Empty of Concepts About Yourself - 3rd January 2018

I was saying yesterday—I don't know whether it was in the broadcast or after—my perfect silent retreat one day will be that in which outer silence is irrelevant, but you are empty of concepts about yourself. Don't try to grace the person as a better person. It's like we have a Robert De Niro mask now, and you're trying to replace it with Tom Cruise, or trying to change the quality of your identity. Throw away these masks, these meters of thinking. I promise you, we will meet only the light of consciousness. What is here? And I can tell you that contentment is not far behind.

I know for so many of you it happens that you come to inquiry, you come to insight, and you see, you see just so plain: there is nothing here. What's the point of this thinking? But if you leave it be, if you let it be, then you will see that natural, effortless being has the perfume of contentment, of peace about it. So don't put the cart before the horse. As you remain empty of notions, you'll start to taste the fragrance of the joy of being so beautifully, and you'll never want something again. You'll never want to pick up the mask again. It just seems like too much hard work. And I have no trouble with it, except that you feel like you're too lazy to do all that effort to behave as a person.

If you're swimming in fresh water which is drinkable and I told you you have to climb the top of that mountain to get half a glass of water, would you do it? So spiritual seeking is like that. It's a crazy game here. Kabir Ji said it very beautifully; he said the fish is thirsting for water in the water, and all I can do is laugh. The truth is even funnier, isn't it? The water thirsting for water—where will you find it?