Don't Fill in the Blank with Anything After 'I Am' - 17 October 2017

If you hear this pointing that don't fill in the blank of I Am—I am blank—because anything then the mind will use all its power, because all it has is suggestions to fill up that, make this pure presence I Am into an emotional idea. I am something. Because that is effort, that is tiring. I know initially it can seem like to not attach, to not give that something, can seem a bit of an effort and it will feel like that. But it is only because as we are returning to our naturalness, it has seemingly become unnatural. The habit is to attach. So in the breaking of the habit, it's like we've been carrying this 'something' on our heads. Everyone knows that it is the carrying that something which is effort, but it can feel like it is the keeping down which is effort because it seems like we are just 'I am this' which is part... the something is part of me. It can seem like that appendage or whatever heavy box you are carrying or something is a part of me. It is not.

So the inquiry does this: see that it is not. And this surrender does this: surrendering this box to a higher force. I do not have to carry it anymore. Our spirituality is just this. Whether you do 500 push-ups a day to get here, or you just hear this and it's so clear: I am not that something which I always presumed myself to be, and now I let it go.