The universe does not need your help

Shocking?

Forever you ask for what you’re not—and forever, your heart calls you—just as you are.

One of the most shocking—yet most profound—insights for a mind that is choicelessly committed to self-inquiry is this:

The universe does not need your help in figuring out how to optimize life (let’s call it that).

This includes your life—as the experiencer—but also goes beyond it, to Life itself.

We live as if the weight of our world is on our shoulders.

Everything that doesn’t add up, everything we can’t figure out in terms of bringing harmony into our lives—we assume it demands more effort: more action, more observation, more inspiration… more something to make it all align.

But the universe—the cosmos—is harmony as it is.

You are part of that.

You are not separate from the universe.

And yet, you’ve accepted the notion of being an individual separate from the harmony of the whole.

And to that separation, you are called into action.

This is completely false.

Seeing through the falsehood of that can leave you paralyzed.

And in that paralysis, the universe speaks.

Not with words, not with vision, not with cognition—

with harmony.

It is as if the universe can, at last, breathe harmony into what used to be “your” life—

and now is the universal life,

which is no more yours than it is someone else’s—

and no less.

So all of this is to say:

Don’t be afraid.

Don’t reject the insight that—no matter what you do—you cannot help the universe in any way.

And in seeing that, you fulfill your only real obligation:

to stop disrupting that which is already in perfect harmony.

Now, because this is so deep, so inward, so not personal—so real—

it’s not enough to just hear about it and agree,

or to try practicing it and having experiences.

All of that is still artificial.

It requires… whatever it takes.

Because ultimately, you will have to do anything to discover that you can’t do anything—

or that anything you do actually becomes a barrier.

And because we’re speaking here about inner activity—what we call the activity of the mind:

thought-driven will, ideas, practices, seeking—

this is the point where, if you’re very, very lucky, and very, very honest,

it may drop.

And if it drops for even one second—

that freshness which comes just by dropping all the false—

you can never undo it.

It simply reveals something that is true.

Eternally true.

Universally true.

You don’t know it.

You don’t do anything with it.

It is simply revealed—

to itself, and to others.

It is real.

Not judged as real—

just real.