The Truth Cannot Be Found - 17th November 2017

Suppose that it's too simple. Suppose that it's too simple, was not a problem. Suppose it is the best news you learn: it is simpler than anything that you have ever done. Simpler than any thought, simpler than any emotion, simpler than any event, whatever that event might be. It doesn't need a step in any direction. It is naturally here. I exist. I am. How hard did you have to work to exist? What are the steps you have to follow to exist? Nothing. It is the most natural. And this existence is complete; there is nothing missing in this, you see.

So before you can put on the trench coat of the detective to go looking for the Self—'I'm going to go looking for the Self, I'm going to find the Self here, oh there it is'—it is worthwhile to investigate who is going to put on the trench coat? Who is going to take on the seeker mask? What is naturally here before you intend to find the Self? Are you not the Self? Before you intend to complete yourself, you are complete. Taste yourself in this moment. Taste your existence. Taste your presence. This nobody has done. The existence is not a product of somebody doing something. That is why the truth cannot be done. The truth can also not be found; it can just be recognized. And you cannot move from the truth; you can only pretend as if I can move.

So let's say for a moment that this existence is 'I am'. Don't worry if it doesn't make sense, it's fine. You're just playing with this for a moment. This existence is the sense 'I am'. Now, in this moment, are you something? Before a concept comes, before a thought comes, before an idea comes, are you something? Do you have a boundary? Sensation will come, events will happen, perception will happen. Sounds are coming, traffic noise is there. How does that affect the 'I am', your being? Now, this existence has been misunderstood and believed to be the existence of a person. This is the basic misunderstanding. Here exists right here, completely naturally. You are not a person.

If you see this, even this now, nothing really more to say. Can it be that it is this very same consciousness which has been playing around with ideas about itself and now is ready to drop all these ideas about itself? When is this happening? It's happening now. How do you, consciousness, want to claim this instant? As by oneself? There are only two parts, two ways to play this game: with the notion about yourself or without a notion about yourself. With the concept of your limitation or without a concept of a limitation. Easy.

Just because you believe yourself to be the seeker doesn't make you one. It's like if you started to pretend to be Sherlock Holmes or the Pink Panther or something like that—will you become one? You can only play as if. You are the Self alone. Only the Self is. And this is your truth right now. You won't have to go anywhere. Wherever you might feel you're going, you are only the Self. As I've been asking over the last few days, what are you representing when you say 'I'? Who do you represent with integrity? Bring this answer to your life. I have been advising all of you, see, say to yourself 'I' and see what you are representing. Are you representing the group of sensations that you call the body? Are you representing the group of sensations that you call your relationships? Who does 'I' represent?