This is the Presence - 4th May 2015

Because to presume that I am the doer of my actions and I have some control over my life is complete fallacy. To presume control, personal control over life, is a complete fallacy, see? So if you presume that there is some personal control, you must first show me the person. And if you're open enough to contemplate this, you will find that there is no person. Then who is there to live a life? Whose life is this? Then you'll come to the realization that it was God's life. You will see that all that is here appearing is appearing in the light of Consciousness, in the light of God, see? So the person was just this sense of separation, the sense of identity, the sense that I am separate from you, that there is a me here which is separate from the rest. And how to be free from this personhood? Personhood is just perpetuated by our attention and belief in thoughts, because all thoughts are speaking to you personally. So let go of your belief in the next thought.

That was about the person. Then we said, what about the presence? So actually, in our three core pointings, we have done it exactly like this. Person: what does the person want? Freedom from suffering. How to do it? To withdraw belief from your next thought. The second pointing which I have to offer you is the question: Can you stop being now? It's very simple. Don't let the mind come in and say it's difficult, it's abstract, it's nothing. Can you stop being? Just answer it like a child. Can you stop? You'll find that no, cannot stop. This presence is ever-present. It's here now. This being which cannot be stopped is the presence that we speak of. It is the God of the waking state and the dream state. This sense that I am, this sense of being. It is said that God said 'I am that I am.' This sense of beingness is the holy presence, your own immaculate conception. This beingness is the presence. And to have darshan of this presence, all you have to do is contemplate innocently: Can I stop being now? What is this sense of beingness which cannot be stopped? This sense 'I am'.

There is never a universe without the presence of this being. When the waking state comes, it is the presence of this I-amness which appears first. So I am wakes up from inside you and I am goes back to sleep within you. This is the presence. And very easily you can also observe that this being, I am aware of it. Although it seems like it's just an extension of me, it's clear that I am aware of being and this being is unaware of me. Therefore, I am prior even to this sense of presence, before I am. Now just look. Effortless looking. Don't try to get something. Don't try to become something. Don't try to become nothing. Just look. There is an awareness even of this being, and this awareness is I. This awareness is the Self. And to come to this simple looking, I offer you this question: Am I aware now? Notice that awareness is here, but it cannot be seen phenomenally. And yet the primal witnessing, the primal seeing, the primal knowing that I am aware is completely clear. You are this awareness. The entire universe is confirming this if you just check: Who is the witness of all these appearances? And in this way, the world becomes your wonderful playground when nothing ever goes wrong because nothing is ever really happening to you. May the Master's Grace bring you to this simple realization of the Self.