GAVIN SPEAKS
You're trying too hard.
Seriously.
You're straining, pushing, forcing, and struggling to become enlightened... to manifest abundance... to heal your trauma... to transcend your ego.
You've turned spirituality into another form of achievement. Another mountain to climb. Another goal to reach.
And in doing so, you've completely missed the point.
The greatest spiritual paradox is this: The more you TRY to become enlightened, the more you reinforce the very illusion that keeps you from recognizing what you already are.
Let me explain...
From the perspective of non-duality, there is only ONE reality. One consciousness. One being. This singular consciousness is expressing itself as everything and everyone. As YOU reading these words right now.
This consciousness isn't something you need to become. It's what you already ARE.
Your true nature is already perfect, already complete, already free. It's not something you achieve. It's something you recognize.
But the mind doesn't want to hear this. The mind wants techniques, practices, and paths. It wants to DO something to GET somewhere.
This is the ego's game. The ego exists through effort and striving. It maintains its illusory existence by constantly reaching for the next thing, the next level, the next achievement.
Even spiritual achievement.
This is why so many seekers get stuck in an endless loop of spiritual seeking. They're using the very mechanism that creates separation (the efforting ego) to try to transcend separation.
It's like trying to use darkness to find light.
So what's the alternative?
Just exist.
That's it.
Just be what you already are. Allow what is already happening. Rest as the awareness in which all experiences arise.
This isn't passive resignation. It's the most profound recognition possible - that what you're seeking is what's seeking.
When you truly understand non-duality, you recognize that there's no separate "you" that needs to let go, surrender, or become enlightened. There's just the one consciousness experiencing itself through this particular expression called "you."
This consciousness - this God/Source/Being - is already doing everything perfectly. It's breathing your breath, beating your heart, growing your hair, and digesting your food without any effort from "you."
And it's also expressing itself as your thoughts, emotions, desires, and experiences.
Nothing is excluded from this oneness. Nothing is outside of God.
Even your seeking is God seeking. Your confusion is God confused. Your awakening is God awakening to itself.
So the invitation is to stop trying so hard and simply allow what is already happening.
Rest as the awareness in which all experiences arise, without trying to change, fix, or transcend them.
Notice how everything - thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions - appears within this vast field of awareness that you are.
See how even the sense of being a separate self doing spiritual practices is just another appearance within this awareness.
This doesn't mean you stop taking action in the world. It means you recognize that all action is happening through you, not by you.
You are not the doer. You are the awareness in which doing happens.
When this recognition deepens, action continues, but the sense of effort falls away. Life flows through you with a natural ease and grace that was impossible when "you" were trying to make things happen.
This is what Jesus meant when he said, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin." The lilies don't strive to be lilies. They simply allow the intelligence of life to express itself through them.
The same is true for you. You don't need to strive to be what you are. You simply need to allow the intelligence of consciousness to express itself through you without interference.
This allowing - this effortless being - is the essence of true spirituality.
It's not about becoming something other than what you are. It's about recognizing what you've always been beneath the layers of striving and seeking.
When you stop trying to become enlightened and simply rest as the awareness that you are, something miraculous happens. The very thing you were seeking reveals itself as what's been here all along.
The separate self that was doing all the seeking is recognized as just another appearance within the awareness that you truly are.
This is the great cosmic joke - that what you're seeking is what's seeking.
So take a deep breath. Relax the striving. Let go of the spiritual ambition.
Just exist.
Let God do the rest.
Because God - the one consciousness that is all there is - is already doing everything perfectly through you.
Your job isn't to make enlightenment happen. Your job is to get out of the way and recognize what's already here.
The mind will resist this simplicity. It will say, "But what about my problems? What about my spiritual practice? What about my evolution?"
These questions come from the assumption that you are separate from the intelligence of life itself. That you need to manage, control, and direct your spiritual journey.
But what if your spiritual journey is already being perfectly orchestrated by the intelligence of consciousness itself?
What if every experience - even the painful ones, even the confusing ones - is consciousness exploring and knowing itself through you?
From this perspective, there's nothing to fix, nothing to change, nothing to transcend. There's just this moment, exactly as it is, consciousness experiencing itself in this particular way.
So I invite you to experiment with this radical simplicity. For just one day, drop all spiritual striving. Drop all attempts to become enlightened, to manifest abundance, to transcend the ego.
Just exist.
Notice what's already here. Feel the weight of your body. Hear the sounds around you. See the colors and shapes in your environment.
Notice that all of this is appearing within the vast field of awareness that you are.
Notice that this awareness doesn't need to be created or maintained. It's already here, already perfect, already free.
This is your true nature. This is what you've been seeking all along.
And it's been here the whole time, hiding in plain sight, waiting for you to stop seeking it elsewhere and recognize it as what you already are.
Just exist. Let God do the rest.
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