All Are Appearances in the Light of 'I Am' - 2nd February 2018

It's like the puppeteer has been playing with all these puppets and one of the puppets it really likes and seems very intimately attached to this puppet and said, 'This is what I am.' Then in the game of this, it invented another puppet to come and remind it. That puppet which you have designed to remind yourselves: how long will we let sensations that we call the body, how long will we let the appearance of these sensations convince us that this is our boundary, that we are limited by this container?

The very experience is contrary to this, you see. You see that these sensations are contained within you, just like all sensations are. You also experience many bodies in that which you call dreams. You've experienced yourself with no body and no phenomena in that which you call sleep. Many times this happens. That's why it was once said, those who recognize what is there, what you are in the sleep state, who recognize that in the waking state, it's called awake. Those who recognize what they are in the sleep state, but recognize it in the waking state. But if it seems complicated, what do I have to tell you? You are meeting the enlightened being again right now.

Whose existence can you truly testify to? Can you truly say you are? You can only say, 'I am.' What is the basis for saying 'I am'? Why do you say it? Because you are directly aware of this 'I am.' This 'I' which is aware is the same. Every time it can sound like when we are talking about awareness and consciousness, they can speak as if, it can sound as if you are talking about two. But the 'I' is the same. It's like a peacock. One peacock. When the wings are open, it is open and the beingness is present, consciousness is present. When the wings are closed, this all becomes clear. The peacock is what you are. And only of this we can speak. Everything else that we speak about is just the play of appearances happening in your existence, in your light. I am.