A Notion May Come But I Am Simply Here - 7th January 2018

That's why more and more, almost separately, I want to say: no matter how big the notion was, in this moment you are empty. I think so. As you pick up, then you will also say, 'As you say, but the notion will come.' You will start to counter these 'buts' by saying, 'But I am here. Oh, but God is here.' No matter what notion you pick up, it is just a mask. It is the pretense. Nothing ever happened to reality. This we see: that no matter what idea you are believing about yourself, no matter how deeply identified you are, nothing changed for consciousness itself, only in their apparent play. So, as this is seen, even see that the picking of the notion, which is putting on a mask, doesn't change the reality of you. And then it will not seem like such a scary idea.

Okay, a notion will come and you will pick it up. A notion will come here also that I will pick up. There is nobody 100% free, nobody who doesn't pick up a single notion. The notion will be picked up, but the good news is that in this moment you're empty of all of it. But if you make that benchmark your benchmark—100%—then you use that one moment where 'How could he do this to me?' You see, that one moment is a notion. You think you are not free, then you pick up the salad, the main course, the dessert, everything, because you just picked up one notion. But then you pick up the guilt about it, you pick up the unworthiness about it, and the idea that 'I am not free.'

Yes, something wants to be 100%, it's true. And something wants to be it experientially from moment to moment, like something is looking for perfection. You know, here I have some good news for you: experientially, moment to moment, it is perfection already. Notionally it is not; conceptually it might not seem like it is. What is, is never a mistake. The universe is the best cook; it knows exactly how much salt, how much sugar to put in the recipe. It does not make mistakes and it has perfect timing. So what is, is always perfect. It is only our interpretation which can make it seem like it is not, but even that is perfect. See what I mean? But even the delusion is not as if consciousness is trapped in some delusion; it is consciousness playing with the delusion and now playing with the dropping of the delusion. So then it doesn't seem like such a serious problem. Consciousness is not trapped in delusion, and you are that consciousness.