The Invitation is to See Who Witnesses All of This - 18th October 2016

So is it important that you get your freedom now? From one perspective we say like that, but from another perspective, not at all. It doesn't matter actually, because that which you truly are can never be bound. And that which is choosing to play is God himself or herself. And God will play as long as God wants to play. And that's part of the play. Sometimes it inserts these characters sitting on chairs telling you, 'You are not this, you are not that.' All part of the same play. So one day Consciousness will say, 'Yes, I'm done with this stuff and all of these thoughts. They don't apply to me; they are not about me.'

You look at yourself, your body, your identity and say, 'What is all this about? Whose hands are these? Whose thoughts are these? What is my connection with any of this?' That witness which sees these hands, which sees these thoughts, which sees the sensations, which sees even the sense of existence—what is the connection with it and these thoughts? So when we start to find ourselves in this way, and this is so freeing, how would you like to be unhurtable? You see, we are attracted to these ideas of invincibility, but you are that. How can you hurt time and space? Can you hurt gravity, electricity, light? So if the children of Consciousness itself cannot be hurt—these fundamental toys—and that which is the origin point of all of this, how can that be hurt?

And we are not speaking of some fantasy land. This is what you are right now. This is what you are right now. So what if I was to stop buying your presumption about yourself? Buy your presumptions about yourself and we meet truly as we are. Because without a conclusion, without a presumption, without our favorite ideas, the pretense drops. And this Oneness that we are trying to get outwardly is seen to be the unchanging, unmoving non-separation. And all of you that are here with some openness—openness means what? Openness only means just having a window open that what is being shared here could actually be true. You don't have to accept every word, but just accept the possibility that what is being shared here could be true.

Why? Because once you accept the possibility, then you're open to checking. If you're not at all open to the possibility that the sun could come from the East, and you're so convinced that it comes from the West, then you will not check. So if you're open to the possibility, it makes us open to checking: 'What am I truly?' Stay with this checking. What is it that you're finding? And if I was to give you tips—as a joke of course, because to give you tips I'd say—don't be so quick to revert back to the habit. Stay with what you find when you check. Don't be too quick to say, 'But, but, but... what happens outside satsang?' Nothing happens. You are still awareness.

'Why do I get caught?' You don't. You are still awareness. 'Why don't I feel like awareness?' It is not a feeling. But this mind just doesn't stop. It doesn't have to. There cannot be a 'but' after 'I am.' Can we become that clear Consciousness itself? You see, but in Consciousness recognizing its source, what it is actually made up of, it will find itself to be unconcerned with this entire play here. There is no distinction between the play of Consciousness and that which witnesses this play of Consciousness. Whatever is the drama, it is witnessed, isn't it? Whatever be the drama of our life right now, it is being witnessed.

So we can step back and look whether that witnessing, whether that awareness, is really participating in the drama in any way. Now we can check this. The drama will try to pull you in, pull your attention in, see? But being in satsang so long, we must be able to now see that this awareness remains untouched. That is why it is unthreatened. What will resist? Our interest in trying to get something personal out of this will resist. Our interest in some idea of freedom, what it must be, might resist this simple looking. But it is this resistance which will start to seem absurd after some time. Because what is the invitation for? The invitation is just to see who witnesses all of this. Who is that one?