Authentic self-discovery

Most good teachings
spoken of by
some good teachers
come from
what is truly experienced
by the teacher,
come from
that which has been gone through
and thus gone beyond

When we receive
these teachings
we tend to
value the going beyond
way more than
the going through

So we take the teachings
and try to use them
to go beyond
without going through

There is nothing wrong
with this
except that it is
inherently dissatisfying
in one's own being
to borrow another's realization
for we can never quite trust
what is borrowed
to stay

And it is dissatisfaction
and discontent
that keep us
from realizing
what we already are
in the first place!

So we can use
the teachings differently perhaps
more as a hypothesis
to check out in
our own experience

In this way
is authentic self-discovery
made possible