'To Just Be' Can Also Become a Position - 1st December 2017

I'm saying the other day that even the idea of 'just being,' to just be, can also become a position. That I found a way to be free and the way to be free is to just be. But in the 'just be,' the 'I' who is doing the 'just be' is not that. I wonder if it's clear like that, you see? Many times we can decide to just be. Having to 'just be' is still a mask. Empty of all masks, you are naturally just being. Completely open, completely empty of any position, being is here effortlessly. That's why we call this the pathless path where actually there is no way. If there is no strategy, there is no practice that'll make you that. Why? Because you already are that.

And for the one who said true knowledge is just the dropping of ignorance, it is not the picking up of something new. That's how the one also said that the words of Satsang are just the thorns that we are using to remove the thorn which are already embedded. What are these thorns? These thorns are the beliefs we have about ourselves, the conditions we have about ourselves. 'I am this way, I am that way. I like this, I don't like this. These are my friends, these are my enemies. These are my grievances, these are my desires.' All these conditions, at the center of which is the individual idea of me, the identity of 'I'—this is ignorance. It is these false ideas about us. They are being dropped, but you will not become something other than what you already are.

The journey from person to being is transformative only in the sense of the dropping of the person, not the creation of a new being. This is a very important point which gets mistaken many times. It is not something new which is being added on to you. To use a metaphor, we can say that it is just this what I call conceptual dust; it is being shut down. So what happens is that the bath in the Ganga has already happened in this moment. All the dust is off. But as consciousness, you can decide to pick up some more now, a dust bath with the mind. But as you remain empty of these notions, and the notion of person does not have any room, as we remain conceptless, it is the mind which has run out of moves. Unless we remain conceptless, itself has become a form itself now.

You might feel that if I am empty of notions, what does that have to do with the Self? 'I haven't found Self. I didn't find Self there. It is gone.' This might be an idea, but this is not true. You are actually always experiencing only the truth. That's why I am not saying you are not experiencing suffering, but you are suffering your experience. You are experiencing only the truth; you are suffering from your mental interpretation of it. You cannot suffer from that which is naturally here without any interpretation. No suffering is possible. You can look at this in some depth if you like.

What is an example of suffering? So suppose now this man sitting here, I think mind can come and say... so that notion can come. And if that notion is believed, then that becomes a grievance. So this experience exists; experience certain sensations moving about. But when the interpretation comes, then it comes with its likes and dislikes. So anything that we call suffering... so this is an example of grievance. The other example could be at a gate somewhere, emerge from here, mind can come and say, 'I shouldn't have said that, it sounds bad like that.' And if you believe, then that becomes guilt. But you see that without these ideas, what is appearing is just a fever.