It would seem to the "seeker" - on initial investigation - that there are specific well-defined "paths" ... proposed by any one of a great number of "Gurus" leading to the promised yet ever-elusive "personal-Realization. The notion that IF one just is led to the "right" path and follows step by step that path (usually one the Guru was led onto) that THEN "I will attain Realization". But after 10 or 20 or 30 or more years of great effort, sincere practice in accordance with "the path", and highly disciplined actions of a "personal will", there has been no such Realization of the Ultimate Isness for the person, the person may well come to see (rather reluctantly to say the least) that NO specified and prescribed path leads to home. Then there may well be "much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth."
Then when the seeker finally understands that there is NO prescribed path but rather only the pathless trek through the appearance which is given NOT by a Guru but by Totality itself there comes a kind of effortless surrender to What Is, and the fact that as a "person" there is no possibility of attainment since the elusive Realization of Reality is "person-less", at that juncture there arises the natural knowing that indeed, all is well and perfectly unfolding in accordance "not with 'my' will but Totality's no-will of a profound Play of light and shadow with no end or beginning and no intrinsic meaning whatsoever!
This Play lifts and leads the individual collection of energy-cells on a merry chase in the same way a tornado uproots, lifts and moves and leads a tree on a wild and utterly unpredictable path, and the collection of cells called a 'me' has no more volition to enact or resist what occurs than the tree Yet the assumption, the premise, that the typical organism is imbued with is "I am the master of my fate". That assumption requires a profound dishonesty!
As an example of what I am pointing to, recently I had planned to be in my home in Enid, Oklahoma indefinitely, yet a series of events arose that uprooted the old charlie-body-brain thing and it is now awaiting a new home in Reno, Nevada. Some tornado! My point is, to assume we have ANY control or will in the arising of what happens in this dream-life is really, really foolish. The Is will take the seeker and all the rest of this dream-content of Awareness) right where it will. Control is a persistent yet plainly false premise.
"Control" is pure illusion. So is "Path"
There is no control, no path, no goal, no seeker, no Guru. Life is but a dream.
And YOU are the simple Presence-Awareness, the pure non-conceptual BEING, IN which (and AS which) the dream appears.
Ultimately you will come to see that you are neither the particular nor the universal, you are beyond both. As the tiny point of a pencil can draw innumerable pictures, so does the dimensionless point of awareness draw the contents of the vast universe. Find that point and be free. ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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