what are you trying to achieve?

What is it that you are really trying to achieve?

Have you ever asked yourself this question? Do you ever ask yourself this question? Most of us are fumbling through life. And yes, we might build something for ourself, a life: a job, a home, a relationship, maybe a family. We might accumulate money. But is that it?

Is that all we're trying to achieve, more of the same? Propagating the species, perhaps. In a biological sense, that's reasonable, but if one really looks inside oneself, one knows that's not really what life is about, there's something deeper, something more profound, more mysterious. And I suggest what we're really trying to achieve is to touch this deep mystery of life, to know it for ourselves, not in an intellectual way, but to know it from direct experience, to know it by sensing it in the moment. And this deep mystery cannot really be put into words. That's why I'm using the word mystery. It's not something that can be grasped intellectually.

In fact, the intellect, with its thoughts, its words, its concepts, only gets in the way of us experiencing and living in this mystery. In fact, we are living in it anyway. We've just lost sight of it somehow. Inside every human being, though, there's a deep yearning, maybe just a still small voice, that's seeking, seeking this mystery. And the beautiful, shockingly wonderful, miracle is that we can, in a moment, become this mystery once more – a moment where one's little human drama has dropped away and become of no particular significance. And in its place within consciousness is simply this suchness of being, this indescribable, ubiquitous beauty. In moments such as this, nothing is amiss. In moments such as this, there is only bliss.