The Self is Fully Available, Right Here, Right Now - 16th January 2018

Maybe you know, this is a very good opportunity to explain as short as possible what I'm conveying to all of you. As you meet yourself now, the concept of meeting falls away and all that is found is yourself. Whether you call it Guru, Self, the Absolute, the dynamic aspect—it really doesn't matter. It is yourself. But if you pose a judgment or interpretation of it, then it can only play as if it is limited. The notion makes it seem like your Being itself is emotional. This is called the ego. But the good news is that even if you have identified with it, even if you have superimposed a limitation on your own Being, in every moment you are completely fresh. Your Self is fully available right here, right now. You are the Self. Once you identify with your own thought creations, you play with the mask of individuality. To recognize this is Self-recognition. Within you, as the Self, all things rise and disappear.

Your Being actually is not in opposition to anything at all, because all that appears is only shining in your own light. The seeing of this doesn't need any particular special circumstances. Wherever you might feel that you are, your Self is there. Once you pick up the primary notion like 'I am something,' then it can feel like you can fill the 'something' with millions of other ideas: this way or that way; 'I want to recycle bottles'; 'I like this, I don't like this'; 'I want to be this way, I don't want to be this way'; 'You should be this way, you should be that way.' All of this is only if you pick up the notion of 'somethingness' about yourself.

The best, best news is that this 'somethingness' is gone now. This is the gift of the present. In the present, you are empty of all ideas about yourself. Here, it doesn't matter if you feel like you have made lots of mistakes or you feel like you have made a very pure life. The truth is fully available for all beings because all the false, which has been a mask, and all masks fall away in the light of the present. Now, it might sound funny to you when I say it, but all effort, all attempts that we are making in spirituality, is to get rid of this equation of 'somethingness.' But actually, it is already gone right now. Nobody can produce this 'something' in the present, free from ideas of past and future.

So why does it seem so sticky? This 'something' is optional only because we are so invested in this idea of our ego that we want it gone while continuing to be a person. We want to be the 'special person' who for himself or herself has come to the ultimate discovery. So you want to swim with a chain around your legs. Like I say, it's like trying to carry the monkey on your back when you cross the portal of existence. Nobody has done it, and nobody can do it.