The Game Of Spiritual Integration: Remembering God

We forget. We remember. We forget again. In this reflection, Tiger sits with the honest reality of the spiritual journey — that it was never about arriving at a permanent state of awakening. It's more like a game of peek-a-boo: the on-and-off cycling of remembering and forgetting is itself the integration happening beneath the surface.

Tiger explores how life is brilliantly designed to bring us back — not to punish us, but to invite deeper surrender. The more we try to control life and make it how we want it, the more we suffer. The more we recognize that this life is about something greater than our preferences — what some might call God — the lighter everything becomes. A grounding reflection on spiritual integration, surrender, and remembering what's true.

Transcript

If this was some sort of game that we're playing as human beings, Whereas the opportunity of the game is to see what's true, And then to allow love to flow from what you are, I'm relatively confident in saying that I'm terrible at this game. Which is just speaking to how much we forget, Right? Like we go about our human lives and we get caught up in the mind's story of a life that's not actually a life at all. And it's like, Oh man, I totally forgot. And that was the case for me five minutes ago before I sat down here. But thank goodness for times like this where we can just be still. And so in the spirit of that, I don't think the point of the game is so much to always remember. It doesn't seem to match my direct experience, Let's put it that way. Maybe more accurately, We can simply say it's a game of peekaboo. And in the persistent on and off, There is a play of integration happening that we are so often unaware of. The journey is the journey and we see what we see. Which is, You know, Really hilarious for me to look at this human journey so far. And we could call it a spiritual journey. Whereas there has been this deepening of awareness about what's true, Which continues to expose a depth of love within what is. Yet at the same time, Throughout the journey, It's been incapturable. Like, It would be impossible to claim some sense of arrival. Almost like it would be completely false to stand up and say, I got it. Because in my humanity, Life shows me that I don't. And I think that's part of the point. And yes, Of course, There can be a season where it totally feels like you got it. It could be years. But life has this beautiful way of, Let's say, Bringing us back to earth and says, Hey, You're here to have a human experience. This whole life thing has such a brilliant design. A brilliant design that serves the function of inviting me into the truth of what is. And that function plays itself out quite well. The more I see that that's what the function is, That that's why I'm here. Now, The more I'm confused about that design, And I think life is about me being important or about me controlling the outside, Then the function is very frustrating. It's like I'm trying to make life how I want it, Rather than surrendering to the life that is. And in another way of saying it, Maybe in a religious context, It's like realizing that this life is about God.