Have You Lost YourSelf? - 12th December 2016

Objective.

Then who are you right now? What are you representing right now? Then you might say, 'I'm the sum of all of these things in my life: my relationships, my body, my ideas, my money, my interest, my hobbies, my everything.' But then if I was to say, 'What if all of these started to dissolve?' Money gone—suppose the Prime Minister says money is illegal from tomorrow, everybody will just barter—so money gone. Relationships vanish, we realize are rubbish, so gone. Do you go along with any of this? Body—every cell is changed every few years. This body has nothing in common with the body that was born out of my mother's womb. Not a cell is the same. So body also constantly changing. What is that at the center of this? And even if it is an idea of me, whose idea is it? Can an idea rest on itself? You can say that in the center there is an idea of me, but can that idea exist, or it needs something to support it? Can you have an idea without you is the question. Is it possible? So what is that which is prior to the idea?

Nothing.

That's what you're looking at, isn't it? Where does all of this rest? Give some exercises to all of you to do. I'm supposed to contemplate on attention, belief—whose forces are they? Where do all of these come from?

Nothing.

Is there any distinction between this nothing and the empty nothing which is in this space? For example, even if air was not there, this—you can say that the nothing in this room is absence of phenomenon, or there is some phenomena. Let's ignore that for now. So this nothing is the absence of phenomenon. So that from where this arises, all phenomena arises. Is it the same nothing? Is there any difference between the nothing from which time and space comes and the nothing which appears within space?