You Have Everything. But Do You Have The Moment?

The human who has nothing, tends to seek everything.

The human who has everything, tends to seek peace.

He tends to seek freedom.

Such a one would do well to realize that having everything allows him the rarest of opportunities . . .

It puts him in a unique position among men . . .

Having everything allows him to truly have Everything.

Having everything allows him the freedom to place his sights squarely upon that final stretch of road that has evaded humans for millennia.

Having conquered empires, he can now devote himself to conquering his Mind.

And it must be clearly understood that one who does not conquer his mind lives a life of struggle.

Though he may have everything, he will live forever as an ordinary man or woman.

Having everything provides an opportunity.

And if that opportunity is not grasped, he will have squandered his life.

What is the point of having lived a life of anxiety?

Where is the glory in having lived a life of turbulent moods, emotional pain, and mountains of worry?

Death is infinitely better than such things.

Infinitely better.

One of man’s greatest troubles is that he becomes accustomed to the mental state in which he finds himself.

It becomes home.

It seals his fate.

And he spends his life looking this way and that . . .

Ingesting this and that . . .

Buying this and that . . .

Traveling to here and there . . .

In search of respite.

In search of temporary reprieve from unbearable circumstances.

Life becomes too much for every man.

For unless one discovers The Moment, the mountain of life is too heavy to bare.

And every idea that society and its minions have told you about finding the moment will not work.

They are white lies that produce a dark life.

Never does a man find The Moment by such means.

For even those who preach The Moment are light years from finding it.

When prescriptions do not take a man to the God they promise, man makes the prescription his God.

You may do mindfulness until the earth stops spinning . . .

You may sit in meditation with the world’s most famous meditation teachers, until you develop sores on the bottom of your thighs . . .

You may visit every retreat offered on this planet . . .

You may build temples, live in ashrams, memorize every holy book, prostrate yourself in prayer until your back develops a hump . . .

Practicing mindfulness and meditation will make you better at practicing mindfulness and meditation.

Sitting for Pooja make you more skillful at doing Pooja.

Reciting holy scriptures will make you an expert at the scriptures.

Prostrating in prayer will make you more skillful at praying.

But they will not bring you to The Moment.

For The Moment is not what you have been told that it is.

If it was, you and those whom have taught you such things would have had it by now.

Is there a way?

There is a way.

But you cannot move toward it.

It must be backed into.

I will not tell you how wonderful it is to live within the Cocoon Of The Moment (as I described in the discourse by that very name).

The same way that you do not tell others about how wonderful your state of life is.

I will, however, tell you that it is a place that befits the glory of a human being.

While every place outside of it is an insult to the glory of a human being.

It brings a different look to one’s face.

I don’t know if you would consider it beautiful, or serious.

But it is different.

It is the look of The Moment.

It brings a different quality to the interiority of a human being.

I don’t know if you would consider it uneventful, or still.

The Moment brings a solidness.

Yes . . .

It brings a solidness to one’s way of being.

It brings an impenetrability.

It brings an arrival.

One’s own mind begins to pay homage to him.

It is a metamorphosis.

From a man, to something beyond just a man.

From a woman, to something more than just a woman.

I do not know what to call such a transformed being.

For each name comes with its pre-packaged definitions.

But its quality is something that is not seen in human beings.

If you were to see it . . .

If you were to experience it . . .

You would say that there is something different here.

You would say that it is not something that you have seen before.

The final mile is the mile to a human’s ultimate glory.

To become something more than just a human.

Namaste.