Reality exists in the heart, the core of your being.

“Reality” doesn’t denote any seeming-reality the mind would experience as other than itself, but only the ultimate reality that underlies and supports all experience.

We get lost in forms when we forget they owe their existence to ultimate reality.

We endlessly elaborate conceptual thought, thinking truth can be found in its permutations.

But truth can never be found in any elaboration.

Truth is always prior to any elaboration or add-on.

It can’t be conveyed in words because it’s prior to words.

It can’t be known by experience because it’s prior to experience.

Every elaboration only breaks the stillness in which alone the truth is known.

This is what it means to “look within.”

Stay where reality is, and don’t go out where it’s not.

Reality can appear as the manifold, as light can appear as a rainbow.

Once you realize the truth in your heart, you will conclude it is everywhere because nothing else truly exists.

(The colors of the rainbow are nothing other than the light that composes them.)

Asking why forms cause suffering is like asking a childless parent what their kid has been up to.

Forms aren’t real so they can’t cause anything.

You can chase a rainbow, but you won’t approach it, because it exists in the eye of the beholder.

Chasing what is within as if it’s without causes suffering.

photo by David Brooke Martin