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On Hope (Scott Kiloby)
Hope is a postponement of awakening.
The body and mind projects a future story in which it is believed that you will be freer, more peaceful, or more content. This projection creates a vacuum in this moment, draining the natural energy that is available through presence.
Hope is one of the great myths of spirituality. You may experience resistance to this message because hope provides perfect ego food.
Embedded in hope is a story of getting better or becoming more fully yourself. This is attractive to the dream self. But the moment the mind and body projects this story of future happiness, it sustains the belief that you are not already there. The search for something more solidifies the lack within, which perpetuates the drive towards future, which in turn solidifies lack.
This is the cycle of seeking.
In seeing hope when it arises, there is the opportunity to see it for what it truly is. It is a postponement of life itself.
Life has never been anywhere but right here in the space of the timeless. Future is merely a thought arising in this space. This seeing reveals that the entire search for something more is the problem, not the solution.
When the illusion of hope is seen, notice that the space in which it arises is who you really are.
Hope obscures this natural state, which is--by its very nature--already free, peaceful and content.
Scott Kiloby at Reflections on the One Life