The Ultimate Truth Cannot Be Assimilated From A Book

The ultimate truth cannot be assimilated from a book; the authors had to go through much discipline, as we must. Breaking out of the illusion of ideas that we are just material beings, with a vague hope that we are

 more than this takes courage and fortitude and, above all, recognition that the way we live at this moment is someone else’s assimilation.

As seekers, we acquire a library of books, and as practitioners, we acquire a mountain of notes and practices, and a way of life. When it comes to actual realisation, however, that is done in silent awareness, under all conditions.

Book learners adopt a ‘look’ and sound, and their reaction to simple communication is limited. We all have to go through this woodenness to become alive and adaptive.

Encouragement ultimately comes from life itself – the teacher of all phenomena- that exposes our karmic reactions.