#stop seeking

[iamshwee]

🐝🌻 once you realize your worth--

you are unafraid to say no 

you stop seeking approval from others 

you stop judging yourself by social standards 

you stop apologizing for simply being yourself 

you let go of people and things that make you feel bad about yourself

[artio-arcana]

The shear amount of hippy crap I’ve had to delete is astounding and disappointing.

As someone who has been pretty deep down the hippy rabbit hole (as deep as a heavy can get anyway) I know I have the authority to advise on matters of Advaita/non-duality and westerners trying to follow similar paths. I sound obtuse but trust me I’ve looked pretty hard at all this and it’s complete and utter bullshit. I’ve lived in a meditation centre for spirituality (all faiths), I’ve given up my identity, I gave up meat and alcohol and tried to be as pure as possible - which is hilarious. If you feel unsatisfied, if you’re still seeking for something you shouldn’t be seeking for, please please get in touch. If you’re God he/she/whatever wouldn’t be wasting his/her time being holy and trying to find himself/herself, he’d/she’d be you - so get off that pile of shit and talk to me. I’ll show you real love and it’s tough as hell. Stop playing with yourself.

[alunah-lalunah]

Stop Seeking the Ultimate Reality

The deepest Buddhist insight may not be “there exists a magical enlightened state of eternal bliss.” That is often the fantasy people project onto Buddhism. The deeper insight is closer to that the seeking machinery itself is the suffering machinery.

The mind imagines fulfillment as an object in the future. Enlightenment, God, certainty, ultimate understanding, permanent peace, final identity, metaphysical ground. It keeps projecting completion ahead of itself. “When I finally understand, then I will rest.” But the very structure generating the search is built from lack, fear, incompleteness, and egoic continuity. So every answer becomes temporary fuel for further seeking. In that sense, “stop seeking” does not necessarily mean “you will become a glowing cosmic being.” It may simply mean recognizing the impossibility of the project itself.

You will be right to reject the childish image of enlightenment as permanent heavenly happiness. Much spiritual culture secretly sells transcendence as psychological insurance against reality. No suffering, no fear, no death anxiety, no contradiction. That is fantasy. The organism remains finite, embodied, vulnerable, aging, and mortal. There is a sharp metaphor about the sun. Human cognition may simply not be built for direct apprehension of “ultimate reality.” People speak as though enlightenment means seeing reality absolutely. But perhaps the nervous system cannot metabolize such totality any more than the eye can stare directly into the sun without destruction.

[britnijean]

When someone is seeking...it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything...because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse