What is the 'you' that has sprouted, that has taken root? That alone is the cause of pleasure and pain. When you understand this, it is all over, finished. Then you do some clapping, shout and scream out of exuberance; all the show is over.
~Nisargadatta
The mountain is a metaphor. These feet are meant for walking. Every body has a karmic responsibility to get things done. Yet, no one asks us to identify with what is being done or has to get done. The distance to walk cannot be altered, but the perception that’s an uphill climb is entirely our doing. In other words, the mountain is mind-generated, and disappears the moment we realize the game that we are playing with ourselves.
When we don’t feel that object and subject converge, all these writings are pretty meaningless. The imagined mountain is meaningful, however, in that it allows us to stop our climb whenever we so choose, realizing the meaning the self attaches to the climb, or the pain of taking another step. Either make a stop and smell the wild flowers at the mountain side, or stop asking who exactly minds climbing it. We can drop the mountain climb just like that. Ecstasy awaits.
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