Review of the Core Pointings - 13th October 2017

You said in your book that if you just do this one thing—not believe your next thought—everything else will be taken care of. Everything will reveal itself to you; it cannot hide, you see. Is it really enough for routine this?

Let's start now. In this moment, before going to your next thought, you are not confused about who you are. Oh, and why is that? It is not your natural state to not know who you are. It is like you were auditioning for a play, but you got so involved in it that it is the character which is now playing. The character which is now trying to find its own source. What has happened is that the audition became so sticky that it left this mind to remind you of your dream character. So if you just keep that aside for some time—not with the sense of motion of pushing it aside, it is one—don't believe the next thought. With the sense of natural openness, just allow one to come and go. Don't pick up the notion about yourself because all notions are limitations. You are here effortlessly and you are aware of this existence. Every single thought is a step, an offer to take a step somewhere, an offer to take a position, to make a reference point about yourself. Before you take this offer, there are you who are here as one. Thoughts do not have answers to these, even if it claims it does. The answers are not true, but your insight is true.

That is why it's very simple. I used to say very often, almost every day, there are three main pointings to be rid of suffering. Because suffering is a play of the limited self, and the only limitation can happen when you pick up a limited notion about yourself. So to be rid of suffering, all that one has to do—if because you're doing at all and it is a non-dual—all that one has to do is not believe an next thought. And many observe that, 'Yes, I cannot suffer unless I believe what this mind is telling me.' It always has to do with this limited notion. Then you might ask me, 'Okay, this is fine, I'm not suffering anymore, but what about God? Can you show me God?' Then I would say yes, I can show you God if you just try for one moment to stop being. Won't exist one instant. You will see that this existence is here, and this existence doesn't have any boundary, doesn't have a definition, doesn't actually besides 'I exist.' I have this existence, this Consciousness, what most people call God.

Then you might ask me, 'But what about that which is the Absolute?' There is this older Sufi story about 'I have involved, I am what is this' and mostly they will come, all this behave. And I tell you that to come to this highest, all you have to do is inquire into the simple question: Am I aware now? This 'I' that is aware, which one is this one? Now the questions are very simple, but if you allow the same old techniques to hijack them—which is trying to answer them conceptually or use some prior knowledge, even what you learned in previous Satsang—if you try to apply that, it must be completely fresh like an infant child. You cannot use these questions from a position 'I know' actually.

Then many have also tried 'don't believe your next thought' from a personal position, and they put it back to me and said it doesn't work. If you're trying to solve something personally and you're trying to use this master key to open that lock, it's not a personal strategy which will not help. It's not a cheat code to having a prosperous life or something; it is more pristine than that. So completely empty of all positions, all nations yourself: Am I aware? How you see is its pristine. It's pristine. Are you serious? It's just that your mind won't agree with how pristine it is. Is it pristine? Because if I ask you, 'Is there a computer in front of you?' you have to perceive it as an object. Then you see all objects are perceived in this sphere. But this awareness you don't perceive as an object, and yet you see 'Yes.' You don't have to use the concept 'I am awareness' to say yes. We have not had a taste of awareness as if it is a phenomena, and still you say 'Yes.' What was the basis of that 'Yes'? It is not conceptual, it is not perceptual, it is not emotional. It is something much deeper than that.