23/10/2026
"Everybody who’s seeking their true self is already at home.
They’re already that.
They’re just not aware of it.
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For me, it was a process, and it was a process that took a long time.
The beginning was getting present to what is real,
which is basically meditation.
If you’re present to what is real and you’re not thinking,
you’re in meditation.
I’m in meditation pretty much all the time because I don’t entertain dream.
I can’t be bothered with it.
I love reality.
Reality is what I can see, what I can hear, what I can touch,
what I can smell, what I can taste.
What I think is not reality, and I know that.
—
The other thing I found I loved was heart.
I worked out that if we are open, we can perceive heart quite easily.
But if we’re closed and defended, we can’t.
So my second practice was the practice of openness, so I could perceive love.
As far as enlightenment is concerned,
I found that when I was in the presence of my awake teachers,
I’d find myself as beingness.
So I attended as many Satsangs as I could.
After one retreat with an enlightened man,
I found myself as beingness, and it’s been that way ever since.
After the retreat and the teacher had gone, the next day I found Vishrant had also gone.
And he hasn’t been seen since.
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I don’t experience myself as an “I.”
I experience an absence of Vishrant,
but I do experience myself as the universe, every particle being love.
When I first found that, I lost a lot of my personality.
A lot of my human traits disappeared.
I didn’t blink, and I didn’t look away when I talked to people.
I came across as quite non-human.
Since then, I’ve been pretending to be human so I can communicate with people.
But it is a pretence.
Because the bottom line is, we’re not human beings.
We are pure beingness.
We always have been.
We cannot be anything other than that.
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Self-inquiry is the potential for awareness to become aware of itself
and possibly stay aware of itself, which is enlightenment.
There is nothing spiritual about it.
There is nothing holy about it.
It’s just what we can do as human beings.
Unfortunately, there’s an awful lot of spirituality wrapped around it.
Smells and bells, which I don’t get into one bit.
I love reality.
I don’t like bu****it much.
You can wake up.
You’ve just got to prepare the mind for it.
A mind that can relax.
A mind that can stay ambient even while under fire.
That’s the right type of mind.
Then you can do self-inquiry,
or you can come into the presence of someone who’s awake.
That’s where I woke up.
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The consequence of that is pretty much constant bliss.
Profound contentment for no reason.
Usually, we get contented for a reason.
But I’ve been experiencing profound contentment for no reason for 27 years.
So I do recommend it.
It’s not holy.
It’s not spiritual.
It’s just something we can do as human beings.
We can find ourselves as Truth and exist as that,
instead of existing as this animal that thinks it’s been somewhere
and thinks it’s going somewhere."
- Vishrant