Who Confirms Your Existence? - 5th December 2016

If I say you exist, who is here that can check this? If I say you exist, what can confirm this? Then we say you don't even exist. What are you talking about? It's at a different level of speaking, but who confirms even this? There must be some power, some non-thing which is here, which is receiving even these words. How many will say that there is nothing? There is nothing receiving these words? But is that your experience? So that which is receiving these words, that is aware of the hearing of these words, is not a thing.

So there is the hearing of these words. Undeniable, isn't it? Pretty clear. There is a hearing of these words and you are aware that there is a hearing of these words. And you can try to understand it, just check. There is a hearing of these words and you are aware that these words are being heard. So we are pointing directly to that which is the awareness of the hearing. And you can use any sensory perception; hearing is just one of them. Be in the perception that there are sensations in the body, some emotions are there, they are being experienced and you are aware of that. If that is aware of that, sometimes you say that in asking you this question you will not get anything, but actually it is not true.

You can say that it's not a question at the phenomenal level, therefore there is nothing in it for you phenomenally. Actually, even this is not true because it is only in this discovery, only in this recognition, that life and even this phenomenal level seems to become full of ease and peace. Conflict—there is no other phenomena which can bring you to this kind of quietude, can bring you to the end of misery, end of suffering. There is no phenomenon until the end of suffering. Even in the phenomenal play, we have to discover ourselves to be that which is prior to phenomena.

Out of the hundreds of thousands of beings that I have met on this planet, I've had the blessings of the Master to meet some who are beyond this suffering. And those have been those who have discovered who they really are. And those who have not discovered this, whatever their life might be like in terms of relationships, in terms of material possession, they have not come to this point where they can say that suffering seems like a strange idea. I know that sometimes some momentary reactions can come, but this idea that I could suffer for prolonged periods of time seems like a strange idea.

And what is it that we are looking for in this phenomenal world? Most everything that we are searching for, everything that we are doing, we intend to find lasting peace, lasting happiness, contentment. So I'm here to tell you that at least from what I have seen, I found that only those who have come to this true self-recognition and the dropping of the false conditioning have been able to say that 'I am not suffering.' Why do we see how this world is suffering? They can understand, of course, but it's hard to see. It becomes more and more of an alien concept. So that's a carrot for you.