The Person Seems to Be the Underlying Notion - 27th October 2017

So this is what a very important point to bring out. It is that when a thought comes, when the mind comes, it seems like the task which is signed by consciousness itself—this is actually a limited entity, is the person. So we have also used to this notion that this seems to have become the underlying notion in our life: that I am a limited entity who is the body-mind. Now as we are really checking, what is the boundary of my existence? Not finding it, or finding that within my being there is all of this perception which is happening, my being remains untouched, a space in all of this. So nothing can actually hurt me, nothing can touch me. The body can come and go, the thoughts can come and move, the emotions can come and go, move. You also can be left in the space of where they came in, when everything in this world which is phenomenal is coming and going, but it leaves no residue on our existence.

So mind comes and says that amongst all of the millions of sensations that are appearing, there is a set of sensations which is you. You are the one that is sitting in this room; you are not the traffic on the street. With the innocence of an infinity, this distinction is not there. Everything is a perception which is experienced without the boundary for me, without the sense of an 'other' and 'them'. This is true oneness which doesn't need the concept of oneness. I am not being one with the traffic on the street; it's just that no separation actually ever came. See the distinction there? One is that I can try and be one with everyone—'I am one with the sun'—God theory like that. There are those who see that actually there is no one here that's separate. There is no boundary that I can define which is me.

This is what you're finding for yourself when you check. In a minute of checking, you come into your boundless nature, seeing that in your existence you're holding all the perceptions that are coming and going. If you throw all theoretical constructs away and we remain in the openness, in the nakedness of the perception itself, there is no 'me' or 'you'. There is no past or future. And all that we define this self as melts away. It's why I've been saying: stay with your insight. Stay with your insight, don't pick up any incidents, any judgment, any emotion about anything at all. And this instruction also falls away fast because once you start to see this about yourself, you won't even have to stay with anything. Even your own subtlety you cannot leave.

It is the recognition of what is true by pointing to the seeming drop to check whether it is the drop or the ocean. And sometimes we will hear the term 'you stay as the ocean, don't pick up the drop identity'. You will notice that actually I can only ever be the ocean. This is what you're finding yourself: that your being is this unbounded space beyond space, timeless beyond time. All this play of time and space can happen. Zillions of years, trillions and trillions of years can be experienced. Hundreds and thousands of thousands of lifetimes can be experienced, but nothing leaves a residue on your being. Reality or memory might come, okay. Pain or sensation might come, but you are presently experiencing and following my voice. In the midst of these, you can have right now in consciousness an apparent appearance of this world. You have more than six billion bodies apparently.