Direct Pointer to True Freedom
11 December 2022 (with subtitles)
I want to again remind of something very practical and very simple.
And it covers everything, actually.
What could that be?
Some time ago I used the example that,
if one fisherman goes to the sea with a line and a hook,
he may catch one fish at a time.
Another one goes out in a small boat
and catches maybe twenty or thirty fishes.
Another one goes in a trawler and catches thousands of fishes.
But I said, Who is that one fisherman
who with one hook can capture the whole ocean?
And of course the mind goes, 'Yes, it sounds like a nice story'.
But what I mean by that:
Who is that one and how, with one acute understanding,
can he conquer, can he conquer this ocean of maya?
How is it?
It is like a big claim.
But what I said is that, it was in response to someone,
and I said, If you continue,
whatever it is that the mind manifests inside,
whether in the form of a problem or attachment,
because many people here also, even after years,
have some either unconscious, stuck ... some old hurt even or something
that's stuck inside, no matter how much you hear,
you're not moving, it's stuck in them.
Even in my saying like that some light comes to it.
But even if it's not that, if it's just something that's coming up,
the mind storm comes again, some kind of conflict comes,
they're always going to be personal.
Meaning that they are here to affect the person you ...
You often identify as a personal self,
you have a psychic identity in you,
always, 'This is happening to me', and so on.
And what I said to you is this:
Whatever it is, rather than trying to control your situation,
which means, of course, you are identified with it,
or even to ignore it,
which still means you're identified with it, trying to do something,
but let it happen.
And know that without the awareness nothing can manifest,
good or bad, high or low, inner or outer.
Consciousness must be there first.
Take the standpoint of consciousness.
If that feels too abstract for you,
then see that the place of 'I' within you is the witness
of anything that appears within your mind,
whether it is something beautiful or not beautiful.
You are the witness. When I say the witness of it:
The witnessing of anything that is troubling you or pleasing
or whatever it is, that is relating to yourself as a person
or even as not a person,
but it is showing up in what I call 'the theatre of consciousness'.
Meaning that whatever you perceive, you are outside of it,
you are the witness of it, the witnessing of that.
Don't identify with any ... Even the sense of person
then becomes something witnessable.
And what do you have to do in the position of witnessing?
What is it that you have to do?
I say, Simply don't be confused with what is happening around you.
How not to be confused?
By recognising that it's just a phenomenon
and it is watched inside this detached, impersonal witnessing space,
which does not have a relationship with it, actually.
The one who has a relationship with it is something very personal,
a very personal mode.
And keep staying with that, just stay with that.
Don't go into fight mode.
Just observe, know that it is, and experience that
it is sufficient to not identify.
Meaning, don't get involved in that. Just keep observing.
Some things may feel very loud
in that moment of the fiercest seeming attack on you.
But as you stay like this, gradually,
you will see that the thing that was throbbing
starts to ease away, like it's not catching, it's not sticking
because you've removed the magnet.
The magnet is the personal identity.
It will feel like the whole scene drifts away from you more and more.
And it is replaced by a very profound sense of being
that is untroubled by any phenomenon.
It happens, it's not something you create, it's that you allow
and you start to feel like the sense of presence returns to you
rather than goes out into the projection of personhood and its world.
That's what I ask you to do. Anybody, you do it.
Sit by yourself.
This is not something that's gonna go on for years and years. No.
Every time you have the opportunity, sit.
Step aside and just rest with it.
Or something you may have heard me say,
Stay with it and recognise: This is heard, this direction is given,
but somehow the place of witnessing is impersonal
and is not on a journey.
The witness is not on a journey to somewhere.
Don't tell yourself that just in words, recognise that,
get used to that stillness, that unchanging place
and gradually, it just pervades the consciousness,
so that even when you are seemingly unconscious about what's happening
the prevailing background is the presence.
It comes like this, more and more.
I say, If you follow this, already the fruit is so powerful.
And whatever you hear me say is feeding that presence.
What's feeding the presence?
Absorbing it into the God reality. Absorbing.
And you need not be afraid of that.
Sometimes the mind and the person feel,
'I don't know if I'm ready for that, I've got things I want to do'.
You have your favourite projections and desires you want to live out,
that's your freedom, you do.
I can only tell you there's nothing greater than
abiding in your own awareness.
It's not a personal sense. When I say that you are God,
I don't mean ... It's not a personal statement!
Not the person is God, no!
But what you are in essence is the Oneness.
If you don't see God merely as an entity ... If you see God as an entity,
it creates through the mind some person, something.
It also manifests as that. Of course He manifests as that.
He manifests as you!
He manifests as the Lord of the universe in some form, OK.
But that's a manifestation.
So pure and all pervading is the Supreme reality,
the Lord of the universe.
As I said, even every atom obeys His will
and flows in accordance with the harmony He creates.
I say 'He' but He is not 'he'.
He's not 'she'. He's not 'it'.
Don't try to figure that out in your mind.
Just follow the little advice I give you and it will take you here.
If I can even say 'take you'. It will reveal the Truth.
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