Your Are Only the Awareness Right Now - 14th January 2016

Very simply speaking, we are speaking about that which is just here, always present, always just here right now. It is what you are. For this to become this is impossible. To become the Self is impossible. To not be the Self is also impossible. You are just that already. Most natural state, that's all we are saying. If you cut out all the jargon, all the terminology which can become a new set of concepts and a new conceptual framework, just very simply: what is here right now is what we are. And we don't need any idea about it. We don't need any concept to reinforce it. We don't need any thoughts to understand it. Prior to all of these, we are. And I'm saying this, I'm talking about your experience. It's not a special experience; it's the most natural experience for a child and for a grown-up. Nothing to get, no experience originally. This is our natural state and it continues to be.

The awakening experience is only a sudden burst of realization of what I'm saying, you see? So if there's a lot of pretense which is carried and that suddenly drops and you see, 'Oh, there's no separation actually,' then in the body there can be various things that come up. A lot of bliss can come, a lot of grief can also come; together it can come. It's like a dam which can explode, but that is not the point really. That is just the byproduct, you see. So the mistake could be for some that if you feel that the awakening experience is the goal—no, it's just the byproduct, you see. It's like when the drop falls into the ocean, there could be a lot of ripples or it could be very gently falling. That doesn't matter. The point is this, and it's not even falling actually; it's just the realization that I've always been the ocean.

What is not? And that experience... in that, I could see thoughts just like such that in...

So this is what I've been saying: that if we rely on the content of what is appearing, it would be the most beautiful content but it will not last, even an awakening experience, you see. So even that, it was just so beautiful and thoughts were seen to be just these tiny ripples, just an appearance. The witness of this, the witnessing of this, is the same as the witnessing of this witnessing. That witness, that is the same witnessing, you see? Because you say, 'I saw that and now I'm seeing that. I want to only see that.' You see, this is the voice of the mind which wants only a particular experience to confirm that I'm free.

Is that for masters only?