Guided Experiment on Staying Empty

Come, come, come. Don't waste time with anything it has to offer. It's not worth it. As important as it may seem, it's just putting you into a bucket of definition saying this is me, my life is like this, this is who I am. None of it is true. Your fresh being. God's presence is alive in you fresh right now.

Stay. You feel the gravitation like a pull from the mind. You're way ahead of it. Much ahead of it. Don't have to worry. Fast, fast, fast. No slowing down. The mind is too slow. It is too gross. You're much more subtle. Like the flash, you escaped. It tries to catch you and you've already gone. It can't catch you unless you turn around and look at it and say, "Huh? What you saying? What do you want?" Then it may catch you. Not to turn. You're here.

There's nothing valuable for you. Stay ahead of the game. Doesn't seem to be working as well on the Zoom. Okay, everyone. Here, here, here, out of it. Wherever it feels here. Come on. Come out of whatever is caught you in tangle. It doesn't mean anything. Now, here, now, fresh and alive. Fresh being right now.

Come back to your freshness, your aliveness right now. Snap. Snap. Snap. Unimportant, uninteresting, remain unconcerned.

So this is how you be vigilant. It's actually effortless, is natural. Initially it may seem some to take some effort. You see, getting the difference between this and the checker guy: if you were checking, "Oh, I'm doing so badly, I'm never going to become free, I'll never find God," it becomes more and more difficult. It can seem like vigilance, but it's taken you completely away from being vigilant. You're just mentally concluding. So remain empty like this. You getting a sense of what I'm saying?

This is how you are at your most innocent, led by God. So don't try to know. The trying to know is troublesome. Innocence is not trying to know. To remain simple, to remain empty.

This exercise is really nice. It's kind of an empowering one.

Yeah.

Because otherwise...

Yes. But don't go there right now.

Okay. No.

No. No. No. Never. Actually, not even later. Cuz the minute you start to frame, you see, it seems like a helpful framing initially, but soon we are in the frame rather than in the empty. Cuz we feel naked without our conclusions, like, but, you know, so then you say, "Ah, this is what he's doing." So it seems to provide some crutches, some benefit, but actually it can be very tricky because we then, we then, that becomes an expectation. It becomes a conclusion. So then you can make a conclusion this time that it went very well. The next time it happens, you'll say, "Oh, but this time it's not going so well, or last time it went." So don't make any conclusions about well or not. Still from the mind. So don't go there. It's empty. Empty.

And be careful of the "Yes, but." Yes. Yes. But. That but is like, you need to buy into the doubt. No. "Yes, but I can't always live like this. I can't go to work like this. I can't, I can't." Then those frames, those narratives will become compelling.

And everything can happen from here. Whatever needs to happen can happen from here. So don't have an expectation that I want to be like this, but then work should happen or work should not happen, or this should happen, this should not happen. See, then, because that'll burden it. Be empty. His will means we don't, it is not our concern what happens or not. That is to live in his will. So have you seen how vigilance, innocence, living in his will, all of that is actually like that. Just be supremely innocent. Don't understand.

The conclusion offers itself like a very juicy chocolate. No, is that, oh, finally I have found some meaning in that whole process that we did. This is what it means. I am like this. So when it comes like that and really close, and if you notice yourself just, because that ball is better dropped than caught. This is the only game like that.

We can't be sure about anything from the past. It is now. Now where are you coming from?

So okay, leave that, but don't conclude that I can't speak then. No. Cuz we don't know. That's the experiment. It needs patience. It needs faith. But not like, "I'm being patient. Patience. I'm having faith. Faith." Being aware of course is beyond any of that.

But the way we use aware in the world, yes, to be attentive in a way, but not really about the content of the world, because we can get stuck in it. Just, "This is keeping me in the moment, so I have to just grasp at the content of the world," you see. And that, that is it's not about this, it's about, isn't the difference just allowing the content to flow through, but you are not trying to use the content as an anchor? You're not trying to use the content as an anchor like, "If I just keep saying what's here, then I won't get involved with the mind."

So how to stay away from the mind? So many people get into that trap of trying to be in the present moment in that way, that I can just, but you see, that that is very tiring for your system, isn't it. You try it for some time, it seems to work, but you get tired, you want to sleep after some time. At least I do, so I can't do it that way. It has to be from a place of ease, and to allow all these, the stream of perception to flow through. You try to hold on to that, then it seems like another activity that we have, we grasp. So the sheer open and empty is like this: pure perception, but unconcerned about the perception.

Pure perception is unlabelled, unarrated perception. Pure perception doesn't mean I'm only perceiving. That is a mistake that some of us make, or in the way it is said maybe that mistake can happen, that when we say pure perception it can seem like, "Oh, I'm only perceiving." It just, the perception remains pure, empty of labels, unadulterated perception. But I'm being, or awareing, more than I'm perceiving. Okay. Perception is just happening naturally in the process.