Looking For Secrets?

If we are looking for secrets, we have been misled.

In looking for the ‘good stuff’, we will miss the actual good stuff. The good stuff is in personal realisation and not in others’ words – those are secondhand. 

Whatever is written down is not the truth, whether the words are Togyal, Trekcho, Dharmakaya, Dzogchen, Self, Turiya, Zen, Dao, God, someone’s name …

The absolute truth is the pure consciousness that sees the words and the world around us. That pure seeing is the truth, the obvious secret. We are ethereal pure spirit of consciousness – pure awareness. It cannot be controlled, but only distracted with our consent.

The real shortcut to our reality is in direct experience … just seeing … but that sounds too ordinary so we overlook it.

This is how we’re misled, hoodwinked, deceived, and confused.
It is not “Seek and ye shall find”
(a subtle misdirection).
It is the seeing.

We are ordinary; 
we’re without special or distinctive features; 
we’re not interesting or exceptional; 
we’re commonplace.

There is a sanctity about pure consciousness as something of ultimate importance to be preserved but, if we make more out of it, it becomes a material fascination – which is another subtle misdirection.