If You Have No House, How Will You Set It on Fire? - 9th December 2019

So your smartness cannot do it all. Your scriptural knowledge cannot do it all. Your fantastic ideas cannot do it, and no spiritual experience or perception of any experience can do it. I have to don't refer to these. What is revealing itself to you? So can we become it? Can we? Because we have committed to the old way of knowing for so long, you see. And not even saying can we commit now to intuitive insight, can we at least commit to let go of this peddler of the falsehood? Or are we trying to use even this coming to truth so that this one in our heads, the voice in our heads, you think maybe finally happy? Before, what you take to be true has an opposite. It is not the truth that we are speaking of. If it can be structured in the way of a statement, but then another statement, then either ends of those statements... what we are speaking on, yes, yes, I know I am awareness, but you see, what about when I go into the marketplace? When either a true...

Now the conclusion was the conclusion. Now what would it mean to be true? If you don't go to your heads, then what is true? If you don't go to your heads, are you lost? If you can, for example, if I don't move my head, I recognize that I'm ever-present. I recognize that I'm ever-present. So that, oh, there is he wants. And to not go to the head means that doesn't mean that it has to be empty, just that that is a no-parking zone. Don't give your thoughts a chair to sit on. And this can be deeply, in a sense, destructive to a spiritual seeker because the spiritual seeker has built a house there. Forget keeping a chair, and even this may be becoming part of the furniture. Because in spite of my saying this over and over again, our conditioning may be so deep that we still may not understand what the holy game is. While we will continue to think that we are winning at this game, we still may not realize what this game is, maybe especially while thinking that we're winning at it.

Because I say don't give your thoughts a chair to sit on, you use that as a new conceptual house. That is the dilemma of the spiritual seekers, especially in this Advaita home. They feel like one day ultimately they'll come to the right knowledge in their heads. That which is meant to chop off your head itself may be being used to construct it. So we may not even realize how much false knowledge we still rely on. We might still make notions between cases in the real world versus satsang, this kind of ideas. But existence, your existence, is much simpler than that which showed up on its own. It all comes on its own and it will vanish on its own. The only thing is that you've taken some part of the dance, you see, not even the whole dance, you've taken some part of the dance and called it yours. That's called individualization, more subjects. But it is just not true. You take the subtitles to be the truth and the narrative to be the truth, and you may even make the concept that the mental narrative is not true part of your mental narrative too. So many super-advanced seekers are still climbing the wrong tree because we miss what this whole game is about.

Because knowledge is not what you think it is, and whatever you may think it is, it is not what you don't think about it. And what do you think about it? What are you not thinking about it? That's a better question. What do you not think about this? I mean, what do you not think about? The truth is the truth. Everything to come up with a new thought, which is the opposite of something you had earlier, it is there to still be a part. What do you not think about the truth? 'I better be silent' is also a thought. Can you be in charge or a leader? What? Why not? Including you, nothing gets taken from you. Nothing is taken from me as... but it's not who here to attain leadership skills in the master cheat code to life. Then we just become free and then our role as leader, whichever way it wants to play out, it can play out. Yeah, but okay, let me ask. So the two opposites, this and this, see this but this both, and there is no truth.

What I've seen is that if there is a concept on this side and a concept on that side, at best the concept on this side is a pointer which is pointing to that, as you say, pointing to that silence, you see. But many times we even take that to be like a true statement or something, you see, and we feel like we must hang on to this. But that is not true, but this is central, see, big huge chaos. Extreme, yeah, this is the... and you say, are you... you say this is what you always say. But why is chaos in the realm of perception the lack of peace? It is not. Chaos in the realm of perception is not lack of peace. It would be chaos if everybody, all of you, start running, jumping around suddenly. The body could have pain, pleasure, one arm in pain, one arm in pleasure, you see. It's possible this thing happens. And some emotion may come, some grief may be coming, but on the other hand side something like excitement will be coming, you see. Like all this may start jumping around maybe. But in all this jumping around, is that my peace? Just by the virtue of all this jumping around, do I lose my peace? And I ask you, do you lose your peace?

