Every Idea, Keep It Aside - 19th August 2016

It's like we collected a bunch of ideas and put them in a bag. Then what? We became so attached to these ideas that we started calling them 'me'. So anytime an idea is attacked, it's like 'I am being attacked'. If my idea about how life should go, what my journey should be like, what my day should be like, what my satsang should be like, what my master should be like—oh no, these are being attacked! So we got so attached to these ideas in this bag that we pretend as if it is the 'me'. Because what is being that? What is it that makes you? Just these are concepts about 'me'. How can an appearance attack you? For an appearance to attack you, you have to be an appearance. Keep this bag away. Keep it aside. Every idea, keep it aside. It's not your business anymore.

This is what the one meant when he said you climb into the train of the Master and you continue to carry the bag on your head. What is this bag? So all these ideas we have. You don't know anything. We don't even know what knowing is, and we pretend to know how our lives should be. You don't even know what the only things we report, pretending as if we know something. But what does it mean to know something itself? We don't know. Remember one of my masters in the past, he would ask this question: 'So what happened to you? What happened to you in this liberation, not enlightenment?' It is said that it just felt like I was carrying this big heavy school bag, I was carrying this big heavy school bag and I just kept it down. That's all that happened. Maybe I didn't understand the answer at that point. This is what it is. These mental conceptions, these replicas in the mind.

It's a beautiful emptiness. Believe in our mind is empty in this way and we experience the fullness of this experience. It's like we've been having a secondhand life. Everything that is comes in front of us, first we give to the mind, then we purchase it secondhand from this mind. Now we start living life firsthand, fresh and new. And a firsthand life cannot be the one that we have been leading so far. Any immediate, direct, and raw in this way, and we meet life naked in this way without the covering of this muck called the mind. Then you will start to find great vibrance. Every moment, this wonderful moment right now is being served up for you to taste as is. It doesn't need any garnishing from the mind. And as you start to taste this moment, you start to taste your own being. This is the same. All is arising, okay? We taste our own beingness and that is the purpose.

One of my favorite explanations—there is no explanation for the purpose of this creation—but one of my favorite explanations is this: so that we can taste our being in this way is the purpose of this creation in all its colors and shapes and sizes. Everywhere our attention can roam has to be within us because our attention cannot leave us. So all of this realm is being tasted here fresh, not secondhand, not from the refrigerator of the mind. Stay in this way. It's beautiful. It starts to get recognized as a blue voice. We have removed all the ideas about how it has to be. And the mind doesn't spare anyone in this play, any appearance. It does well, doesn't it? Anything you give it, it says 'over'. Anything. It didn't spare our loved ones, it didn't spare the teachers or masters. Let's not be... Guruji said, oh I don't know, it just came up in satsang here through his blue voice. You give anything to the mind, you take a chocolate cake, you can give it to the mind, what does it do? It puts mud in it.

So there will be a time for compassion to the mind. There will be a time where you treat the mind like a loving pet, but don't rush to that. You don't put a wolf... the wolf had to be domesticated first and became like dogs. So all of these replicas that we've saved up, all of these attachments that we put in this bag, just keep them away. Even to tell me that you are suffering, you cannot do it without going to your thoughts. So often it happens in it, and someone comes and says, 'Oh, I really want to talk to you,' and I say, 'Okay, speak from the now.' And then I can immediately see that the mind is going, the attention is going to the mind. So we say, 'Speak from the now, speak from the now, now you.' And it's very irritating. 'You are not letting me think, so how will the words form?' Because I don't want you to go there. Because I know what will come from that. Not chocolate cake. Now is God.