Hidden in Plain Sight – Lessons from a Reluctant Buddha Part 7

It’s right there in front of you hidden in plain sight.  Everything you ever wanted to know.  What am I supposed to do?  What is the meaning of life?  Why am I here?  What am I supposed to be doing?  It’s been right there in front of you all along.  It’s quite ridiculous actually but the universe has a weird sense of humor.  It’s not funny ha-ha, it’s funny peculiar.

It could not be simpler. Listen closely to my words. Reduce all words down to their simplest form. Read exactly what they say. There is no second meaning.

Duality is false.

That phrase can set you free.  Read it again.  All duality is false.  Free your mind and spirit from the prison you have put it in without realizing that you did it.  The truth is in front of you, right here.  Words mean exactly what they mean.

To understand you must accept something that is ridiculous. What happens is you look around and see separate things and your mind is fooled.  Everything you see is divided.  It’s like the Matrix.  It sure as hell looks and feels real.  Your senses confirm this misinformation because they are a part of the disinformation system.  You see other people, the sun, the moon, the stars and sky, all split, all distinct and recognizable from each other.  All are divided.  All cannot exist without the other.  I know light by dark but one cannot exist without the other.

What would you think of a God that made everything look separate, but instead it is all the same damn thing underneath? Would you say that is weird?  Stupid?  Insane?  A bad joke?  You’d be right on all counts.  At the very least you would be pretty sure that whatever set this strange system in motion has a bizarre sense of fucking humor.  It hides the one thing that is true in a maze of other crap that is not true in the least.  God is a funny like that.

All things are one thing.  Think about that.  It means one man swings the sword and the other is killed but both are the in fact the same.

So how does this help you, you are wondering?  Maybe you are searching around and desperately trying to find what your purpose is?  There are a few ancient texts that actually contain the divine truth of the universe and they can tell you.  The Bhagavad Gita is one of them.  I warn you, there are not many.  Until you can see, you will not be able to pick these books out.  Instead they will remain needles in an endless haystack.  Most books on the divine are nothing but garbage written by people who don’t know and cannot see.  You will hear many that sound good or contain kernels of the truth and you will believe.  This is the way of delusion.  All belief systems are false.  Even when you can see you’ll realize that 99% of the words in them are worthless and they will not help you understand what is true.  And yet, every once in awhile, a single divine thought slips through, uncorrupted.  The Gita is the rare exception where much of it is true with only minor corruptions that you can see if you stay clear.  You can flip to practically any page and find something true, true as in absolutely true, beyond question true.  In other words absolutely true.  And yet, unfortunately, because you are still clouded by delusion you probably won’t be able to see it.  This is how it was for me.  I read the book as a young man and saw nothing but a bunch of mumbo-jumbo.  It made little sense to me.  I read the words but I did not hear.  It sounded cool and mystical, but sounding cool and mystical is not enlightenment or divine wisdom.

And please, whatever you do, for the love of God, do not read the introduction of any copy of the Gita.  Do not read the interpretations that you might find from chapter to chapter.  Rip those useless pages out.  Forget the stupid scholarly commentary.  Read the words alone.  The commentaries are worthless and will only cloud the message.  The message does not need interpretation not even from me or any of the great teachers wandering around out there.  When you can let go of all teachers, you have reached the end of all knowledge.  Hint: that’s a good thing.

From the Gita:

“The impermanent has no reality; reality lies in the eternal. Those who have seen the boundary between these two have attained the end of all knowledge.  Realize that which pervades the universe and is indestructible; no power can affect this unchanging, imperishable reality.  The body is mortal, but that which dwells in the body is immortal and immeasurable. Therefore, fight in this battle.

One believes he is the slayer, another believes he is the slain. Both are ignorant; there is neither slayer nor slain.

You were never born; you will never die. You have never changed; you can never change. Unborn, eternal, immutable, immemorial, you do not die when the body dies. Realizing that which is indestructible, eternal, unborn, and unchanging, how can you slay or cause another to slay?

As one abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within. The Self cannot be pierced by weapons or burned by fire; water cannot wet it, nor can the wind dry it.  The Self cannot be pierced or burned, made wet or dry. It is everlasting and infinite, standing on the motionless foundations of eternity. The Self is unmanifested, beyond all thought, beyond all change.”

