Thought or Not, Existence is Just Effortlessly Here - 27th October 2017

Let's start with how I usually start, which is to point out that right now, in this very moment, you are existing effortlessly. Your existence in this very moment is effortless. You have to take some time to see whether this is your direct insight. For me, existence is effortless. I am this. The sense that not even it is, but I am saying that we don't even have to insert another concept. If I say, 'Do you exist right now?' do you need the concept 'I'm alive' to report the yes? Suppose you didn't have the word at all—aliveness or life—and just 'I exist.' I see you don't exist. So, this is trying to keep it as straight as possible so it is your direct insight and we don't have to refer to any concept that we have.

You know, I came across one editor using that. As an editor, you can use a thousand words, but it keeps your writing very simple. So I saw this and I felt it's a brilliant idea. If you send it to the team at work, like this. So, just that 'I exist' or 'I am.' If you don't insert any concept about it, then we are not relying on the influence. Yes, obviously I'm alive or something like that. You see that you exist. Is it your direct insight that you exist? That is what is important. We have to move away from just a conceptual spirituality that uses words. What I am trying to do today is to see: if we had no concept of it, if I had no thought about it, what is coming and going? Irrespective of whether thought is there or not, I am here.

We are not yet saying what this 'I am' is or what 'here' is. You do not return any presumption about any of the terms, but what is apparent is that I exist, I am here. Yes. Is there an effortlessly? It means the same thing that it will do that word fully. For example, that if I'm not thinking, then it's more slow. Let's call that. If the thought is not there, then it is, you know, picking it up. I'm not holding it, holding it up. But neither of these positions to this exist. It is not a physical activity of what that 'you' is, anything. But if I say 'Do you exist?' it doesn't matter whether there is pain. And the answer 'yes' does not come from a concept that 'I have to exist.' It is just so naturally so.

This is what is meant by natural, effortless, natural, not clogged up, unsupported by any phenomena, unsupported by any concept, and unsupported by any energy. Your existence is here. So here we are just checking, empty of all the various concepts that you might know, anything that we might know even about the Satsang and what is shared here. And I say: do you exist? If you don't go with a mental concept of existence, then what is here?