To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing.

Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of beingness with itself.

What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however that service looks.

I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.

The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.

When all mental activity around who you think you are or what you need for happiness is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfilment: the truth of who you are.