Yes, in the jumping around of all of the layers, what is the peace that we are talking about? If by peace you mean the absence of the jumping around, then that is different. The peace that we are seeking is that which is rooted in the presence of the jumping around. So everything starts to jump, jump, jump. Do I lose my peace? How do I lose my peace? It takes a little... yeah, but that is what it means, the jumping around means life for me. If every layer of your life is jumping to make all these opposites, opposites everywhere, and then how do you lose your peace? How is it disturbed in the center? It would be disturbing if something can jump at you. But what can jump at you? Tell me one perception, big or small, that can jump at you. If something could, then I would lose my... it would disturb me. When I looked at all the layers of perception and I found in no layer anything can come and attack. It only jumps on its part. We had this exercise in school, jumping on this part. So all my layers of existence, the only whatever jumps there only jumps in that zone. So unless you start by taking yourself to be something that exists in the layer of your perception, you see, you cannot be attacked or you cannot be disturbed. And when I say you cannot be disturbed, I am not speaking of the body and all these opposites of better and worse.

Layers of perception, and I found in no life anything can come and attack. It only jumps on its part. We had this exercise in school, jumping on this part. So all my layers of existence, the only whatever jumps there, only jumps in that one. So unless you start by taking yourself to be something that exists in the layer of your perception, you see, you cannot be attacked or you cannot be disturbed. And when I say you cannot be disturbed, I am not speaking of the body and all these opposites of better and worse, good and bad. I just, in my head, what makes peace better than chaos? You ask my kids; they don't have any term like peace. They only have 'boring.' 'Yeah, I'm so peaceful today' is just 'I'm so bored.' And when this chaos has such a fun thing, yeah, whatever that something else maybe is. If introduced in the realm of opposites, then it is not what I'm saying, you know? I may be referring to something. The layer at which something has to be solved or resolved is not what I'm speaking of. Opposites is only in the realm of perception. But don't know it here; not possible. Only if you know it perceptually or conceptually is there a push and pull. So rely on that which is deeper than that knowing, and then tell me how to pull or push. Don't rely on that knowing, whatever subtle layer it may rely on. There's a matter around the deeper inside. Now, what push or pull is there?

So fundamentally, it comes down to the same question, isn't it? What are we taking to be true? And in fact, what are we taking to be valuable? What you take to be valuable—if you take peace to be valuable, then peace will be attacked. Whatever you take to be valuable can be attacked. You need to say, 'I take only the Self to be valuable.' Then you will make a version of the Self which then can be attacked. Even if in your head the version of the Self is that which cannot be attacked, it shall still be attacked.

In changing disturbance, but at the same time, you're actually confirming that by the opposite.

Okay, but when we say confirming, are we talking about the conceptual conclusion? As if we confirm, we check every time it can happen like this. We check, check, and here is the intuitive insight. It's very clear, you see. But more than that, we rely on what that translates into, which means that this cannot be touched, you cannot be changed, this is something like that. And then we put that concept into battle with everything else. No, no, that's not the point. The point is that the confirming is just this simple insight. You see, now what can happen is that there can be a translation of that confirmation which could be saying, 'Yes, this cannot be attacked,' you see. But that concept can very well be attacked. So we don't have to set that concept into war, you see. So leave your insight as insight.

Many times when we say confirming, that trouble can be there, that we feel like until I have the conceptual confirmation of the true insight that I have, until then that is not confirmation. But actually, it is that confirmation which is messing us up. We realize other things. Are you confirming some here? Since it's saved, I can repeat, it's clear. So our conceptual toleration of our inner insight is not the confirmation that I am talking about. So if there's no conceptual confirmation of the insight, how will it be attacked? It won't have an opposite. It's not at war with anything that it wants to become.

But it's not that there is nothing to confirm. I don't know exactly. It's not in this room, so not in this field. Then how will it be attacked? Who's a beautiful or dancing? See, because many times we say that we just have to confirm this in Satsang or something, confirm this for yourself. And you may be thinking that your confirmation is to translate the intuitive insight into some confirmation which sounds scriptural, you see, that 'I am the Self' or 'the Self cannot be hurt.' All of this conceptual understanding, you see, but that conceptual understanding is to send the soldiers into war. If you don't send soldiers into the war, how will they be over anyway? But we may feel like, 'But that is the end goal, that is the game.' So this is very much the theme of today's lesson: What is the game that we are playing? What is the confirmation that they are looking for there?

