That Conceptless Reality Is Your Self - 7th December 2017

The question comes, and people ask, 'What is your proposition?' Maybe something? No, nothing. You see, no position, no reference point. Most large, more modern than all things, that in which all things are possible and yet nothing can hurt you and scratch you. That conceptless reality is your Self. We are all notions completely, but no notion is you. There is no body, just a set of sensations. There is no mind, just a set of sensations. We have just used notions to define a collective of sensations as 'body.' When you see, what does it contain? What does the term 'body' contain from our experience? Only these sensations that you experience now, whether they are visual sensations or they are perceived in a different way sensationally.

Or the word 'mind.' Let me say, mind is a set of sensations, which are these energy constructs that we call thoughts and similar ones like imagination and memory. But do they have any real existence? Is there something called the mind really? Is there something called the body really? It's just labels for perceptions, labels for appearances. What is beyond these appearances? Beyond these labels? That's why I say, look for that which is not coming and going, because we got so caught up in these labels, these notions of body, which create this false notion of 'me.' As the 'me,' who's the 'me'? Even more abstract a notion than the body and the mind is the notion of some vague entity which seems to be the owner of this body and this mind. But only this body? My dear, I'm not even a clear idea. It's a terrible idea. I can't help you.

So, who does 'I' represent? How long will it represent just this bad idea of 'me'? Is anything which is real about you? And if there is something which is real about you, now 'I' has to represent that. Is there anything which is timeless about you? Now 'I' represents that. Is there anything which witnesses all things and yet itself is nothing? Now 'I' represents that. This is the only real representation. The changing feelings and sensations and pain and pleasure and desire and doing—all of this is the realm of change. Get used to remaining motionless. I know for a while it can feel... many of you are getting used to it.

An example is coming. Yeah, if you really drive a car, then you know you generally have control of the car. But still, when I'm sitting in the front seat, as the passenger in the front seat, any time it happens that there's something coming in front or something, my leg automatically wants to brake. I don't know. So we have been like this in this passenger seat, actually pretending as if you drive. 'Which way should I go, left or right?' Because the mind is pretending to still, pretending to brake, pretending to accelerate. So for a while, when we step back and remain motionless, we step back. No acceleration, no braking. You can feel a bit shaky. You can feel like when events are coming up in life, you feel like 'I must pick up my driving again.' But allow yourself to wobble a bit. Experience that shakiness a little bit. Then you start to enjoy the ride.

Did you keep thinking, 'Okay, now I've learned to do this in Satsang today, so how does it help me to drive better next year? Can I lead my life in a better direction because now I know something?' No. You allow yourself to be empty. No nowhere to go, no direction, no speeding up, no slowing down. Your gear is in neutral in every way, you see.