Nothing to Add to the Fullness of Being - 5th January 2018

Because you are finding that you cannot add anything more to yourself, to your being. It is like the ocean wanting to add a little drop of water to itself. If the drop of water was real, then at least we could make even one concession saying the ocean wants to become ocean plus a drop. But what can you add on to this being? What objects can you surround yourself with that the being can become being plus one, or can be taken away from being?

So, for the play of 'me' or 'mine', for the play of 'me' or 'mine', you need the primary notion that 'I am something'. But you are not a thing. That's why over the past few weeks we've investigated the nature of this world, the nature of this body, and we found that all of these are just notions. We have created it for a set of sensations, a set of perceptions. What is the world? A set of perceptions. What is this body? A set of perceptions. What is the mind? A set of perceptions.

So we made theoretical constructs of the coherence of these sensations, and some of these sensations we have labeled 'me'. This 'me' does not stand up to any test of truth or test of why these sensations should be 'me' and others should not be 'me'. There is no actual intellectual reasoning behind it. It's just a habit, a tradition actually. Even before it is activated, as the child starts to hear it from the mind, it's traditional because we hear it from the parents: 'Where is your hand? Where is your hand? Where is your nose?' You are trained this way traditionally to segregate some sensations from others and say 'this is me'.

Now, all this would be a lot of hard work and very oppressive, but the good news was not here. The good news is that no matter what notions have been picked up in the past, they do not survive the light of this moment. So long as I see that, it's all gone now. But we need a spiritual strategy if you still feel like the 'but' from the mind still has a potency or power or reality, meaning...