Everything is Inside This Being - 30th Sept. 2015

I can never actually believe that something is happening to you because I can never actually believe that something is happening to me. At best, I can believe that you believe something is happening to you. That I can understand, that you still believe that something is happening to me. And sometimes I feel it is strange because you have looked over and over. You have looked, all of you have looked over and over, and you find that there is no 'me'. Yet conditioning sometimes seems so strong that even after seeing clearly, there is no 'me'. Mostly now for you, it comes in this, you know, combination punch. Now, one-two combination punch, which is emotion and thought together. Bam, bam! Then it gets you. Then you're knocked out.

Just the thought now, for most of you, is not so strong. When some sensation comes and the interpretation of that sensation comes, then you say, 'Yes, this is really happening to me.' And still, when you check, you find there is no 'me'. What does the 'me' mean? The 'me' means that there is an entity, there is a definite entity with size and shape and color, which all of this is happening to. But when we check, do we find this entity? We find only the infinite. And if there is some sensation of finiteness, that is also seen inside the infinite. This is your true experience right now.

Multiple phenomena is experienced. It is experienced in the infinite space of your being. This you see right now. But you don't find, many of you don't find anything special in this because it has always been this way. The infinite cannot run out of space. Nothing is too big for that which is infinite. In fact, you see that all appearances are nothing smaller than grains of sand to that which you are. And this is the nature of the mind. So if there's a big wall in front of us, it's painted white, and we make a tiny dot on that wall and we call someone and say, 'What do you see?' They'll say, 'I see a dot.' Just like this, when something is appearing, it can seem like this is all there is, this dot. We forget to look at the wall. We forget to look at the space in which all of this is coming and going. Is that touched by this? That remains untouched.

So this space, this wall, is not phenomenal, yet phenomena can arise within it. There is all of this coming and going, and this place has no complaints. It just is. Just be a little vigilant that the mind is not making any visuals out of this, okay? There is an impulse that wants to make a picture out of what is being said, but any visual, any picture takes us away from the direct experience. So don't try to push the picture away because that will only energize it more. Just bring your inquiry back to where this picture is appearing or who witnesses even this.

You feel like... are you sure? Just an interpretation of some fear or some sense of discomfort. You can look together.