God is here. Don’t go looking to the past or the future or somewhere else to find him. He is here, now. Immanent and transcendent. Here, yet beyond also. But not in some idealised past or hoped-for future.
Be open to his presence now. No need to go searching and seeking. He is ever present as love and awareness and being.
Spiritually speaking, it doesn’t pay to be too rational past a certain point. Reason as a function needs to fail, leaving only the mystery. Of course dropping rationality in favour of embracing the mystery is itself a rational act. So there’s that. You could say it’s a higher rationality that transcends it’s own limitations. But…
I show up to write each day but it’s sometimes hard to turn up at the page with nothing around me. The room I’m in has no interesting elements or items within eyeshot. The computer desktop on which the writing page itself sits is completely bare. All intentionally reduced. That I have a twinge of…
The tagline on my website used to say, ‘exploring present-moment awareness’ which sounds okay on the face of it, but the truth is I’m not exploring at all; I’m observing, witnessing. I’m not going anywhere or doing anything, I’m not plumbing any depths, I’m not even responding to anything; I’m just here, watching ‘the world’…
Final answers – is that what we seek? Perhaps given half a chance we might love to live in the questions.
The fourth state, turiya, pure consciousness, is present with all other states. But at first it’s perceived, as its name suggests, as one alternating with other states of consciousness. Until through repeated and consistent exposure it’s revealed to be the foundational and ubiquitous, singular reality.
If you’re serious about self-discovery, if you’re serious about the truth, then you have to be willing to give up everything you think you know. You have to be willing to question and look at every assumption and become like a clean slate. Because untruth and suffering hides under the rocks of unexplored assumptions. Here…