in and some of you may be in a state of relative physical discomfort as you sit
here because it's quite warm may not be very soft ways and this you're sitting
on but they are tightly squeezed together relatively and there could be a
little me complaining in the head
something in the head is complaining about this moment
and the amazing thing is that that also adds to the false sense of self the
complainer in the head is an essential aspect of the false sense of self
because if you can complain in the head about something that is here this moment
at that moment your sense of self becomes strengthened because you are
said you're suddenly antagonistic towards something or someone a situation
or a person or an arising condition you are antagonistic towards it stays a
tightening is an enhanced sense of separateness between who you are and
your surroundings or the condition the situation of the person at this moment
so your sense of separateness through complaining becomes strengthened
there's a contraction that happens and if you're extremely conscious of your
body you can notice a slide every time you complain about something in the head
which is so normal there's a slight contraction in that goes with it and an
important part of complaining is you are right and somebody else is wrong you are
right and another person or maybe it may be a situation that this situation is
wrong and I big I'm complaining about I am right and that gives an enormous Lee
strengthens that sense of self the me and everybody's sense of self has that
tendency in it some most much more pronounced than others we have all met
people who go through life almost continuously complaining but it is a
collective mindset the complainer in the head I'm not talking about accepting
everything and never speaking up again I'm talking about a more subtle
complainer not I'm not talking about going to restaurant and eating the cold
soup if it's meant to be hot and not saying this soup is cold but I ordered
hot soup there's nothing wrong with that
or to say you I just got my car you like you pick up your car from the workshop
and it's they haven't repaired it they just charged you for it
so you you go back and say it hasn't been repaired obviously because it's the
same thing happened again there's nothing wrong with that so I'm not
talking about okay from now on never speak up again no complaints
that now is not even complaining if it is a simple statement of fact this is
how it is but there too you could be seeking an enhanced sense of self by
making the other person wrong and making yourself right and then you come with
that attitude back to that car repairman they have they are they're put there by
universal intelligence to challenge you of course
so you go you go back and then you there's a reactivity behind it and you
are right and so you grow your sense of self grows and when and when after you
shout it at him you walk back and then say oh that was good that felt really
good it didn't really feel good but the the egoic sense of self can't tell
between good and bad it often it's what's good was bad it cause good your
body knows that it wasn't good because it suffered in this attack of anger the
circulation that flow of life energy through the bone everything sucked could
obstruct it and an enormous tightening in every cell and the body said what's
going on here something dreadful is happening so to see a load that is self
seeking seeking a stronger sense of self so you could be sitting here and
complain in your head of the situation it's too hot here why do I did they why
are there too many people they shouldn't have that shouldn't be so so how do we
get if these are cold this is a collective mindset a self sneaking
mindset how do we go beyond that and it's been there for so many thousands of
years everybody trapped in it everybody trapped in an illusory sense of self
that continuously seeks to enhance itself no matter what so being right
they are great so being miserable right
an essential characteristic of that sense of self is antagonism to be at
odds with what is the essential key if you look to the very root of that sense
of self what is it that lies at the root of that sense of self and you could say
to get to the very the most simple the most fundamental root of the illusion
it doesn't like what is it's running away always from the suchness of this
moment it does not honor this moment
because it's seeking more in the future so the future is so much more important
because that's where the more is that is going to make my self complete so I'm
not going to honor this moment because I don't even want to be here it's not I am
not enough now
and the simple so simple to step out of that illusionary illusory sense of self
that ultimately is suffering create suffering makes others suffer makes
yourself suffer the simplicity of awakening out of that illusory sense of
self is so incredible that the mind can't get it and it is not to fight the
present moment internally not to stand in opposition internally to the suchness
of this moment and that can start with a little thing like sitting here some
moderate physical discomfort may arise
normal tendency is the mind will step in at that moment and complain then you can
recognize that tendency the reactivity through which the self strengthens
itself and you can drop it or we could say when you recognize it and you can
