You Have Never Left the Destination and Silent Sitting - 21st November 2017

That's why the sages come and say that you are the shoreless ocean in which the ships of this universe come and go. Like the universe, let's see. Practice. You will start to see that these statements are not big; they are the most obvious. You don't have a start or an end. Now check whether any sensation can actually hurt you or scratch you. Go deep. Any appearance—we call them sensations for now, perceptions if you like—what is it? Touch another set of sensations, another set of perceptions. So perceptions and sensations are engaging with themselves and that which we call the world, but there is no 'me' more than that. The true 'I,' you, remains untouched whatever the content of the perception might be.

Then comes the invention of the 'me,' but you cannot invent it unless you have a notion about something. Any perception, then we attach a notion to it, has the potential to become the idea of the individuality, the idea of the ego. What are the common interpretations? 'This sensation should go away.' This appearance, whatever it might be, 'should go away.' 'This appearance should stay.' Desire or aversion. Now that this appearance is here, 'What should I do about it?' Aversion. So all these notions come, and at the root of all of these notions is the notion of duality: that some appearance is 'me' and another appearance is 'not me,' is separate. Without the subtle labeling, the experience is not that of separation. Naturally, consciousness also could not create a program in which it could forget itself in the right now. So naturally you see this oneness. Your experience is always of oneness; your interpretation is that of separation. That's why I see that you have never left the destination.

Some of you might then say, 'Ananta, please now just take away this doubting mind.' Hearing this report, it's very awesome. What you see is completely clear, and in this moment I see that nothing comes, nowhere to go, nothing to do, I am not limited. But this mind, it doesn't understand or it doesn't listen. So can we now not handle the emails from the mind? The mind is sending you these instant messages, like sending WhatsApp messages. From the mind, don't respond to them. You do not have to worry about it. This is surrender. See, this is surrender. Let a higher power take care of this mind. Whatever notion it is offering to you, this is somebody else's responsibility. This is the solution. You don't have to check your email, and even if checking happens, you don't have to worry about it. It could come with the title 'Urgent,' 'Important,' 'Action Required.' Most important action required! So whatever it might be screaming, yes, let it be. I am not prescribing action or inaction, by the way. This has nothing to do with action or inaction. I am just saying that notice that without picking up a notion, actions can happen or inaction can happen. I'm not prescribing either. Just don't pick up the notion of the 'me.' Let all the emails from the mind be responded to by the Satguru. That is it.

If you find that some email is just too compelling—'This one I have to, that one I have to'—the email says, 'But you have to manage your life, you have to make some money, you have to do something, oh, you have to fix a relationship.' Then know that if it feels like you must, you have to deal with this one before you can find freedom. Especially for all of us, all of these steps: 'Do this before.' We take up the position. Just inquire: does this really apply to the reality of who I am? So the point, it might seem now like, 'Okay, all I have to do is be position-less.' And sometimes you might even hear it like that. But being position-less is not a doing, neither is it a non-doing. Who can hear these words? It's neither doing nor non-doing because we see that it is not applicable to us in reality. You don't have to take on your position or the non-doer positions. It is very popular in Advaita to take a non-dual position: 'But I am the non-dual, how can I do?' What is the 'I' in that? Only the question is: what is the 'I' in that? If it is still perpetuating the false story of the individual life, then whatever position you might take will be squeezed out.

That is why I keep reminding you that the good news is that if we had to get to this position-lessness, we could not do it. But in every moment, we start position-less. Because getting to position-lessness is a position. So the contradiction is inherent in the notion itself. 'We have to get to it'—already it is the position. But we start empty. We will discuss it some other time about time, how that plays the role. So when I say 'moment,' it is not really the moment in time. The point is to see that right now, I start empty. What you want to put in the basket is up to you. But that's the good news: that even if you do, then there is never a need for any guilt because you start empty. Nobody is saying this, and don't worry about the terminology because sometimes some of you get upset when I use the term 'God.' I use it. You start as God right now. You are God. You don't have to believe it. Believe it or not, whether you like it or not, you are this one—one consciousness, oneself.

Just if you want to be technically correct, in oneself this dynamic aspect is this one. Now, your play is 'I must convince my mind about this,' and that also becomes a position. It is your play. Let me see what this mind is saying about it in terms of position. 'Have I got this? What do I do with it?' Don't try to stop the mind. The mind is a position machine, constantly making you offers. You don't have to stop this vending machine of positions. It keeps trying to sell you something. Let them come and go. And if you do pick up something, no trouble, because God is here. God is here. It doesn't matter. You are here. It says you have to be there to doubt your very existence. If you were not there, could you doubt your existence? Now, what is here is misunderstood to be something else.

Some of the common doubts all of you end up picking up is when the mind comes and says, 'Do you really know this? Do you really see this?' There's a lot of confusion about whether the Self is known or not, the Self is seen or unseen. So actually, in that moment when you're empty of notions, this is completely known and completely seen, but not the way you think about knowing or seeing. If 'knowing' really means the way that we have traditionally known things conceptually or perceptually, then the truth cannot be known. But actually, if you were to look into the term 'knowing,' you will see that the truth is the knowingness itself. If you say 'I am aware' and I ask you, 'Is this just a concept for you?' or I ask you, 'Did you see this awareness that you were saying I am aware of?' It is not like a perception or conception, yet you are aware. So if your dynamic aspect is coming to this recognition of its own source, then do you feel that the source of this dynamic aspect is some clueless entity? This is a misunderstanding. Awareness is completely self-aware. Knowingness is completely self-knowing, but not in the way we think about these terms. If some of this sounds too technical or metaphysical, you can leave it for now. Just remain in your motionlessness without even the 'remaining' becoming a position about it, without trying to avoid.

In your presence, there's no 'me.' I see that just like resistance, it's too much. Thank you all so much for being in satsang today. Satguru Sri Mooji Baba.