The Mind May Run Out of Moves - 28th June 2017

It's even enough to share, it's irrelevant now, but only in the hope that it might expand something in me to ask it or connect me more. Because when I do, when I see that it's all happening in nature, in the awareness, that's why it feels peaceful and there is increasing joy here. But it feels, you know, it's sort of subtle in things of this quality. For example, I am experiencing you there within me in the computer, and what I'm noting in what you're experiencing, you're in India, it's probably pretty warm. I'm not experiencing that. So it's like, at least in mindset, yes, it is expansive, but it feels that it is related to the current view where the body is located. And that's okay, you know, maybe that changes, I don't know.

Or even if this is a much, much later inquiry, yes, it might arise one day as an insight that there will be true seeing. We can say even about phenomena, that which is our current experience, you can only say 'I exist.' Why? You cannot really confirm the existence of Ananta first. You are seeing Ananta in front of you, the books, many different things. Legitimately, we experience many things, but all of this is the conviction of my consciousness. One consciousness. All the rivers, mountains, and all come from that. And yet, even there, you can seem like, 'Oh, I am contained within this body, subject to time and space.' So let this arise as a natural insight if it has to. Remain with this inquiry about what you are and what is it that is aware of your being, your existence. And then all of the insights, if they have to arise—whether there is one existence, whether there are two of us, or like Jesus said, it's all actually only about you, but not you personally—then these words which sound like riddles actually will become very clear.

What is going on? When I still go as I remember, we were together as close to terminology, we had this word said: 'You are the one witness of all there is.' I step up, I did not figure there is you which is original for those one and cultural richness, and all of you are experiencing variously. It is said, 'You are the one witness of all there is.' And I know that as long as we are in this rehab, getting away from the limited conditioning some way, because all of these contain like abstract concepts, you can seem like this is fairy tales or something nice to have, but it can feel like it's not my experience yet. But what I'm saying is that it is your experience already, and yet it is not for your inferences. Your mind is not agreeing with it.

So this is what I mean by insight and inference. Now as you get comfortable with remaining with your insight, then you find that all these inferences will actually turn upside down from your own experience. You face this not because the sages have said something, and even if their insights don't come in this way, but actually there is only this one being here. At least this much will become clear: that there is no individual entity called Richard here. That is the important part. Only Richard can suffer. Only that which is limited, that has been a name, can suffer. So when this world becomes a play, then allow the big insights to come and go. That will become part of, hopefully, sometimes the sharing of the insights will happen. Not with the intent to frustrate you or something; the sharing of the insight will happen just to put a small or big firecracker in your mind or something. It is to explode it in what we call the heart. With this, like a mind-blowing experience, your mind is gone for a few seconds. In those few seconds, I can do a bypass. I can request you to take water here.

So that's why some of these things I said, why I also enjoy this. I enjoy giving insights very much. And you are telling you that you are not an object in the world, which is an object in you. And I know that the mind as a thing cannot do anything with that. But because there is some trust and some love you feel for me, there will be some grace given to these words, and for a minute your mind will run out of moves. For a second, you might be remarkable, and that is enough.