Don´t Try to be Enlightened. Nobody Can Do It. - 11th June 2015

Don't try to be enlightened. Don't try to be enlightened; nobody can do it. This being is enough. No suffix is required after being. Being is the highest glory. So even being enlightened, being liberated, being free is not a requirement. Just being. Because in the trying to become something, it is still presuming that there is an entity here which can be enlightened or liberated. Freedom, as we call it, is just the freedom from this idea that there was an entity here. The trap that we seem to fall into is this feeling that the entity here must now become a different type of entity with a new set of attributes and which are related to particular states, isn't it?

So when you see the struggle, when you see the sense of getting it, losing it, it is only because we feel that this entity now should only vibrate in a different sort of state of joy, of peace, of love, or something like this. But if the presumption still is that there is an entity here who is now in a particular state, then it is still falsehood. You see, it is still falsehood. And if you pick up this idea of being enlightened or being free, then it will come with a lot of concern about things like self-image, whether people accept that I am now free. Many have seen like this: 'I am free, I'm very clear about it. Why can't you just accept that I'm free?' And they come everywhere on Facebook and everywhere and they argue about, 'Oh, you just can't see it because you are still down, but I am free.' Like this, like this, some debates you see. No, we just laugh at these things actually.

So when it is still coming from a personal perspective, we feel that 'I as a person now have got something. I have achieved this great state, this glorious state of freedom.' Then we are not happy just to see it for ourselves or just to delude ourselves; you want everybody around us also to delude themselves with this. But it's the perpetuation of the same delusion of personhood. I sound like a sore throat a bit, yes. I should take some water today. I've been speaking and speaking this weekend whole day because meetings and meetings. And Mary is not getting sound; maybe she tries to reconnect.

See, that's why you see so many will have this report that 'I have been at it for 40 years, for 50 years.' I'm giving up on this idea of enlightenment, and yet they don't see. They only say it because they would be a lot lighter, a lot freer if they give up on this idea of enlightenment, because it cannot be found for any person. Is it enough to see that everything that you presumed yourself to be was a lie and that actually there is no thing here? If they're still operating from the need that 'I must become something,' then what can I really offer you? I can only offer you some pointers which are showing you that all that you have thought about yourself does not exist. And most of us don't even have a visual imaginary picture of this person that we have always presumed ourselves to be.

You okay with this? One moment. Are you okay to know that you are no thing? And not just okay conceptually, you see, because some of you love me so much that you say, 'Because I love you so much, I'm even okay with this.' But not just okay like this from belief, but okay after checking. Who, after checking, can find the possibility? Upon checking, you will find this presence of being and you will see that it is in the presence that all other appearances are coming and going. And you will see at a time that it is aware of this presence. And if this seeing did not come with any perks, no frills, no fireworks, nothing, no siddhis, no nothing else, would it be enough to see finally that this is what I have always been? Or are there still some other desires which actually get juice from your belief?