You are Ordinariness, and NO MORE

Q: If it is simple, why is it so difficult for many seekers to realize the fact of their true nature?

A: Do you know that you are? Do you notice right now that you are? This is what is being pointed to. Do you need to seek anymore to know that you are, right now? Can you possibly “realize” that you are, at some point in the future, or are you just already right now? There is nothing to realize. Just notice that you are, right now. Ordinary. This is the “big deal” you have read about – realization!

Realization is a fancy word for looking right now and seeing that your everyday, ordinary beingness is all that you are. Maybe this is where the confusion comes in. We see that we are – that’s simple; too simple! And so we look for a story about that and try to make the story more exciting, with notions of enlightenment and realization.

But there is no more to it. Your everyday, ordinary beingness is all that you are. It is all that is ever going on. Nothing will ever be added to that. Stopping the search is about recognizing that there is no more to it. This ordinariness is it.

There seems to be more to it – a lot more! And it all seems to need to be fixed, controlled, planned, improved. But there is no more to it, and so there is nothing to be fixed. There is no more to it, except in your thoughts. The entire idea of the separate person “I,” with all its plight and drama, exists in your thoughts alone. In reality, there is just ordinary existence. That is all that is ever going on!

There is ordinary existence, and that’s all. So, there is no seeker, and there is no realization. The seeker – the separate person – is made up entirely of thoughts alone. Can you find anything about the identity of your personal self, outside of your thoughts? Try it! You can’t. And yet it requires no thought to simply be. Simply being is before the thought “I am.”

This is not fancy. It is not special. It is not earth-shaking. Don’t be looking for “out of the ordinary.” This is ordinary. You are, and you know that you are. What can ever be threatened about that? What about that can possibly take any action on your part? Is there any effort needed to sustain it? Anything you think you need to do applies to the thoughts alone; look and see for yourself. The beingness needs nothing done about it, not even “to be realized.”

So are you going to fix something in your thoughts? Does that change the ordinary, unshakable fact of your being? Any “seeking” is about that alone – trying to change the thoughts into better thoughts. Does that change who you are?

You just are, and you know that you are. That’s all you are. That’s all that’s ever going on. So just live. Watch what that looks like. Just be. Just be, like a melon ripening in the sun, like a hummingbird sipping nectar, like a little fish circling in a cool pond. Will it be boring to just be, without your story? Try it and see.

Those whom you think of as “enlightened masters” simply live as creatures such as the hummingbird and the fish, and they have nothing more, nothing special. They have simply stopped putting any attention on the imaginary story of a separate person, that’s all. They have no further information, no special esoteric knowledge.

No “shift,” no event, no permanent “being in the space of beingness.” This ordinary, everyday existence is all there is, and this is what has come to be “sought” by many as a “state,” some special “place” of enlightenment. Is there ordinary existence? That’s all there is. You can seek until the end of time, and you will end up here.

Back to your original question, about why this is difficult. Is this difficult?