Now Now Now - 11th July 2016

Why be scared of this nakedness, this openness? This is a true crucifixion. With arms wide open, we're being resurrected as God himself. Okay, there is no identity now. Now, unless you give yourself the space to think about it, you cannot pretend to become something. In the now, you are nothing. Why you? Before you think about why you, when you just look, who's looking? Look for this one.

I'll tell you a story that happened yesterday. Most of you know I have two children. My son is older, my daughter the younger. He loves teasing her and he loves hitting her. So yesterday I told them, they're both great actors, I said, 'If you tease her, I'm going to take away your phone for a week. And if you hit him, I'm going to take away your phone for a week.' But what happened? They both sat there. They didn't do anything. You don't like this? I started saying, 'I'm getting the best ideas to tease her.' So many jokes. 'Can we get a pass at least for a day?'

So what's happening here? This is just the same thing that happens. Some girls, if you like, are reporting ideas. The best thing we have to go in there. I keep pointing you to the recognition of the Self in the silence, and something says, 'No, no, no, but this... but this thing is happening to you.' The same tendency to grab a belief because of ideas. Oh, I'm not saying that no movement or sensation is happening in the body, but in the reality of what you are, nothing is. For this reason, we are so addicted to our concepts and ideas. From here, I used to say that. And why are you? Because I don't see no thoughts. The well-dressed ones are as meaningless. Even spiritual thoughts, the ones in the loincloths, are also completely meaningless. Let go in the pool. Let go now. Holy water is not the truth. Let go of all that money. It was a restriction.

I was inviting open questions, but I don't feel like pushing. Maybe we need to do that tomorrow. Don't give yourself room to pick up an idea. Even the best question. You're coming to the pristine recognition. I've given you so many beautiful tools. Who is aware of this awareness? And don't sell yourself short by picking up some ideas. There's no idea that applies to you. No idea applies to you ultimately. Even the ideas of awareness, consciousness—none of these apply to you. They are just pointers.