What if I told you that you could never attain anything? Well, at least not for very long! A state of mind…? Sure you could attain that. For a moment. But can you attain awakening? Do you attain it when you wake up from sleep in the morning? It happens because something deep within has actually just let-be what is.

Lets experiment for a moment. If there is something you want right now, name it. It can be candy, to scratch your toe or enlightenment. It doesn’t really matter, they are all the same thing. You have an idea of what it would be like to have those desires fulfilled. And you would have an experience of some sort if you managed to manipulate your physical or mental world to fit with your idea (which again as nature would have it – doesn’t last very long). So whatever your idea is, the experience you managed to have would inevitably change and you would be back in the throws of addiction trying to get back to a particular state of physical or mental consciousness.

The experiment is, for just this one moment to stop trying to attain to that something. You allow the wanting to be, because stopping the wanting is beyond your power. It would cause you pain to try and stop the wanting. Stop the ‘striving for’ and just see who is there. Who is present when you are not striving?

If this is the first time you’ve ever done this you may be fumbling around trying to find something. Trust your initial experience. Initial before the mind kicks in saying ‘I’ or ‘me.’ Before that mental I kicks in there is a ‘nothing’ - an awakened place of nothing. What were to happen if you were to begin allowing that place to be every time you started striving? Experiment and see…

Blessings on your journey!