"You are the Sky.
Everything else --
It's just the weather."
~ Pema Chodron

Your conventional life experience
Your typical experiences are just like the weather:

• Cloudiness … Feeling hopeless

• Soaking rains … Desires squashed

• Freezing cold … Being stuck

• Scorching heat … Burning anger

• Lightning strikes … Getting confused

• Thunderclaps … Feeling fearful

• Wind gusts … Swinging between happiness and suffering

• Gentle breeze ... Feeling relaxed

• A snow coat ... Feeling serene

These kinds of experiences come and go just like the weather.

Your real nature
The great Masters point that your real nature is like the Sky:

• Expansive

• All-encompassing

• Unaffected by anything

• Always present

• Silent

• Peaceful

• Loving

• Happy

• Abundant 

Your real nature is steady, ever-present, unchanging.

What are you identified with?
The pointer of the Masters is simple yet profound. There is the "you" that you think you are - stressed, struggling, suffering, and limited. And there is the real "YOU" that you truly are - peaceful, contented, loving, whole.

What do you identify yourself with? Who do you think you are?

It is not a question of whether you identify with positive things or negative things. The question is whether you identify with the changing and the limited or with the unchanging and the ever-present.

Like most people, you think you are the weather. But, in reality, you are the Sky itself!

The great inner power
The real YOU is a source of untold power. It is the source of all peace, love, and happiness without their opposites. It is the seat of all clarity, wisdom, courage, strength, creativity, and compassion - the ingredients you need to make clear decisions and take powerful actions.

Everything you need to succeed in life, all you need to live life fully exists naturally already where this great inner power is.

What is Being YOU?

Being you is about
Being the real YOU
Unleashing your inner power
Unfolding into your true self
So you can live life fully

How to tap into this great inner power that is the real YOU?

Check out our PathFinder - it is a resource that helps you select the most appropriate path for your self-transformation.

Silence is the key to connecting with your inner power. One of the offerings here is The Peace Practice - a simple yet potent silence meditation practice. It is the art of resting attention in silence.

When you rest attention in silence, you begin to tap into inner peace - the inner power. Practicing this meditation regularly transforms your life in ways you cannot begin to imagine.

Self-transformation or Self-Realization?

As long as you think you are this limited person, continuous self-transformation is critical. When you pursue authentic practices, it prepares you to let go of the firm identification with who you think you are. You become ready to experience who you really are - to realize the real YOU.

Realizing the real YOU is Self-Realization. It is the beginning of the end of all struggles in life. When you recognize in your own experience that you are like the Sky, weather experiences don't affect you anymore. At this time in your journey, self-transformation is no longer needed - you realize that you are just trying to change the weather, which is entirely unnecessary and ultimately futile. Your life and your practice become simple - centered around one thing - being YOU, the real YOU.

The world is ailing. How can being the real YOU be of help?

Realizing the real YOU and being the real YOU are the greatest gifts you can give the world. 

As the real YOU, you shine as peace-love-happiness without their opposites. You radiate the inner power, and as such, you become a living example of what it is to live awake and live free. You live as the light that draws others to the very same Self-Realization.

The inner journey to Being YOU

As you can see, Being YOU, Being the real YOU, requires an inner journey - until one day when you realize your true self and recognize that there was no real journey at all though it appeared to be so. 

You already are yourself - your true self, this inner power. After all - how can you take a step toward yourself? Knowing this as a conceptual idea is not useful in the least. Realizing this as a living experience alone helps with truly Being YOU.

These ten truths about your inner essence establish a clear framework for your journey to being YOU.