it's not your thought activity but a deeper presence without which told
couldn't even happen just to feel that which cannot be defined that
dimensionally in you that has nothing to do with the personality but without
which the personality could not exist
nothing to do with emotions but without which emotions could not be nothing to
do with thoughts or sense perceptions but without which thoughts and sense
perceptions could not even be that is presence and that is inseparable from
the depths of what we call the present moment so in the dimension of depth what
we call the present moment which is far more than the surface of the present
moment which is all this in the dimension of depth you and the present
moment are one the realization to put that into words like that you and them
now ultimately in the deepest sense are one that I had not verbalized that when
I was writing the power of mouth unfortunately didn't get into the book
so there's some things throughout your life in the damage that it never changes
and you call it can call it the now the space of love not what happens in this
base but the deepest place of now you can call that who you are in your
essence
formless dimensional spirit spiritual dimension and that that's the essence of
spirituality is to feel that in the background of your being and then you
become less dependent on externals and
that's a great liberation not to be dependent for your sense of happiness or
aliveness or fulfillment on external things because they come and go all the
time
so the they'd like me to have a and a topic that you can name for my thoughts
here so let's call it freedom from externals and to introduce it I just
like to read to you an extremely short true story takes about one minute which
comes from the Sufi tradition the mystical branch of Islam a deeply
peaceful form of Islam yes it exists so I would like to do one in one of our
sessions soon spent a whole session on the Sufis they're wonderful so I will
read this little extremely short troll story to you which is all to do with
freedom from externals the title of the story is the slave without a master
wandering in a patchwork robe his face blackened by the Sun the certain dervish
dervish our Sufi mendicants and wandering in a patchwork robe his face
blackened by the Sun a certain dervish arrived at Kufa where he was seen by a
merchant the merchant spoke to him and decided that he must be a lost slave and
the merchant said because of your mild manner I will call you career which
means good are you not a slave that I am said career the merchant said I will
take you home and you can work for me until I find your master I would like
that 8k here for I have been seeking my master for such a long time he worked
for many years with this man who taught him to be a weaver hence his second name
the sauce so his name became if I pronounced it correctly
Kalia massage good weaver after his long service is feeling guilty of his
exploitation the merchant said to him I do not know who you are but you are now
free to go
Korean massage the great master of the way traveled on water to make her
without regrets for he had his covered Alderaan
new his development in spite of having no name and being treated like a slave
he was the teacher of simply of Ibrahim covers and many more of the great
teachers of the Sufis he died over a thousand years ago at the age of 120
this is a somewhat extreme example of somebody practicing being free of
dependency on external conditions like a village the sufi who became later the
sufi master that he voluntarily said yes i am a slave he accepted that situation
as the background to his practice note says in the story he was able to
continue his development his inner development despite having no name or so
just a name that somebody gave him and being a nobody and what is that inner
development like the story refers to continued his inner development it is a
dissolving of any kind of mental or conceptual sense of identity form
identity so that that in you which is beyond form can emerge more fully
and as that in you which is beyond form which is a deep sense of aliveness and
peace that emerges from within as you let go of dependency on your thinking to
tell you who you are other people who tell you who you are
you let go of dependency on that
complete freedom from externals so it sometimes happens that when external
conditions become particularly unpleasant or difficult at first they
say in a resistance there's steep suffering and sometimes
the point is reached when the resistance which is of course consists alternately
of mental judgments about your situation the resistance is relinquished you let
go of calling your situation anything it just is as it is let's see beginning
then of freedom from external conditions but we don't have to wait until we stand
on the deck of the Titanic it's going down or similar situation we don't have
to wait or that it may happen but it may not happen and of course there's no
guarantee that then there will be a complete acceptance it seems almost
impossible in some situations to completely accept a situation let's
start with more simple things and look at your own life and see in what areas
of your life you are dependent for happiness or well-being was core sense
of fulfillment of external conditions and how perhaps how easily exchanged in
external conditions can trigger immediately a change in your inner state
and to see for example it as you're standing in line somewhere for a little
longer than you think you should be standing in line as you
stand there already irritation arises been here for 10
minutes and the the irritation of course is the thought I've been here for 10