recognize that it serves no purpose except to strengthen a sense of self you
can drop it and you can say it is this moment is as it is now this sounds it's
not the mind says what are you saying that it's not in
after awaken but it is the word this evening the mantra that is the teaching
of this evening goes like this it is to align yourself with what is now an
openness to what is not a reactive little me complaining trying to get to
the future to complete my self honor the isness of this moment at that moment but
the moment you honor the isness half a million years of collective mind
conditioning cease to operate the moment you honor the isness of now you are no
longer a conditioned entity an unconditioned state of consciousness
arises and that is a state of spacious openness spaciousness arises now there
may not be spaciousness where you are sitting around you but if you can allow
this moment including a certain amount perhaps of physical discomfort if you
can allow it to be okay there is the discomfort I'm a little hot and not so
comfortable aches here or too tight but it is and instead of complaining and
reacting you allow this moment to be I allow this moment to be as it is
I say yet wait
the egoic census of that moment collapses doesn't operate anymore when
you become aligned with what is that is the simplicity of awakening the
simplicity of a light and enlightenment completely welcomed the suchness of this
moment when you do that there is the condition of this moment that changes
continuously in the one eternal moment the appearance of that eternal moment in
the world of form changes continuously of course now this moment manifests in
form as the speaker the words and perhaps a certain amount of physical
discomfort as you sit there and it is allowed the condition let's just say it
is a little bit of discomfort the condition that arises at this moment
instead of being resisted and thereby strengthen me is allowed and the strange
thing that happens then is suddenly there is the condition that arises and
around it thisis and I am using a word that is not an explanation it's only a
little pointer around the condition and the condition could be an internal
condition it could be an external physical condition it could be a life
situation something happen whatever condition it arises can only arise in
the now and now it's not resisted because it is you aligned with the
isness of life the one moment there's only ever now if you're not aligned with
that you're not aligned with life because life can only appear now can
only manifest now life is not there's no life other they know any
life and now are inseparable so if you are not aligned with now there's a
little me that in his delusion says I'm against life I'm against the universe me
against the universe that is the madness of the egoic sense of self so the moment
you allow whatever condition arises at this moment to be internally there is a
spaciousness around an inner sense of space or strangest nests within which
that condition happens now to get what I'm pointing towards you cannot analyze
it mentally because that spaciousness is the very thing that is beyond the noisy
mind there is no spaciousness in the noisy mind but there is
spaciousness of vastness in around and underneath the noisy mind the noisy mind
is like a ripple little ripples in a vast sea so there is that vastness you
thought you were that ripple trying to get it become a bigger ripple and maybe
eventually a wave knowing yourself not as not looking for yourself anymore in
any condition that arises internally as thought externally as an event or
personal relationship not looking some for some confirmation that I am I am
someone by reacting against the condition that's all part of the egoic
madness instead it is allowed to be you allow it to be you allow life to
not a little me that it amounts this should be different it's allowed to
allow life to be where is life here now nowhere else so you how live to be you
become aligned with the one life that underlies all forms of life so one
formless one consciousness before it is born into form temporarily suddenly
there's a spaciousness around the arising condition the sense of inner
space around it that comes with the allowing hmm and that happens it could
be a turbulence a turbulent condition it could let's say anger arises a turbulent
condition and there it is your Valley to be suddenly there's a space around the
anger the anger is still there but it is allowed or something goes wrong if
things as the mind would call it in your life every day something little little
things go wrong all the time it's in the nature of things to go wrong but of
course there's nothing wrong but the mind calls it that and reacts against it
because it strengthens itself by even calling it wrong it's already
strengthens itself because if that is wrong I must be right so I'm bigger so
something goes wrong so to speak and it's simply it is the mantra arises it
is it's it's allowed not a little mean fighting now the little me says please
don't do that you will become powerless if you are no
longer fighting and that's the opposite of the truth
you are powerless because you're fighting what is that is the state of
powerlessness but to the egoic sense of self it looks like okay I'm going to
make it so true power is the power of the one intelligence the one life and
really you are an expression and manifestation in form a temporary
