All Ways to Check on the Same Thing

I was just saying that it is very, very straight forward. But may be because even in our reverence towards It, maybe we make too much distance from It. Like the Self, [like the Self - Gesturing namaste] then immediately we start taking on these positions, then we automatically make distance from it, but who are we speaking of - Your Self! Right now - what is it that you are? Isn’t it obvious that you are? Don’t think about it. You don’t have to think about it. Just see - you exist. Your very existence is the presence of Being, is the presence of Consciousness, it is God presence. And now even if you don’t consider yourself to be this Self (in which this God presence takes birth) one thing you cannot deny, is that this Presence doesn’t leave you. So, God or Consciousness or Being, whatever term you prefer, is always there, whether you like it or not. So, your worst case scenario is – that God is your best friend, who doesn’t leave you, even if you try to push it away. Worst case scenario is - God is your best friend. The best case scenario is - that you are It. Now, the scenario that seems to be ‘how we take our life’ never actually happens. Are you taking yourself to be a ‘thing’ right now? Nobody actually does that. Only when you start thinking about it. Do you feel like a thing is observing everything? That is not your experience, it never is. What is the ‘thing’ that is experiencing everything? Just in your looking, you have never found such a ‘thing’. Only in your thinking you have and thinking is not finding, it is just speculating; isn’t it? You just take the speculations to be real. But, that which is looking at everything, is that itself a ‘thing’? Do you even have to check? Because many times when we start looking, then we feel like, ‘Oh …’ and the mind is constantly reporting ‘but are you really finding this or not finding’. Right now, do you feel like a ‘thing’ that is looking at everything? That is not your experience at all. So, it’s so, so straight forward and simple, that in our attempt to grab at It or to get It, it can seem like it becomes confusing. Right here right now. Don’t rely on any conclusion (for a moment) let all conclusions come and go, including the conclusion which says, ‘but this can’t be it’. The conclusion that is saying ‘it must be more than that’, does that voice know what it is talking about? What did it meet to make this conclusion? It met something which is both existent and non-existent - what will this mind do with that? You, yourself, are It. You don’t have to become It, you don’t have to get It. You are It. Who are you? (That is why it is the main question). Very simply you are It. Okay, suppose that you are trying to find It or run towards It, what’s at the centre of the one that is trying to find It? [Pauses] Who is at the centre? And I was saying the other day that even at the centre of the false idea of yourself, is the true You. Even to buy into the false idea, needs you. Who is that One? So, if you were speaking as friends in a cafe and not [as] master and disciple, not a special occasion, just very simply, what is at the centre of your existence? Then you may see that all this idea of seeking is much ado about nothing. And forget about seeking it, you couldn’t lose it. What is it that you can’t lose? All these are ways to check on the same thing. So what kind of strange hypnoses, must this be? The hypnoses of the mind, which takes that which is so obvious and apparent, every moment, and seems to make it into something limited, something personal, something with duration?