This Is Our Biggest Attachment - 1st December 2017

The mind uses even our deepest spiritual insights to make it about 'me'. 'I found it.' 'Why does this still happen?' How quick we are to become that. You could be experiencing your very own Self in which there is no 'me' and no 'you'. All this universe might be just a little bit of shining light, but in the midst of all this, your mind would come and say, 'Well, okay, this is good, but what does it do for me?'

If you were to sacrifice this 'me' at the heart of the Satguru... this is the biggest attachment. We might feel like our biggest attachment is our family, our children, but actually, it is only because they are 'my' children, 'my' berries, 'my' plants in the garden, 'my' house, 'my' body, 'my' relationship. Imagine if you cared about every relationship as much as you care about yours. How would it be? If you cared about everyone's money as much as you care about yours? Everyone's freedom as much as you care about yours? We often call this 'me', but look at actually the quality of it.

There comes a time when you know that it is the Satguru, not you. Nobody can use this knowledge for any sort of personal benefit. Just like knowing that it is a movie doesn't change the content of the movie, the thing has to happen. It is what the Zen masters were trying to say when they said, 'Before enlightenment, chopping wood, fetching water; after enlightenment, chopping wood, fetching water.' Because this... and I usually say, 'Oh no, but it is a trap,' this expectation that something should be different in my life now that I am discovering the truth of who I am.

If you truly are, then you know that it is not this bucket of flesh and blood which is discovering the truth. Why should things be different for this? There is still attachment to this set of sensations. You are not contained in this universe; if anything, the universe is contained in you. If you give it the notion of reality, it is contained in you. If you don't even give it the notion of reality, the universe never happened. But either way, you remain untouched.