Beyond Spiritual Practices: Where Seeking Ends and Being Begins

 There is a particular quality to that moment when the seeker becomes exhausted. It’s not like simply getting tired of something and moving on to the next thing.

It’s not the fatigue of boredom or impatience. It runs deeper. Quieter. It’s as if there’s no longer anywhere left to turn, because every direction — forward, back, left, right — has led you to the same place: back to yourself.

And there, you still found nothing but the seeking itself.

The path is exciting in the beginning —the first books, the teachers, the insights, the moments when you felt something break through, as if you were truly getting closer.

Then come the practices. You sit in silence, visualize, let go, and meditate. You try to go beyond the mind, focus on the Now, and tame the ego....<<<Read More>>>...