Let Your Inner Stance Be Open - 27th June 2018

That I must do something to earn money to make this 'me' independent, and someone comments on not having to eat very sadness, give them fair to leave it on something else and feel irresponsible or not contributing enough. What would you say about this? Are we to do nothing?

I mean, it's fine. You want money or my child, if you don't, there's nothing to do with this. So I'm not giving you a position in terms of activity or how you should leave your house. I'm telling you that your inner stance should be pollution-less inactivity. Your inner stance should be open like space. Even sometimes your physical body is, no activity going on, but you know as if you are open, spacious. So, non-doership does not mean this way or that way in terms of activity. Now, to not earn money is also doing. If you take the position that 'I am spiritual, I won't earn money,' it's also doing. Now you're doing the 'not earn money' the same way as you were doing going to work and earning money. So the idea is not about the activity. It is to see that you are not the doer or not-doer. Both of those terms would apply to someone who does not exist.

To see that I am much beyond the activities of this one body or the inactivity of one. I am not the doer, not the non-doer. We have nothing to do with what the body is going to do in a macro way. That's why we were talking about decision-making and doership earlier. So, suppose you decided to make a lot of money today and tomorrow there were no life energy in the body, what use is that decision? And suppose today you decided that 'I'm going to be a sannyasi,' but everything is, life energy is playing through you, you're creating Google Ads and you're starting up a business, you're doing all of this stuff. This is how life force plays. But when you presume some sort of individualistic control this way or that way, this is a struggle that many of us face when we come to Advaita. We feel like to the Master, 'Say I won't do it.' So then, 'I must do the not-doing and want to sit on my bed and meditate.' That's also in this realm. It is the realm of activity. Activity will happen either way. Sitting down, what activity are you doing? Sitting down. This idea that there is somebody here individually doing or not doing, that is what I'm asking us to inquire into. When you are neither the doer nor the non-doer.

Why you had ended by saying, 'I will need to do nothing.' No, but you can never show me this 'do nothing.' Do nothing and true do nothing. You're looking? Do nothing. Or breathing? Do nothing. You can't do nothing. Then you do the 'do nothing.' Nobody can do it. There is no such thing as 'do nothing' because this waking state is the state of activity. There's always doing happening in this state, you see. But you are not doing it at all. It is that which you consider yourself to be is not. So even if I give you an answer in the affirmative, 'Yes, you are to do nothing,' who can succeed in this instruction? 'Do nothing' means see that you are not the doer. See that you are not the not-doer. Because you can't do the non-doing. If you can take a position that 'I am not the doer,' I'm sorry, 'I am the non-doer,' that is a second ego. But you are doing the sitting of the kid. Forget about it.