A passage to NoOne

What we are searching for is already in what we are searching from. -- Mooji

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. -- Tao Te Ching.

Humans, without the salvation of oneness, don’t have the comprehension of the grace of nature, the timeliness of being, the emptiness of source. Where do things come from? Like all souls who incarnated into a lifetime to realize themselves, this question has planted itself stubbornly in the seat of my soul.

“Where do things come from? Things come from nothing. Where do you think your hairs come from? If you were to cut your head open, would you find a bunch of hair? When you look at a clear sky, and all of a sudden, a cloud appears. Where does the cloud come from? It comes from nothing. All things come from no-thing.” -- Mooji

The deep yearning of meaning, purpose and existential truth is the starseed of a myriad of spiritual quests.

What’s life all about?

Look at the mountains. What is the purpose of the life of a mountain? The purpose of a mountain is to be a mountain. Some mountains will never get snow. Some are covered by snow all year round.

Look at the trees. What is the purpose of the life of a tree? A tree is a carrier of the flow of nature. It is planted by the flow of nature; nurtured and sustained by the flow of nature. Eventually, its form dissolves, and the spirit is returned to nature. A tree is a form of existence and through the flow of nature, completes its destiny.

A human, like a tree or a mountain, is just another form of existence. However, unlike the tree or the mountain, it is more difficult for a human to see the superficiality of its form. There is the body. There is the conscious mind, subconscious mind and the unconscious mind. The mind is aware of itself, the body, other minds, other consciousness, and is aware by awareness itself. Even this self awareness can be made aware of.

A soul incarnates into a human’s body because it wants to realize itself through having a human experience. Therefore, it is a fundamental desire of humans to figure out their purposes.

The myth of Sisyphus, is rather a portrait of mind, than life itself. In Tibetan Buddhism, the absurdity of such existence is portrayed as blind-folded animals grinding wheat in circles, without ever knowing they walk in circles (Mingyur 2014).

You have to remember, the pursuit of spiritual quest is, to its core, the deep longing for connection, connections with humans, but more importantly, connections with spirits, connections with ancestry, connections with rituals, connections with the land. The deep connections we once had that were squeezed out by modernity. In essence, the pursuit of spiritual quest is the unraveling of who we are. Something deep inside of us longs for deep connections with every being because it knows that we are not separate, that you are me, and I am you. Though having different forms of existence, the source that grows a tree is the same source that grows a human.

Spiritual practice is not the myth of Sisyphus. It is not a hill one has to repeatedly roll their traumas/burdens/wounds up only to have them roll down again. Spiritual teachings and learnings, to their core, are not meant to engineer superior humans, or anomaly psychics. Spiritual teachings are learnings, deep rememberings of who we are.

The truth is simple and profound. The truth is, we are one. The truth is neither mindfulness nor mindlessness, because the truth is, we are the awareness where the mind colonizes. The scientific study of creation encompasses an unfathomable range of scale. On the microscopic end, a hydrogen atom has a nucleus of 10^-15 metres. On the macroscopic end, the distance to the Milky Way is 100,000 lightyears, or 10^26 metres (Langmuir 2012) . In total, the scientific story of creation encompasses 41 magnitude in terms of distance, and the truth is, we are the womb space of all creations. The truth is, what we are searching for is already in what we are searching from.

As opposed to most spiritual teachings, there is nothing to achieve. There is nothing to mend, nothing to fix, no battles to be won, no problems to be solved. The truth is, there is only a cosmic dance welcoming us to join.

The mind would always rather be a seeker, searching for improvements, searching for achievements, searching for salvation, but it is the very mind that is preventing it. The paradoxical nature of this searching is that the mind wants to witness and enjoy the fruits of its salvation, but the state of the salvation would dissolve the very part of the mind that was searching.

On the level of the mind, spiritual gymnastics can be ever so tempting, because it gives the illusion of linear progress leading to infinity. In the realm of the mind, infinity means endless growth. The truth is, infinity is immeasurable, incalculable, incomparable. It is nothingness. It is emptiness. It is beyond time and space, and language. It is the source of creation.

God is not beyond human. God is beyond the mind.

As Mooji says, the name of God is I am.

Reference

Langmuir, C. H. (2012). How to Build a Habitable Planet: Princeton Press.

Mingyur, Y. (2014). Turning Confusion into Clarity, A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism: Shambhala Publications.