Guided Contemplation: The Highest Truth in the Universe Is Naturally Apparent to You

It's not like I'll be free. It's like you said, it's already free, but I'll be sitting on that throne—I mean, on that chair of freedom. I'll be sitting in the peace without being constantly, you know, outward. I'll be able to, uh, you know, be there like how... you know, that's what I believe.

Who is this who will be sitting on this throne of freedom?

The 'I' will disappear, right? He says you keep removing it and keep removing it till the 'I' dissolves completely. Yes.

Then who will be sitting on the throne?

Who's already there, but it won't be crowded and won't be veiled all the time. The veils will disappear. The veils will fall away, hopefully, right now.

So if I told you that that is your natural state—if you can call it a state for a moment—right now, unless you go back in the locker. Thoughts about the locker will come in the four categories that we discussed. Just let them come and let them go. That's all. This is good because I want to take you to an even subtler level now. As you are allowing them to come and go, what we call open and empty, just speak in your heart and take as much time as you want. Besides perception, in this open emptiness, besides perception, what is apparent to you? Don't rush at all. Don't rush at all. It's not a test. There are no marks for fast answers. Yes, take your time. All of us, as you're empty, besides the realm of perception, what is apparent to you? You can look at this. Whenever the answer arises from the heart, you can share it.

So for me, it's almost like, uh, it's a silence. This vastness. Yes, love. I mean, this is... it's not an empty silence. It's beautiful. It's good, you know. Grateful. Very, very, very good.

And you, from the same looking, stay where you are. Your position is what?

Nothingness.

Okay. Now, same place. Try to change this without going to the mind. Allow all thoughts to come and go the same way, open and empty. See if it is possible for you to be something other than this nothingness, as you called it, but I may call it awareness or business or witnessing. See if something can change.

No, that is it.

We didn't have to pick a special moment to look like this. It's always like this. We just gave ourselves a little break from the head, that's all. And the highest truth in the universe is so naturally apparent to all of you just in that one moment of break from the head. Just one moment to open and empty, it is apparent to you that you are not just these perceptions, that you are aware even of perceiving. Stay, stay in your heart. Don't try to understand these words. The words will do the job. That you are aware even of the process of perception and primarily you are this awareness, and everything else that appears is just on your surface, like waves on the surface of the ocean. You are not in opposition to them. You are not attracted to them. They are just naturally playing out on your surface and that is completely fine. But without the limiting constructs of the mind, you cannot take yourself to be just one wave, just one set of appearances. That is not what is naturally here. And because it is not naturally here, your mind has to constantly work to convince you that you are limited, you are like this, you are guilty, you are unworthy, you are free—all these ideas. But just a little bit of a break from the head and that which seems to be the highest scriptural knowledge seems like it is so obvious now. The only trick you have to be careful about is to not insert this understanding, this insight, into your head to try and make it some conceptual understanding so that you can fit it into your narrative or your story. Allow yourself to be storyless like you are here. The only reason you want to understand this now is because you want to make yourself special. Avoid that temptation. Nothing special has happened to any of you. No story can truly represent this. Don't even try. Don't try to understand. Live like this. Live from here. I promise you that you have not lost anything of value. You have only let go of your suffering. This is the end of time. This is the end of space. Trust this silence. If there is silence in the heart, trust this silence more than every conclusion from the mind, even the highest one. Don't let this silence scare you. It is just withdrawal symptoms from our story. You got used to having to draw conclusions every moment. Allow yourself to be conclusionless. Trust the silence of your heart in the same way that you can trust its guidance also when it comes. Just that he could make.