' A sense of finality '...

The deeper we move into the direct experience of being, of the unborn, undying, uncreated that we are, the more we start to move into a true sense of nonduality. By nonduality, I mean living beyond relative and absolute. In a certain sense, our experience opens up even beyond the perception of unity, even beyond the experience of oneness. We realize the core of ourselves, the essence of ourselves, to be something much more akin to pure potential. We realize ourselves to be pure potential, before it has become anything—before it has become the One, before it has become the many, before it has become this or that.

The maturing of awakening is this profound return to our essence, to the simplicity of what we are, which is before and beyond being and nonbeing. It is before and beyond existing and not existing. It is where there is a disappearance, as it were, where our minds are no longer fixating on any level of experience. Our minds are not fixating on any particular expression. The tendency to fixate has been liberated.

This state is not a mystical state. It is not a state of immensity or a state of specialness. It is a state of naturalness and ease. On the human level, it is experienced as deep ease and deep naturalness and deep simplicity.
On another level, it is the undeniable sense that whatever the journey has been, there is a certain sense of finality.

As one old Zen master said, it’s like a job well done. At the end of the day, you just go home. At a certain point in one’s spiritual life, it is as if everything is spontaneously put down. This is hard to understand until it actually starts to happen to you. Spirituality itself is put down. Freedom is put down. It’s necessary for us to be free of our need for freedom, to be enlightened from our need for enlightenment.


~ Adyashanti ~