This Sense 'I Am Aware' is Pointing You Directly to What you Are - 2nd February 2016

Wait, wait. Are you with me in ‘I am aware’? Don’t let your mind dilute it and say, 'Okay, but this... you said this and you said that.' Forget it. I don’t care what I said. This sense ‘I am aware’ is pointing you directly to what you are. You don’t need any other words. So, if you stay with me in this ‘I am aware’…, then is it unclear or clear? Where are you in this? And this is for all of you. Don’t let your mind come in and distract you with something else. All of you can say, 'I am aware.' What does it mean? What is the meaning of ‘aware’? Is it a state that can be turned on and off? Can it come and go, this awareness? Let’s look together at this. Don’t worry about any conclusion that the mind is making.

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When you look here we've gone prior to Being also, and saying, 'Am I aware?' That which is aware of Presence.

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And yet, because Being is made up of Awareness alone, it comes to the recognition of its Source in this way. Because otherwise, what is the point of inquiry?

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Awareness is aware of itself, and Being recognizes that this is what is…

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Yes. It only comes after, and within. But it is made up of the same knowing.

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So, it is true that Nisargadatta Maharaj prescribed the practice of ‘Stay with the Presence’. And with this ‘Staying with the Presence’ then ultimately you realize that even the sense ‘I Am’ is not what you are. He said, 'The only thing you can say is true is the sense I Am. But ultimately even that is not true.' So, I find no trouble in pointing you to that which is directly your very own Source of Being Itself. And you cannot deny the experience of that. So even though you’re reporting as Being, you’re speaking as Being, you cannot say, 'I am not aware', right?

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Exactly. So who is reporting this?

Being is.

That’s the point. This recognition that ‘Awareness is aware of Itself, and I am That’…, arises for who? Awareness is always aware of it. This recognition arises for who? So, only Being is here for any recognition.

How can the Being…? [Inaudible]

It recognizes that, 'This is where I come from'. Just like the river can see where I’m floating. That’s why often I’ve said that the sense ‘I Am’ is a two way gate: it has the power of belief and it can attach to various things; but you also use the sense ‘I Am’ to go within ‘I-Am-ness’ itself and come to see the Source of ‘I Am’ which is ‘I’ itself.

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I don't say like that. You see, the Knowing is always Knowing. Awareness is always aware, and this is always ‘I’. So although Being is coming to the realization of its Source, The ‘I’ has always been ‘I’. Even in the playing of ‘I’ as ‘I Am’, ‘I’ has remained as ‘I’. The confusion and the delusion, and all of that, arises for the playing part of the the ‘I Am-ness’. Within in the play, the ‘I’ has never left the ‘I’.

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It’s not true. It’s not true that it can only be stripped off by Being marinating in the Presence I Am, which is beautiful. I agree. I’m not doubting. But to see the Source, I feel, is the quickest chop. All the sense that, 'I am this, I am that' … once you see that, 'I am no-thing.' 'This has no quality, no attribute.' 'This is what I Am...' Then all of this, I feel, THIS: Awareness Being Aware of Itself, and the recognition that Awareness is Aware of Itself…, is the quickest sword to cut your head off; Not Eckhart Tolle, not to stay with the sense ‘I Am’. I have to say like that since you say so directly.

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You do whatever feels more comfortable to you, between these two.

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What are the options we are talking about? The option is, 'Should I stay with God as Being. Or should I stay with the Absolute from which even God comes?' What options are more beautiful? And you want me to.... I have already said that, in my experience, I feel that directly we can see the Absolute no-thing-ness, which is the Source of Being. And yet it is the ‘I’ which always remains. Then you say, 'Okay, but as Being, then let me stay as Being.' Very good. Stay as God. The one that is saying, 'What is quicker for me?' is neither.

Already said, no? I already said that here there was not this sense that I would have neither the attention span nor the patience to just stay with the ‘I Am’ all the time. I don’t even feel it is a requirement.

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So, you want to realize the Self now…, then it needs no patience, no trust also. Are you aware now, or not? That is your realization of the Self now.

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Who are You? Who are you that says, 'Oh, for Awareness like this, for Being like this, for me like this.' Who are you in all of this? How did you leave Awareness and become even Being? Tell me how did you become Being? Don’t fall for these tricks. Because if you have remained as Awareness and it is your direct experience that this is true, then why are you trying to sort things out for Being?

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Exactly. Exactly. And who are you? Exactly. I agree with you. But you cannot leave. I have been saying this every day that you cannot leave Awareness.

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Exactly. Exactly my point, no?

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That´s just what I´ve been saying.

In particular, finding …

Yes, because to recognize the Source of Being clears it up for Being very quickly. What is recognized? It is recognized that 'I Am Awareness'.

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Where are you in relation to the knowing? It is recognized that there is a knowing. Then is there an ‘I’ which is in relation to the knowing in some way? How far from you is knowing?

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How far from you is knowing?

How can it be far?

How can it be far? Therefore can you not be this? Can you be something else? If there is no distance, no separation, then can I be something other than that? And this recognition is happening in the Presence of Being? Or not?

Yes.

This recognition is naturally there; in the sleep state no question about it. So the Being is recognizing its Source. This Awareness, I Am. Before ‘Am’…., ‘I’. Then what is left to do? How many years should we keep our attention on Being?

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The bliss is coming from inside, but his mind is saying, 'No, no, no. No, no, no…, No, don’t come yet.'

‘…all the great Masters…’ [Inaudible]

Forget it. Please forget it. You stay with your direct experience. Forget even what I’m saying.

Yes, I ... [Inaudible]

NOW, now I’m saying. Where do you lose me in your direct experience, now? Don´t bring in the big terms and then you can have Advaita debate about it.

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Exactly.

A part of it said, 'Who is trying to understand it?'

Okay, I give you three pass. I will understand one point that you are making. Then what is the point?

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Okay, one point I give you, right? So, I have completely understood what you are saying. You’re saying that, 'Your idea of freedom would be that there would be no more thoughts coming from the mind; the end of the mind.' I have not met anyone like that. Here definitely it is not there, so I can’t show you how to get there. I doubt very much also that this was predominately what Bhagavan was saying, because many, many quotes....

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Samadhi is this: the allowing of all to come and go; Samadhi. I doubt very much that even Eckhart Tolle had said that, 'the mind completely stops.' I would like to see that quote. At least I cannot offer you that. So, his point was that, 'There must come a state where there is just no thought, because as long as there is thought, the potential for belief is there.' I cannot promise you that; because from here also, thoughts arise but are not believed.

Don’t believe your next thought. Many get confused by the simplicity of this instruction.

No, I try to follow these instructions…

Just now. It’s now. It’s always now.