in and some of you may be in a state of relative little bit moderate physical
discomfort as you sit here because it's quite warm may not be very soft we and
you're sitting on that 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 it 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 two maybe a
situation that this situation is wrong and I epic 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
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 calls good your body knows that it wasn't good because it suffered
in this attack of anger or 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 old that is self seeking seeking a stronger sense of self
so you could be sitting here and complain in your head of a 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 through being
right they are great through 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 that moment and complain then you can
recognize that tendency the reactivity through which the self strengthens
itself and you can drop it or one 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 minds what are you saying that it's not enough
to 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 myself honor the isness of this moment at that moment
when 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 a 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 yes 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 lighten 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 rosier 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
now anywhere life and now are inseparable so if you are not aligned
with now there's a little mean 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 as within which that condition happens now to get what I'm
pointing towards you cannot analyze it mentally because that's 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 be 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 and how life 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 it
allowing hmm and that happens it could be a turbulence a turbulent condition it
could let's say anger arises a turbulent condition and so there it is your vow it
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 everyday something little little things go wrong all the time it's in the
nature of things to go wrong of course it'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
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
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 all so that is your
temporary form is a name there is 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 a No
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 well
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 deep the loped 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 it'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 or than now they
think this is one of many many moments one moment out another moment at 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 now 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 now 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 his 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 is 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 if there are many moments
there's only the field of now in which everything is and that field 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
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