Nothing.
What is there to be experienced? Everything.
Do not limit yourself out of fear.
People get trapped in a jail of their own making. There is no jail and no jailor.
You (people) seek a gate, a doorway, a door, a portal. The realization is that it doesn’t exist. The realization is that you are what you seek.
That’s why it is a realization rather than an accomplishment.
Learning to play the piano is an accomplishment. Realizing your nature is not.
The more effort you invest [into] becoming what you want to be, the more separate from it you are.
Simply because effort is of the mind.
The mind is a tool. Tools have a function. Tools ought to be used appropriately. Inappropriate use of tools results in frustration.
Use the tool of mind on matters of accomplishment, not realization.
Use the mind to construct bridges, buildings, to create technology for the good of all.
Do not use it for realization.
A dishwasher is for washing dishes. A washing machine is a tool for washing clothes. Don’t put your dishes in the washing machine unless you want a huge mess.
Don’t ask your mind to resolve matters of the heart. Don’t ask your mind to make you happy. It cannot.
If it could, it would’ve done so by now.
Martha Beck mentions her friend’s advice to men to improve their performance in the bedroom:
If whatever you’re doing isn’t working, don’t do it harder.
Find the path of least resistance. Life doesn’t have to be so effortful.
We are not advocating for laziness and avoidance. Some things are hard. There is no issue with challenge and adversity.
The issue is with the challenge and adversity you create in your mind on top of what already is.
For example, there may be a physical pain in your body. That is a fact. That is what is.
And you have probably at some point trapped yourself in a negative thinking loop of “this will get worse”, “it’s my fault”, etc.
That is adding unnecessary psychological suffering on top of what is.
You know it is unnecessary when you know that at least one other person has experienced a similar situation as what is without thinking about it. Especially without negative thinking about the future.
People have the misconception that negative thinking will get them what they want. Out of the carrot and the stick, they choose the stick because that is what they were taught.
And that’s ok. It is what is. That’s how it was done up to this point. Accept it.
And now that you have a greater level of awareness, you can make a different choice.
Start by setting the intention to remain aware of how you treat yourself internally. Are you kind and loving to yourself, the way you’d be to a 5-year-old child? Or are you harsh and critical and abusive?
Wisdom and discernment do not require adding psychological pain.
Humanity is entering a new stage of its evolution. The way things have been up to this moment is not going to continue. It can’t. Simply because it is unnatural for anything in nature to remain stuck at any particular stage.
Embrace change and evolution and transformation for that is the natural process of life.
Drop your attachment to what is good and bad.
Don’t get hung on on the how.
The desire to understand how is a part of the old system that is dissolving. You don’t have to understand how a car works in order to drive it. You don’t have to understand how a phone works in order to have a video call with a loved one.
We are not advocating for ignorance.
We are advocating for the right relationship with your minds.
Understanding the mechanics involved in a car is one type of intelligence. Some of you have it, others do not.
There are many types of intelligence. Please stop holding people to the same model of intelligence. It limits you in more ways than you know and creates a lot of suffering.
Allow for individual expression.
The what and the why are much more important than the how. There is a greater divine intelligence that you can access that way.
You can desire understanding but do not get attached to it. Experience it.
You don’t have to understand love to experience it.
Attachment to understanding only limits it.
Again, use the tool of mind, of understanding, appropriately.
Don’t drive yourself insane in seeking to understand what cannot be understood at this time.
On a more general note (and to answer Kiki’s question): The answer to how is always to focus on what and why.
Let go of the undesirable state of the way things are.
Only use the undesirable to help you design what is desired. To paint a clear picture of what you want and why you want it. And only in positive terms.
Refine it until you are fully aligned with it.
That’s the deeper how.
When you do this, the surface level how of what to do, how to act, what to say, will reveal itself to you. And it will happen in a mystical, magical, new, surprising or unknown way.
The new way of being, the next stage of human evolution, is to surrender your mind’s attachment to control and understanding. To stop seeing yourself as the one who does things and makes them happen. To stop fighting the current, trying to swim upstream.
Align yourself with the Universe and use its power as your own. Which involves letting go of the way you learned to do things and co-create your vision with a greater power and allow it to assist you rather than fighting against it.
And that feels like a leap into an abyss. That’s what initiation is. The sooner you take the leap, the sooner you get to experience the magic.