I somehow feel I need a sort of experience of being everyone and everything.
Sarah, you don't need that much experience. You just need the experience of being.
You don't need to add to it.
The only reason we think that we're not everyone and everything
is because we have personalised and limited being. All we have to do is cease personalising being.
We don't then have to add, oh, I want to feel that I am everyone and everything.
That just comes in time gradually as an inevitable consequence of this
recognition that that being is unlimited. And so don't go for a positive experience.
Just see that everything in your life is personal and limited apart from the fact
of simply being and stay there and gradually its qualities reveal themselves to us.
And we just begin to feel more connection with others even if we don't rationalise it to us.
Even if you don't say to us, I share my being with everyone and everything.
We just find ourselves more open, more compassionate, more kind, more connected.
Do I remind myself sort of regularly that I share my being with everyone? Is that the best thing to do?
I would, you don't even, it's good to do that, Sarah, yes. It's good to do that.
But you can't, we cannot impose that idea on us. We have to feel that.
How do we feel that? By depersonalising being. The only reason we don't,
you see, feeling that we share our being with everyone and everything is the natural state.
It's not something we need to practise. It's the natural condition of being. So don't worry.
All we need to do is remove the limitations that we, thought, has superimposed on being. That's all you need to do.
And even that, Sarah, is not quite right. All you need to do is go to your being. Because if you go
to your being, you'll see that it doesn't share the limitations that thought imagines it does.
So you don't even need to remove those limitations. You don't need to remove my face from your screen
to see that your screen is inherently without, you just run your finger across the screen.
There are no divisions there. You don't have to remove my face or you don't have to remove,
you don't have to remove your beliefs and things. You just go to the experience of being.
And when I say go to, I don't mean to imply that you are one thing and your being is something else.
It is you, your being. I'm speaking to you, your being. Come back to yourself.
Stop losing yourself in experience. Come back to yourself. Taste yourself again. Know yourself again.
And as you do so, you will realize experientially, even if you don't formulate it to yourself,
that I am colourless, transparent, empty, silent, still, at peace. All those, because they are the
nature of being, those qualities will just come to you naturally. It's fine to remind yourself
intellectually that this is the case, particularly that you share your being with everyone.
And remind yourself that this is the case until you feel it. And I'm sure you do feel it with many.
I'm sure you do feel it more and more. But if at any point you feel you find yourself behaving in a
way that is not consistent with this understanding, then just pause, remind yourself, even though I'm
mad with that person, don't forget, I share my being with them. And then you go back to the conversation.