Where Do We Go To Find Ultimate Truth?

Where do we go to find ultimate truth? When we get there, how do we know it’s true? The decorations? The poetic words?

The term ‘ultimate truth’ is a misnomer; it is ordinary truth, ordinary reality. Don’t be put off by the word ‘ultimate’, which can sound far away and unattainable. It’s not somewhere we have to get to … we’re already there. It’s our starting point and it’s right here, right now.

Ultimate truth is beyond word descriptions and elaborate displays, although we believe these make it more worthy. 🙂

What happens when we go to find ultimate truth?
We  r e c o g n i s e.

Re-cognise: from Latin recognoscere ‘know again, recall to mind’.
This means we already knew it, but ignored it because we were looking for something more interesting.

So where do we go for ultimate truth?
Within our own mind, at the level of pure consciousness.

How do we re-know ultimate truth?
By sitting on our cushion for first-hand experience, not by reading about it. That is second-hand information.

Meditation is just to remind us to let go of intellectualisations and fantasies, and allow pure consciousness to just be, without expectations. Letting go of wanting to know is direct clarity of ultimate truth. It is by letting go of both ideas and a belief in a self that consciousness clarifies, seeing clearly. It’s as ordinary as that.

Drop all obsession with ‘mystery’ and fascination and decorations.

Ultimate truth – our ultimate reality – is simply all we need to address each situation in a simple way. The path to enlightenment is clearing away the debris; ­the scattered pieces of rubbish or remains that are no longer needed, including all our cherished ideas about me and mine.

We won’t find ultimate truth in a book; it’s in the seeing!
The book is merely a teaser.

When we realise this, we no longer carry books around.
They’re too heavy,
and we smell like a dusty old secondhand ego-accumulating book shop.
🙂