REACHING FOR COMPLETENESS

[Pravin Kumar]

Reaching for Completeness:

The mind agitation that tells you the next thing will make you complete is what keeps you in the constant mode of reaching. Reaching that will either end because this is realized or because life in this forms ends...

I will be complete when this happens next or that happens. The next fix, the next satisfaction, the next whatever is used as next. What's next goes on to infinity, it never ends until it's realized there is no end and you will always be reaching for that which is already here. But who is the reacher and why all this reaching? Either there's completeness now with the way things are or there isn't. Reaching for the next whatever it is that you think will bring utopia never ends because there's nothing to truly attain that will end the reaching. The Conditioned Mind will tell you different and that's why there's reaching. What you really need to ask is, who is the one doing the reaching and why? The fictional character of self that's been made up to think things need to be different for completeness is just that, fictional and this is why there's reaching, no other reason.

The self that makes up this nonsense that you are incomplete is just a story of incompleteness and this is what keeps you reaching. The dream of attaining a certain status, the next promotion, the trophy partner, the next book, the next, the next, the next, whatever keeps you in the constant mode of the reach, reaching that will either end because this is realized or because life in this forms ends. The reach will end one day, but in which way that will be is determined if you spend your entire life reaching for that which is already here or stop the reaching because it's realizes there's nothing to reach for because you are already complete...

MICHAEL CUPO