This Joy Is Beyond Feeling - 30th November 2017

Means in the body? What? Be here. What is here? So you are that? You are this body? Then if you are not the body, where are you? Body seems to be here, surrounded by other objects. It is an object itself. You are not an object. Then where are you? If you are not an object, can you have a location?

So where are you? Yeah, yeah. Here means yes, awareness, perception.

What is not here? What can hurt you here? What do you want here? Are you free of what can leave here? A big question here. Are they confusing here? Now, what to rediscover? We discovered that there is a mind which is the coming and going of these thoughts. There is a being, there is consciousness which perceives it, and there's a deeper aspect of the Self which is awareness, which is aware even of this moving aspect called consciousness. From this understanding, what is happening when we say we are shutting the mind? What are we talking about? Do we invent another entity? Is there everyone? What is there? Mind, there is consciousness, and that which is aware even of consciousness. What is everyone? Consciousness.

Now, there are multiple consciousnesses. You, too, consciousness, sometimes play with the mind, sometimes don't play with it. This consciousness has the question: how to get the mind? Who is the thief which tries to catch the thief, posing as if it is a policeman? It is the mind. If you see the mind for what it is, then what trouble can it cause you? The fluttering of the mind is nothing, not even a gentle breeze. Once we... and will you want to shut it? So the mind doesn't have to move; it only becomes powerless as consciousness withdraws its interest from it. It becomes nothing but still, gentle movement of energy. But if you take on the project how to shut the mind, in the mind you have believed the mind again. And if consciousness wants to play that way, it will play that way.

Here, with this aspect of consciousness, it is here to remind you that that is also mind. Try to be empty of that motion. How are you? Is there a desire for something? Is it a boring nothing? And the boring nothing, as you get used to this no-thing, the Ananda of this no-thing, the bliss of this nothing, you become more and more apparent. So you won't feel like you're missing any joy or some feeling, because this joy is beyond.