The Bhagavad Gita (Classics of Indian Spirituality) (Kindle Locations 895-908). Nilgiri Press. Kindle Edition

This is quite literal.  This is not a metaphor.

Unfortunately you cannot just read this and become clear.  You must know it.  The way to know it is to quiet the mind and listen.  Always when the mind is quiet you can recognize truth.  Truth is real.  There is truth, pure, undifferentiated, unchanging truth.

To see that truth forget all teachers.  Forget me.  I am nothing but a bright fire that might kindle your own fire.  I cannot show you the truth.  I cannot show the way, but there is a chance for a moment if you hear my words that you will wake up and understand if only for a moment.  Let my fire burn brightly in your mind and burn away all that is false and worthless, leaving only that which is pure and unchanging. When you listen to the silence and you hear these exact thoughts come back to you from no text or teacher whatsoever then you know they will be yours and then you will understand.

I realize that some of this may sound repetitive or strange but it is the only way I can explain it.

There are not multiple truths.  There are not multiple opinions.  All opinions are false, as are all things that are born of duality.  What I am saying here contains no speculation and it comes to you in unfiltered form.

You have a divine purpose.  What is it?  Only you can know.  God communicates with each of us individually and its message cannot be decoded by another person’s key.  You have the only private key to unlock that message.  Nobody can tell you what it is for you.  The universe will whisper it in your ear but you will not be able to share it however hard you try.  For how can you tell another what was crafted only for you, a secret pact between your maker and yourself?

You cannot truly deviate from your path, no matter how hard you try.  And oh man how you will try.  You a determined to screw it up.  You will literally try every single wrong path you can possibly find or conceive of just to avoid your true destiny.  In the state of delusion, everything but the right answer seems right.  This is our ridiculous plot in life.

“Those who follow this path, resolving deep within themselves to seek me alone, attain singleness of purpose. For those who lack resolution, the decisions of life are many-branched and endless.”

The Bhagavad Gita (Classics of Indian Spirituality) (p. 93). Nilgiri Press. Kindle Edition.

Again, this is to be taken quite literally.  Do not embellish or add to the words you are hearing.  Simply hear them.  Put aside your mind and you will know them to be true.  When you can see the truth, you’ll know it because you will have a single purpose.  When you are confused you are in a fallen state.  When your choices seem endless you are lost.  No matter where you are, no matter what you are doing, there is only ever one right answer.  If you cannot hear it you are lost in the entanglements of delusion.  You may resist it for as long as you like but it does not change this simple fact.

In other words you have a purpose and the universe will gladly just tell you what it is if you ask.  You will pay a price for this.  Everything that you though was you will be wrong.  It will fall away.  But once the fire has cleansed you, you will see clearly what the next step is at all times.

The universe communicates with you on a second by second basis.  It does not tell you the whole story at once.  That would be boring.  You get it piece by piece, in the moment. The universe is telling exactly what you need to do every single second of every single day, in every word you hear, though every passing car, every bird in flight, every cloud.  You can hear this message by being quiet.  Do everything completely and fully with total concentration and you will know.  The next step becomes clear always when you can silence the endless stupid chattering of your mind.

The illumed man has no need of spiritual texts because he sees the divine all around him.  When everything is the divine you cannot fail to hear the message and yet, quite absurdly, you always do.  This is because you are asleep in the dream of duality. The divine is always speaking, quite clearly, with a friggin’ megaphone actually, but you remain deaf.  That’s fine.  Since the universe is already perfect you cannot make a mistake.  No time is wasted.  Nothing is for nothing.  Everything is exactly as it needs to be.  Nothing is wrong.

“On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.”

The Bhagavad Gita (Classics of Indian Spirituality) (p. 93). Nilgiri Press. Kindle Edition.

You labor under the delusion that something is wrong and that you can fix it.  You have a hole inside you that you want to fill.  You want to change jobs, or move, travel the world, do yoga, make money, waste money, fight, fuck, rule the world, control empires.  None of this changes anything.  What can you possibly add to that which is already perfect?  Your life is already perfect.  There is nothing wrong.  It is exactly as it should be at all times, always.  At your own time you will hear.