Yes, and you are asking very close to me when you're in that state. But here the feeling is the precondition to see that this is just dancing. This dancing should not be there. I mean, this is a start, isn't it?

So don't put this precondition, because through the precondition you are there. So you are not prisoner to this precondition. It's not like that I am putting that condition, but in that state when I'm trying to see, when I try to... and where what is happening? They want, I will just say, I never used it. It is whatever is fancy, resolve, but certainly not for that. So it's taking the wrong medicine for the wrong disease. Taking the wrong medicine for the wrong disease. Now you see, I go digging in the ground to find tomatoes. It is not for that. If you want to eat tomatoes so that you can have something in your list... so many to filter. Sunday evening, Sunday night, then it was fixed up to tomorrow. I have to go out there is long and I was able to present itself because today is Saturday, Sunday. No, Venecia. So in that state, you are still dead please. And when she is tilted, but in that state, they don't have to say anything. We don't have to do exactly what you were speaking of.

We feel like we must be able to conclude something and then hang on to that as if it is the truth. But of course, that conclusion is sending the soldiers into war. The minute you conclude something, you are sending the soldiers into war. Does your intuitive insight need to be concluded? Does it shout and change, 'This is how it is'? It doesn't have any such population. So if you don't send this soldier in the war, how will it fire? How will it struggle? How will it be attacked or need to be defended? If you don't have a position, it is not possible to be attacked. And you may be speaking individually speaking, it doesn't matter because you said something. There is a Christ. No, but they think of it as relatives, or do you think about it as where it is not? So what do you not think about? That they do not think it, do it already is that so? What's the game then? Is the game to come toward you don't think about it effectively? That it, you cannot think about it. Are you going to tell me some thoughts in response? What do you not think about? What do you not think about? Or do you not think about the truth? Yeah, or do you not think about... must be not thinking something.

Usually when you think, you think of something which you haven't gotten. Yes, let's call desire. That which is known without having to think or perceive. What do you know without having to think or perceive? That which you know without having to think or perceive cannot be not known even in the sleep state. Yes, sleep state, life and death cannot achieve. Whatever may appear or disappear makes no difference. Good. Yeah, I'm tired of hearing what you think about it. I just now want to know what you don't think about. That's what you think. At least it should become clear that this is the game. This is the game. It is not to come to some mental understanding because relate both our selfishness, our righteousness, our specialness, and confusion is our billables. Yes, at this level, are you please yourself? Until you place yourself in those levels, you see, there can be no attack. Until you place yourself in something in those levels, you cannot be attacked or confused. Bless you, my son.

Yeah, but the energy then, you have to be really tiny. If some circumstance or some energy or some life can pull and push you, then you must be a tiny object. Is a magnet computer? What are you in this? Then that is already placing yourself. You say, 'I am not placing myself there,' you see, but in that statement, if you take that to be true, then you already place yourself there as an object in an object to be. The solution to confusion is to come to what you truly are. Whole confusion is really about who you are. It is not about anything else ever. If you make yourself objective and somebody, then you will obviously mean the... it will feel like the pushes and pulls in the realm of perception apply to your reality. It is not as it is. Many of us feel like the truth is a wave that we can ride. 'I have a big surfboard and get on the wave of these truths maybe, and then that's it.' You cannot ride this wave. And if you try to ride this wave, then the ups and downs of this wave can you sing like that one. Don't want the truth. Don't want to go up on anything at all. Now what can be attacked or confusion can they be? You don't want anything at all in any little field of existence. That boy, if you have no house, how will it be set on fire? If you have no pieces in this chess game, how will you lose? And all our chess pieces are everything that we think we're right about. And the king is with what I thought. Everything else is just defending this one. Any reference to the 'I', everything else, every other thought is just in defense to this one. But what we're defending doesn't exist in reality. Just let, just that cool.

Everything the chocolate once again. One-fifty. Remember, please, could you pray for my mother? Did she find the truth? We lead her to the light of love and peace and joy to the real Self. Her name is Anna Mata Sat Sizer Sizea Anna Mata. She left her body on 5th or Thursday. Please pray for me and mother the tool for accept everything as it is and stay with clarity. Thank you very much. I have also sent a picture of our mother to you on messenger.

