10/28/2025
In the second line of this saying, the power of this gospel is revealed: “When he does find, he will be disturbed.”
This line is pointing to why most people don’t find lasting happiness - because most people don’t want to be disturbed. We don’t want our search for happiness to have any difficulty in it. What we really want is happiness on a platter.
But to find what true happiness is, we must be willing to be disturbed, surprised, wrong in our assumptions - and cast into a very deep well of unknowing.
If someone said to you, “You can stop suffering. You can really stop suffering completely, right here, right now. All you have to do is give up everything you think. You have to give up your opinions, you have to give up your beliefs, you even have to give up believing in your own name. You have to give all this up, but that’s all you have to do. Give all of that up, and you can be happy, completely happy, free of suffering forever.”
For most people, this is an unacceptable bargain.
If we’re not willing to find out that what we believe in really isn’t the truth, then we can never be happy.
This is why Jesus said when you begin to find, you will be disturbed.
When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer.
This is, in many ways, the most important step:
Are you willing to be aware?
Are you willing to be wrong?
Are you willing to see that you may not he living from a standpoint of truth, from a standpoint of reality?
To be disturbed means you’re willing to see truth, you’re willing to see that maybe things aren’t the way you thought they were.
- Adyashanti
‘Falling Into Grace’