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The End of the Quest
Darren:
Let me ask you this: even the mind we have, use and need was
put here by this Mystery, right?
Stephen:
Everything is just happening. That’s a concept—this Mystery. When I
try to understand what’s happening here, what’s seeing
everything in the room here, and what perceives this? It’s a
mystery. That’s why I use the term Mysterious Source.
Then we
observe everything in the appearance and say, this is the
Mysterious Source expressing itself. I find no separation
between the Mysterious Source, what I am, what you are, and
everything is. It’s all One. I am the Mysterious
Source. You are the Mysterious Source.
Darren:
It’s all the Mysterious Source.
Stephen:
It’s all the Mysterious Source. It’s one solid block of
reality—one solid block of God.
Darren:
I now realize my struggle to make sense of all this is
perhaps what I must let go of. Because I’m trying to make
sense of something that cannot be understood. When you keep
using the word mystery, I think that’s my
salvation—to embrace that it’s a mystery.
Stephen:
Yes, burn out the intellect. You try so hard it implodes on
itself. There’s no way to know anything absolutely. There’s
no way to know anything absolutely because all knowledge is
relative. What is it relative to? When you say, "I know
this," it’s relative to something. When you realize the
foundation upon which all knowledge is built is a
conceptual fabrication—you realize there’s no way to know anything
absolutely.
Darren:
And, hence, whatever you build onto this fabrication is all…
Stephen:
It all falls apart. What’s left is this witnessing that’s
happening. And I know nothing. So this is a not
knowing. Advaita is not two. When you see that you
know nothing and there is not two—that’s it. There’s
nothing left to do.
Darren:
This is the end of the quest.
Stephen:
This is it. I Am. There’s no separate self to realize.
There’s nothing to do, nowhere to go—this is it!
