You Are Discovering the Unchanging - 12th February 2018

One time it happened that a member was here, this broadcast it finished, this was about three years ago. She was sitting there and she said, 'You take me through this because I'm just not getting noticing something.' So then we went to the inquiry together. You could see that in the inquiry something was coming really clear. She came after a while, more participative in this world, so I said, 'What happened? What did you see?' She said, 'I saw that there is nobody to fight.' This is one of the most beautiful words I've ever heard. She said, 'I've been going like donkey-booty fighting these battles, but there is no battle to fight.' What a beautiful way to express the same thing. All things are perfectly resolved in the unborn. To fight, the resistance, struggle is only our post-notional condition.

How these terms come? What is the pre-notional condition? There is no battle, nothing to do, nowhere to go. And remember that this 'nothing to do, nowhere to go' is not talking about the surface level. At the surface level, the body can do what it is doing or not; it can go where it is going or not. The key word is discovering the unchanging. So this 'no battle' is just naturally present here, prior to your interpretation of a notion, prior to your interpretation of an event. Yes, now, just now.

We could have an exercise in the retreat that some of us have deep notions of unworthiness or deep ideas that something has to happen before I can be free. So in the joke I said, 'Yes, it is true actually. You have to have meditated for a thousand years over all your lifetimes. You should have meditated for a thousand years and I have been keeping track of all of you. And it so happened that I have invited only those who have finished exactly 999 years, 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds.' And you have to now, for this freedom, look like what you are now. What does enlightenment look like? Look like what you are now. Not what you think you are, not what you feel you are, not what you conceptually know you are, not even what you perceive you are. What you are behind the wheel of these moving images.

You have always been the light of all there is. You are that Being which is the substratum of all expressions. That water which goes in all rivers and oceans, it is the same water. And it is the same water which is this coconut water. I just think that the surface, which are different, that they call their quality, they are the same. When you mix your Being with ideas about yourselves, then you appear to be an individual, a person. But as you are free from notions now, empty of concepts, naturally here and now you are the greatest enlightenment. Not in your voice value, but in your essence, the highest truth about yourself is naturally present. Whether you call that Self, the Buddhi, whether you call it God, whether you call it Atma, the pinnacle of consciousness, you are it. Or there cannot be such a thing as...