This Openness Is What I´m Pointing to - 2nd February 2016

Okay, let the thoughts also come. Let them come.

Yeah, what I'm what's going to be for dinner you know, what do I make for dinner, things like that.

Yes, so they're coming. Yeah, let them come and let them go. This openness is what I'm pointing to because if it was to become a restrictive state then it cannot last. Yes, it can give you a meditation practice which will say okay for 20 minutes then just follow your breath or do something like that and it'll feel good but it doesn't last. Just this sense of allowing everything to come and go including our thoughts about dinner or whatever else, then what is happening? Don't resist at all.

Not resisting is also like a pause isn't it? Yeah, not resisting is like what, like a pause you know you're pausing.

This will become more and more natural. So although this might seem like a pause sort of state and the habit is still to pick up, pick up, pick up and to resist, resist, resist, the only switching, if any switching is happening, is that this openness will become the naturalness, the natural state. And it is the picking up which will seem like the pause. Oh, for a moment I picked up, for a moment I got identified you see. You'll start enjoying this openness itself so much that you will not want to pick up.

I understand yeah. So it's just like allowing anything to come or go right? It doesn't really matter if a thought comes or it doesn't come.

Exactly. And just to be in that uh in that knowing that it's fine. Yes, even something more primal than fine, it just what it is see. No label of good or bad or fine or not fine. Just what is, is. Including the reactions from our own body are happening on their own. Yes, the body is not separate from the rest of the appearance although it can seem like it belongs to a me, it is actually just part of the same. The only difference is that the sensations seem more intimate. All sensations, the movement of the body, even the words which are being spoken are actually happening on their own and this is complete freedom. It is Consciousness unburdened by concept of how it should be.

Or it's beautiful. It feels like a trusting you know, complete trusting and acceptance of everything that is.

This is a very good point you make because we cannot be open if we are fearful see. And like I was saying yesterday, I'm not talking about the energetic sense of fear which can arise at times and it can subside on its own. I'm talking about the concept that this should not happen to me or this should not come in my appearance. I hope I don't make a mess out of dinner or something like this, just to take a trivial example. But just this sense of no expectations, just this no fear about whatever might be coming. And the beautiful part of this is that as you start trusting what is, you realize that there is nothing I need to do, there is nowhere I need to put my attention. I don't want anything also, not even peace I want.

That's beautiful. Never thought of it that way that I it's not even about peace please. Yes, it yet seems somewhere that you know I'm not good enough because I haven't got there you know, there's a getting you know, there's a process. Is that just a habit?

Yes, because if you were not that already and I would have to make you something then nobody can do that job. Just have to point to what you are. And all that happens in Satsang is that I point you to what you are and you point at something else, an appearance of something, and say but what about this, but what about that? I say no no not there, look at where I'm pointing. That's why we look at it layer by layer. We've looked at the world, we've looked at the body, you've looked at our emotions, we've looked at our thoughts, we've looked at the presence I Am itself and yet there is something that witnesses all of this. So the questioner in Satsang, all questions are about something in the appearance which the questioner says is meaningful you see. And the one that is pointing is always saying no no that is not meaningful, look at where I'm pointing. That's all that is happening and it is already your natural state.

Is this something like an active inquiry that one has to do yet? I'm I'm stuck at the doing right? But like you said the pointing you know, every time asking yourself that question you know who am I or you know who's every time you get caught up.

Very good. If you spot the time you get caught up it's very good to inquire. Anytime we feel like we don't even spot it, the whole day is gone. Yeah, that is why I used to actually very often say that there is only one rule here and the rule is keep coming to Satsang. Yeah, because in Satsang your own light, your own spotting abilities get amplified. You're able to see things which just half an hour ago could have seemed so important and now sitting in your own presence it seemed like I was concerned about this. So don't try to fight the mind, just allow it to come and go. It's beautiful, it's like a gentle process rather than you know this some kind of struggle always going on. It feels very gentle and loving.

Just like saying I'm the riverbed and the river is the flow of appearances. You can have fishes and frogs, you can have all kinds of vegetation, it can have sharks, it can have goldfish, tuna, you name it see. It can have like the Ganga, it can have people bathing inside you see. So we got so used to looking at the content of the river and say this is happening to me, oh this is happening to me, that we forgot that we are the background on which all of this movie is playing. We try to control the flow of the river or the content of what should come and what should not, and nobody is successful at doing that. So let the river flow on its own, just remain open. Our sense of control is nothing more than this delusion that I can control the flow of life, the flow of this river with a twig in my hand. This way then this openness, this allowing of anything outside, the seeming outside in the world whatever is happening, as sensations in the body, whatever is coming as thoughts, emotions, there's a simple openness and this is our natural true state which is prior to state actually. It's as simple as that you see.