Check Fresh - Don't Think About It - 1st May 2020
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides a student to recognize that the witnessing awareness remains untouched and neutral, regardless of the body-mind's reactions, emotions, or the ego's false claims of personal doership.
The one that witnesses both thought and emotion is neutral and completely unaffected by any perception.
Ego is taking the impersonal movement of consciousness and claiming it as personal doership.
Irrespective of how the body-mind plays out, that which is aware is untouched by any movement.
contemplative
Transcript
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I want to delve more into any if we said before that which was in terms of your report. You said that now you are able to see all of these perceptions and you said the one that perceives all of this that seems to be moving around. Did I hear that correctly or did I hear it incorrectly?
Yeah, just looking on things on any on earth or some feel closer, some thoughts will play sir, others alike or they just go nothing. And some still close louder and then some emotion, some kind of reaction comes to it. And particularly noticing family, like a family you know, feeling a bit of pressure from home too.
Yeah, I understand. I understand. That which witnesses both the thought and the emotion, what can we say about that?
It's neutral.
Is it? Even that it's a nice word we use it to describe that often, but now and tell me this: check fresh. Don't think about it. Don't think about how it was in the past and this right now. You're witnessing this perception of the sound, some thoughts and some emotions may also be there. That which witnesses all of this, that which is aware of all of this, can we say we found it? Can you see? What can we say?
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It's just here now.
However one body-mind, let's say your body-mind, may move, you see, or express itself, does that have any effect on that one?
I'm trying to think this.
Look. So right now, suppose you say something really amazing, everyone in the Satsang says "Wow," or you see something which sounds super silly to you and you go, "Oh, why did I say that?" You see, in either of these cases, that which is aware of all of this, you see, is that affected by any of this, either of this?
No.
Now when we say don't identify or don't believe your next thought or don't take yourself to be that which you are known, you see, to identify would mean what? To have interest in that, yes? To grab hold of it and to gain that "I am this body-mind who should have done this or should not have done this." So that doership, isn't it? So that is one of the fundamental aspects of the ego which is to take impersonal doership, which means that all that is happening in this world happens in the light of consciousness, but to take this impersonal doing to be personal doing. "I did this, I did not do this, you did this, you should not have done this." All of this is one of the fundamental basis of the ego itself, you see.
Now why am I, why I'm spelling it out so slowly is because we can all have this idea that now that I am starting to recognize myself more clearly, how is it that my body-mind still continues to react in this way? Yeah, this is the problem, isn't it?
Yeah.
So when you come, when you are coming to the first part which is the self-discovery, do you see that you are this body-mind? Okay. And how is it that this body-mind then becomes a benchmark for the, for the immaculate discovery which the Immaculate itself is making? If that one is unshaken, unmoved, pure witnessing, purely aware of all perceptions, in fact of the coming and going of this waking state in which all of this is continuing, then how is it that one aspect or one tiny set of perceptions in this waking state is able to now define my true reality? When it's like that, me this because, because it's like a conceptual checkmate I realized, you see? But let this conceptual checkmate be like your intuitive insight as well, that irrespective, independent of how Joanna's body-mind is playing out, that which is aware of this is untouched by any of this movement.