The Truth, if It Is True, Must Already Be Here - 1st February 2018

If something has to happen for it to become true, then it is not the truth. That's all that I said today. If something has to happen for it to become true, then it is not. What is this pointing to? This points without to all the traditions that you might be believing about yourselves, waiting for that one something to happen to find the truth. Simply, the truth, if it is true, must already be here. There is no precondition for the truth. Nothing needs to happen for the truth. If the truth is true, then it must be here.

Even those who speak of the recognition of the truth only say that, "I just saw it already was." They never say, "I saw something new that came." And the joy of the discovery is more like this silly laughter of shame. It's like when you lose your specs but they've been on your head all the time. Even funnier, you've been looking for your glasses all your life and you've just been wearing them. Oh, it's so silly. So sometimes I jokingly say awakening is like a facepalm moment. What? It has just always been this. Nothing is needed for the Self and nothing is needed for the discovery or the recognition of the Self.

The first one you met this morning is the most enlightened being in the world. The first one you met this morning, before you even met this body—that which you call your own body—before that, you met a Being. But you have judged this Being to be something limited, to be something personal. Empty of these judgments, there is only most abundant Self-recognition. The good thing is that no prior treatment actually matters now. The Being is completely full and fresh and completely available to you in this moment. So, our minds here...