Without the Concept of Something Missing, There is Nothing Missing - 10 June 2016

Actually, what leads to the biggest doubts is the sheer simplicity of this, because the mind will keep saying, 'Is that it? It's just this? No, I do know that he's hiding something. He's not giving me the full truths, or maybe he also doesn't know it.' You see? But I heard from some other master that this happens. Actually, our ideas about our freedom seem like they are an obstacle into seeing the freedom that is now. Just like our ideas about anyone that we meet seem to prevent an actual meeting as one, so ideas about anything are not helpful anymore. Especially not helpful in the recognition of the Self; definitely not helpful in the end of conditioning. Conditioning is made up of just ideas.

Just now, it is so pristine. It's at the beginning of Satsang. I can sense the mind also starting to warm up. 'Oh, this is what he's talking about today. Let's, let's come up. What do we have about this?' So then it'll start offering you, 'What about this? What about this?' And if it fails to offer you things about this, what is being spoken, then it can offer you other things. 'What about that email I was supposed to send? How is my family feeling?' Something, something. And we have all seen this now. You've all seen this now.

And I feel that we've made it very simple here because I'm not saying that we have to get into some sort of a war with our attention. Not saying the mind is saying you just don't look at it, fight it. If you can do that, then nothing better. If you can just ignore the mind into oblivion, then nothing better. But that is also not a prerequisite, because it is not just our attention which goes to these thoughts; it is also our belief. And we must all see by now, we must contemplate these things: What is the difference between attention and belief? What is attention? What is belief? What does attention engage with? What can belief engage with?

For example, attention can engage with objects. Can belief also engage with objects, phenomenal objects? Belief only engages with one type of object, which is thoughts. So we must be able to now discern between all these energies which lead to our seeming participation in this realm as if I am a person. It's not without effort that this can happen. So the effort is in actually picking up the person, not the dropping of the person. So once we start looking at these forces—attention, belief, intention—leading to identity, then we come to the core of what we are speaking about.

What is it that is here right now? Who is here? And my question is not to get you to label it very quickly. 'Who is here?' Just to label it 'God' because I say so is not helpful, although it might be better than labeling it a 'me'. Just the label 'God' is not it. What is it that is here now? Hasn't this always been? For any time that we can say 'always', isn't that what is here now? Hasn't this always been without any label? Without the concept of something missing, there is nothing missing.