Everything You Need Is Right Here
Todo lo que necesitas está aquí mismo
A gentle invitation to stop searching elsewhere and notice that what you truly are is already here, vast and at peace.
Everything You Need Is Right Here
Everything that we need is right here.
Everything that we long for is here.
And when we think we are something separate,
only the body will become afraid.
What we are loves to be,
and nothing is needed for that.
It's already given.
Recognition and forgetting
It can be presented to us by accident.
We suddenly recognize it.
Then we might forget again.
We don't notice the treasure that we've witnessed.
We misunderstand what led to that recognition.
We've been working hard to get something, to get somewhere.
When we get there, we feel good.
Then we think, I have to do this again so I can feel good again.
What really happened is we just stopped looking for something somewhere else,
just for a moment.
So we can learn to deliberately,
intentionally,
consciously understand this
just by looking at our minds,
our patterns.
This is one of the reasons we come here and sit together.
The invitation to look deeper
I can speak from the position of a preacher,
or I can speak from the position of a scientist.
What's important is the invitation to look deeper.
Only you can do that.
Your body appears to you,
so you cannot be your body.
Your mind appears to you.
You cannot be your mind.
What you are is unknowable.
It can only be pointed to with metaphor:
the ocean,
infinity,
emptiness and fullness.
Some words may resonate more than others.
Where we are
Where we are is infinitely at peace and free.
We tend to think that we know what we are,
and in this knowing, in this believing,
we lose touch,
and the struggle begins.
If we are here, it's because something at some point has resonated,
and so we follow that.
Even if within us there are many forces pulling and tugging in different directions.
Listen to that which always points to the present.
The body has needs,
life demands responsibility,
but our essence, our being,
just longs to be right now.
Turning to sensation
There are sensations.
There are sounds.
A vast kaleidoscope of images and thoughts.
All of that is happening within you.
It is emerging from you.
We are of a vastness that, once seen, terrifies us.
The world you know is happening within you.
You are not within the world.
Noticing the sense of "me"
Notice the sense of being something within a world,
the sense of being on the inside of the body.
Notice that sense.
Be very curious about it.
It's like a tight fist,
a contraction.
We call it "me."
I am here and not there.
I am here.
It's like a slippery thing.
It moves and it escapes our gaze.
It's a trick we're playing on ourselves.
We don't want to see, because we will see it's not real.
Looking for the one who looks
Looking for that sense of "I am here."
Not just the thought, but the felt sense.
It'll be a blurry sensation, moving and changing,
a mix of images and sensations.
The attention turning inwards, backwards,
turning around,
looking for that which is looking.
It might make you uncomfortable.
Breathe into it.
Notice the contraction.
What if there is no place from where you are looking?
What if that search is impossible?
What if the hearing is in every sound and the seeing is in every image,
the thinking is in every thought?
What if that zero point in the center is infinite?
Contemplating vastness
Are you able to truly contemplate the possibility
that everything you experience is inside of you,
a part of you?
That maybe you are that vast?
And if you can contemplate that, really,
does that calm something down and bring something up?
Is it scary?
Does it activate your thinking, your reactivity?
Letting go
Now let go of any direction.
Don't try to notice or see anything in particular.
No thought is more important or valuable than the next one.
Every sound is just a sound.
Every sensation or emotion is just another sensation or emotion.
Just sink into it,
like an inflatable mattress on the ocean.
No intention.
Nothing needs to be done.
There's nowhere you need to go.
If you're distracted,
just be distracted.
Sink into the ocean of distraction if it's there.