Shift from Seeking to Finding!

Shift from seeking to finding!!!

Everyone is seeking for answers. Seeking to feel better. They do not like what they possess. Someone else seems to have what they
want. It is a miserable situation. People seek wealth, power, authority, love and so on. But all this search is based on external
things. Everything in the external world comes and goes. People get lost in the search for external things.

The reality is different. The external world is just a reflection of the inner world. If someone or something makes them happy it is
actually the seeing of the happiness which is already within them. Similarly to get angry at some one is actually projecting the
anger that exists within on to others. All that is considered external actually exists internally.

To know this is the end of seeking and the start of finding. Is a wonderful moment because the blame game with the external
world comes to an end. Energy and attention are brought back to the inner world. Awareness is brought to what is happening
in the moment. This leads to light and love opening and unfolding. A bridge to the real self is built.

They do not have to see this as a daunting task. Just dig one shovel full of dirt at a time. By gently bringing awareness to what
is happening in the inner world. To see what is there. To see how the story is influencing their lives, begins the process of letting
go of the pain and attatchments. Clearing away the sludge makes them feel better. Deeper truths and answers that they held
within come up to the surface. Bringing the answers that they were seeking outside.

 

Imprisoned in the mind

“The truth is that waking up can be a disturbing process. Who really wants to find out that everything they thought was real was nothing but a pocket full of dreams? Who wants to find out that everything they hold onto and cling to is the very reason they suffer? Who really wants to find out that we’re all addicted to qualities like approval, recognition, control, and power, and that none of these things actually bring an end to suffering? In fact, they’re the cause of suffering! So the truth is that most of us don’t really want to wake up. We don’t really want to end suffering. What we really want to do is manage our suffering to have a little less of it, so that we can just go on with our lives as they are, unchanged, the way we want to live them, maybe feeling a little better about them.” ~ Adyashanti

 

Power over thoughts and emotions

Identification is what gives thoughts and emotions the power to take you over – because you believe they are who you are. Awareness that frees you from identification with any thought or emotional form it separates you from the thought or emotion. When you become aware of a thought or emotion in this way, you see these thoughts and emotions are not you. They becomes forms that you are simply aware of. This removes your identification with them, and they weaken and disappear by themselves. Once you lose your identification with thought and emotional forms you feel the inner peace that is within the awareness of what you are.