Excerpt from the live Satsang Walking Each Other Home showing how the dream is like a long exhausting journey and awakening is the blissful realization that we have never left Home.
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Walking Each Other Home
Live Satsang Transcript – 8-8-2026
It’s nice to be home.
And if you can imagine you’ve gone on a year-long trip, a year-long journey into all these different places, and you’ve really slept in different beds every single night, right?
So, you haven’t been in your own bed for a year, and you’ve gone through all these different places trying to find out, you know, how to get food, where to stay, all these things.
And some of the places are very nice and pleasant, beautiful, and a lot of them are not really that beautiful. A lot of them are a struggle, and your feeling is like, “I hope I never have to come back here again.”
So, you’ve been going through this for a period of time, sort of searching.
At some point you’re homesick and you really want to go home, but you’re pretty far away, so it’s going to take you a while to get there.
You don’t have access to a plane or anything, so you’re either walking or maybe you’re driving, but you might have to go across the ocean to get home.
So, you’re there for a while, and there’s a purpose for being there, but, you know, it’s just a little bit exhausting after a while.
You’re just beat, you know?
If you’ve ever gone on a long journey, you know what it’s like to really be exhausted trying to find the next place to stay, where you’re going to have food, you know, what things you’re going to run into, and you run into difficulties, how you overcome those difficulties.
And then you get a moment of like, “Oh my God, look at that beautiful landscape. Oh, that’s really nice.”
You know?
But those are not the most common experiences. You might get one of those for ten ones that are like, “How do I get out of here?”
Right?
So, this is your journey, and you’re really tired and you really long for home and your own bed.
And this is what it’s like to come home, right?
This is what home is like.
When you wake up to this, it’s not familiar to you because you’ve been living in this journey your whole life.
You’ve been living this journey in a body, in a mind, in a world, in name and form, and going through all the challenges and struggles and suffering, and sometimes some pleasure and joy, and a lot of times not.
So, you’ve been going through this for your whole life. It’s not just a year. You’ve been spending your whole life in this journey.
So coming home is really nice.
Coming home is the nicest thing that could ever happen.
You know, what is this home?
Well, in a way it feels like that, right? Coming back to your own bed.
Oh, God, I don’t have to find where I’m going to sleep tonight. It’s here. I can sleep here. This is good.
I don’t know where I’m going to find food. The refrigerator is stocked with the food, particularly the food that I like and the food that’s healthy for me, and my friends are here, my family’s here.
This is a very comfortable place to be.
Right?
So, you can understand this from the point of view of what I’m saying about home, in terms of a relative home, of your own bed and your own place and your own security and comfort, your own comfort.
So, this can go a little bit more because this home—
This home is what we are.
This is our True Nature.
This is the eternal peace, bliss, and love of our True Self, of what we really are.
Not a body, not a form, nothing to do with physical matter or thoughts or name. Nothing to do with that at all.
And yet you know it as it is, as being.
It’s the most real thing that exists, and in fact, you know, in terms of non-dual reality, it’s the only thing that exists.
The rest of it, the whole journey is a dream.
The journey of a body, the journey of a mind, the journey of a dream character that we call me.
That’s our traveling. That’s our journey. That’s our experiences that we have.
This is home.
It’s very different.
It’s not an experience.
It’s home.
So, Ram Dass had a saying, “We’re all walking each other home,” and I’m using that as a tagline on my website because I think that’s right.
You know?
What is a spiritual teacher for?
Walking you home, right?
A spiritual teacher is speaking from home and inviting you to come home, right?
To come home in yourself. Not in the teacher, but in yourself.
Because that home that you feel like you’re seeking, that you’ve missed, you never have.
You’ve just been dreaming.
And the dreaming is like that journey, going through ups and downs, and pleasure and pain, and suffering, and freedom from suffering, and all the different things that happen on the journey.
Finding a beautiful place and an ugly place, a place that you’re glad that you never have to go back to again, and a place that you think like, “Hmm, that would be nice. I wouldn’t mind coming back here again. This is pretty good.”
So, all those experiences that you have in your life are like that journey that I was talking about.
Right?
And home is different from that.
Home isn’t an experience.
Home is the absence of that journey, the absence of the journeyer, the seeker.
It’s the true home of what you are because as you’re going through this journey of life, you’re putting on the costume of being a person in order to do that, right?
In order to perceive it, in order to have the experiences.
It’s the costume that experiences all this.
The costume is what experiences it.
The costume is what perceives the world.
The costume is what has relationships and fears and suffering and doubts and joy and all the things that a human experiences.
That’s the costume experiencing all that.
That’s the necessary part of the journey of the dream.
Without that costume, there is no dream.
There’s just home.
There’s just home.
It’s nice to be home.
You know?
Let’s make it very easy to understand.
It’s just really, really nice to be home.
And home is this that we are.
When the journey’s over, when the dream is over, we realize home.
This is how we come home.
We don’t come home while the dream is still happening.
We don’t come home when we’re, you know, somewhere like eight thousand miles away from our house. We’re not home yet. We’re still journeying.
We’re still traveling to different places, sleeping in different beds, and going through all that rigmarole and hassle that’s exhausting us so much, longing to go home and like, “Oh, I remember what my bed felt like. It was so nice. This one’s just a hard mat on a concrete floor. It’s not as good.”
You know?
“And it’s really hot, and there’s mosquitoes and bugs all over the place. I don’t like this. Home didn’t have that.”
So, we want to come home, but we’re not home yet in the physical world of the dream, right?
We’re not home yet because the home is eight thousand miles away, and it’s going to take us, you know, six months to get there.
This home is always here.
Wherever we’re traveling in the world, whether we’re sleeping on a concrete floor and it’s really hot and humid and there’s mosquitoes all over the place, we’re still home, right?
And if we know this home, wherever we are, whatever situation is going on in our life, in that very moment, we can be home.
We can be home because we are.
The mosquitoes and the concrete floor and the body itself and the perceptions and the thoughts of the body, the resistance to what we’re experiencing, that’s all the dream.
All of that is the dream.
And with home we come back to that.
We don’t have to travel that eight thousand miles because we are home.
Home is what we are.
We just come back to the reality of what we are.
We leave the journey alone.
And isn’t life like that?
Our life, not home life, our life where we’re still in the dream, we still believe we’re a separate person.
Isn’t that just that kind of a journey?
You know, we have different experiences. We may long for different experiences. Many people in the dream do.
They want something new.
Give me a new experience. I want to have a new experience, something exciting and new. Maybe I’ll learn something from it.
Fine.
That’s part of the journey, right?
That’s what we do if we’re traveling on this long trip too.
But in home there is no need, there’s no wants, there’s nothing.
It’s complete.
This is why it’s so comfortable. This is why it’s so nice, because it’s 100% complete always.
There is never a moment when there’s any sense of it’s not quite this yet. It’s not quite right. It could use a little seasoning, a little more salt or whatever. It could use something.
In this home, there’s nothing that could be added to it.
Because it’s the source of everything that existed.
How would you find something to add to it?
And what would you add to it since there’s only this?
There’s only this.
That’s home.
And we’re all walking each other home to a home that we’ve never left nor ever could.
We’re just dreaming that we did.
We’re dreaming we’re on this long journey.
But that’s just a dream.
We’re dreaming that we’re a journeyer, we’re a seeker, we’re a person who’s on this journey.
But that’s also just the dream.
What we are is home.
And this is what we wake up to.
