Discover That Nothing Can Touch The Pure Seeing - 11th June 2015
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides the seeker to recognize that as the pure witness, no appearance, pain, or thought can ever touch or affect their true nature as awareness.
Discover that there is no appearance which can touch the pure seeing that you are.
How can you ever truly say that something happened to me if you are the untouched witness?
The mind can only speak about phenomena; it cannot know the non-phenomenal you.
contemplative
Transcript
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Father, please say something. Yes, my dear, you found out... it feels like this, some... there is some energy that doesn't want me to kind of recognize that this pain is not touching me. Because as soon as, like, if you feel some space or detachment, like the pain in some part increases and then, like, my attention goes there and then this talk: 'I have to do something about it, I have to find relief.' And then I'm totally involved.
This energy, oh, we know that it is there. It is called the ego and different variants of the ego which doesn't want you to discover that no appearance can actually touch you. But this energy has no tangible existence, you see? So let it jump around. If it feels like something is jumping around, it's okay. Even use that for your contemplation and say, 'This energy, this energy... is that energy also touching you?'
Everything desires its own relief from you. It feels like whatever feeling has more... I don't feel this power. It feels like whatever feeling you might be...
Whatever feeling is it, is it touching awareness? So in the same way, like you looked at the thought, the same way you can look at pain. Look at these uncomfortable emotions or energies. What is touching the looking? And for many of you, maybe on YouTube and things, it might seem like this is getting boring or something like that, but I tell you: discover this. Discover that there is no appearance which can touch the pure seeing, the looking, the awareness that you are. Then you will lose this idea that something can happen to you, or something is happening to you.
Okay, this is my challenge for you: discovery. Or if your mind plays jokes with you, show me the appearance which is touching the looking of the awareness. Which appearance can touch that which sees it? And if you are that which sees it, and if you are untouched by any appearance, then how can you ever say that something happened to me? I'm very serious. How can you ever truly say that something happened to me? Is this clear for everyone? If it's not clear for anyone, I'm very happy to look at this together.
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Do you see that all which is appearing phenomenally is just an appearance? And you are that which sees this appearance. That which is the pure seeing itself, the awareness itself, is you. There is no way that any appearance can actually hurt your reality. Come to this discovery. Don't go with something the mind is telling you. Check this. The mind is also just another appearance, so you can just watch that and see whether you as awareness are touched by any thought. Even if the mind is showing you some visuals, painting a picture for you about the truth, know that even that is seen and it is not an image that you are.
You see, even through this image, through all your problems, all your grievances, all the suffering, find that appearance which actually touched you. Find out where the body touches you. All appearances are appearing to you and they are disappearing for you. That which is appearing and disappearing, you are the unchanged witness of that. Every cell of this body is different from the cell of the baby that was born. Everything in the external world is also changing. The thoughts are coming and going. Emotional states also come and go. The states of waking, sleep, dreaming, or meditative states, they are also coming and going. How can you be just in the content of one of these states? This body won't be here in this waking state. Who is the witness of the coming and going of all of these states? Are you also coming and going?
Now, when you see that no appearance actually touches you or affects you, then it does not matter what the mind is speaking about any appearance. The mind can only speak about phenomena. The non-phenomenal you, it cannot know you. Now you're discovering yourself to be this formless one. No longer call yourselves any 'me' or 'mine'. We start with this discovery that nothing has ever happened to me and nothing can ever happen to me. And then one day you might say that nothing has ever happened at all. You see?
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