Can We Find This One Who Needs to Become Free Now? - 7th January 2016

Let's do something radical today because I keep saying that you are free now, you are free now. So what if we don't close satsang today unless everyone who attends sees that they are free? It could be very short, and it doesn't matter whether you've been in satsang for a long time or a short time, because you are free now, you see. So for this satsang to continue, then we have to presume that someone is not free. Who is here that is not free? I said very short because when I say that we won't end till everybody is free, then it seems like, 'Oh, this is going to take a while.' But when I ask who is not free right now, then you have to start inventing reasons. Without inventing a reason, can you show me how you're not free? Without working your mind, coming up with a reason, some explanation for why you would not be free, then can you tell me how? Just in your own most natural state, without coming up with some mental reasoning, can we find this one who needs to become free now? Without going with any mental reasoning, can we find this one that needs to become free?

In the mental reasoning, I'll tell you what the mind could be saying: 'Yes, now I see, but it's not stable.' But it is stable; only this mind is saying it's not stable, see? Or it could say, 'But I still become angry.' Everyone still becomes angry; even the sages still become angry. What other mental reasoning? Who else has... I don't share like this, but everybody shares differently, see? So what is it that is convincing us to still remain as the seeker? Mostly it is the sense that 'I am not stable in the abidance of the truth.' Like we were saying the other day, the sense that I'm not stable in the abidance of the truth. But actually, you are stable in the abidance of the truth. The only thing is that pretending sometimes still remains as a habit. The stability of the truth... the truth would be valueless, you see, if it was unstable. Would someone be interested in a truth which is not stable? Why would you want... if it's coming and going, why would I want such a truth? Therefore, by definition, truth must be that which is not coming and going. It is stable. So it is not that we need to stabilize in the truth; the truth is ever stable.

And it is not about attention also. It is not that we have to come to this place where my attention is always only, like we were saying, in awareness. That is not the function of attention. Attention is already on a leash; it cannot leave awareness. One end is already tied to awareness. It cannot leave. Can it leave awareness and go somewhere? It cannot. It's always... who is it reporting to? It is reporting back to awareness through your beingness. So it is not leaving awareness. So how long will we continue to believe the story that we are not free? Can we find some evidence of this bondage right now? What can happen? A thought can come, but that is seen. An emotion can come, and that is seen. How is the seeing touched by that which comes and goes? You see, because our habit is to go with the content of what is appearing, we don't pay enough attention, or we don't just simply witness: who is it appearing to? And right now we can check this: who is any of this content appearing to? And what do I mean by content? I mean the appearance, that which is coming and going, you see. Is the witnessing of the content also coming and going? You see, the witnessing is able even when there is no content. You are able to say, 'There is no content' in sleep state, or 'I fell unconscious, there was nothing there, it was just black.' Maybe even that you have to remain to witness. So you're completely steady in this. This is your natural state. So what else is it that we want?