As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.
Interpretation
True understanding lies beyond the actions and thoughts we associate with mindfulness; it is about the essence of being.
This quote emphasizes that the concepts of doing or not doing, thinking or not thinking, add layers to our experience but do not bring us closer to true awareness or enlightenment. It suggests that despite engaging in practices like meditation, without a genuine understanding of one's true nature and essence, one remains distant from a deeper sense of 'home' or truth, which is inherent since birth.
In practice
In a mindfulness workshop, to remind participants of the deeper purpose of meditation.
A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for!
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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