The difficulty is not in understanding, but in remembering that you have understood, in a system designed for forgetting.

I am sure all of us who are on this path have had the experience of trying to put into words our experience and finding we can't. It can be frustrating. This short video explains why we can't really describe our experience with this medicine. It reminds me of the quote from the Tao Te Ching: "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao" (trans Stephen Mitchell)

The seeker and what is sought are the same. To begin with, you do not exist in the way you think you do. The person you take yourself to be is an idea, a thought, a temporary form. Here is an analogy: Most of the waves in the ocean long to reach the ocean. But when some of the waves discover that their own nature already is the ocean, something decisive happens. In that very moment, the wave ceases to be a wave. The search comes to an end. There is no longer anyone who asks, anyone who seeks to arrive, anyone who speaks of existence. The human being is the same. A temporary expression, a form that arises and disappears. A temporary movement in the all-pervading consciousness, which for a time appears to limit itself through ignorance, through a dream-like experience of being separate. When this limitation ends, when the dream dissolves, it is called enlightenment. But in truth, it was never about an individual becoming enlightened. It has always been about the all-pervading consciousness recognising itself. There are no separate individuals. There never have been. Therefore, no one has ever become enlightened, and therefore no one ever will. What is, has always been what is.

We all like to take the high ground and force our opinions on the world. In retreat sometimes i give this anology. Imagine a dozen people sitting in a circle, each with a sketchbook and pencil and in the very center of the circle there is a single teapot. Everyone's drawing will be different depending on the perspective that you draw from BUT although everyone's drawing is different the truth of the object is still a teapot. So we see the truth is different from each unique god perspective! Namasti 🙏

"As long as you believe in God, you remain separate, and fear survives.” This is not an attack on the sacred — it is an exposure of illusion. Belief creates distance. The moment God becomes an object of belief, something outside you, separation is born. And where there is separation, fear naturally survives: fear of judgment, fear of punishment, fear of losing grace, fear of being unworthy. Mystics never asked you to believe. They asked you to see. In the silence of true seeing, God is not “there” and you are not “here.” The division collapses. Fear cannot exist without distance. Fear needs a gap — between you and life, you and truth, you and existence. This is why mystics dance, sit in silence, laugh, disappear. Not because they believed — but because belief dissolved. Attributed to the spirit of Rumi, this insight points beyond religion, beyond theology, beyond ideology. It invites you to drop belief and enter intimacy with existence itself. No belief. No fear. Only presence. If this resonates, sit with it — don’t agree, don’t disagree. Let it work in silence. Source Mystical insight inspired by the non-dual tradition and the spirit of Rumi’s teachings on direct experience over belief.