My dear friend,Suppose it was something you needed to know, something that would drastically alter your life to the better. Suppose you could just find this little piece of knowledge so that you finally could rest in peace and enjoy life. The magic key to enlightenment, yes, suppose you could find it...
Are not your life full of these keys? Are they not around every corner? Maybe you have not looked closely enough. Maybe the magic key is staring you straight in the face right now, or maybe that which you are looking for can never be found. Maybe it can NEVER be found...
How can you find something that is not hidden? How can you find something that is always with you? It is like the fish in the ocean looking for water. If you where a fish in the ocean, where would you look to find water, if you thought it was missing? Maybe you would seek out the guru-fish, that old wise fish, that seemingly has found the magic substance of water.
What would the guru-fish tell you? Would he not be a little dumbfounded by your request? Where would the guru-fish point you to? If the guru-fish where as wise as the other fish believed him to be, he would surely be wise enough to explain to you where the water was, right? If he had found it, it had to be somewhere. That is just common sense...
Guru-fish is in reality no different from the other fish. He is not more advanced or wise than the other fish, he simply stopped searching for water at one point. He stopped looking for it. He stopped the search for the magic substance of water, and instead, he decided to live from a place of peace from where he was at. He decided that instead of wasting his life searching for something that seemingly did not want to be found, he would enjoy the moments in his life with what he had.
The guru-fish went through a shift of consciousness when he made that choice. He went from a seekers consciousness to that of a fish living in the present moment, not worrying about what could be. He made a choice to live, not searching.
This shift of consciousness made the fish see more clearly. Without the "seeking consciousness" he could finally see what was here, right now. The future did not steal his attention anymore, for he had given up on the future. He had given up the search and anticipation and decided to just be that which he was, a simple but beautiful fish.
It did not take long for the guru-fish to notice that what he had been searching for his whole life was already there. The magic substance water was all around him, and even inside him. When his consciousness finally noticed this he started laughing at how simple it was to find. All he had to do was look in the right moment. Not in the right place, but in the right moment. He had to look in the Now, he had to see that which was in front of him in this moment.
So, now he had become a guru-fish and all the other fish looked up to him trying to find what he had found. It would frustrate the guru-fish from time to time, constantly pointing out the obvious. But he would soon remember that he also used to miss the most obvious thing there is. He used to be the one searching. Water was what they where all living in, it was here, it was now, and it was beautiful and vast beyond belief.
Namaste