Is the Truth Missing?
Truth is never absent—it is our recognition of it that is lacking, not truth itself.
Freedom is just a general sense of ease. Just a general sense of ease and not trying to really push our idea of Truth and make it into some sort of understanding. Is the Truth missing? Are you not Being right now? Are you not Aware of this Being? Is everything not just? And don’t give this to your mind but just notice, that all of this world of appearances is just shining in the light of your Being. You never had an experience when You are not there. [Silence] So traditionally in spirituality when it is called ‘a moving from the head to the heart’ this is what it means. It does not mean going from intellect to emotion or any other sort of physical orientation. Just means the letting go of the mind and relying on that intuitive intelligence. This intuitive - intelligence is like a naked intelligence. If you try and dress it up with anything, one fig leaf and it will get distorted. [Silence] So now the question is ‘What should you do? How do we live?’
Key Teachings
- Truth is not missing but ever-present; realization is recognizing what already is
- The sense of something missing arises from forgetting one's true nature
- Seeking truth outside is the very movement of ignorance itself
From: Suffering Is To Be Closed, To Resist; Open and Empty Is the Absence of Suffering - 12th April 2021