This Is Also the Checker-Guy - 29th November 2017
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides the seeker to recognize that their true existence is prior to all perceptions and mental reports. He emphasizes that the self is an empty, yet full, presence where inquiry and surrender merge into one.
All you have is that you exist now; ultimately even this existence is not your container.
You will see that nothing really applies to what you are; it is a counter-paradox.
Whether you call it inquiry or you call it surrender, it has finally become a river.
contemplative
Transcript
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So we got so used to making a report about ourselves on the basis of this side of attention. What is the content which is being reported? Exactly, yeah. So that's right. All this line of being is actually thought to be taken seriously. There is no line, okay? But suppose this is the being, then on this side is all the perceptual being, pleasure, with all of this is there. And you rightly said attention is to all of this. Now what is attention reporting back to?
So, so attention is like... I'm giving you all this. What was a funnel? It all arises from and cleanses in a sense. It seems... I don't know if that's correct and I can't... there's no attribute. There's nothing I can say. Even 'I am' it seems to have... it doesn't have any attribute to see, you know? It's just... and all of this appearance is there. It's not 'I am'. 'I am' has no shape or it seems like there is no nothing to grasp this. There's no struggle. If I try to grasp that, that is also seen.
Yes, yes. Defined, yeah. That's a grasp because, yeah, you're not trying to grasp something that you can't leave. If I asked you, can you stop being?
So, so yeah, so you can stop being? No. And yet being is not a tangible thing. Yes, not its emptiness column. Yes, it is. It has no time and space, so you cannot give it spatial constructs or time-based. And there is no sensation to it, except that it's a qualitative tasting of 'I am'. I exist now versus I wasn't when I was asleep.
Yes, yes. So almost seems like that's the only... the extension... more awareness extension, yes? Which has the qualitative sense of existence, but it is not separate from the Self.
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So you okay... as I look for them, second subtle, subtle sensations, you know? Some of them are just really succulent and I know that even bliss is not really... even happiness is not me. And I think I see the... the mind is slowing. Like I couldn't see the grasping reducing over the last few days. Is that... is trying to grasp? Grasping is nothing I can use to describe or anything, but I definitely am seeing the... what's been happening. It is for them... it's seeing the mind-body kind of fight. No, because we don't even really know that. It might feel like I have a memory of what's been happening.
The one who reports memory is really unreliable. So we don't know anything about the past, we don't. And we definitely don't know anything about the future. So all you have is that you exist now. Ultimately even this existence is not your container. So if you don't go to or anything past or future, we don't go with any... in any sensation of anything on this side of my me-perception. But is it a perceptual empty in the sense of... is it like an empty room? Empty? No. What please learn what witness is that? Is it empty or full?
Well, that is not so. Although if I were forced to and saying you have to pick one and say okay, I'm teaching better, yes. Actually it's true.
So that's why we come to 'not applicable'. But if you start summarizing 'not applicable' to everything, then you won't make much sense. So we have to use terms like empty, position change, and yet you will see that nothing really applies to this. You are that nothing. Yes, nothing applies. It's a counter-power and I'm just watching it. Father, use the mind... how it tries to understand this. So I'm saying to you... having... but it likes to. I've seen many, many times it starts because even our best conclusion actually sometimes is a defense mechanism, just not knowing. So then all this which can feel like... or this limo... the wonder of it is so beautiful and give concept that you will not want a concept to define. Then concepts will arise from you just in this way as... as might seem like there are many others who are concept-ridden, so some concepts might rise from my mouth to rid them of their concepts. But you will never take your own insurance very seriously. So nature of the mind, not your concern. No. How it is transitioning or not, nothing to do with you. Or what is happening in the body also. Consciousness is consciousness and your inquiry has brought you here. This is surrender. Or this event will respond to you, Taylor. And this is your true inquiry, you know? You are seeing that there is no difference actually because the river has finally become a river, whether you call it inquiry or you call it surrender.
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