Ten people witness an accident happen. The police hear ten different stories about what happened. When they are asked a few weeks later during a trail, all their original stories have also changed. For a number of reasons, the mind is incredibly inaccurate as a tool for recording reality. Our visual perception alone has several major blind spots which are filled in with the mind to make a complete picture. And this filling in has very little to do with what is actually here.
Seeing is believing is a popular expression. But the truth is quite different. Believing is seeing. We see what we believe, not what is actually here. This is why freedom from all thoughts allows us to much more accurately see and experience what is really here.
Hi Peter,
Thank you for your response. I am in harmony with what you imparted.
What stuck out was what you said: “…freedom from all thoughts allows us to much more accurately see and experience what is really here.” What comes to mind is: How does one become free from thoughts?
Perhaps you already wrote about this. There is an interest here to hear your answer.