May the light of my Master's grace in this one, Anna Mata, to our complete recognition of the Self, the truth, the unchanging beyond life, death, beyond the comings and goings of this world. If that is a higher desire, and may this be the highest. May all those who love her be blessed with this recognition. May receive and lead all of us to deeper insight, that which remains untouched in the coming and going of this life. May she be guided by Satguru's grace, and may all of us and our home. Om Shanti Shanti.

And next one says, 'Father, I am only now aware of such a subtle defense claim, pretending of being resolved. It was seen before but not wanted to be seen. That is why silence and peace was only now being open to it.' So good to be live here again. Good to have you right now. But I'm only now aware of such a subtle design screen. Yes, the way sneaky voice, and usually it is after some true insights has been gained. Some true insights, maybe even quite steadily a team, then this voice can try to make something out of that. You make something out of our recognition of the Self, tries to make something out of nothing literally. And then it can be, it can be copied still, maybe even like a little competitive or something like that and start to play out with it like this. So it's good to just see that this is the same guy. Just you can just let coming home.

Then next one says, 'The attack seems very intimate at times. Maybe some central position being held and no soldier into this world.' What? 'I don't think, therefore I am.' Every time anyone mentioned that, actually had to be like, how to jump in defense of the college also. The third also is not implying that their being is like a product of their thinking. He was just saying that to be, to perceive even my doubting thoughts, that even if I doubt everything, there must be rerouting thoughts which are perceived. Therefore I infer that I must exist even to perceive these. But many times many of us feel like what he was saying is that his existence is a product of his thinking. That's not what he was really trying. But I don't think, therefore... goodbye. Yes, yes, go to that. Yes, yes.

He says, 'What can we rely on?' You see, because every belief, every thought is caught in this construct of good and bad, right and wrong. But everything is coming in good. So if you want something better, that state, no nothing, it's still. So I say we think that at the level of thought and intellect, you see, we feel like that on that to be the source of tools.

His analyst is a product of his thinking, just not what he was really trying. But I don't think they're for... yes, yes, go to that. Yes, yes. He says, 'What can we rely on?' You see, because every belief, every thought is caught in this construct of good and bad, right and wrong. But everything is coming in good. So if you want something better, that state... no, nothing. It's still... so I say we think that at the level of thought and intellect, we feel like that ought to be the source of truth. Then that cannot be, because what is the truth as a citizen of saying that if they're not going to go? So to go to the mind for the timeless is just silliness. This is the practice, you see, because it is well-practiced, it will seem like that is the only method we have. This is so well-conditioned that you feel like that is the only place to go to find the truth, but it is just not there. If you go digging into the mind, you will never find the timeless. Where to find the timeless? All you have to do is not be. What can be simpler? Stop looking for a moment and don't judge, don't interpret, or don't file what you think. But my affliction is something else. This is what we got first. People will become still. Rachel, are you... these are not cats. Don't you believe in the memory? Yes, exactly. And then he gets stopped there. Lady Liberty, then post-debating, but I really completely fresh, gone. Yeah, instead of digging in the memory, you see? Yes, yes. What do you think gives of citizen? Don't need any reference. And actually, sometimes it is not just about safety; it is about the specialness we may not realize. Not just about safety.

So, if you like, but that was the fulfillment of my whole life's desire to find the Self. Like that awakening which I had three years ago was the fulfillment of my life's desire. Why not right now? Are you weak now? Where to refer to some TVs? Everything is... because it just makes a reference point. Any sort of reference point to find some meaning somewhere in this life. It is so beyond these trivial ideas of meaning and meaninglessness. What is coming as offers a family are all call condoms. Life is not so small you can define it. You can say that this is the meaning of life. Basically, it is your mind's attempt to get a handle on this unfathomable dance. Look here, doubts, all crazy stuff is happening and you're not able to place it, you see? But you create 10,000 rupees to buy the ticket, so then something will be like, will want to conclude, 'Oh, this is... this must be like contemporary dance.' You see? 'Well, this is a variation of... what is the word... of the kids or pop and lock? And you know, is this like a salsa and combination?' And our mind cannot, cannot rest unless we say, 'This is what it is,' you see? What is nothing is that my character? Does that make it meaningless? No, because some of you will also go to that dance and say, 'This is just a waste of time. This is pointless. Like, that has no meaning,' or 'This dance has no meaning, I just wasted my money.' But that is also to give it meaning. He put the dance in a small card box again. He can box him. We need to start to control the whole. This dance is just loud, it's full of... then the dance comes and slaps you. Like, it's so oppressive and so destructive and so realistic. It's so meaningless. It's like full of love. Start to control it, structuring you all. It's different level. But is there a need? Exactly. Humanity not concluding anything. So wanting life to be this way or that way, wanting yourself to be this way or that way, are just the material and have nothing to do with reality.

