How Do I Stay In Unconditional Love? - 8th January 2018

No, it has some more power than the 'why' question. 'How' implies that I'm open to a pointing. 'How do I stay in unconditional love?' Don't believe any conditions about anything. All the trouble is only because of conditions. As you're talking, and the good news is, one is already gone. And you pick up one condition, it seems like they all are there, but again, gone.

How many have heard the conveyor belt example from me? Many of you haven't heard. So, there's a restaurant chain called Yo! Sushi. There's a conveyor belt; they place all the sushi one by one in plates on this conveyor belt. So this conveyor belt comes next to your table, you pick up whatever you like. There's nobody to help you, you choose whatever you like. There's a menu which says what color is what. Do you pick up that color? Blue, £2. Now the mind also operates in this way. It's a conveyor belt which is offering you conditions, offering you notions. We pick it up, eat it, it is actually gone. So this moment, it's all gone, zero calories. The next offer is coming, the next condition is coming. You can pick it up, and the moment it seems relevant, meaningful to us, it can seem like we were living a condition about us.

Any resistance to unconditional love, and it might seem like we're believing a condition about another, but you're only believing a condition about ourselves. So we picked up a condition about ourselves. Then what can happen is the mind is very smart. It'll say, 'Yes, yes, he picked up the salad, she picked up the salad. Let me now serve the main course,' which is: 'See, I told you not to pick up a condition, but you did.' And you end up picking that one up. And then it serves you the dessert, most calories: 'I must not be worthy,' or 'I must be distant at this point,' 'I must not be deserving.' It served up that cake. But actually, the minute you are done with the dish, over. All conditions are gone. Now if I tell you, 'What condition is there now?' you will have to think about it first. Naturally, no condition survives. So because you are unconditional in this moment, I see only unconditional love.

It still seems like I have to keep reminding myself of it, like it... and then the question that there must be a way that is less, that requires less effort. Because it seems like our habit has become to pick up the conditions, so it can seem like it's too much effort to avoid it.

Here, what I have tried to do is make it quite simple. I don't know whether it sounds simple to most of you, but I make myself available Monday to Friday, or at least two hours every day. And my feeling is, as you just sit in Satsang and you are open to what is being shared, all the effort is being done automatically. Doesn't mean you have to attend every Satsang Monday to Friday, but whenever you can, that much effort is... you know, even this sitting in this retreat itself, you can just let yourself go and the pointing will work, do something on their own.