My Seeking Story
Bruce reads from Vedic texts in Ranikhet in the Indian Himalayas. He pondered for years spiritual concepts, and thoughts about oneness.
The truth is, we already are that oneness, but the thoughts, emotions, and concepts veil the reality from us.
Realization is not to be found in the activity of the mind. Realization is directly known when the mind is silent.
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 people the process of incessant seeking in 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 spiritual beauty. Until recently, as in the picture above, he was often “lost in thought” entertaining lofty “spiritual concepts.”
In 2024 Bruce began to listen on YouTube to the non-duality teachings of the modern Indian saint, Nisargadatta Maharaj. This led to exploring the teachings of Sailor Bob Adamson from Australia and his student John Wheeler. In 2025 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 in 2025. Awareness evolved gently and and steadily over months. There was a shift from identifying as a separate, spiritual person with a deep sense of being/presence to identifying as infinite being/presence. It was a quieting of concepts and language, exalted as they may at times have felt—to effortless direct clarity of what is always right here. It was relinquishing habits of inner dialog, incessant thinking and grasping beliefs—opening to the directness of knowing.
It is now clear that there is “no there there.” There is no landing place, but instead a continuous landing. What is most noticeable is the direct clarity of what is here: more awake to “chopping wood and carrying water” each day. Planning less, flowing more.