A Seeking Story

Like many seekers Bruce started early, as a child and a teen. For three years as a young adult he lived in a Vedic monastery of a Yoga master. He studied for many years with a prominent Gestalt psychologist. He adopted popular figures in the consciousness movement as his teachers. He practiced and taught traditional Vedic meditation for 60 years.

Amid all this seeking there was much finding. There were momentary openings of spaciousness and freedom. Warm relationships formed in the context of spiritual community. For many the process of seeking itself becomes suffering. That was rarely true for Bruce.

Five times he traveled in India, sometimes with Vedic teachers, sometimes simply absorbing the beauty and Sattva of the land. Until recently, as in the picture above, he was “lost in thought” entertaining lofty “spiritual concepts.”

In 2024 Bruce began to listen on YouTube to the Advaita teachings of the modern Indian saint, Nisargadatta Maharaj. This led to exploring the teachings of Sailor Bob Adamson and his student John Wheeler. In 2005 Bruce immersed in the video conversations of David Bingham and Emerson on YouTube, followed by in-person conversations with both.

For Bruce there was no one day of dawning. It evolved gently and over months. There was a shift from identifying as a separate, spiritual person with a deep sense of being/presence to identifying as that infinite being/presence. It was a falling away from concept and language, lofty as it may have felt, to effortless direct clarity of what is always right here. It was relinquishing habits of belief to the directness of knowing.