The All Inclusive Way for Thoughts - 8th January 2018

I'm finding a lot of resistance in the letting go, in a way. You know, as I said yesterday as well, I don't want to exclude anything. I want to include everything, and so saying that I have to let go of a certain thought is limiting in a way.

So let's try it this way. Let's try including everything. If you include everything, what do you find yourself to be? Space, which itself is all-inclusive. Now as you include, suppose a little child—there's one child in the room already—comes and says, 'But you are a cat' or 'You're a monkey.' You will include the appearance of that idea. Include the appearance of it, but will you believe it? Or you will still see that, no, actually I see that I am space?

As you are including everything, everything is being accepted. The appearance of it is being accepted. But does that mean that what it is pointing to in terms of your identity is being accepted? Yes? Oh, then that would mean that you've been completely inclusive and then this little child comes and tells you anything—'You're an alien from space'—and you go against what you're really seeing about yourself and you buy into that notion as if it's real, not as a play. Is that your idea of inclusion?

Or is it that we are being inclusive that, of course, the child is entitled to speak whatever it wants to speak? You see? So the mind is entitled to speak whatever it wants to speak. It is doing a job and is doing it well. But does that mean that even when what it is saying is opposed to what we are truly finding about ourselves, you must believe what it is saying? This is the distinction.

So we are completely inclusive to the appearance of the mind. It is coming and it's fine; it's an aspect of Consciousness which is arising. But does this mean that we will take its word for it even when it is contrary to our own inner insight about what we are? So I am saying that this is how most of us have operated all the time. A little child has been coming and telling us that 'I am this' and we've taken its word for it. Now we're saying: What is it that I truly am? Can I check for myself?