The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. There may be a moment in life when our compensatory activities, the accumulation of money, learning and objects, leaves us feeling deeply apathetic. This can motivate us towards the search for our real nature beyond appearances. We may find ourselves asking, ‘Why am I here? What is life? Who am I?’ Sooner or later any intelligent person asks these questions. What you are looking for is what you already are, not what you will become. What you already are is the answer and the source of the question. In this lies its power of transformation. It is a present actual fact. Looking to become something is completely conceptual, merely an idea. The seeker will discover that he is what he seeks and that what he seeks is the source of the inquiry.

Jean Klein

I Am

“Seeing ourselves as an autonomous entity, an individual, is the basic error of our conditioning. This fractional viewpoint makes understanding an impossibility. It is a fictitious concept, totally lacking in substance and independence, just like the images that appear in dreams.
Everything we do on the level of the concept “me”, any action influenced by the concept of the individual ‘I’, trap us in a vicious circle.
Pure spontaneous action, free from choosing, is the action of infinite consciousness. When the action occurs spontaneously, it is entirely free of the opposing force that any form of choice implies.
In truly creative moments, everything takes place without an ‘I’ interfering. Things occur of their own accord, such action is total action.
In this way agitation ceases and the dynamism in it dies away into the observer, the ‘I’ that contains all.
Once we arrive at this clear-sighted vision, nothing appears to be more obvious than the ultimate reality of unlimited consciousness.”

~ Jean Klein

What called you to India? To visit the society in a traditional way. Went with no purpose. Found teacher. Do you know yourself? Strictly speaking you don’t need a teacher to tell you what you are, but what you are not. The teacher should show you that you are not body senses and mind, but you are the Self.

Jean Klein
“The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. There may be a moment in life when our compensatory activities, the accumulation of money, learning and objects, leaves us feeling deeply apathetic. This can motivate us towards the search for our real nature beyond appearances. We may find ourselves asking, ‘Why am I here? What is life? Who am I?’ Sooner or later any intelligent person asks these questions. What you are looking for is what you already are, not what you will become. What you already are is the answer and the source of the question. In this lies its power of transformation. It is a present actual fact. Looking to become something is completely conceptual, merely an idea. The seeker will discover that he is what he seeks and that what he seeks is the source of the inquiry.”
~Jean Klein I AM

But certain forms of meditation bring one
to the quiet mind and prepare one to be
taken by what is behind the mantra.

“Pronouncing a mantra correctly is a
high art rarely achieved. When correctly
pronounced, it has the power to quiet the
mind. When all formulation of the mantra
is dissolved through the sound vibration,
you are one with the perception, the
vibration. This vibration is still an object
of observation but as you know from your
guru that what you are is the light behind
all perceptions, even this most subtle
object dissolves in your being aware.

The art of the mantra is magic and
to learn it takes a very long time and
a very talented teacher. Usually you
die before you master it!”

Jean Klein
[I Am, P. 28]