The Nondual Teachings of Jesus: Hidden Treasure

The Kingdom of God, also called unitive awareness or nondual awareness, is like a treasure that is discovered. That is the way that Jesus described it in two stories, known as the parable of the Treasure in the Field and the parable of the Pearl of Great Price. Some people search for the treasure. For them life is a treasure hunt. Others simply stumble across it. 

Some spiritual teachers downplay or disparage searching. It is often said that there is nothing that one can do to be awakened or enlightened. In Christian circles it is likewise said that there is nothing you can do to be saved. That it is all a matter of grace. This is true. Yet people search. We can’t help it. And it seems that many of those who find went through a period of searching. 

Jesus encouraged spiritual seeking. He said, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Some people are spiritual seekers. The search consumes their lives. Either way – seeking or not – the truth is the same. In the end we see that the searching is not what did it. There is nothing we can do to become what we already are or to get what we already have. Searching is the process that many people go through to realize that searching is unnecessary.