This Openness, Surrender - 24th August 2016

More and more will reveal its gifts to you because open seems like a very simple pointing. It doesn't even—to the mind it seems like: can open really be at the core of these pointings which are about awareness and Consciousness? But it is very much, because this openness is acceptance, you see. This openness is surrender. You cannot surrender if you have concepts about how things should be. If you're closed to what should appear or should not appear, then that is not a surrender. So as we allow ourselves to remain open, then we start to realize the true meaning of acceptance, surrender, and all the gifts. All of these are not far behind as long as we are not hanging on to those things which are the byproducts. Then you will find that there is nowhere else for them to go; they are only in service to you.

Love is waiting to serve your unassociated presence. Devotion is waiting to wash your feet, but not the feet of an idea about who you are. And this openness is the recognition of your unlimitedness, boundarylessness. You know, the simple pointings—'Are you aware now?', 'Who is aware of awareness?'—are introducing yourself to your being. You are coming to your recognition. Don't undervalue this because we are now deadened with the words 'awareness' and 'Consciousness.' Truly, you are discovering now that all of this play of time and space are just like toys you bought to entertain yourselves.

See for yourself what is being spoken. Don't just put it in a mental drawer to be used in Advaita discussions. What are we saying? There is no person. See, there is no person. Even that should be enough to just let us explode right now. There is no person. It's not just 'there is no person, oh, there is no person.' There is no person; no separation ever happened.