End seeking

I don't talk about consciousness being everything there is, I don't discuss deities or chakras, nor do I concern you with anything supernatural. This time is a little bit different because I'm going to mention a great and invisible force that is to be reckoned with. An overarching energy that defines large chunks of your everyday experience. It's this powerful force that is both a barrier to your natural state as well as a tool to maintain it, if applied properly.

Now, this might sound disappointing at first. I know it did for me when I first heard it from Emerson. After all, aren't we all chasing some form of transcendence? But the thing is this sobriety isn't about giving up on a dream and feeling let down. It's about waking up from all dreams, including the persistent one that life is somehow going to be radically different "when we get there."

You might have moments where you feel you've lost it, where you're desperately trying to cling to old beliefs or ways of being. But these attempts at denial are themselves arising in the vast space of your true nature. The very act of trying to escape is happening within that which you're trying to escape from.

Never settle on a word or a belief that claims to fully capture what this is. Don't call it "oneness" and think you've understood it all. Don't label it as "emptiness" and believe you've grasped its entirety. It's not even accurate to call it "nowhere," because it's somehow between nowhere and everywhere, inhabiting a space our minds struggle to comprehend, or at all access.

Even if there's no grand purpose to life, I believe we can choose to live it thoughtfully and gracefully. Whether we truly have a choice in this is another question entirely. You will soon see for yourself that, at some point, all notion of free will disappears completely as you flow seamlessly with all of life.