Looking for spirituality…

Looking for spirituality will never bring one to see spirituality, it only brings one to finding their idea of spirituality. The idea of “thing” and the “thing” itself are not one in the same.

To find spirituality it is usually helpful to stop looking, which could itself be viewed as a form of looking… a not-look. Cartesian and platonic logic will fail us here.

A key in this process comes from acknowledging the looker. Who or what is looking? Are you looking? If you can see yourself looking, who is that looker? What informs you that this is looking and not thought of looking?

In this photo I see the sand falling as thought and the monk is breaking the latter of thought with the umbrella and existing before mind does it’s controlling thing. This is the essence of Buddhism, breaking the cycle of samsara.