7th September 2012
By Chris Bourne
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World
The search for the Holy Grail
There is something which humanity has been searching for since our inception. Something which is the answer to every single question, every single thought, word, deed and feeling. It is our destiny, it is the beginning and end of everything…the circle completing itself. We can search, question and create as much as we want to in the external world of effects, but unless we’ve found the source of our inquisitiveness, we’re guaranteed not to have satiated our desires. Yet even when we eventually give up the fruitless external struggle and embark on the inner journey, we still won’t find it whilst someone is looking for it. So what am I talking about? It is the HolyGrail. The “Seer” of all things…
That which is sought cannot be found
This is the problem…God is everything and nothing at the same time. It exists in and through all things and we are that. Time and space is but an illusion; indeed the Universe is an elaborate dream. How could such wonder be real? How could such magnificience simply be created from nothing? Unless of course it is nothing. Indeed everything is nothing and nothing is everything. Quantum science tells us that if I was to take all of the space from between the subatomic particles of a human being, there wouldn’t be enough matter to fit on a pin head! And even that which is left, cannot truly be defined has having mass and a definite centre. We can only speak in terms of our atoms having a probability of being in a certain place at a certain time.
This is completely inline with what the mystics, gurus and sages have been saying for centuries…
“Know that this Universe is nothing but a dream,
a bluff of nature
to test your consciousness of immortality.”
~Paramahansa Yogananda
Phoenix from the ashes
But I wouldn’t expect you to believe either me or them, unless that is, you’ve already knowingly experienced that which is beyond experience…the mythical, magical Seer which arises like the Pheonix from the burned out ashes of identity.
Yes, when we’re no longer efforting or seeking and when we’re no longer afraid of a particular outcome or circumstance in life, then suddenly the state of the Seer can simply arise within us. It is pure non-identified presence. It exists in and through all things. It is everywhere and nowhere. When we experience being the Seer, it is as if no one is inside of us. It’s as if we’re being a blank canvas.
And herein lies the “problem”. We’re so used to noise, distraction, efforting, searching or fear of the moment; we’re so used to the space being filled, that when it isn’t, we either find it so supreme that we want to own it, or so terrifying that we want to grasp onto something, anything to take the void – the sense of abandonment – away.
A simple choice to be free
Yes, society has invested so heavily in our identity. We have particular needs, wants desires, foibles, habits, skills and we’ve built elaborate stories around those – whole life styles have been created for us. We have expectations and the need to fulfill other people’s expectations – our parents our friends “can you just do this for me please?” “Sure I can”. “Oh you’re not going to do that are you? That’s just not how we do things around here”. And then one day, we might find a partner and have kids. Suddenly we’re burdened with responsibility.