If Aversion Is There, Just Don't Pick Up a Notion - 16th February 2018

Something I missed. Adrienne said, 'Father, how should we be in situations which provoke aversion? For example, I don't like bars and say that it's Maya.'

That's the beauty of what I'm saying. We are not talking about the appearance of or the disappearance, the renouncing or the picking up of any phenomena at all. We're just talking about not picking up the limited notion of 'me'. And no appearance is capable enough to cause we leave in our limitation. It is only our thoughts, only our interpretation. As you become open now, these thoughts become of this outer shell, this coconut as I call it. Could flow is to stay away from cigarette smoking bars, you know? Some of you want to hear that or not. You don't just like you don't have to. What is it that external pressure and the one solitary witness of all there is? I'm paraphrasing for everyone. Untouched by all appearances, what is there for me to accept or renounce?

Now, this doesn't sound helpful at all to the mind because it only understands opposites: 'Should I do this or not do this? Should I have a desire for it or an aversion for this?' But neutrality, the neutrality which I'm speaking of, is this conceptual neutrality. Not taking a conceptual position about anything. A world-leading might symbolize the play of differences will happen, but inwardly there is just silence.