Every Moment Is a Timeless Invitation - 12th January 2018

You gave me some homework Sunday night and it turned my world inside out. When I came Sunday night evening, as I looked in, I could drop behind my personality. I could drop into deeper space and drop into the witness and the beautiful experiences that I've had. But you asked me a very simple question, and I mentioned, you know, as I anchored in my personality, and you said, 'What if you weren't anchored?' And that grabbed me and it turned me upside down. So the reporter hears every moment is an invitation, and in that invitation is the timeless one. And as it delights, there's the eternal witness, and in front of that is the appearance: personality, body, actions. And it's just extraordinary. And I'm not saying that I grab that invitation every moment, but there have been so many beautiful moments that I guess what I'm saying is I can now start from there. Before, I started at the personality or at myself and tried to drop in. But I think the pointing that you gave was: what if you started from now, fresh from the timeless? And then as it evolves, as it flows, if it wants, it flows forth like this or not. And that's all I have to say.

It's a very important aspect of how this expression is sharing Satsang: not to start with the presumption of personhood, but to see fresh what is your true insight. I'm happy I heard this feedback from some of you that this is what you're hearing actually, because many times I keep saying this but it is still being heard from the pretense of personhood and then the idea of finding God from that position, which can seem like a very cumbersome process. What if there's an elevator? That elevator is available right now to see that actually my true starting position is the Self, and all idea of destination was mythical. It's basically what I'm saying. And all the apparent movement is included in the Self. You cannot leave it, and yet all things can appear and disappear within it.

And I'm very happy also that I requested all of you not to take my word for anything, and I don't feel like you're doing that. You're using these as pointers and checking for yourself and remaining with your truth. But so I like some of you who didn't succumb to any peer pressure and said what was true to your experience. I appreciate that a lot because in this, our relationship is full of integrity. If you start following and we start saying, 'Okay, he said I am awareness, so I should not sound lower than that' or something like that, then it can become another game. I'm very happy, and with this integrity, all auspiciousness can only arise. It is when we start playing games with ourselves that it can seem like the journey is long and winding.

If you have this integrity in your heart, and your honest insight is that 'I am still a person,' this is good enough for me. It's very good for me actually, because then we have resonance between what is really going on and what the mouth is saying. Otherwise, many times here is something, something else, but the mouth is saying, 'I am the pure witnessing.' No, really? So I appreciate very much that some of you just stayed with your own thoughts, did not succumb to any peer pressure of the remaining seventy-whatever in the room. It's very, very courageous and must be applauded.