minutes and it's too long and as soon as you have the thought this is too long
they should do something wherever they are they should do something that is not
right then the body responds with an emotion so the situation is it's
wonderful to examine that because when you see it in yourself it's in it's
already beginning of an awakening there's no personal shortcoming in you
because oh I did that I did that when we're standing in line this morning well
that you did that it's perfectly normal but that you realize that you did that
that's beginning of awakening it's even deeper waken if you realize you are
doing it in this moment of course it's a little easier to realize it afterwards
because the energy behind the sword is not as strong so let's go back to that
situation of course life consists of things like
that little things in everyday things arise you get upset and it's normal but
upset is only a small beginning of suffering irritation is a mild trauma
suffering and then comes anger and then comes all the complaining all the mind
wounds that go with that so stay with one simple thing because the mechanism
of the simple thing is the same evening bigger things how you lose peace inner
peace so easily I'm not nothing personal many of you are already beyond that I'm
talking to those few but not and the others can just enjoy its how easily
inner peace is lost for little things for little things waiting for too long
somebody not treating me the way they should be treating me being unpleasant
rude the person in the traffic doing something that he should not be doing
all kinds of little things all you break something or you lose a little thing and
you don't realize that the most precious thing is your inner state in a piece by
piece I don't mean a dead piece where you desensitize yourself and say I don't
feel I feel okay but you don't feel alive anymore the true inner peace is a
deep sense of aliveness to feel fulfilled and in several offers from a
kind of joy not necessarily the ecstatic joy you don't go through life ah
some people triage buttons you can't sustain that but a joy a peaceful inter
life energy field in the background it's in a piece that's the most precious
thing in your life far more important then where you are or what's happening
around you and it's given up because of mental habits you lose it so often so
once you're aware of that then you can observe the mechanism how you lose that
how quickly it can happen and when you're really alert you can see that
what's the mechanism behind it and the mechanism behind it is of course the
thought that arises it says something about this this shouldn't be happening
it complains of whatever it does the thought but you don't know it's just a
thought to you it is inseparable from the situation so if you don't know that
the thought you have about a situation is inseparable for messaging that's
unconsciousness because then you say it's a dreadful day because it's raining
you have mixed up a judgment with the external condition it's a dreadful day
not realizing that the dreadful is your mental judgment and today is as it is
all usually standing in line here for so long is dreadful no you've mixed up two
things the judgment and the situation but if you disentangle them and then you
see here is what is and here's what my mind is saying about it and then
suddenly you see that by believing totally in every judgment that arises
you immediately lose your peace you become dependent on external conditions
for your happiness so once you see that then you can actually no longer believe
in the judgment or you can even relinquish it and that's when that comes
when you realize your power to do that for the first time in situations where
usually you would have complained or become irritated or angry anthesis and
suddenly you find oh I'm not complaining anymore
I'm not irritated or the thought comes to me say okay this is the thought and
here's what is I just stay with what it is because all the thought does is it
adds suffering the situation might be physical discomfort but is not suffering
this is as it is that's an enormous liberation when you
can be in a place that before your mind would have called I don't want to be
here well but you are here and then you're just here without any judgment
and suddenly it's okay that's beginning of freedom from externals
and that's liberation and that's continuous practice with all the little
things that happen throughout your day you practice in that way so that
gradually you go into situations without mental judgments and you still know what
you need to do the mind says no I will never do anything anymore then you still
know what you need to do and action you can take action but not based on
condemnation and negative energy so to become free of externals
is an essential part of course of spiritual awakening
we're leaving aside the extreme situations it's relatively rare of
course that also is extremely useful to look at but let's just work with normal
daily life people the most challenging thing in your spiritual awakening is
other people because other people use most of people are identified with their
mind and they can easily pull you into identification with your mind and the
question is whether you are able to accept the other human as aoshi is in
this moment as you accept the place where you are as you accept a situation
you are in without looking to your mind to tell you something about that
situation this is something to be practiced try it out in your life
continuously and more and more what arises then is the consciousness that is
not conceptual and intelligence that is not conceptual that then begins to