This toppling mind games and stopping landing. Don't think and don't perceive and tell me what you find. Unless they put it differently, because that will confuse it. You don't rely on anything or any perception and tell me what you find. I'll be fine. The other one looking. Anything that can be looked at, can it affect this one? What do you know when you know nothing? Now, if you let multi-deck to see it... don't be still. They don't be still. Be fresh. Many times in this has become still. Time to be fresh. Voltage is be. We would have time. Be natural. Or do you not think? And you don't go from thinking about the truth too much, thinking about it. Let me just start thinking what it is and get to the truth by not thinking about it. But it is the purpose of our life. Let it be the purpose of our life, but get it by not thinking. Have somebody with time. What does it mean that is? Or to stop what is bringing me? Okay, the meaning of ringing thanks. This is what it is coming to you. Seems like a very human problem. There is a man's search for meaning. But in that small box of life, having to have this meaning or life being meaningless, a small box is just a tiny aspect of life. And life is not so small that it can be contained there. Lovely surprises, especially it has a special create also. Let you control that this is what it means. It will show you another, another flavor on our desire. So don't try to contain it in your box. Yes, let it go.

Do you have to know how to live? And you have to know how to do? And whatever once tell us, the old ones is that. But if you don't know how to live and you just live like animals, which actually right now they seem better without all these thousands of saturations and conflict. Tiny boxes using each other based on lines on maps. The most evolved hooked up. Yeah, okay. Like, it's only the human who's going to look at a piece of paper and say, 'This is me and mine. These ones I have to hate based on some lines and some piece of paper.' I only love this one with it. Unwise little time things like this happen. You would have much going there. It seems that was could be like meddling skin for me, but we take... let's talk mistaken. I ask you, exactly. And as you see this, a reminder. The one thing that most of my growing up... you're quite a crazy one growing up. So I used to constantly have this thing that if one day this question comes in a quiz, you should be able to answer it. You should know this because what if some, some, some day somebody asked you here? And that quiz is never going to happen. I will be collecting all this information so for something like fine, like this interrogation, have to pulley cubes or something. What was to be letting to heaven? This is hard to have, you see? Like this one, one big test coming somewhere. This constant thing: you're going to be tested on this, you better know this if you want to be tested on this. Sometimes, somewhere, it is not built into our conditions to accumulate this kind of mental constructs and then this concept of scoring and women, these kind of ideas. Yeah, wanted to be very good. I enjoyed reading that will not do thing with this idea of the test coming, not a quiz coming, and you have to look good.

It's common, commonly. But the first time I can expose insect today, just he said that the scoring thing now. Constantly felt growing up that, you know, in school how much... I mean, playing the wrong game. I come into spirituality also the same. Ha! What do I know? But I know more than she knows and I know more than you know. And that can see like ambit at all. One of the practices I know, what are the scriptures I've read? They all become part of like a pool of illuminated spiritual knowledge.

You need a full life, the full night and a full money for a half life. This is going to be good. Yes, it's time to be meaning that you know, treatment seeing movies and thing like that. Somebody on their bank that will say, 'I'm fine because I led a full life.' This kind of idea. So being able to finally give some meaning to this dance and all this craziness. I think I... all this... it's fully traditional Indian series may come out the same, but your job is to renounce all of it fully. And another will have another meaning, they will have another. And we feel the whole game is to be able to one day figure out what does it all mean. This idle mind is a devil's workshop. Yeah, but keep on doing things. Never all, hello all around the notion of trying to give this meaning to this dance. The winner to contribute. That's a great dance. She's not in the salsa. No, this is... I know this, what I figure is now there is salsa movement. Oh, this is Kathak. If you let me come to Satsang and we get the final, 'This is what it is. I am the Self and always myself. Humdrum. One must finally have figured it out.' So I says, good. Hope the court it comes and takes your pocket.

