In the Market Place of Sensations - 20th November 2017

Now, in this marketplace of sensation that we call the world, it's full of all different varied types of sensations. And it is not the sensations in themselves which are causing trouble; it is our mental interpretation of those sensations. So, I was just discussing the forces on there. One of the concepts which causes maybe the most trouble is the concept of 'mine.' A set of sensations, they arise, and somewhere we picked up the concept that they are 'mine.' It could be another body, it could be a house, it could be some money—whatever the perception might be. The minute we are attached with the 'mine,' yeah, then somehow you try pulling this set of perception away, this set of sensation moving, what happens? All the suffering. 'I can't live, I'm so attached, I'm so...' What is it? Just a set of perception, the set of sensations. Without the concept 'mine,' there is no such thing as attachment.

But even for 'mine,' there is an overriding concept: 'me.' Without 'me,' can there be 'mine'? And this 'me,' nobody has found. It's just a big misinterpretation, a big misunderstanding, that only these sensations is 'me' and the rest of the appearance is not 'me,' or any appearance is 'me' at all. All this is just interpretation, isn't it? Now, what is it that you are right now? Atma. There's a mild sense of a doer which comes, but are you that sense? Are you perceiving even that? Everything that comes, goes. So then, if you are that which comes, then you will also have to go also. But this coming and going, it is perceived.