operate also it's not just passive it begins to operate in your life it takes
the place of what was operating before which is the mind made thought based
sense of identity with its conditioning and real
which asked what's the next thing I can react to it's looking many human minds
or egoic minds are looking for the next thing to react to they don't know it of
course and the slightest thing you say or do you think you should know better
you shouldn't say that so there is it the usual thing that runs your life the
egoic self consisting of usual thought patterns gradually is replaced by a
deeper intelligence that is not conceptual and non-judgmental and it
comes up and it looks at the world without imposing judgments on it and at
that moment whenever it happens you are free of dependency on external
conditions because you're only dependent for your inner state you're only
dependent on external conditions as long as you believe in your thoughts about
the external conditions external conditions including places situations
people
so it in some ancient traditions people in a very extreme way they saw the truth
of this and they practiced they they said okay I'm going to become a
mendicant I'm going to give up dependency on anything and I will just
go from place to place with nothing give up all dependency on external conditions
as a spiritual practice this is not practical in the West almost impossible
to do in the West the whole cultural background is not there for that we have
to do it in some other way if you want to be a mannequin you can still do it in
India besides of course many places are too cold in the West 2:00 p.m. homeless
on drone I experienced homelessness for a while and it was a beautiful
experience it could have been terrible if my mind still had had some judgments
about it but as already the mind had given up complaining and calling any
situation bad or calling my life useless or having some kind of opinion about who
I am without that opinion without all these mind structures that this moment
was simply as it is as it always is and that it is wonderful then to be able to
appreciate the aliveness of this moment no matter what form it takes this is the
practice now you still have to work with your mind and be vigilant so that you
can be there when your mind brings up thoughts don't believe in the judgments
of your mind don't rely on the judgments of your MA
be the deeper consciousness the unconditioned consciousness behind the
mind the challenges of life are very helpful without them you would go to
sleep people complain and say I want my life to be more conducive to a spiritual
work I want to have more time to really do what well I want to do and really if
that were the case for even if if all if we for people to create great things if
those people had perfect conditions in their lives to create then the
aristocrats in past centuries would have been the great artists and writers and
philosophers but the strange thing is that very few of them they had ever they
didn't need to work they called all the others of working classes it's where the
word comes from because there was another class that didn't work so there
was that class they just lived on their land their possessions that huge houses
every the shuttle's in France with mansions in England and and so yes they
were very cultured they read many things that great paintings in their houses
very few of them actually became great artists or philosophers or painters or
writers or scientists a few but they should have been much higher proportion
because they had ideal conditions they didn't have to work for a living they
but no but their life was not focused enough it was become dissipated and
often they brought great creators where people who had to struggle very hard
against all the odds and if there's a similar thing here in spirituality the
event as why spiritual awaken his concerns don't demand
better conditions for spiritual awakening that's a very common thing and
that's of course is a mind creation it's a mind love set the mind also loves to
complain about your situation and why it's not good enough for your spiritual
awakening if it were different yes if I could allow if I had enough money to go
to travel around like that woman did who wrote that book that has now become a
movie if I had the money to do that I could explore and I could go and see the
teachers and that would be it I could I could really do something for my body so
that it doesn't have all the ailments anymore I could go to the greatest spas
and resorts and have massages every day and he'd have hot stones on intermediate
wrapped in oils and rose petals and surely I would get enlightened very
quickly and now if you tried it suddenly let's say you have enough money and then
come back back after a few years and let me know how it's going and you will find
those what seems the most conducive situation for spiritual awakening to the
mind is not necessarily the most conducive situation for you for
spiritual awakening it's just what the minds opinion that's unfortunately or
fortunately that's not the reality of it and the strange thing is the reality of
it is that the situation that you are in right now is the one that is right for
you to work with for spiritual awakening
this situation is right it was otherwise how do you know that because it is it is
the totality has brought this about this moment and that's been given to you to
work with Georgia speak to apply consciousness to in the same way that
you heard and a sculptor who works with boat is giving a piece given a piece of
wood this is a piece of wood for you to work with
you
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