Yeah, I can tell you that if something was able to decipher this dance and to define it and say, 'This is what it is,' I will not be so happy about that. The taste of this dance independent of our concepts of it is so broad, is so wide. It's got all the contras. So it is only out of fear, out of a fear of meeting it empty and naked. And if you like, we have to meet this through the filter of our conception. NeNe Leakes, love you too. I like that. Don't be still, be fresh. I too had such a feeling. Somebody asks, then I should be able to convince the other how inquiry is better than any other practice. All of us can relate to this. Others can relate to this too. Because what is it about? It's more or less... well, at least here it was less about convincing the other one and more about convincing myself, see? That I'm on the right path, I'm doing the right thing, I've finally come to the right master. And what did the best part to get to know that best way to sit where you're sitting right now? Or the best way? But the best way to sit exactly where you sit later. Yes, exactly. Didn't know that's confusing little state. It's fine. Oh, tricky. You give me like into some glue. Yes, let go. None of these, none of us is right in anything really. I think you may just get over it. Say you click on it, but this is what it means of the situation. This is what it actually means. It just means that nothing means anything. It even leaves like me making an engagement, Nikki negative terms indications.

What if you didn't have to understand anything? What if you haven't understood anything? And good news of that is if you haven't understood anything, but everything. Yeah, too much investment is long. We do that. But how much more you want to invest? Because already so much. I mean, gets up into something eternal. Well, that's what I'm going to do. It is stuck in the truth. Nothing else will be eternal. What will survive that? What can you get stuck in that will still give air in your sleep stream? What will still be there that you could be stuck in that will still be there in your sleep stream? While little religious tonight. What can you stick onto yourself here, or what can you world stick on to that will last even in your sleep sealed? Then how will you this time? What are you taking us out to be in that picture? I don't be stuck in something. Let me get stuck again and again here. Stop. Let me use that so much here. If we stop presuming that we understand English language, that solves a lot of problems. And I said, well then suppose you woke up one day, you woke up, your mind started speaking Russian or something for those who are not Russian speakers. How would you even complain that for two tips? How do you reactivate? Woke up this morning and it seemed like somebody changed the audio channels. How do you take on this movie? Have no mind. So I was speaking in the language used you couldn't understand. Or two Disick see? How do you would complain about what afflicts you? What is the problem you have? You can usually, 'I'm not understanding.' You understand that you're not understanding. Oh, okay. Oh, this a mission such as it is. Maybe kawaii different to the bleep animosities language in do.

Look what's it to get away with anything after symbol on said before this, before mano-nash for what reception. The mind will start speaking in language that you don't understand. But what do you see in which language is... suppose you didn't understand the place they given the conclusion that it's true. Like you didn't understand any of that. I'm going knowingly, no English, nor Punjabi, no Marathi, no Swiss our language. No. How do you spell language without English naturalist? Huh? What do you lose with the language of you?

Before this, the mind will start speaking in a language that you don't understand. But what do you see? In which language? Suppose you didn't understand the labels they've given, the conclusion that it's true, like you didn't understand any of that. I'm going knowingly: no English, nor Punjabi, no Marathi, no Swiss, no language. How do you spell language without English? What do you lose if the language of your mind changed? What would you lose as a result of losing that knowledge? Would you lose the waking state? Would the waking state come to a halt? And you do everything? Does everything come to a statue if you stop desiring meanings in our heads? What if you derive these meanings? Life was to actually use the true meaning, but what you don't think about is determining an order. To think about it is meaningless. I think that could be ready. Time to end this crazy knowledge. It is not necessarily dependent only on language. There's one knowledge that doesn't depend on language.

I have a question. So, he's asking a question indeed as she's measuring. Thank you so much for being such an inspiration. To Guruji, Mooji Baba, Guruparka, to you.