You Are Not Becoming Anything | Aswin Sundharam | Romancelovesophy

3 months ago

Most of us live trying to become something—better, happier, enlightened. The mind is a machine of becoming. It always thinks, “If I get there, I will be okay.” But the path of reality has nothing to do with becoming. Imagine a wave in the ocean. It struggles to become bigger, stronger, better. But when the wave stops struggling, it does not become the ocean. It realizes it was never separate. The wave ends. There is no journey. No arrival. You are not trying to become reality or enlightenment. That is the mind talking. That is the wave thinking it needs to travel to the ocean. The path offers no destination, no title, no certificate. It offers the end of the traveler. When the traveler disappears, who is left to arrive? No one. And yet, for the first time, there is peace. If you seek