manifestation of that in form just as the flower is the only difference
between you and the flower is that the flower has no problems the flower has no
relationship with itself humans have a relationship with themselves me that's a
big problem and they go through their whole lives
carrying the problem of me trying to make it work this problematic sense of
me I have to make it work somehow it's not in the nature of it to work it's not
even meant to work it's simply there to awaken you
it takes you into suffering and frustration and out of that you begin to
awaken and then in a way you could say as a new consciousness arises from
within you that is no longer opposed to what is an unconditioned sense of simple
presence presence alert open presence or beingness
so you're awakened out of thought and being trapped in thought a thought based
sense of self mental image of me and my story which is all thought not that you
deny the form that you are temporarily that is honored also that is your
temporary form okay the name there's a little past and there's a little future
that this form has and this form interacts with other forms nothing wrong
with that there's nothing even wrong with your story your past
there's only something wrong when you're looking for yourself in it for the
essential sense of self you're looking for it in the story of me which is
ultimately mental noise and I'm looking for it to complete itself in the future
so you're looking for yourself in time where you are never can never be because
there's no ultimate reality to time it's inseparable from the human mind so when
you are looking for an identity in and through time which is the past and the
future way hopefully you will complete yourself that is the root of suffering
and illusion and that's why life is so problematic because you're looking for
yourself where you aren't and the only place where you are you're not looking
which is now and so okay so the mind says okay where where am i and then now
you become friendly with it now and that's an amazing thing and of course
that may not yet happen all the time the old condition of being hostile
antagonistic an enemy of the now will okay occasionally reassert itself and
now as this new state of consciousness arises the unconditioned consciousness
arises for the first time perhaps on a larger scale on the planet you will move
back and forth you will move back and pick it again
suddenly the now will be your enemy again and then you recognize that and
you move out and suddenly the shift happens and the very same situation is
suddenly not resisted any more but welcomed and once you see that suddenly
enormous amount of intelligence is freed that before could not operate you were
not intelligent in a true sense no matter how developed the mind was that
was only a tiny aspect of what true intelligence is the human mind is a tiny
aspect of the vastness of intelligence that expresses itself as the whole
universe in form the flower the Stars the galaxies the blade of grass the
animals the human forms or underlying it one vast intelligence expressing itself
in the world of form playing this beautiful game of form and playing the
game of pretending that it doesn't know itself anymore
that's human form and suddenly there's an awakening and you remember who you
are you are
who could you be other then the one thing that never leaves you what's the
one thing that never leaves you no matter what happens in your life no
matter what happened no matter what will happen in your life what is it that's
always there you can be sure that it'll be now it's always now it's always now
nothing can be that's not now that's the one thing that remains constant that it
everything unfolds now so that is there is that what is that now the error that
most people make when they talk about the present moment of them now they
think this is one of many many moments one moment out another moment in another
moment no you look at it deeply you will see there are not many moments in your
life it's always this field of no now what appears in it changes when you
leave here then now appears in a different form the field of now
something else arises in knowledge and then it leaves if you only know that
which arises and stand in a reactive relationship to what arises in the now
that is the basis for a personal sense of me then that's that's this delusion
all you know is the arising form and you're trying somehow to look for
yourself in the form that arises in the now external or internal as a thought or
belief or reaction and form arises externally in the now you react against
it and you strengthen your own psychological form the knee by reacting
against another form this is the nature of karma action reaction action reaction
and that's it there's no end to it unless you step out and suddenly karma
comes to an end through allowing what is to be this moment which is the only one
what happens changes continuously but it doesn't mean that there are many moments
there's only the field of now in which everything is and that feat of now is
very still a vast stillness no matter how much noise humans make the stillness
is still there and eventually the noise comes to an end and the stillness
remains untouched so s and the amazing thing is when you say yes to what is if
you are alert at that moment you will notice a sense of stillness or peace
arising from deep within
you
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