In the end the thing that really matters is Simplicity. That’s what this story from yesterday is talking about. The Mystic is simply living out on the lake. The priests and the bishops come and try to teach him how to pray correctly, when he was out there just simply one with nature, one with God.
So watch out… because we do this kind of thing all the time. This little teaching is saying to watch out for all the knowledge in your mind. All those beliefs about how you should do this correctly and you should do that correctly. Like believing you have to sit in a certain way in order to meditate, or you think all an exact sort of thoughts to get the things you want to get.
We particularly need to get rid of the beliefs of what we are trying to attain in eastern mysticism. You don’t know what it is… that’s why you are looking for it.
What it is you’re trying to attain it’s so simple that if you knew it you would be it. If you saw even just a glimpse of it you would be it. It’s that easy to be completely one with existence. There’s nothing about you that is created out of existence.
That’s what E=MC2 is telling us, right? Everything comes from something. Everything is related, entwined together. Energy and matter, you and me. We are all part of one thing.
When we live there, knowing that, simplicity is the result.