If You Must Be Something, Just Be Space - 1st January 2018

The deal is that it's a very, very useful pointer. I think that if you really must be something, then be space. Another way of saying what I'm saying sometimes: just be as space feels. Allow everything to come and go. What is space? Is it objecting to any object coming into this room or not coming? Is space wanting to do something about what is appearing or not appearing? But it is space. All things can come and go. All actions of this body can also come and go. You'll note that I am not saying the body has to become space. The identification is so deeply ingrained that when I'm saying 'be space,' you're trying to make the body like space. The body is also present, appearing in space, and it can do whatever it likes. You are the space in which all of this is appearing.

You cannot resist as space. That's a beautiful quality of space. I feel to be like this feels, or see that we are, we have the spaciousness within us. This is to be leaning into what it means to go on a silent retreat. It is not so much about this outward silence, but this inward non-resistance. How many of you feel that when he says 'be space,' which is some strange sort of instruction, it must be in space? If you don't feel that, then this pointing could be very helpful. Then you are on that route. Even this space is not that, and that you are nothing—though not nothing, but you are looking. I come here, sound like a riddle, but it will filter to what I'm pointing to. Close us. Allow everything to just be. Yes, let it be. No need for any judgment. But if judgment is coming, let that also come. Let it. You don't have to meddle with anything at all. Just let it be.

Maybe this year, instead of saying 'don't believe your next thought,' say 'do not meddle with anything at all.' You don't have to fix anything. Don't have to make anything better. Don't have to get anywhere. There is nothing to do. Don't even have to 'just be.' You can take a look at this. I am just going to be with you. You're not doing the being. That doesn't mean that you could not do it. If you're not doing the being, this being is just being naturally in its own self through energizing waves. And then when being doesn't want to be anymore, nothing you can do to hold it. You will witness even that. After you be, after you exist, do you have to switch on the world? It comes on its own. Do you have to switch on the movements of the world? It's also moving. Is this body separate from the world? This is also moving. Heart beats on its own; you don't have to switch it on. Breathing happens on its own. Everything is happening naturally, effortlessly. This world is moving effortlessly. Your existence is effortless. You are aware of this existence. All your lordship was made up.