The Mountain

A man climbed a mountain and when he got all the way to the top, he saw an old man sitting there. He approached the old man and said
“Hello”,
the old man replied back and said
“Hello”
and asked the man.
“Why are you here?”,
to which the man replied
“I’m here to find the truth.”

The old man asked,
“What truth?”
The man replied,
“My truth.”
So the old man, sitting down, raised his head up and said
“There are many truths. Which one are you looking for?”
The man replied,
“I’m looking for my truth, the only truth.” The old man asked,
“Would you be satisfied with just one truth?” The man replied,
“Yes.”
The old man asked,
“Are you sure you only want one truth and not many truths?”
and the man replied,
“No, I just want one truth.”

The old man looked at the man’s face and stared into his eyes. He asked the man,

“Why is it that you’re only looking for one truth?”
The man replied,
“Because there is only one truth.”
The old man looked at the man with wonder in his eyes and said,
“Do you know how many people have come here to find the truth? Some have come here to find many truths, while few came to find one truth.”
The man asked,
“So how many have found many truths and how many have found just one truth?”
The old man responded,
“I lost count.”
The man asked,
“How can you lose count?”
The old man replied,
“When you have lived on a mountain for so many years, you get to realize that the truth is where you stand. Many before you have stood here and then turned back.”

The man then asked the old man,
“Isn’t that a good thing, because they found what they were looking for?”
The old man replied,
“No, you all wasted so much time climbing up this mountain looking for the truth.”
The man got upset and asked,
“Are you saying that I’ve wasted my time climbing up this mountain to find my truth?”
The old man replied,
“What do you truly believe?”
The man responded,
“I truly believe that I didn’t waste my time in looking for the truth.”

The old man looked at him and said, “Many before you have felt the same way you do.”
The manager got upset and angrily said,
“How dare you tell me this, I thought you were a man of vision that carries wisdom and knowledge, but you’re just an old man who is here sitting on top of this mountain and you have the nerve to tell me I wasted my time! What have you done all these years, but sit on this mountain wasting away?”
The old man smiled at the man and replied,
“I have not wasted my time sitting on this mountain, for I have found my truth and I chose to climb this mountain to teach others like you to find the truth, while others continue looking for the truth.

That’s why I sit here today, waiting to tell you that you never had to climb to the top of the mountain to find the truth. One of the problems everyone has is that they feel they have to climb the mountain to find the truth, but they never needed to do it.”
The old man continues,
“You see, no one wants to see what’s in front of their face. They choose not to see the reality of what’s there, for your eyes are closed and your ears are shut while your brain wanders away. Your truth has always been there, but like many others felt they also needed to climb the mountain to find their truth, and you allowed yourself to hear the words of the world to tell you where the truth was. Now do you realize that it was never here in the first place?”

We struggle so much to find our truth and we look all over to find that truth, but all we needed to do was to look in the mirror.

Written by Guru Enlightment
Edited by Gentle Soul