Only the False Needs Effort - 8th October 2016

Because our habit has become to make this effort to try and sustain personhood, we ignore—we have come to this point where we start ignoring—what is effortless here already. So, we can take a few moments to just check: What is here that needs no effort? What is here that needs no thought? Does my sense of existence now need to be reinforced with some ideas or concepts? And that which is aware even of existence, is it an effortful awareness? Keeping it up, are we forcing ourselves to be aware? And if you were to drop the effort, would we stop being aware?

Only the false needs effort. So, you will not get the truth; you are the truth. Not one step you have to take, not one breath you have to take to come to the truth. Before your next thought comes, you are the truth. Before you decide what to do, it is already done. Therefore, when the sage says 'stay here' and the sage says 'just stay here,' it only means don't go with your mental delusions. Staying here is not an effortful staying here; it is your most natural state. This is the Atma, this is God, this is the truth.

And just as you are starting to get used to the silence now of not speaking, you will get used to this staying here. And as you get used to this staying here, you will find that there is nothing missing in this. There is no lack of any sort. All ideas of wanting something will dissolve. Bye.