Nowhere to Get To
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A gentle invitation to stop striving and instead welcome everything you feel, discovering that what you are looking for is already here.
Nowhere to Get To
Sit comfortably.
You can keep your eyes open or closed.
If there is one thing to bring with you in every meditation, it is that there is
nowhere to get to.
Nothing needs to happen.
Words and what they point to
These are just words pointing to something.
You could say everything is exactly as it should be.
And I say these are words because to believe them has no effect.
To believe them is religion, philosophy.
When I say it points to something,
it points to a truth,
a reality beyond words,
which can be experienced.
It can be known without words.
It can be as obvious as you're hearing the voice right now,
undeniable.
Nowhere to get to.
It's not an oppressive nowhere to get to.
It is releasing.
It is joyful and uplifting.
Until we experience this,
until we know it beyond the words,
we can use the words,
the pointer, to see what's in the way.
Welcoming what is here
Sit with what feels not okay right now.
Slowly discover that we are the room where everything is welcome.
If there is discomfort,
fear,
pain,
distress,
anxiety,
abandon all hope for it to change
and welcome it fully.
What we're not okay with keeps coming back.
Our strategies to manage and push things away
work for a short while and then fail.
We become tired and frustrated.
That is a good thing.
In that tiredness we can finally learn to welcome.
Welcome our fears.
Welcome our grief,
our frustrations.
Surrendering the strategies
Only through this,
the surrendering of our strategies,
we learn that we are this heart,
this loving, welcoming openness.
It's more effortless.
The strategies of fighting and resisting are effortful.
It gives way to something more natural,
gentle,
infinitely deep.
There's nowhere to go.
This is all available right now.
It does not require years.
It does not require healing.
Deeper and deeper intimacy with what is right now.
Any resistance, any frustration, discomfort,
it's just this call for deeper intimacy.
One thing I can promise is that this is possible and available right now.
And it is joyful.
Being, not becoming
Notice the restlessness, the distraction.
I'm speaking to that which is already here,
the treasure already present.
We have overlooked its value
in a place of becoming,
achieving,
striving.
We become lost and forget our being,
trying to become our being,
to recover what is lost, what is forgotten.
We are already that being.
Once you truly taste that,
becoming goes to the backseat.
Nothing tastes better than being.