“I get it, we’re all one! I am God just as much as you are God!” Parrots the seeker, to his guru.

“Yes, and that means you’re a murderer as much as you are the jaybird,” replies the guru.

For one who is awake, who has had a direct experience of oneness, this truth is as beautiful as the truth of the sun shining in the middle of the day.

To the seeker, however, this is received as despicable and is immediately rejected, accompanied by negative emotion, resistance and more questions.

You’ll never experience the Truth of oneness as long as you’re seeking, attending Satsang, or hanging on the words of a guru. But that doesn’t mean you should’t attend Satsang or hang on the words of a guru.

The irony is that most people need to do both in order to experience Truth. But it doesn’t happen until you let go. You must “kill the buddha,” as some say.

If you want to know who you are and why you’re here… if you wish to know Truth, you have to get out of your mind. To get out of your mind you have to question everything. You have to take all of your deeply held beliefs and convictions—you know, the pillars your entire life is founded upon, such as your relationships, your family, your obligations, your career, your gender, your talents, your skills, and even your religion—and throw it all into the fire.

Burn the shit out of everything you cherish and see what survives. Only that which survives is Truth.

Spoiler Alert: none of it will survive because none of it is True. Our lives are entirely made up of stories, opinions and beliefs we’ve collected and inherited over the course of our lives.

Even the most happy and loving stories are bullshit.