theinnerlifeproject
02-27-2011, 08:13 PM
The Entry into Truth or How Things Really Are.
The transition from the spiritual quest to realization of absolute truth and the way things are, rather than the way you want them to be, is in giving up hope.
It is in staring your life directly in the eyes, in a dead locked stare, where you finally meet the truth that you will never feel better, your life will always be exactly as it is, there is no salvation, no god, nothing you can relay on to change yourself or your life in any way whatsoever. You are who you are and will be that no matter how many meditations are spiritual books or sophisticated forms of therapy you do and in this admission of what has been true all along anyway, is the gateway, the doorway into your true nature, which can never be touched, changed or altered in any way whatsoever,. You were born, and so will you remain, absolutely pure and pristine and without any hope of change. You are precious, no matter what you do or how you feel. You are precious no matter what you do or how you feel. When you see this, you see there is no morality, only social convention, there is no meaning, there is no hope, there is only what is true, and that you knew all this anyway (better when you were a teen). And if you finally allow what you always knew, the emptiness and absolute helplessness you have been avoiding your entire life, you might suddenly glimpse the true nature of things. When you let go and stop struggling against everything this culture has ingrained in you to struggle against, you might fall. And in this fall, you might see your original, untouched pristine condition, which does not depend on any circumstance or experience. When you finally let in the joke of it all, the absolute ridiculousness of life, this might be the first time you feel real hope.
-Asher Lyman
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The transition from the spiritual quest to realization of absolute truth and the way things are, rather than the way you want them to be, is in giving up hope.
It is in staring your life directly in the eyes, in a dead locked stare, where you finally meet the truth that you will never feel better, your life will always be exactly as it is, there is no salvation, no god, nothing you can relay on to change yourself or your life in any way whatsoever. You are who you are and will be that no matter how many meditations are spiritual books or sophisticated forms of therapy you do and in this admission of what has been true all along anyway, is the gateway, the doorway into your true nature, which can never be touched, changed or altered in any way whatsoever,. You were born, and so will you remain, absolutely pure and pristine and without any hope of change. You are precious, no matter what you do or how you feel. You are precious no matter what you do or how you feel. When you see this, you see there is no morality, only social convention, there is no meaning, there is no hope, there is only what is true, and that you knew all this anyway (better when you were a teen). And if you finally allow what you always knew, the emptiness and absolute helplessness you have been avoiding your entire life, you might suddenly glimpse the true nature of things. When you let go and stop struggling against everything this culture has ingrained in you to struggle against, you might fall. And in this fall, you might see your original, untouched pristine condition, which does not depend on any circumstance or experience. When you finally let in the joke of it all, the absolute ridiculousness of life, this might be the first time you feel real hope.
-Asher Lyman
[email protected]