Fear and Excitement Can Come Along with the Discovery - 3rd November 2017

So what happens is that because we have considered ourselves to be limited for so long, as we are coming to the seeing, the time this seeing is being, there are two usual responses in the place. The first is the response of fear. Oh, what's going to happen? Whether we call this the fear of death or the fear of the unknown. And if you don't have a master, then many times when we first get a taste of a little bit of this fear and something, it's easy to back off because the master is not there saying, 'It's okay, nothing will happen.' This is the first.

The second is that as we find the vastness of this, we can get caught up though the feeling around it or taste of it. It can feel like the excitement of it. But whether it is the fear of it or the excitement of this discovery, the discovery is not the fear or the excitement. So let that fear play out how it has to. Let this excitement also play out how it has to. But you are seeing that neither of these you are. The ocean remains unmoved no matter what the quality of the waves might be.

So outwardly they can be this, what's happening, that can happen. But in reality, you have always only been this. So nothing is going to happen and nothing really is happening. It's just the false idea. These byproducts, they can come. It is never about any of the byproduct itself. If they are sweet, we can enjoy them; enjoy them as Prasad. That means the offering that you get after Darshan. If they are scary, know that your master is taking care of everything. In this way, all these movement of the waves can happen, but you see that whatever expression might be playing out here, whether it is fear or excitement, I remain untouched, unmoved, unchanging.

So no desire, no illusion, anything that might play out as this discovery is happening. As long as we don't get confused between the byproducts of the discovery and the discovery itself, the play cannot perpetuate the belief in the individual identity. The play can happen in whichever way it plays, in all the appearance of the play.