The One That is Always Here

When spiritual pointers become distractions and philosophy gaslights us to turn away from what is most evident

“Shiv, something I rarely see addressed directly in spiritual writing is the subject of doubt—not doubt about teachings, practices, or philosophies, but doubt about Being itself. I don’t mean intellectual skepticism, which comes and goes depending on mood or argument. I mean those raw moments when the ground itself feels absent, when all talk of presence, awareness, or non-duality seems hollow, like a story I once believed but no longer touch.

Do you ever encounter moments of such doubt, where even the certainty of Being feels like it slips away into nothing?”

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Doubt has been a near constant companion in my lifetime.

I have doubted people, I have doubted friends, I have doubted relationships, I have doubted myself.

I have doubted society and all the terms and conditions we have unwittingly signed on. I have doubted the innumerable beliefs human beings operate under.

I have doubted my mind, my own sanity.

I have doubted my heart, the purity of its intention.

I have doubted the very ground I walk on, the air I breathe.

I have doubted every word these lips have ever uttered.

Yet, the one thing I have never doubted - is being.

And the truth is you have never doubted it either.