Open Beyond the Notion of Open - 22nd February 2021

Okay, I see Liam. So it felt auspicious and good to come today in front of you. Um, this last day somehow it feels like something opens and then closes or resists a little bit to this recognition, but at the same time it's very clear that this is not the truth, no? And yes, just wanted to expose and lay this at your feet and if you feel any, any guidance and to live here and to, to come into this heart that it's beyond any movement, it, it will be very beautiful. Thank you. Thank you.

So I feel very good. I feel good about what you're saying, but just to help everyone, um, what is open without any notion? Yes, it is awareness. What is awareness without any notion? Yes, yes, just this, this without any notion. Yes, it's good. We are just communicating, so we have to use some word, but you get the idea, isn't it? That and if we, if we make an idea of open to the truth or close to the truth, then anytime we are open to what we think is happening is openness to the truth, it can be attacked by the mind with the idea of close to the truth, you see? Just like I was telling you earlier that if we, if you get an idea that I came to Satsang and then speaking to Ananta there was such clarity, you see, that is already like a flag saying 'come hit me,' you know? We don't see it because we feel like, 'okay, this, I, I got this' or that's just an open invitation to the mind which comes and says, 'Clarity? I'll give you cloudiness, blurriness,' you see? So anything that we can define will be attacked, okay?

So many times we get into this kind of play of the opposite. 'I'm so open when I'm in Satsang that when I go to the marketplace of the world I become closed again.' Really? Do we actually know any of this? At best they're kind of pointers, but who are they talking about, you see? So, so don't judge yourself on these parameters. In fact, don't judge yourself, you see? Don't judge any spirit, don't judge yourself. Just open and empty that. Okay, good point. So the open that I'm talking about is not something that can come and go. Open beyond the notion of open. Like the minute you try to be open and empty, you're still in a position. You're sitting like this—I'm just representing to make the point. Now somebody says, 'What are you doing?' 'Oh, Ananta said be open.' If open is like a state, then we have to be more open than that. To be open is not to be open. You may have to edit. Who's with me?

If you're being open, then you're no longer being open. Like Guruji jokes, no? He talks about be natural. If you're being natural or you're trying to be natural, you can't be, you see? That's why I talk about the power of now. Like everyone knows in the now there is no problem. All of us have read this beautiful pointing that right now there is no problem. So to be free from suffering, just be in the now, finish. What's the problem? The attempt to be in the now is not in the now. So it can become another mental expedition. 'All I have to do is be in the now. I'm just being in the now. Oh yes, today I was being in the now so badly. Today I'm being in the now quite nicely,' you see? So, so then all the actual being in the now is gone. So it's not a state or an absence of this.

Father, and it feels here like and some attachment like to the perfume of, of the Self. Like when somehow or to experience, like somehow when the experience changes then, then something like uses that to, to bring again this notion of a person that can come or go out from this. Like an attachment to, to the openness or the, the peace that comes with awareness.