Realisation Isn’t Complicated

We don’t have to learn special words or special rituals, or acquire mannerisms – ordinary gestures or expressions that become abnormal through exaggeration or repetition. Such behaviour makes us rigid, and separates us from others.

Realisation is knowing our true reality of pure consciousness; we understand how the mind works, and why we behave in the way we do. We become our own therapist. It has nothing to do with religion, or being ‘spiritual’ or clever.

Being spiritual is being consciously aware before we are aware of something in the mind. It’s like the breath; we cannot see it, but we know its presence. In fact, the word ‘spirit’ comes from the Latin for breath – spiritus.

With realisation, we lose the attitude, the act, the spiritual mannerisms which can alienate people.

Our life can be simple and quite ordinary in appearance; we still have to eat, repair things, be mindful and care. If we make spirituality special, we complicate life with a veil of dogma that stops us just seeing, listening, tasting … the simple joys of life. Joy is simply clarity which is beyond conventional joy, whether a situation is pleasant or unpleasant,.

Knowing is our first nature.
The one we acquire is our second nature
– and that’s the complicated one.