There is No Sense of Bondage in this Very Moment - 14th Sept. 2016

I was thinking about from a combination of what you said to Ron and just now with AA, you know, looking at where the bondage is, if there's bondage in this moment. And there, yes, there is—there is no bondage here when I look in this moment. The mind, oh my god, the mind has been on a rampage lately, throwing out every negative thing it can think of that it's always gotten me with, you know, over the years. Well, you may be fine now, but you can't keep this kind of life going. If you want to have a—I mean, you have to be more whatever, right? Okay, then this moment, yeah sure, but more saving money for retirement, or whatever, whatever. Or, you know, not going to Satsang so much, or, or, or, or. But really, truly, everything is wonderful, splendid in this moment.

Yeah, that's why it's so beautiful that we only experience life in this moment, right now. And really, it is the best news because unless I reach out for it, unless I believe it, there is no story, there is no conditioning, there is no identity. Yes, it can be that in the moment, the voice which tells you this identity appears, but just seeing it like this, you can also see that it can be allowed to just come and go. But even if it is bought, just now, already it is gone. That is why this—there is actually so much hard work and effort because we need to keep juicing it up, you see? You need to give it more and more belief, feed it more and more thoughts. So really, this false identity is the one that is fighting a losing battle in now.

This now, now we will experience, starts completely fresh, free from all identity. It's a very beautiful secret, one that the mind will resist in a very big way because all of its efforts are gone now. That is why when you are asked to check on whether there is any bondage, really now, you come back to say, 'No, there isn't.' But what about the future? But the future will also be experienced just as now. And no matter what our material circumstances are, no matter what else is happening, you'll find that in any moment when you check, you will find that you're free from any sense of bondage, you see? So nothing really can happen to you.

And this actually brings us to the simple neutrality, the simple allowing to let all things happen and emerge as they might. There is not a resistance to, nor an aversion to making money, nor a special desire to make money. It can just unfold on its own. But to see this is a great source of strength: to see that no matter what my material circumstances are, what I will experience in every moment now is complete freedom.