Neo: Natural, Effortless, Openness - 8th January 2018

Don't be believed derisively. Callers of neo-Advaita have a new definition of NEO: Natural, Effortless, Openness. Better to do it by if that's what it implies. Is this natural, effortless openness you just hear on its own? You don't have to create it. You don't have to go looking for it. You own gift for yourself now. He said it has to be something more than a mind certificate, but the mind is the only one not giving you the certificate. Everything else is showing you you're free. Actually, everything is already free. It is just the mind which is not giving the certificate.

This is what happens because we have a three-way conversation going on. I am saying you're free, you're free, you're free. The mind is saying not yet, not yet. And you are just getting tired. You got a neck ache now. You're watching a match between Federer and Nadal or something. 'That's a good move, this will really work, yeah.' 'Oh, okay.' So you're having this three-way conversation and you are like the third bird witnessing it. Comes a point where it becomes, it seems like it becomes a one-on-one conversation. The second player sometimes, you know, once in a while, guerrilla warfare, you know, it comes up and takes an opportunity and shoots at you. More or less, you start remaining with this intuitive voice which is your own, the voice of your own intuitive presence.

Then you will try to see and actually bondage or freedom, both are not applicable because I am so beyond these attributes. The want for freedom implies a belief in existing bondage, isn't it? And that is the trap. The want for freedom implies a belief in existing bondage. When you're looking, that falls apart. You see there is none. Then the mind will use every trick, every ace up its sleeve. 'It can't be that simple.' 'This can't be it.' 'He doesn't even know what he's talking about.' Sure, all these issues it has up its sleeve. But you are—I can say this about you in every moment as it is true—I don't want to address you as a person who needs to get to things because I don't see it. It is gone. Even if it was believed in the last moment, in this moment you are fresh, empty of it.

The echo comes from the mind and it has strings attached because one notion about yourself, it can seem like that tree of conditioning is back. But the good news is that now it is gone. So it is the mind which is working hard actually every moment to try and present you something that you can pick up a notion about. There is bondage now. How are you bound? That you want freedom? How long will we play the games of some sensation or feeling or a notion, an idea? How long will consciousness continue to use these appearances to play as if it is limited? As long as it wants. And that is your vision as consciousness itself.

And all of you are so good. I say look at this peace in which all of this is happening. You look and you find it is unlimited. And you see it is within me, and the great spaciousness in which even space is born. All of you are seeing it. It is just the question of when you as consciousness will decide to drop this habit or to decide to drop this play of limitation. But the truth is available right now.