John 7:36 Meaning What Is This Word That He Said

Ye shall seek me and shall not find me. Of course, because seeking is the mind reaching into past and future, while what you seek is here, in the one place the mind refuses to look. You search everywhere except where you already are.

Where I am, thither ye cannot come, not because a door is locked, but because 'where I am' is presence itself, and no amount of thinking can carry you into it. The thinking is exactly what keeps you outside. You do not reach the present moment by seeking harder. You arrive the moment you stop seeking and grow still and awake right where you stand.

Puzzlement is the mind's way of postponing. It turns a living difficulty into a riddle to be solved later, and while it turns the sentence over, nothing in the man turning it has changed.

Seeking cannot reach that place because the seeker is made of the very thing that must go. Wherever you look, you carry the looking with you, and the looking is the wall. There the one who searches has evaporated, and no amount of chewing on a sentence will move anyone an inch closer. Sit quietly, and the searcher begins to thin.