"What you seek, you already are."

So, after reading some of @atmosblack's posts about Matt Kahn's teachings I realized I had one of Matt's books unread in my kindle library - Beginning Your Love Revolution. I read through the first few pages and found one quote I really like:

Looking within is not a matter of becoming more aware, but rather of learning how to be open and accepting of how aware you already are.

This line kind of opened things for me, or at least confirmed what I had been practicing. I used to try and try to look rather than just see. I feel like seeing is the passive term for looking, looking almost implies a search, once we give up the search we get to see. No judgement, no jumping to conclusions, we just see what there is, see where we might be trying to become aware instead of letting ourselves open to that awareness that has always been hear.

The natural man to me is the unburdened one. Like how animals and plants in the wild grow and move and blossom. They aren't concerned with the judgements of other animals or plants or people. They are just living naturally, unconcerned with how they live, just spontaneously growing and moving about, and through, and as this reality.

We can learn so much from nature because we have become unnatural in our thinking process, not allowing thought to work in the moment because we are preoccupied with thinking about how we will do everything.

It also lines up really well with the quotes that go along with my title for this post by Deepak Chopra, as well as what many other teachers have written or spoken:

All that you seek is already within you - Ram Dass

So we just have to notice it, step back from trying to find anything and just notice. The mind keeps asking how, the only how is to notice or observe, to find the parts of mind that are running in circles and to let them relax to see what's there being distorted.

Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is diificult is to stop being what you are not. - Mooji

So what does Mooji mean by simple? To me he means effortless action, the kind where you aren't really trying, where you don't try to control the mind or the world because the real stuff is already here. We just get in our own way. That's the difficulty, it's us blocking out the view of reality by trying to domineer it. By passing it through our labels, judgements, ideas, and beliefs.

I love reading works by spiritual teachers because any single line or paragraph can contain so much value. I thought I'd give my perspective on the line and the other included quotes, but I'd love to hear yours as well. I'm still learning and figuring things out in my own life, and sometimes seeing another's perspective can spur more growth.

Hope you enjoyed,

@jakeybrown