The 'Job' of the Master (If There Is Such a Thing) - 6th November 2017

Actually, a job of the Master, if there is such a thing, is the simplest and also the most difficult. And suppose one day you went to the top of India Gate, I went to the top of Eiffel Tower, I went to the top of Statue of Liberty or something. We went to the tower, you see, and then you forgot that you were at the top of this. And the feeling is that 'I want to get there.' So everyone who comes now, you're asking them, 'So how do I get to the top of the Eiffel Tower?' And you are expecting that the color of the clouds will change. You're just looking at the clouds; you're not looking at where you are. You're looking at the clouds this time, thinking something should change. And so everyone is coming and telling you, 'But you are there.' 'Where are you?' 'What are you?' you see. But you say, 'But these clouds, they bother me. Please clear them out, they bother me. They're too dark or they're too light, they're too whatever. I was told that my experience would change. If I was on the top of the Eiffel Tower, something should be different.'

So what does the Master say? Just really check: where are you? The only thing seemingly that gets in the way is this moving cloud. These moving clouds come as ideas about ourselves. Then what to do with these moving clouds? You hear every day: either let them become the Master's problem, or you inquire whether any of these clouds is truly about you. If you let them go, then the truth is very apparent. It is just that our attention has got so caught up in this mind that it feels like I don't have any attention to spare to look within. And then you come to this space in which there is no within or without; it is not even space.

So let go of these clouds or inquire into them and find out if any cloud really touches you, makes a dent, makes a scratch on you in reality. Then you laugh. You do not have to run for the truth; you are the truth. You don't have to do any truth exercise or spiritual push-ups. But if you approach this from the perspective of the mask already, from the personal mask already, then it can seem like there is anything you have to do to drop the mask. The ego trying to kill the ego, the thief trying to catch the thief—does it work like that?

What is your maskless truth? What is your naked reality? Are you confused here? Are you lost? Do you have somewhere to get to? Are you trying to understand awareness? Do you have to fight with some emotions? Do you have to fix a relationship? Do you need to earn more money? What is here before there is an idea of you, which I call the mask? Are you the doer or the non-doer?