True Finders Are Few

True Finders Are Few W hen you are on your own, where are you taking refuge? Most seekers are taking refuge somewhere. What ideas about yourself and what ideas about the Absolute are you taking refuge in? If you want to be free, then you have to look into all of your beliefs. You have to find out who you really think you are. Most seekers, knowingly or unknowingly, are ceaselessly cultivating a relationship between their individual sense of self and a larger idea of Self. So much of spiritual practice and experience is made up of the pursuit and culti­vation of a relationship between an idea of a small self and an idea of a big Self, between an idea of man and an idea of God, between an idea of earth and an idea of ­heaven. In fact, it is the pursuit and cultivation of this very relationship that is often believed to be the path to salvation. Why is this a problem? Because unless the seeker finally­ comes to that point in their own evolution where they discover for themselves that no relationship actually exists between a small self and a big Self, between man and God, between earth and heaven, they will never become a true finder. Realizing this is so important. In fact, our success depends on it entirely. It is in profound understanding that the real meaning of spiritual freedom is known. In that understanding all relationship comes to an end. True finders are few and far between. Indeed, most seekers prefer never to get this far. That is why the relation­ship between individuality and a larger, mysterious sense of Self is almost never gone beyond. Because in order to do so, all ideas and beliefs which are places of refuge for the seeker have to be abandoned. It is only in the experiential discovery and unconditional acceptance of no relationship whatsoever that a Liberation that is final is born.