“There will never be a time when you and I do not exist, nor will there ever be a time when we cease to exist.” – The Gita,

Read these words carefully. What do they say?  They say time does not exist.  The present moment is eternal, echoing forever.  It is not changing.  It is like light.  It appears to move and yet it only moves in the context of something else moving.  This is quantum reality and it is the only reality that is really real.  It is unchanged.  Yet it is not enough to read that time does not exist.  It is not enough to believe it.  You must know it.  Again how do you know?  You listen.

You cannot hear your divine purpose because your mind is broken.  It is chattering constantly.  It won’t shut up.  You goal is to teach it to be quiet and then you can hear something in the silence.  The silence speaks and it has the answer.  In the silence is the voice of the universe.  If you think it strange that silence says anything at all, then you are right. It should not be, but it is.

It seems impossible but it’s not.

There literally is an answer key to the universe.  A cheat sheet.  If you can quite your mind and listen then every step of the way the universe will tell you what to do.  And what is that?  Exactly what you are supposed to do.  When it is time to break, break.  When it is time to speed up, speed up.  Walk when you are walking then walk, answer questions when you are asked, write when writing, take a shit when shitting.  Do nothing else and life becomes effortless.  There is nothing wrong.  There is nothing else you are supposed to be doing.  You are doing it.  Seriously.

When you realize exactly what you are supposed to do then the doors open by magic. This is not an invitation to get whatever the fuck you want like that idiotic corruption of the divine message “The Secret” tries to tell you.  This is not an invitation to start visualizing a Ferrari and a house in the hills. That might be part of your journey or not, but either we picturing them real hard won’t do shit for you.  Stop it.

You are wired to do something and something specific. Yield to it. Embrace it and life becomes largely effortless. You get what you really want and what you really want is probably not what you think you want. A warrior wants to fight. An artist wants to create. A mother wants to protect her child. A scholar studies. A teacher teaches.

Somewhere inside, you know what you really want. You just become poisoned by the disease of other peoples’ opinions and the ridiculous nonsense of the world and you become filled with false ideas that are not you. The mind corrupts essential truth. You have a divine mission. Know this.

I’ve talked about how the Gita is one of the oldest signals from the divine that we have on file in the very limited literature of enlightenment to which I am now adding my words that come through me but are not of me.  In the Gita, the divine speaks nearly unimpeded with only minor corruptions that you can see if you stay present, yeet the Gita also shows us how people fail to hear its message.  They listen with their minds and their minds corrupt the truth by adding garbage to it.  In Indian life this manifested as the cast system.  Indian society, under the delusion of the mind, created a bastardization of this divine truth of “everyone has a job” by creating the cast system. They created a prison where the true message is absolute freedom. The difference is God can see all the patterns ahead of time and gives you a road map but it gives that map only to you.  It does not under any fucking circumstances hand that over to someone else to interpret for you. It gives you the answer code and you alone.  It does this by giving you the best possible combination of steps to take at any moment but you still have to choose to follow them. Free choice is absolute.  Unfortunately, there is only one right choice.  The rest just hurt you and everyone else around you. The mind hears but it does not understand. It twists and changes. Everyone does have a purpose to play in the divine comedy it’s just that it is not to be imposed on you from the outside, from some human created system, from bureaucrats and laws and societal morals, it is only to be discovered by you alone.

Each person has a single song to play from the creator and all other notes are false.

You always have free will but all it ever gets you is off the path and pain.  It is wrong in the same way that taking a wrong turn in a video game is wrong.  When Pitfall Harry falls in a lava pit it is always wrong.  Right action is simple. It is not an external set of laws imposed on you that you can memorize.  The right action is handed to you on a need to know basis and the only thing you need to know is what to do right now.  You only need the next step. The rest takes care of itself.  Right action means take the best and most appropriate action in the moment. If you are crashing try to survive. If you are in a war then kill. If you are at home cooking then cook.

It is not more complicated than this it is just that your mind makes it so. It’s as if God said do whatever you want, play any game you want but this is the perfect game and all you have to do is be quiet and listen and I will reveal it to you step by step as needed.

The crazy bastard is trying to save us all and we just won’t listen.

Work at your purpose and the work practically does itself.

It could not be simpler.

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