The Truth Is Just Always the Truth
The truth is already complete and the individual self is illusory; spiritual progress is a mental concept that keeps us trapped in judgment rather than recognizing our already-perfect Being.
So is the stethoscope sHll with me or you took it back mid-way through?
[Sangha Smiles] Father…
What I am talking about…. I oeen say that ‘One of the biggest banes of the spiritual seeker; is the applying conceptual spiritual knowledge to make a judgment about ourselves and our state, whether we are progressing or regressing.’ So last Hme when we spoke I remember that I told her that ‘this spiritual checker-guy, which I call the spiritual stethoscope, you can leave with me so that you don’t judge yourself in this way. Because all those judgments don’t belong to your Being. They belong to just a representaHon of a person, who we think is spiritual now and has to progress into the Truth. But all of that is just a fallacy. The Truth is just always the Truth and the person has never existed. So it’s not a movement, it’s not a process.
Key Teachings
- The spiritual stethoscope - using conceptual spiritual knowledge to judge our progress or state - is a major obstacle for seekers and keeps us trapped in self-judgment
- The personal self ('the person') has never truly existed; it is only a mental representation, not our actual Being
- Truth is always already present - there is no movement or process toward it; awakening is not something to achieve but what we already are
From: What Are You Before You Put on the Mask? - 28th November 2019