Stay in the world and watch, observe
the passing picture show. There's no experience other than
the present experience.
What you are actually aware of is just what is
happening,
not even now,
what has happened in the past
and no more. Everything you perceive has already happened.
This moment is always here since we know no other moment than this moment,
but this moment is not in time
and experience is always in the past.
Even the projected experience of the future is a memory of the past.
When you look at me right now, you're actually not looking at me,
you're recognizing a memory of me.
That memory is in your awareness. It's actually a modified form of you.
So even though you think you're looking at Deepak,
you're looking at a memory that is a modified form of yourself.
Everything you see is you in disguise,
there are no feelings but present feelings.
I am what is happening in this moment. I am a pattern or flux of the universe
in this moment. I am the universe experiencing
certain localized sensations this moment. I am a localized momentary sensation.
You might almost say a little itch in this moment of the universe.
A little scratch.
The universe is experiencing itself from an infinity of perspectives.
This moment.
One of these perspectives is what people refer to
as Deepak Chopra or whatever else has a name.
To hold on to anything is like holding onto your breath.
If you persist, you'll suffocate
and die.
That's why
the vedanta says one of the cliches is holding,
clinging, grasping to that which cannot be held onto.
The others, recoiling from that which cannot be held onto.
The third cause of human suffering is not knowing
the real reality.
The fourth is identifying with your ego and the fifth is the fear of death and
remember all these are holding on
to a memory that is flimsy, ephemeral, transient ungraspable.
The only way to deal with change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.
Become
the dance, not just the dancer become the dancing and the dance.
Trying to fix the flux is the call of all misery. Life is movement, fluidity and flux.
This moment the flux is Vrikti, vibration, Shakti.
Um it is
sensation,
it is images, feeling, thoughts. It is
what
allows
awareness to experience itself in infinite
modes of knowing, experience and objects
known.
To pursue happiness,
fulfillment in the future is to pursue a constantly retreating fandom.
The faster you chase it, the faster it runs ahead.
Don't chase phantoms, you're surrounded by them
anyway.
Okay, more next time.