The idea that there is something more that needs to be seen or known in the future before you can be free or enlightened is fuel for the spiritual search. The search is not the answer. It's the problem. The search arises from a misperception that you are not already there.
But where is 'there'? What is it? The most the mind can do is come up with a concept to put in place of the word 'there.' It believes that it must reach something called freedom, enlightenment, presence, love, awareness, Oneness, contentment or 'the end of the search.' Each of those is merely a concept.
Like a hamster on a wheel, the mind is chasing its own concepts. The search is perpetuated when concepts are taken to be real and are not seen for what they really are Â- tempoorary forms arising and falling in the space of now. What is being pointed to here is not conceptual. It is the recognition that who you are is inseparable from this space. You are, at the deepest level, the space in which everything arises and falls.
Confirming that you are this space reveals what is being pointed to with words like 'enlightenment,' and 'presence.' Realize that what you have been seeking is what you already are. No matter what idea you have of yourself in the future, see that it is only an image arising in the space of now.

~ by Scott Kiloby