Our nature is aloneness

WE CONSTANTLY live in the fear of facing ourselves. We are always busy, always asking what next in the pretext of being busy.

In fact, we are afraid and unhappy with ourselves. We never think or accept us as we are. If we can accept us as we are, we are in enlightenment. We need to enter into a state of aloneness to reach bliss. This state does not mean we reject our family or friends. We have to embrace aloneness with all of them around.

Aloneness is not loneliness. Aloneness is all in oneness. Aloneness is our inborn nature.
Loneliness arises out of social conditioning. You feel lonely when no one is around you. You can be alone even when surrounded by people.

How do we reach this aloneness? If we try to search for aloneness we get into one more bondage. We should just let it be. Let everything and everyone be as they are or how they are.

The simplest way to enter aloneness is to bring awareness. When we feel alone, we should not resist. When we are alone we will try to relate mentally with others. Drop that.

If you feel afraid of being alone, beware of the tendency to become weak or to collapse. Do not blame others for your aloneness. Allow the aloneness happen to you without resistance. You will then feel alone even when people surround you. To start with, we need to experience physical aloneness.

Once the joy of aloneness happens, once we experience the joy, it stays with us even when we are not physically alone. To have aloneness we need to do nothing. Aloneness is our reality. For material comforts we need to work and struggle.

A disciple asked a Zen Master: How long does it take to be enlightened?

Master said: Just the time it takes to blink your eye. You are already enlightened. You only need to declare.

Disciple asked again: What happened to you when you became enlightened?

Master: Nothing, I decided that from that day I shall live my enlightened state.

People ask me: What will happen to my children? What will happen to my business when I get enlightened?

I say: Nothing; you will be better than what you are, in whatever you do. You will not go to an ashram and run away from your life commitments.

Aloneness is not about escaping from your commitments. It is embracing all of them without being affected by whatever may happen. It is about living in reality.