Truth is not an idea.

Truth is the most 'self-evident' thing there is. Seeking truth as or via an idea is exactly what makes it elude one. Seeking it simply makes one look away from it, whereas truth is the very thing one is looking at. One may simply address it as 'life'. It is so obvious that we miss it. It is the totality of that which is present at this very moment; the total assemblage of all in our awareness. The totality of all that is arising is this awareness.

Truth is the WHOLE. Always right here. We miss it because we are always looking for an alternative, an explanation. What is seen cannot be seen without the seer behind it. The two are always present together. This is what is always present when we are busy making other plans for an alternative reality, of far away worlds of our own imagining. Truth is like the air that we breath, so obvious that we only notice it when we gasp for air. This created alternative truth, is ironically, the very thing that creates the void in life that so many seek to fill with so much 'spirituality,' whether of the material or esoteric kind, or more often than not, both at the same time. A constant seeking for satisfaction somewhere out there, or somewhere deep inside. It is the same seeking.

The reality of our immediate unadulterated observation, when it has become the marker of our experience, loosens the death-grip of our alternative confabulations. The experience of sitting in your self-created void conjures up all sorts of teachings; letting go, surrender, stop holding on and being aware etc. All of this is nothing to write home about. These are simply more of what is going on only in one's head, not what is assembled before one in this present moment, what one can call reality. None of it is relevant to life itself. Awareness is always present and is undiminished by what it is aware of. Simply sitting without the constant definition of the content of one's awareness is the antidote to the addictions of one's seeking to be more than one already is. You cannot be more than the summation of all that arises moment by moment. The attempt to surpass this is a construction that fashions the void that seeking has to fill.

'Holding on' and 'surrendering' arise to alternate in the mind's self-created oscillation in its surrogate verisimilitude. Surrendering does not make one more aware than holding on. Both result in an addition to what is arising out of the assemblage of life without our self-generated commentary. A change in perspective does not change what is perceived only how it is perceived. And yes, I know, what is presented here, is one perspective. I am only suggesting that looking down at one's feet simply makes one lose sight of the whole road. This is the mind game played by spirituality. It allows one to score points in the universal humbug of teachers and gurus and form cults and ways of living that detract from one's own simple authentic and integral life. This life will live you, whether you like it, or not.