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The End of Seeking Podcast | Episode 5: Love Is It’s Own Reward

In episode 5 we talked about recognising that you are the source of love, meeting physical pain, and the sometimes necessary semantic recalibration that happens post-awakening. Enjoy.

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Could it be so simple, to let life flow without disturbance or resistance? Just get out of the way.

Just because the mind identifies the problem (of suffering) doesn’t mean it can provide the answer.

Much of our tension and contraction and clinging is a response to our inherent sense of groundlessness. Ironically, in attempting to find some firm footing we distress ourselves even more.

The answer to the issue of groundlessness isn’t to grasp but to let go.

Clutching after unattainable certainty, security, stability, permanence, has us perpetually fearful and unsettled.

Surrender to the freefall instead. It’s not only inevitable but it turns out to be most enjoyable. Who knew?!

There’s not much to be said ultimately about what we should be or shouldn’t be doing. Or notions like being in or out of alignment with the ‘higher truth’. Ideas like sin, right action, or ‘being in accord with natural law’ are useful to a point. But as you approach the real state of affairs it’s clear that these notions of agency just don’t describe what’s truly happening.

It’s hard to know when it’s justified to use these relative ideas. We do have minds capable of imagination so it’s only natural that they get tend to map out possible futures. And it’s fair to say that the illusion of separation and agency are self-supporting. It’s just how the story of being is being told from the perspective of a notional individual.

But it can be a cold truth this nondoership. In many ways when the illusion of personal autonomy and agency is seen through, all that’s left is to winess the spontaneous display of life, to observe as awareness.

But we are also an avatar of the singular totality. The conscious leading edge of the universal unfoldment. When it moves, we move. When we move, it moves. It’s reciprocal, participatory on that level.

So there’s no need for disempowerment. We are wholeness in motion. We get to enjoy the ride.

Silent mind! Holy mind! All is calm, all is bright 🌟🎄🎶

No-one has ever experienced unconsciousness for even a moment. There is zero first-person evidence for it’s existence.

Consciousness is always present. It’s only the content that changes, comes and goes.

You are that consciousness.

The teachings of nonduality can sometimes seem to be somewhat abstract, or removed from one’s lived experience, or even rejecting of it. It may be that these teachings, being so uncompromising about the causes of suffering and its remedies, seem to disregard the human-ness of life in favour of a cold, relentless discrimination.

But the truth is that the process of spiritual awakening is a passage into and through the messy, painful, tender business of embodied existence. We’re called not to disassociate from unwanted feelings and situations, but to face them head-on, to embrace even the most difficult and painful appearances.

We might find that it’s only through the courage and compassion to embrace and accept the full spectrum of expressions, to meet and not turn away or deny them, that we come to recognise and accept the completeness that we are.

Ultimately, the freedom we find is not the freedom that comes from distancing ourselves from our dark and difficult aspects, but rather it’s discovering the freedom that abides in the midst of all experience, without exception.