You Remain Empty - 4th July 2016

Allow yourself to dive into yourself no matter how empty it might seem, no matter which fear might be coming up. Experience this nothingness that you are, which is not an empty nothing, not even a full nothing. Even empty and full don't apply; just no-thing. I was just sharing with someone this morning that "stay here" usually implies that we must be closed to everything else, but this "stay here" is different. This stay here is to stay here as you are and remain completely open to what is coming and going. Now you see that you cannot leave this, actually. You will find that this supreme intelligence that is running this life also provides the life energy. There is nothing that the non-existent entity, which is just a presumed entity, can do to increase this life force. It's another presumption, just like the presumption that "I can control my life." You cannot; it is not possible. So let the one who is producing or not producing their energy, let that one feel guilty.

I say we keep coming back to the same points, isn't it? One is to find out who we are, and if it feels like that is not happening in the moment, or for those of you who are more devotional in your temperament, then take it up with my Father. You remain empty, yes. But if there is a sense that you're consuming a lot of other conditions, then we cannot buy the idea that inquiry must happen on its own. If you're empty of everything else, is it because you're picking up all the other ideas? You're not.

I'm saying you could be picking up other ideas, but then why pick up this idea that the inquiry must happen on its own? All the other ideas I'll pick up because, like, otherwise it's escapism.

I think you're doing it. I just want to make sure that everybody is hearing this because, you see, it's very convenient to say, "Yes, yes, I am believing my thoughts. Maybe I'm being lazy and what will my family think? What's going to happen?" All this we are doing as what now? As consciousness, we are picking up all of these conditions. But in the play, consciousness sometimes clearly is this one who is making these other excuses, saying, "Now I'm not the doer." If I am being lazy, yes, that is accepted. "I'm not doing any of the work for my children, I'm just sitting on the couch." All of this, "I am the doer." But for the inquiry, "I'm not the doer." It cannot be either this way or that way.

So, either we are not the doer or the experiencer, then consciousness is the doer and experiencer, so which is surrender then? No need for inquiry. You cannot pick up ideas of our doership and then immediately, when it comes to inquiry, then "I am the non-doer." Let it be the last thing you do. It means what? The doer idea, let it extinguish itself in the inquiry. But all this said, I'm not saying I'm suffering, but there must be a subtle aspect of it because if something is burning, you have to suppose there is suffering.