When We Lose Distinctions, All Is Just One Self - 10th January 2018

Suppose you had nothing to do about it. It's a feeling of some constriction is there. It's there, you noticed it, and that is more than enough. Okay? Nothing has to happen because of this. So to take this metaphor even further, whatever is appearing in this body now has not even changed the position of your sitting, so how could it have changed the position of the Self? Yeah?

What to do? I mean, noticing is there. What are the tools you have? A lump is there. Like I was looking yesterday, do you have a shovel that you can take the lump out? But it doesn't dissolve by noticing. So all you can do is a tension between noticing and then the notion comes about to believe that notion, right? So one notion is: it should dissolve, or why doesn't it dissolve? But that's not expectation, I am just observing. So paraphrasing again, so you say noticing is enough. How is that enough?

It is enough because what is, just is. If you have no expectation of how this should turn out, then it is enough. If you have an expectation of how this should turn out, then it can seem like it is not. How you know that lump has to dissolve? If it has to become bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger, you know, it is a lump or it is just an energetic appearance based on energetic differences? Sometimes people say, 'Oh, this is a lump.' There is interpretation for them. More time to do this kind of street thing, we'll see. 'Oh, this is a chakra.' Some are celebrating, 'A chakra is coming!' Some are upset, 'A lump is here!' You know what it is? It's just various ways of interpreting what is appearing, interpreting Consciousness. You don't have to. As you lose all distinctions, you will see all is just oneself.

And many times benchmarks get created because of what's happening with others in Satsang. Yeah, every experience will be unique. I was saying yesterday that I have not heard of two sages who had exactly the same journey to get to the Self. Because if they had, then that would just become a template. This is through this disease and about their life journey and say, 'This is what you have to go through to get to the Self.' But in imitation, we don't get.