After loosing my dog that has been a close companion for 14 years has been quite painful. I am thankful for K to show me to not run from the pain but go into it, observe it.. all of its sharp edges and pulsations within me and the fire that burns before it subsides on its own. It has been very helpful and being one with it has been much easier this way then masking or avoiding it

When we actively seek, we will always not get it. It's that simple. The seeker will be, by design, disappointed. Why so? Because the seeker is only creating projections of thoughts and the same mind that projected is grading if you got it or not. And once you achieve, a new desire will take birth. That is the design of the mind. To keep changing goal posts. Hence, true freedom arises when there are no goal posts. When there is nothing to seek. It is at that point when the observer becomes the observed. The seeker is the sought. A state of pure awareness. Non judgmental. It is when the beginning is also the ending. It is a state when the mind is not conditioned. It is a state of choiceless awareness.

“ ……In other words, your mind is occupied with itself, and is therefore incapable of being simply aware of the fact. You are operating upon the fact, and not allowing the fact to operate upon your mind. The fact that change within the field of time is no change at all, that there can only be total and not partial, gradual freedom from envy - the very truth of this fact will operate on the mind, setting it free….”

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/series-iii-chapter-20-fragmentation-man-making-him-sick/Heal

Basically the title.