Empty of This Conceptual Belief, What Is Your Condition? - 21st December 2020
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides seekers to the 'unborn space' beyond conceptual belief and disbelief, emphasizing that truth cannot be contained in words and that all things are perfectly resolved when the personal identity is not asserted.
Truth is what is apparent to you without interpretation, judgment, or claims.
All things are perfectly resolved in the unborn space when you don't insert your meanness.
Belief in a thought is an attempt to resist what is.
contemplative
Transcript
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Now, words are not big enough to contain truth. And what does belief mean? When you believe in some words, what are you doing to them? You can look. Actually, 'learnt'—but learned could be memorized, no? So you could say 'Baba Black Sheep,' so you memorize those; so that could also be learned. So when we say 'this I believe,' what are we? Yes, we are claiming knowledge of truth contained in that notion, that some truth is contained in that statement, you see. But the truth that I have discovered with my Master's grace, I find that no truth, no words can contain it. So this is about the truth. What can I believe, you see?
Empty of this conceptual belief, what is your condition? What is your condition without any of this belief? And we are saying neither belief nor disbelief, you see. We're not taking a new set of beliefs which are the opposites of beliefs that we had and saying 'I don't believe in God, I don't believe in...' those are a new set of beliefs. So we are not talking about either belief or what we would call disbelief. What is your condition, your status, without any such notion?
It's like being in the unborn space.
Very beautiful, you see. So Master Bankei said all things are perfectly resolved in the unborn. So empty of mind, empty of conceptual truths, she says we are in the unborn. So what is left unresolved? Nothing. If you don't insert your 'me-ness,' your identity into this, if you don't bring the question 'What's in it for me?' or 'How should I live now?' or 'What does it mean for me?' you're fine.
Are you then confused about who you are? Because the mind can scare you. So you will become so empty, you will become nothing, you will be lost, you won't know who you are. But is that true? Do you need belief to know yourself? Do you need to believe you exist? Do you need belief to become aware? Whatever is apparent to you without interpretation is the truth, without judgment, without claims. So what is apparent to you? This beautiful term, 'unborn.' And I hope you are not all humoring me because, you know, you want to hear this only after you hear this he'll leave us alone. Is it like that?
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So just open and empty. And anyway, we have the Master's reassurance that all things are perfectly resolved. What a beautiful gift. So the world of things is also perfectly resolved. When you go beyond the world of things, the objective universe has nothing to struggle with as you and the unborn, you see. So if you want to start with believing something, then at least believe that—that will lead you to beyond belief.
What can appear here which is a problem? A thought can come as a claim that something has to be different from what it is. That is a problem. Or thinking, 'Let's make sure that things don't become different from what they are' is the flip side; it's the same coin. So a thought is only an attempt to resist what is. Your belief in the thought is the resistance to what is. Guruji says thoughts come auditioning for your attention and belief. If you give them ten on ten—that part I'm paraphrasing—if you give them ten on ten, then you are resisting what is. And 'you,' of course, is what here? Is Consciousness. This is the game that Consciousness is playing with itself.