Find Out the One That Wakes Up - 11th November 2016

And we go even deeper than this. What witnesses even this resonance, this beingness? This source of this universe is also witnessed by what? By who? Just look. Don't conclude anything. It just witnesses your existence. Is it not you? Who else is here besides you to witness your existence? Is the fact of your existence a secondhand report? Is it a news report, a little social media report, or is it your direct experience right now? This witness, is it empty or full? Is it bound or free? Is there anything that we can truly say about this one? You are that. And you are Brahman. And I am that. That is the point of Satsang: for one's own being to come to the recognition of itself. Your sense of existence, consciousness, to recognize its own source, which is undeniable.

If you follow these words, you cannot miss the truth. But if you are trying to follow two voices at the same time, then you can seem to prolong your journey. The voice which you hear in Satsang and the voice which is the voice of your mind, also telling you at the same time what to do, also sitting and making a list saying, 'Yes, this is good, this is not so good. This I agree with, this I don't. Yes, this is it. Oh no, this I don't see.' Throw away this one. It's only rubbish. And you will find that the truth is so extremely simple and obvious. You find that you only suffer your ideals. You only ever suffer your ideas. You are not suffering the world. No matter who is elected president, you truly are not suffering the world. You're suffering your ideas of what the world should be, assuming that this tiny mind knows better than the supreme intelligence itself, which is the one doer and one experiencer.

What really happens when the rubber hits the road is all our data go out the window. All our openness, acceptance, love, non-separation—many times it can happen like that. That is the play of this life. And as long as these buttons can be pressed in your projection of this world, they will be pressed. There is no getting around that. That which is not transcended will keep showing up over and over again. Like the game you played in the retreat and asked everyone to say, to think between the three choices: 'I am aware, hence [fill in the blank],' 'I am consciousness, but [fill in the blank],' or 'I don't see how I'm either of these because [fill in the blank].' And many of you saw clearly that whatever was after the 'but' was just a silly lie or just an idea.

What are these conditions that we can't drop? Just look for the conditions that you refuse to drop and you will find the causes of all of your seeming suffering. Because given suggest events, what is happening is just happening. Based on conditioning, some can celebrate that same event and some can mourn the same event. What is the true position? The true position is that this awareness is untouched by this play. And yet the movie, the play, can be watched with a sense of wonder, with a sense of joy. Joy even in the appearance, joy even in the momentary grief. Some movies are comedies and some are tragedies, but we watch them for our joy.

So the dropping of our conditions is the dropping of these limbs from this thousand-handed monster called the mind. What is the tendency, a condition? It is to believe the idea. And right now, you can be free of all of them. Do you realize the immensity of this? I wonder if I can offer you this moment. When it comes, it dissolves all of our conditioning. If there is a quick access way to get all of it back, see this moment now. You are free from all of your conditioning. You cannot even tell me your name, your life, your story this moment. Now. Now. Now. Now. You realize how much that is? There is no bondage here now.

But the way to quick access, as the checker guy tries to log in, it is to believe your next thought. Just to give meaning to the meaningless, relevance to the irrelevant. And what do you get? Not just this one thought with one aspect of the condition, you get the entire tree of conditioning back. You pull at a branch, you pull at a leaf, and it seems like the whole person is back here with a thousand hands, with maces in each hand, ready to hit yourself. But now again, it's over. And now again, you pick up. Now again, it's over. So it is this picking up which is being dropped.