Leave all those thoughts aside
and the idea you have about who you are and what you want from life.
Just put them all down for a moment.
You're carrying around the bags everywhere.
Even on the beach, you go for a swim and you got your bags ...
Put them down for a minute. Leave everything. Take everything off.
Put all your concepts away. Leave them to the side for a moment.
As many things as you can take out, just take them out.
Whatever you see, imagine or remember, etc. Just put everything down.
Everything down. Leave them right here.
When we finish you can have them back if you want.
But for one moment be totally empty.
Go all the way. Right from 100, 99, 98 ... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Finished.
O.K.? And you will stay as zero.
You're not even one.
When you start counting where do you start?
1, 2, 3, ... You don't start with zero.
You be zero, O.K.?!
Nothing at all. Do it now. I want to show you something.
Don't just imagine. You will demonstrate for yourself something beautiful now.
It doesn't matter if the thoughts are going 'Hey, I am not going anywhere. I'm right here.' It doesn't matter.
You're not engaged with them. Leave everything alone.
Be empty beyond even the concept of emptiness.
And don't need any imagination for it. I'm going to show you.
Just in your own natural, sober mind
leave everything.
Even the desire for freedom and enlightenment.
Don't touch anything now. Not even the sense of 'I'.
Put it also aside.
And don't pick up anything new.
And don't be waiting for something.
Where are you now, what is your state?
Now let's say - I don't know what each of you is experiencing -
But pretty much it will be some sort of silence, peace.
Generally.
Don't grab unto even this. Even if it feels beautiful.
Just let it be there. It's free. Don't try to capture it. It's free.
So you aren't going to be collecting, you simply notice.
Emptiness, silence, peace.
Don't tie yourself to even these. Don't combine yourself with anything at all.
Just let it be there.
Just like a fragrance.
You pass a flower ... 'Wow' Beautiful smell of lavender. Don't collect the smell. Just enjoy.
So if you don't try to collect even what is beautiful, then you won't collect what is ugly.
Pay attention to the sense of yourself, but don't put any pictures to it, because no picture belongs here now.
Can you experience yourself without pictures, without a self-image?
Can you experience ... can you know yourself without a self-image?
You just know that you are, isn't it?!
You feel that there is perhaps a subtle quality of presence, maybe.
The natural way in which you know you exist.
But there is no information there.
There is no personal story.
There is no autobiography.
There is no résumé.
Just sense that you exist.
Do you have any problems here?
From any region of time. From past, future or present.
Do you have any problems?
Does this feel to be a totally unrealistic way to be?
Illegitimate?
Is there any law in life that says 'Thou should not be like this!' ?