Thread by @KapilGuptaMD

A LETTER TO THOSE WHO ASK ME FOR ADVICE

Each morning, I awaken to an inbox that is is filled with requests for advice

People who ask me for help with their relationships, their sufferings from emotional turmoil, problems with their career, and so on

The things upon which human suffering is based are not real

But the suffering itself is real.

Pain in the Mind is far more painful

Than pain in the body.

It is pointless to attempt to "convince" anyone of anything.

The Truth is simply the Truth

Whether one accepts it or not.

The Truth is that the person who asks for "free advice"

Is Unserious.

For even if all of his questions were answered to his heart's content,

He would promptly manufacture a new list of questions.

The Truth is that "free advice" is the most fruitless of all human endeavors.

The messages I post upon Twitter

And The Private Discourses I send to subscribers

Are neither in their intent or their content

Prescriptive or Method-Driven.

They simply state The Way Things Are.

There is not a single being in the history of human existence who has achieved anything of Significance

Without putting significant Skin In The Game.

Before you ask me for "free advice"

Ask yourself what you are willing to Give

In order to prove to yourself that you truly desire it.

I receive clever statements such as,

"Money is not the only way to show commitment."

In theory, wars should not exist either.

In theory, humans should be Enlightened from birth to death.

But these are not Practical Truths,

No matter how "theoretically proper" they may sound.

The cold, hard Truth,

No matter how "wrong" or "unpleasant" or "unspiritual" it may sound,

Is that Money is the single most reliable Litmus Test for Seriousness

Within the psyche of modern man.

All else is clever small talk.

A man who pledges 500K per year to our Journey

But is worth $8 Billion

Is not nearly as Serious

As the one who pledges 250K per year

But is worth 5 million.

The one who takes out a loan for 5K

In order to pay for The Private Discourses

Is perhaps the Most Serious of All.

This world is filled with Unserious human beings

Who will die as they lived.

And when they die,

Death will be the Most Serious thing they have ever done in their life.

I am not a good human

I am not a bad human.

I am not kind

I am not evil.

I may have benefitted humanity

I may not have benefitted humanity at all.

I am not successful

I am not a failure.

I am Nothing.

And EVEN THAT . . . is something I have zero desire to cling to.

I have no interest in working with Unserious Humans

Because it is not inspiring to do so.

Unless I create a Question/Answer session,

I tend to mute/block those who send me unsolicited comments and replies.

For I am exquisitely particular about what I allow my Mind to imbibe.

If there is something that I have written that has transformed you,

There is no point in sending me an email or a tweet, expressing your thanks and appreciation.

For, in all Truth, the communion was between you and The Truth.

Truths which came through me

Rather than from me.

If you send me an email that does not show, in black and white, what YOU are bringing to the table, besides some semblance of a "commitment" or a "promise,"

Your email will likely be deleted.

If you ask me for "free advice," not only do I not have the time for Unserious Humans or Unserious Things,

The Truth is, neither do you.

For I have only a handful of years that remain in this life.

And even these . . .

Are an empty promise.

To Arrive

To Conquer every inch of my Mind

To Arrive at the end of all chases

To surpass all forms of striving

To discover the Well of endless satisfaction

To see The Truth, precisely as it sits in the Universe . . .

To achieve what only a few in the history of human civilization have achieved

Without in any way viewing it as an "achievement."

So that this becomes The Final Reincarnation

Of the false identity known as "Kapil Gupta"

Is, for me,

The ONLY thing that remains.

Namaste.